Tribute to late costume designer uses photo of living producer instead<\/b>
The Best Picture announcement was not the only gaffe at Sunday night\u2019s Academy Awards broadcast. The \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment featured a photo of the wrong woman.
Four-time Oscar-nominated costume designer Janet Patterson, who died last October, was listed among the film industry luminaries who has passed. However, the photo shown on the screen was of a living producer, Jan Chapman.
Variety reported on the screw-up , quoting Chapman as saying she was \u201cdevastated\u201d by the mistake.
Janet Patterson.
In an email to Variety, Chapman said she had urged Patterson agency to check any photo used, but that she was assured that \u201cthe Academy had it covered.\u201d
\u201cJanet was a great beauty and four-time Oscar nominee and it is very disappointing that the error was not picked up,\u201d she wrote.
But the problem was apparently not entirely the fault of the Oscar show\u2019s producers. The image used, of Chapman, is erroneously labeled Janet Patterson in Getty Images (see below).
Getty Images wrongly labeled its photo of Australian producer Jan Chapman as Janet Patterson, a collaborator on several films.
And the Academy wasn\u2019t the first to make the mistake. A Youtube video from Wochit Entertainment published last October announcing Patterson\u2019s death used the same Getty photo.
Patterson was a four-time Oscar nominee, for \u201cThe Piano,\u201d \u201cThe Portrait of a Lady,\u201d \u201cOscar and Lucinda\u201d and \u201cBright Star.\u201d<\/p>\n

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