Veteran Hollywood film stars paid tribute following his death including Clint Eastwood, who directed Hackman in western film Unforgiven, and Francis Ford Coppola, who wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated 1974 mystery thriller The Conversation, starring Hackman.

Set to a live performance of Mozart's "Requiem – Lacrimosa," the In Memoriam segment presented by Morgan Freeman ... absent from the segment was Michelle Trachtenberg, who died on Feb. 26 ...

Michelle Trachtenberg was notably left out ... Those honored in the Morgan Freeman-led segment included Maggie Smith, Gena Rowlands, Teri Garr, Donald Sutherland, Louis Gossett Jr., Shelley ...

The Oscars are honoring Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman. The awards celebrated the life and career of the " French Connection " star at Sunday's ceremony, days after he was found dead alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and one of their dogs on Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico.