Joan Rivers was a very successful stand up comic when there were few women doing that, had a long run as a TV talk show host and guest personality, and towards the end of her life her unabashedly surgically enhanced face was continually popping up in odd places on TV to comment on just about everything under the sun. She was also a fiercely proud Jew who was willing to sharply skewer political correctness and anti-Semitism whenever they would slime crawl up in the disguise of sympathy for the “Palestinian People”. But she was never anything in the film industry and why people would be offended that she wasn’t memorialized during the Oscars show along with people who were significant in that industry is beyond me.
What about Harold Ramis? He was not mentioned either..................Actor AND director in major films........................