{"id":388907,"date":"2026-03-17T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/388907\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:50:10","slug":"geoff-keighley-says-oscars-ceo-blocked-him-after-criticizing-omission-of-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/388907\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Keighley Says Oscars CEO Blocked Him After Criticizing Omission Of His Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Academy Awards,<\/a> as is tradition, featured a segment dedicated to actors, directors, screenwriters, film industry executives and luminaries who had died since the previous year\u2019s ceremony. And the omission of David Keighley, who died last year, has led to his son, Geoff Keighley, publicly calling out the Oscars online.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the 98th Academy Awards were held in Los Angeles. As has been the case for decades now, the Oscars featured an \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment dedicated to filmmakers, crew members, and actors who passed away over the previous year. And Game Awards creator and host Geoff Keighley was \u201cdisappointed\u201d that this year\u2019s segment didn\u2019t include<\/a> his father, who has been working on IMAX movies since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

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So incredibly disappointed and heartbroken that the #Oscars<\/a> and AMPAS chose not to include my father, David Keighley, and his immeasurable contributions to IMAX and cinema in the In Memoriam segment in the broadcast.<\/p>\n

I will never forget. pic.twitter.com\/bMmICAPn3w<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the 15 years before his death in September 2025, David held the role of IMAX\u2019s first Chief Quality Officer and personally oversaw every IMAX film print for decades before that.\u00a0 Multiple Hollywood directors, including James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and Ryan Coogler<\/a>, shared statements praising David\u2019s work upon his passing, with Coogler saying, \u201cAnyone who\u2019s ever had their mind blown by the images in an IMAX theatrical presentation has David to thank for it.\u201d Yet despite his contributions to film, David Keighley was not featured in the Oscars\u2019 \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo incredibly disappointed and heartbroken that the #Oscars and AMPAS chose not to include my father, David Keighley, and his immeasurable contributions to IMAX and cinema in the In Memoriam segment in the broadcast,\u201d posted Geoff Keighley<\/a> shortly after the awards aired on March 15. \u201cI will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

On March 16, Keighley offered an update<\/a> on the situation, claiming he had been blocked on social media after publicly complaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Oscars\u2019 response? AMPAS\/Oscar CEO Bill Kramer apparently blocked me on Instagram last night after seeing my post expressing disappointment about the broadcast\u2019s In Memoriam omission of my father,\u201d posted Geoff on Twitter. \u201cYou truly can\u2019t make this stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geoff and his father\u2019s history with the Oscars <\/p>\n

In the comments below both his initial post and his update, many fans and creators shared gifs and clips of arguably the most famous Game Awards moment in the show\u2019s decade-long history: That time Split Fiction and It Takes Two director Josef Fares shouted \u201cFuck the Oscars!\u201d on the live broadcast<\/a> during the 2017 Game Awards.<\/p>\n

In a 2022 interview with <\/a>The Ringer,<\/a> Geoff talked about growing up around movies and award shows and how that helped shape his desires for games to have their own big event, leading to the creation of the Spike Video Game Awards and later the Game Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad would always talk about the Oscars and how much it meant to him,\u201d he told The Ringer. \u201cI always wondered, \u2019Well, why don\u2019t games have something that people care about that much? What\u2019s the Oscar equivalent for gaming?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n