The 2021 version of the Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) Awards honoured the late Indian star Irrfan Khan throughout its “In Memoriam” section however bought his identify unsuitable.
The awards, thought of as an Oscar bellwether, had been held nearly on Wednesday.
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Khan was among the many 21 cine personalities who had been remembered in the course of the ceremony’s “In Memoriam” section.
However, the pre-taped manufacturing of the awards dedicated a gaffe with the actor’s identify because it learn ‘Irrif Kahn’ as a substitute of Irrfan Khan, reported Variety.
Another typo was noticed when the identify of “Minari” star Steven Yeun, who was one of many presenters on the occasion, was misspelled as ‘Steven Yuen’.
Khan, who straddled each Indian and worldwide cinema with equal elan, died in April 2020 on the age of 54 following a two year-long battle with a uncommon type of most cancers.
In Hollywood, he featured in blockbusters equivalent to “Inferno”, “A Mighty Heart”, “Life of Pi”, “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Jurassic World”.
The “In Memoriam” section of PGA Awards additionally paid to tributes to Hollywood nice Kirk Douglas, who died on the age of 103 in February 2020, and “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, who handed away in August at 43 after a non-public four-year-long battle with most cancers.
Other distinguished names within the section included Harry Bring, Sue Bruce-Smith, Allan Burns, Kevin Burns, Stuart Cornfeld, Charles Gordon, Buck Henry, Thomas L Miller, Tom Pollock, Rebecca Ramsey, Carl Reiner, Gene Reynolds, Pamela Ross, Ronald Schwary, Lynn Shelton, Fred Silverman and Jamie Tarses.
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