The Oscars paid tribute to Gene Hackman Sunday night, just days after the two-time Academy Award winner, his wife and their dog were found dead in their home in New Mexico.
“Our community lost a giant and I lost a dear friend,” actor Morgan Freeman said of Hackman before an In Memoriam video recognized actors and others who had died in the past year.
Freeman appeared in two films with Hackman, “Unforgiven” and “Under Suspicion.”
“Like everyone who ever shared a scene with him, I learned he was a generous performer and a man whose gifts elevated everyone’s work,” Freeman said.
Several questions remain about the deaths of Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65. Here’s what we know from investigators.