--- description: The 88th Academy Awards honored TIME's film critic Richard Corliss. who died in 2015, during its in memoriam segment Sunday night. title: Oscars In Memoriam Segment Honors TIME Film Critic Richard Corliss image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3f7c6a8917fa872/69887f8d0a4a229d359c8970/richard-corliss.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [awards](/tag/awards/) ## awards Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Oscars In Memoriam Segment Honors TIME Film Critic Richard Corliss  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Feb 29, 2016 3:42 PM CUT  Richard Corliss speaks onstage during a "Meet Me in St. Louis" Screening during the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival at on April 11, 2014 in Hollywood, California. Richard Corliss speaks onstage during a "Meet Me in St. Louis" Screening during the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival at on April 11, 2014 in Hollywood, California.Stefanie Keenan--WireImage/GettyImages  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Feb 29, 2016 3:42 PM CUT Most of the people recognized during the Oscars’ in memoriam segment Sunday night were those who _made_ movies, whether in front of the camera (Maureen O’Hara, Alan Rickman) or behind it (Albert Maysles, Wes Craven). But the tribute also called out a man who _loved_ movies, loved writing about them and did so with endless charm and rare insight: TIME’s late film critic, [Richard Corliss](http://time.com/richard-corliss/ "undefined"). So many of the names that flashed across the screen, as Dave Grohl performed the Beatles’ “Blackbird,” conjured memories of [Corliss’ reviews](http://time.com/3833969/richard-corliss-movie-reviews/ "undefined"), the sheer pleasure he derived from the cinema and his unfailing—and uncommon—belief that everything is worth seeing. And so it was fitting to see his face among the faces of the industry he knew so well, one which, to be sure, was made the better for his having known it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4241138/oscars-in-memoriam-richard-corliss/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4241138/oscars-in-memoriam-richard-corliss/"},"headline":"Oscars In Memoriam Segment Honors TIME Film Critic Richard Corliss","datePublished":"2016-02-29T15:42:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:27:49.823Z","description":"Corliss, who wrote for TIME for 35 years, died in April 2015","url":"https://time.com/4241138/oscars-in-memoriam-richard-corliss/","keywords":["awards","movies","TIME","Oscars"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3f7c6a8917fa872/69887f8d0a4a229d359c8970/richard-corliss.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3f7c6a8917fa872/69887f8d0a4a229d359c8970/richard-corliss.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Richard Corliss speaks onstage during a \"Meet Me in St. Louis\" Screening during the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival at on April 11, 2014 in Hollywood, California.","caption":"Richard Corliss speaks onstage during a \"Meet Me in St. Louis\" Screening during the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival at on April 11, 2014 in Hollywood, California.","creditText":"Stefanie Keenan--WireImage/GettyImages","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4241138/oscars-in-memoriam-richard-corliss/","name":"Oscars In Memoriam Segment Honors TIME Film Critic Richard Corliss"}}]}] ```