The star of Spartacus and Paths of Glory is included in the Academy’s In Memoriam section
Kirk Douglas, the actor who became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 1950s and 60s, has been remembered at the 92nd
Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Douglas died aged 103 on Thursday, just a few days before the ceremony, and was considered the last surviving link to the golden age of
Hollywood studio film-making. His square-jawed machismo was put to good use in early films such as Champion, but he showed unexpected range with the satirical Billy Wilder
comedy Ace in the Hole, in which he played a rapacious reporter, and The Bad and the Beautiful, as a backstabbing film producer.