While Gene Hackman and Quincy Jones received stand-alone memorial tributes during Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast, but several other notables did not appear in the show’s annual “in memoriam” segment.

Celebrities excluded from the Oscars In Memoriam tribute is causing a stir online. On Sunday, Morgan Freeman presented the segment at the Academy Awards, which honored actors and filmmakers who died over the last year including Gene Hackman,

Fans were left outraged when late actress Michelle Trachtenberg was noticeably missing from the In Memoriam segment during the 97th Academy Awards ceremony.

The decision about which stars are included -- or excluded -- from the tribute at the Oscars comes down to time.