Morgan Freeman remembered late actor Gene Hackman in a touching tribute before the In Memoriam segment.

“This week, our community lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend, Gene Hackman," Freeman said, adding that Hackman had "received two Oscars, but more importantly, he won the hearts of film lovers all over the world."

He continued, "Gene always said, 'I don't think about legacy. I just hope people remember me as someone who tried to do good work.'"

"I think I speak for us all when I say, Gene, you will be remembered for that and so much more," he concluded. "Rest in peace, my friend."

Freeman then introduced the In Memoriam segment, remembering lives lost over the last year.

Names highlighted in the segment included Gena Rowlands, Maggie Smith, filmmaker Jeff Baena, Bob Newhart, Kris Kristofferson, Teri Garr, Cheng Pei-Pei, John Amos, Bill Cobbs, Joan Plowright, Anouk Aimée, Donald Sutherland, Art Evans, songwriter Richard M. Sherman, Louis Gossett Jr., producer Jon Landau, Shelley Duvall, director David Lynch, James Earl Jones.

The Oscar for best live action short film went to "I'm Not a Robot."

Other films nominated in the category included "A Lien," "Anuja," "The Last Ranger" and "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent."

Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer won the Oscar for best visual effects for their work on "Dune: Part Two."

Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, stars of the forthcoming Disney film "Snow White," presented the category.

Other films nominated in the category included "Alien: Romulus," "Better Man," "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" and "Wicked."

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"No Other Land" won the Oscar for best documentary feature film.

“About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope to my daughter that she will not have to live the same life I am living now, always fearing settlers' violence, home demolitions and forcible displacements that my community Masafer Yatta is living and facing every day,” filmmaker and Palestinian activist Basel Adra said in an acceptance speech.

The project tells the story of the West Bank's Masafer Yatta community through the lens of a Palestinian activist, Adra, and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, among others.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since its victory in the Six-Day War in 1967.

Alongside the harrowing images of destruction, the film tells another story of an unlikely friendship between the two filmmakers, who were born on either side of the conflict.

"We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together, our voices are stronger," Abraham said in an acceptance speech. "We see each other, the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people, which must end, the Israeli hostages, brutally taken in the crime of Oct. 7, which must be freed."

He added, "There is a different path, a political solution without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both of our people. And I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path."

Israel's demolition efforts in the West Bank, of what Israel considers to be illegal structures, have largely been in an effort to clear the way for Israeli settlers to move into the region for reasons including religious beliefs and improved quality of life.

Other films nominated in the category included "Black Box Diaries," "No Other Land," "Porcelain War," "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" and "Sugarcane."