Producer, writer and film director John Hughes’ death was remembered amongst the millions watching the Academy Awards ceremony 2010 as actors made their way to the stage to pay tribute the man who died last year on the sixth of August.

John Hughes is the man who was responsible behind the script of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off which was one of the funniest movies of its time grossing a staggering seventy million dollars in the US alone. The eighty second celebrations of the Academy Awards saw one of the actors of his film career, Mathew Broderick come up to the stage and remember John in kind words as he expressed his condolences to his family saying that his heart went out to those who lost him unexpectedly.

John Hughes’ death had come as a great shock to many people around the world, of those, the most aggrieved by the incident were his family members and those who had acted under his direction. John Hughes death came as he was walking in New York City early one morning on a Thursday while on a visiting trip to his family. Macaulay Culkin, who had acted in the movie “Home Alone” which was written by Hughes, made an appearance on the stage to give his condolences and pay tribute to the man who initiated Culkin’s career.

The man who was born on the eighteenth of February in the year 1950 caused significant grief and John Hughes’ death was a major upset for the film industry which has soared on the wings of his writing, directing and producing talent.

John Hughes Oscar Tribute