Watch the 2025 Oscars’ tribute to Quincy Jones by Queen Latifah, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey

The 2025 Oscars featured a tribute to the late Quincy Jones, which was introduced by Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, with a efficiency by Queen Latifah.

The late legendary producer and composer died on November 3 on the age of 91 from pancreatic most cancers.

All through his storied profession, Jones labored with numerous artists together with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Michael Jackson amongst others, with whom he famously produced the enduring albums ‘Off The Wall’, ‘Thriller’ and ‘Unhealthy’. ‘Thriller’ remains to be the most important promoting album of all time.

His relationship with Jackson started with The Wiz, the 1978 reimagining of The Wizard Of Oz. On the 2025 Oscars, Latifah paid tribute to Jones by performing the movie’s centrepiece track ‘Ease On Down The Street’.

Previous to that, Goldberg and Winfrey – who co-starred within the 1985 movie The Coloration Purple, a movie produced by Jones – spoke about Jones’ affect on music and well-liked tradition. “Once we speak about Black excellence, we’re speaking about Quincy,” Goldberg mentioned.

“Quincy was love, lived out loud in human kind. And he poured that love into others and into his work. My life modified without end and for the higher after assembly him. He truly found me for The Coloration Purple, which was my first movie,” Winfrey mentioned, with Goldberg including: “Me, too.”

Queen Latifah delivers a phenomenal tribute to Quincy Jones together with her rendition of 'Ease On Down The Street' from #TheWiz on the #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/hSWJLLIGxM

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“Jones’ soundtrack work was notably spectacular provided that Black musicians had been hardly ever allowed to work on movie and TV initiatives, and rarer nonetheless on those who didn't deal with African-American themes,” wrote NME‘s Jordan Bassett in an obituary for Jones.

“In 2020, he mentioned the renewed vitality across the Black Lives Matter motion, which adopted the homicide of George Floyd, had been “coming a very long time, man”, including: “Folks have been turning their heads the opposite approach, nevertheless it’s all the identical to me – misogyny, racism. It's important to be taught the way to hate any individual.”

Emilia Pérez leads this 12 months’s Oscar nominations, adopted by The Brutalist, Depraved, Conclave, A Full Unknown and Anora.

You'll be able to comply with all of the rolling protection of the ceremony proper right here, with a winners record being up to date because the night progresses.

This 12 months’s Oscars have performed away with performances for Finest Unique Music, whereas the present honoured Los Angeles after the current wildfires with a nod by host Conan O’Brien earlier than later inviting many firefighters on stage.