Billy Crystal and Me Ryan will reportedly reunite on the 98th Academy Awards for a tribute to their late When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner.
Oscars producers are making a major change to this 12 months’s In Memoriam phase, the place Hollywood seems to be again on the actors and creatives who died up to now 12 months, based on a Wednesday, March 4, report from Selection. Crystal, 77, is predicted to debate his friendship with Reiner, whereas Ryan, 64, and a number of other different stars from the late director’s films seem on stage on the March 15 gala.
Us Weekly has reached out to the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences for remark.
Rob and his spouse, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, have been discovered lifeless with a number of stab wounds of their Brentwood, California house in December 2025. They have been 78 and 70, respectively. Rob and Michele’s son, Nick Reinerhas been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide with particular circumstances in connection together with his mother and father’ loss of life. He has pleaded not responsible and is at present being held with out bond whereas he awaits trial.
Meg Ryan is mourning When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, after their murders. “Oh how we are going to miss this man,” Ryan, 64, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, December 17, sharing a throwback picture with the late director. “Thanks, Rob and Michele, for the way in which you consider in (…)
Crystal was noticed on the crime scene hours after the Reiners’ our bodies have been found and was reportedly fairly emotional as he left the premises.
When Harry Met Sally was a profession breakthrough for each Crystal and Ryan, as they performed two singles slowly discovering their real love for one another over 12 years of friendship. The 1989 comedy made $193 million on the field workplace and was subsequently ranked because the twenty third biggest comedy of all time on the American Movie Institute’s “100 Years… 100 Laughs” countdown in 2000. Rob famously modified the ending of the enduring rom-com after he met Michele.
In December 2025, Billy and his spouse, Janice Crystaljoined a number of of the Reiners’ closest mates — together with Larry David, Martin Quick and Albert Brooks — to pen a robust assertion honoring the late couple.
“Absorbing all he had discovered from his father Carl (Reiner) and his mentor Norman LearRob Reiner not solely was a fantastic comedian actor, he grew to become a grasp storyteller,” Crystal and mates wrote on December 16, 2025. “There is no such thing as a different director who has his vary. From comedy to drama to ‘mockumentary’ to documentary, he was all the time on the prime of his sport. He charmed audiences. They trusted him. They lined as much as see his movies.”
Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner in April 2019.
Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs for TCMTheir assertion went on, “His comedic contact was past examine, his love of getting the music of the dialogue good and his sharpening of the sting of a drama was merely elegant. For the actors, he cherished them. For the writers, he made them higher. His biggest present was freedom. If you happen to had an thought, he listened, he introduced you into the method. They all the time felt they have been working as a staff. To be in his arms as a filmmaker was a privilege, however that’s solely a part of his legacy.”
The 98th Academy Awards will air stay Sunday, March 15, on ABC and streaming stay on Hulu from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, with Conan O’Brien as host.