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<p>If any Oscars moment was nearly as anticipated as Sunday&#8217;s best picture award, it may have been the tribute to artists who died in 2016.</p><p>This was, after all, the year we lost Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, then Bill Paxton on the eve of the awards, a seemingly endless list.</p><p>And like that other ceremony, the memorial montage did not pass without a disaster &#8212; even if the botching of the night&#8217;s top honor stole most of the shame.</p><p>As Jennifer Aniston choked up and Sara Bareilles serenaded, the names of those lost flashed across the screen.</p><p>In Australia, some noticed one living among the faces of the dead.</p><p>That was a photo of Jan Chapman &#8212; who lives in Australia &#8212; next to the name of Janet Patterson, an Oscar-nominated costume designer who died of cancer last October.</p><p>&#8220;I am alive and well and an active producer,&#8221; Chapman - who lists critically acclaimed &#8220;The Babadook&#8221; on a long film resume - wrote to Variety after the ceremony. &#8220;I was devastated by the use of my image in place of my great friend and longtime collaborator.&#8221;</p><p>In fact, Chapman told Variety, she had been worried about just such a mistake, and had asked Patterson&#8217;s former agency to double check that the Academy had the right photo before the show started.</p><p>Busy dealing with fallout from the best picture mix-up, the Academy didn&#8217;t immediately reply to questions about the night&#8217;s first big mistake. But Patterson&#8217;s name and photo had both been removed from the Oscars website by Monday morning.</p><p>The two Jans of Australian cinema have been getting mixed up for years.</p><p>The confusion appears to stem from a 2010 photo of Chapman accepting an Australian award, which is sold for reproduction with a caption misidentifying her as Patterson.</p><p>A close-up of same photo appears to have been used in the Oscars montage, despite Chapman&#8217;s warnings.</p><p>As it happens, the two were close friends and colleagues before being confused for each other. They were both interviewed for &#8220;Bright Star,&#8221; which Chapman produced and Patterson costumed.</p><p>Famously reclusive, Patterson does not show her face in the interview.</p><p>Nor was she apparently much of an Oscars fan.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care about that,&#8221; she told the Age in 2010, after her work on &#8220;Bright Star&#8221; earned her a fourth Academy nomination (after &#8220;The Piano,&#8221; &#8220;Portrait of a Lady&#8221; and &#8220;Oscar and Lucinda.&#8221;)</p><p>In all those years, Patterson had never released a photo, the Age reported.</p><p>Who knows what fame-adverse Patterson would have thought about becoming yet another story in an Oscar-night catastrophe.</p><p>&#8220;As subtle and discreet as her taste was, everyone, everywhere noticed,&#8221; Chapman and director Jane Campion wrote in her obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald.</p><p>&#8220;She was tall with black hair and deep brown eyes that saw everything,&#8221; they wrote.</p><p>For the Academy&#8217;s future reference: Chapman stands shorter and has auburn hair.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Avi Selk</p><p>The Washington Post</p></bylineMeta></div>

‘Alive and well:’ Overlooked goof during Oscar’s tribute to artists who died