Exclusive | Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan to reunite at Oscars for emotional Rob Reiner tribute

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“When Harry Met Sally” stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan will reunite on the Oscars for a tribute to the movie’s director, Rob Reiner, sources inform us.

The duo beforehand appeared collectively final yr in the course of the 97th Academy Awards to current the Finest Image award to “Anora.”

Crystal, in fact, beforehand hosted the Oscars 9 occasions, and was referred to as the best Oscars host ever by final yr’s emcee, Conan O’Brien, who will return once more on March 15.

“It’s nice to be again as a result of I used to work right here,” Crystal stated on final yr’s broadcast when he appeared on stage with Ryan.

Billy Crystal with Rob Reiner and Meg Ryan on the set of “When Harry Met Sally.” ©Columbia Footage/Courtesy Everett Assortment

“When was the primary time?” Ryan requested.

“9 tuxedos in the past,” Crystal shot again, including that was additionally 35 years in the past. “Let’s minimize to the chase,” Ryan instructed with the Finest Image winner left to announce.

Particulars of their Reiner tribute are up to now being saved beneath wraps, report The Publish’s Sara Nathan and Web page Six Hollywood.

Reiner was solely nominated for an Oscar as soon as, as a producer on “A Few Good Males.” His directing credit included additional classics corresponding to “Spinal Faucet,” “Stand by Me” and “The Princess Bride.”

Reiner’s troubled son, Nick Reiner, has been accused of fatally stabbing the film legend, 78, and his spouse, Michele, 70, in a case that has shocked Hollywood and the world.

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal on the Oscars in March 2025. The Academy by way of Getty Photos

The well-known couple had allegedly attended O’Brien’s vacation get together simply hours earlier than the slayings.

There was hypothesis over how the Oscars would deal with a tribute, and whether or not it would simply embody Reiner in its annual in memoriam phase.

Reps for the awards, in addition to Crystal and Ryan, didn't get again to us.

On the Golden Globes, host Nikki Glaser’s remaining second of the present included a touching nod to Reiner when she wore a “Spinal Faucet” hat.