A tribute to Quincy Jones at the 2025 Oscars featured Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and a Queen Latifah performance of "Ease on Down the Road."
Freeman and Hackman co-starred in 2000’s “Under Suspicion” and in the 1992 Clint Eastwood Western “Unforgiven” — the movie that earned Hackman his second Oscar. He won his first for 1971’s “The French Connection.”