Hawn earned the award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for her performance in the movie &34;Cactus Flower,&34; but she wasn't able to accept it in person. Kate Hudson wants to bring mom Goldie Hawn as her Oscars date 56 years after she won but missed the ceremony Hawn earned the award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for her performance in the movie &34;Cactus Flower,&34; but she wasn't able to accept it in person. By Mekishana Pierre :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/MekishanaPierreauthorphotoed08906b8105488ca1e991de8ac00dec.jpg) Mekishana Pierre Mekishana Pierre is a news writer at .
Hawn earned the award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for her performance in the movie "Cactus Flower," but she wasn't able to accept it in person.
Kate Hudson wants to bring mom Goldie Hawn as her Oscars date 56 years after she won but missed the ceremony
Hawn earned the award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for her performance in the movie "Cactus Flower," but she wasn't able to accept it in person.
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Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson in 2021. Credit:
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Sorry, Danny Fujikawa! Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson hopes to bring someone other than her fiancé to the 2026 Oscars.
Who, then, does she want as her date? That would be her superstar mom, Goldie Hawn.
"I'm excited just to be doing this again. It's really cool," Hudson said during an appearance on the *Today* show Wednesday. "And hopefully my mom will be my date and we can have fun. It'll be great."
Hudson recently scored a Best Actress nomination for her performance in *Song Sung Blue*. When she attends the ceremony next month, she'll face off against Jessie Buckley (*Hamnet*), Rose Byrne (*If I Had Legs I'd Kick You*), Renate Reinsve (*Sentimental Value*), and Emma Stone (*Bugonia*).
The nod is Hudson's second in her decades-long career. She was nominated for the 2001 Oscars in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance as the iconic Penny Lane in* *the beloved 2000 film *Almost Famous* (Marcia Gay Harden took home that year's trophy for *Pollock*.)
It's not the first time Hudson has mentioned bringing her mom along for her big night. While chatting with Deadline's* The Actor's Side *series on Feb. 12, the *How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days *star expressed her desire for Hawn to accompany her instead of her beau, Fujikawa.
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Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson in 2017.
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"I hope she's my date. We'll see. It would be nice," she said. "We'll see how that works, too, but I'd like to have my mom on my arm. I'm like, 'I love you, Danny, but I feel like Mommy might need to be my date for the Oscars.' But we'll see."
Hudson enlisting Hawn as her date would be particularly poignant since her mom couldn't attend the ceremony when she won an Oscar 56 years ago. Hawn snagged the award in 1970 for her performance in the movie *Cactus Flower*, but she wasn't able to accept it in person because she was filming another movie in London. Raquel Welch accepted the award on her behalf that night.
The *Overboard *star admitted that she hadn't even expected to win in a 2023 interview with *Variety*. "It's something that I look back on now and think, 'It would have been so great to be able to have done that,'" Hawn told the outlet.
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Written and directed by Craig Brewer, *Song Sung Blue* stars Hudson as Claire "Thunder" Sardina, a singer-songwriter who performs alongside her husband, Mike "Lightning" Sardina (Hugh Jackman), in their beloved Neil Diamond tribute band, Lightning & Thunder.
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Although this year marks Hudson's second time in the Oscars race, she told ** in January that this nomination feels "very different" than her nod the first time around.
"I was so young. My career started at 20 and I never stopped working," she said. "I was so lucky. And to get all of that sort of critical acclaim so early in my career was like having a really wild, huge invitation to the party — like, welcome to the business! — in a way that doesn't happen like that very often."
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Kate Hudson in 'Song Sung Blue'.
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Hudson also noted that she's experienced both "great success" and "great failures" throughout her 25 years working in Hollywood. "I've been plugging away, as most artists do, and so for me now you just kind of feel it differently," she said. "You sit in it. You appreciate it. It's like having your third child — you soak all of it in more."
She continued, "You realize how wonderful it actually is to be a part of a movie that people are loving. I always say — I know everybody says the same thing — but it's incredibly inspiring. I feel like a huge ball of gratitude."
Conan O'Brien returns to host the 2026 Oscars live on Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. They will air on ABC and stream on Hulu.**
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