Kate Hudson Says She Hopes Mom Goldie Hawn Will be Her Oscar Date: 'We Can Have Fun’

Tommy McArdleWed, February 18, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC

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Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson seen at a Special Screening and Q&A For Focus Features' Song Sung Blue Moderated By Goldie Hawn at AMC The Grove 14 on January 13, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.

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Kate Hudson wants to bring her mother Goldie Hawn as her date to the 2026 Oscars

Hudson is nominated for Best Actress at the 98th Academy Awards for her performance in Song Sung Blue

"We can have fun. It'll be great," Hudson said of a potential mother-daughter date at the ceremony

Kate Hudson is angling to bring her mother Goldie Hawn to the 2026 Oscars.

"I’m excited just to be doing this again. It’s really cool," Hudson, 46, said during a Wednesday, Feb. 18 appearance on the Today show, as she discussed her Academy Award-nominated role in the movie Song Sung Blue. "And hopefully my mom will be my date and we can have fun. It’ll be great."

Hudson is nominated in the Best Actress category at the 2026 Oscars alongside Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) and Emma Stone (Bugonia). The nomination is Hudson's second in her acting career; she was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2000 movie Almost Famous at the 2001 Oscars. (Marcia Gay Harden took home that year's trophy for Pollock.)

Hudson's mother Hawn, 80, is a Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner herself; she won the award in 1970 for her performance in the movie Cactus Flower, though she did not attend that year's ceremony because she was filming another movie in London and did not expect to win, as she told Variety in a 2023 interview. Raquel Welch accepted the award on her behalf.

"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 said at the time.

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Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson on Nov. 18, 2021

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Hudson previously suggested she would bring Hawn to the Oscars ceremony during a Feb. 12 interview with Deadline's The Actor's Side series. "I hope she's my date. We'll see. It would be nice," she said at that time. "We'll see how that works too, but I'd like to have my mom on my arm. I'm like, 'I love you [fiancé Danny Fujikawa], but I feel like Mommy might need to be my date for the Oscars.' But we'll see."

The actress and singer costarred with Hugh Jackman in Song Sung Blue, a biopic about real-life married musicians Claire “Thunder” Sardina and Mike "Lightning" Sardina, who performed in the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder together for over a decade. The movie is based on a 2008 documentary of the same name.

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Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn on Dec. 11, 2025

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"No but the intention was to make a story that was full and entertaining," Hudson added, when asked on the Today show whether she knew Song Sung Blue would prove a hit when she and Jackman signed on to the movie. "We missed these movies; we don’t make these movies anymore that can also take you on this journey but on this same time, you’re entertained. You can go to very sad and tragic placed but still have this life-affirming end. And so the hope was to make something that would feel that way."

Conan O'Brien is returning to host the Oscars live on Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET on ABC and streaming on Hulu.

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