“I\u2019m excited just to be doing this again. It\u2019s 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<\/a>. “And hopefully my mom will be my date and we can have fun. It\u2019ll be great.”<\/p>\n Hudson is nominated in the Best Actress category<\/a> at the 2026 Oscars alongside Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I\u2019d 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\u00a0Almost Famous\u00a0at the\u00a02001 Oscars<\/a>. (Marcia Gay Harden took home that year’s trophy for\u00a0Pollock.)<\/p>\n 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<\/a> in a 2023 interview. Raquel Welch accepted the award<\/a> on her behalf.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n Rich Fury\/Getty<\/p>\n Hudson previously suggested she would bring Hawn to the Oscars ceremony during a Feb. 12 interview with Deadline’s<\/a>\u00a0The Actor’s Side<\/a>\u00a0series. “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 [fianc\u00e9 Danny Fujikawa<\/a>], but I feel like Mommy might need to be my date for the Oscars.’ But we’ll see.”<\/p>\n The actress and singer costarred with Hugh Jackman<\/a> in Song Sung Blue, a biopic about real-life married musicians Claire \u201cThunder\u201d Sardina and Mike “Lightning” Sardina, who performed in the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder together for over a decade.\u00a0The movie is based on a 2008 documentary of the same name.<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n Taylor Hill\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n “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\u2019t make these movies anymore that can also take you on this journey but on this same time, you\u2019re 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.”<\/p>\n![\"Goldie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/226ad518abe52317e156214b2871c000.jpeg\"\/)
Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson on Nov. 18, 2021 <\/p>\n![\"Kate](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f7acfbdec746188c8085c3a95d7faed7.jpeg\"\/)
Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn on Dec. 11, 2025 <\/p>\n