{"id":334176,"date":"2026-03-17T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334176\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:58:07","slug":"i-have-more-to-say-jane-fonda-questions-why-barbra-streisand-fronted-oscars-tribute-to-robert-redford-oscars-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334176\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have more to say\u2019: Jane Fonda questions why Barbra Streisand fronted Oscars tribute to Robert Redford | Oscars 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Fonda has said she wishes she could have fronted the tribute to Robert Redford at Sunday night\u2019s Academy Awards, rather than Barbra Streisand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the red carpet at an Oscars<\/a> afterparty, Fonda told a red carpet reporter: \u201cI want to know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford?\u201d The actor then playfully added that while Streisand \u201conly made one movie with him, I made four \u2026 I have more to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Streisand\u2019s memories of her one-time co-star and longtime friend was one of three extended sections in the 2026 in memoriam segment of the ceremony, preceded by tributes to Rob Reiner<\/a> and Diane Keaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The actors had worked together on the 1973 Sydney Pollack drama The Way We Were, the title track of which Streisand also sang from on stage. She recalled his initial reticence about taking the role and his professional and political conscientiousness.<\/p>\n

Streisand sings at the Oscars. Photograph: Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

\u201cBob had real backbone on and off the screen,\u201d said Streisand, who also presented Redford with his honorary Oscar in 2002. \u201cHe spoke up to defend freedom of the press, protect the environment, and encourage new voices at his Sundance Institute.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then detailed their evolving relationship and recalled how the last time they had been in contact, the pair had told each other they loved one another.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the ceremony about Redford, Fonda said she \u201cwas always in love with him. The most gorgeous human being and such great values. And he did a lot for movies, he really changed movies, lifted up independent movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fonda and Redford in 2017. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Now 88, Fonda worked with Redford, who died last October, four times, on 1966\u2019s The Chase, Barefoot in the Park a year later, The Electric Horseman in 1979 and again for 2017\u2019s Our Souls at Night. Posting on Instagram after his death Fonda wrote: \u201cI can\u2019t stop crying. He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n

As well as the extended tributes to Redford, Reiner and Keaton, the in memoriam section remembered stars including Robert Duvall and Terence Stamp. Brigitte Bardot and Bud Cort were among notable omissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda has said she wishes she could have fronted the tribute to Robert Redford at Sunday night\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-334176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}