Palisadians Nominated for Oscars

Kate Hudson in an embrace with her Oscar-winning mom, Goldie Hawn. Both are all smiles after Hudson was nominated as best actress for Song Sung Blue.
Photo: Instagram

By: BERNICE FOX

Anyone nominated for an Oscar more than once probably will tell you that it never gets old, no matter how many times they receive the honor.

Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning. And the two high-profile Palisadians who are up for Oscars this time have been nominated before: Kate Hudson and Steven Spielberg. You know they have to be smiling.

Kate Hudson is nominated for best actress in Song Sung Blue. This is her second Oscar nomination. Her first was back in 2001, 25 years ago! That was for her supporting role in Almost Famous.

After the current nominations were announced — long before the sun came up — Hudson was still in bed and on a video call she posted to Instagram that could only be described as joyous. “Yaaay” was heard from the phone that Hudson was holding and she responded with “oh, my God, you guys!”

Hudson also posted a photo of her with her mom, former longtime Palisadian Goldie Hawn. The two were hugging each other. Hudson grew up with an Oscar statuette in the house because Hawn won for her supporting role in the 1969 movie Cactus Flower. Hawn also was nominated for the 1980 film, Private Benjamin.

With a best picture Oscar nomination for his film, Hamnet, Steven Spielberg now has a record 14 best picture producer nominations. This photo shows Spielberg last year at Francis Ford Coppola’s AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony.

With the new Oscar nominations, Steven Spielberg now has a new record. He produced Hamnet. And with Hamnet up for best picture, this is Spielberg’s 14th nomination for best picture. That’s a record for an individual producer. Producers were first named as nominees in 1951.

Spielberg’s other 13 nods as producer of a best picture nominee were for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), Schindler’s List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post (2017), West Side Story (2021), The Fabelmans (2022) and Maestro (2023). He won when Schindler’s List won best picture.

Another Palisadian will be a big part of the upcoming Oscars show. Conan O’Brien will be hosting again. He hosted to good reviews last year.

The Academy Awards will air Sunday, March 15 on ABC, Channel 7. They also can be watched on Hulu.

A full list of this year’s Oscar nominations is available click here.