Presenter Goldie Hawn said she couldn’t read anymore on Sunday during the 2025 Oscars at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The 79-year-old star of films such as Overboard, the First Wives Club, and Death Becomes Her relied on her co-presenter, Andrew Garfield, to read the nominees for Best Animated Feature.

Garfield did — the winner was Flow — and Hawn was able to read the nominees for the second category they presented together, which was for Best Animated Short Film, which went to In the Shadow of the Cypress.

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What was very real, though, was Garfield’s delight in having been paired with Hawn. Truly. And it was all because of his late mom, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2019.

“There’s someone, there’s a person, who gave my mother, during her life, the most joy, the most comfort,” Garfield said when they first took the stage, “and tonight, I feel very lucky, cause I get to thank that person form the bottom of my heart. That person is Goldie Hawn.”

“Thank you, sweetie,” Hawn, who won her own Oscar in 1970 for Cactus Flower and was nominated again in 1981 for Private Benjamin. “That really touches me.”

Garfield agreed. “You know, I can feel her smiling at us at this moment,” said the Oscar nominee in 2017 for Hacksaw Ridge and for Tick, Tick… Boom! in 2022.

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“You’ve given us movies full of joy,” Garfield continued. “You’ve lifted our spirits and you’ve made us feel that all was right with the world over and over and over again.”

Hawn responded that she had “loved“ the journey. “I was so lucky making movies in this amazing Hollywood and making people laugh and, and maybe some didn’t, but that’s okay.”