Goldie Hawn Slams Award Shows Today Citing 'Off-Color' Jokes And 'Politicized' Themes

Mar 10, 2023 by apost team

Goldie Hawn has had a prolific acting career throughout her life. She gained prominence on the NBC comedy show “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In” in the late '60s up until the '70s. But it wasn’t until 1969 that she first earned her Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Toni Simmons in “Cactus Flower.” 

After that, Hawn’s career took off. She appeared in films like “There's a Girl in My Soup,” “Butterflies Are Free,” “The Sugarland Express,” “Shampoo,” “Foul Play,” “Seems Like Old Times” and “Private Benjamin,” with the latter earning her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. 

Hawn’s most recent projects were “Snatched,” “SPF-18,” “The Christmas Chronicles” and “The Christmas Chronicles 2,” where she plays Mrs. Klaus. 

She is also a highly-nominated actress at the Golden Globe Awards, but she has only won once for "Cactus Flower." She received various nominations including for the movies “The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox,” “The Banger Sisters” and “Best Friends,” among others. 

The actress is also the mother of actors. She is the mother of Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell. After two failed marriages with actor and director Gus Trikonis, and musician Bill Hudson, Hawn had a relationship with Kurt Russell, whom she has been with since 1983. Alongside the children they each brought to their relationship, they have a son together named Wyatt. 

At 77, Hawn is as radiant as her 25-year-old self in the '70s was. In an interview with Variety, Hawn recounted her big Oscars regret and why she thinks that award shows right now have had a downfall in the elegance department. 

Aside from being beautiful and a revered actress, Hawn is also an eloquent and articulate person. In fact, one of her foundations focuses on youth education programs intended to improve academic performance. The Hawn Foundation, founded in 2003, has been championing education research efforts to advance its goals further as a non-profit organization. 

In an interview with Variety, Hawn’s eloquence spoke volumes as she painstakingly recalled the moment when she was supposed to receive her first Oscar award but missed out because of work.

“I never got dressed up. I never got to pick up the award. I regret it. It’s something that I look back on now and think, ‘It would have been so great to be able to have done that,’” she remembered. 

Hawn was nominated at the 42nd Annual Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Toni Simmons on “Cactus Flower.” However, she passed on attending the show because she thought she wouldn’t be winning anyway. With only two acting credits at the time, Hawn didn’t think she would best Sylvia Miles and Susannah York back then. Aside from that, she was supposed to film the next day for her movie “There's a Girl in My Soup.”

“I forgot it was on television that night. Then I woke up to a phone call at like 4 in the morning. And it was a man’s voice, and he said, ‘Hey, congratulations, you got it.’ ‘I got what?’ ‘You got the Academy Award for best supporting actress,’” she said.

Hawn thanked the person on the other end before having a “good cry” to her parents. But despite all of her dear recollections about her missed Oscar moment, Hawn admitted she thinks awards shows today have lost their elegance, from when they were all about glamour and fun.

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In the same interview with Variety, Hawn got candid on her thoughts about award shows nowadays, specifically the Oscars. 

“It used to be elegant. I’m not old-fashioned, but sometimes jokes are off-color. And I’m missing reverence. Things have become politicized. I want to see people in awe. I want to see people believing again. I want to see people laughing more in a way that isn’t just at someone else’s expense,” she said. 

Among the things that Hawn mentioned was the infamous altercation between Chris Rock and Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars. 

“It’s indicative of our culture right now,” Hawn explained. “I mean, you could look at it and say, ‘What the hell just happened?’ Somebody lost control. They lost their self-regulation. Their bigger brain wasn’t thinking, and they did something that was horrendous and also showed no remorse. That, to me, is a microcosm oftentimes of our world.”

In the 2022 ceremony, a fuming Smith slapped Rock onstage on national television after the latter made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. While many have slammed Rock for his comments, Hawn seemed to side with him – praising his self-control after the display of violence onstage. 

“Chris was brilliant — totally held on to and controlled his emotions, was able to stand with dignity. That’s an example of what we would like our world to look like. But, unfortunately, it isn’t right now,” she admitted. 

According to Vulture, Hawn’s daughter Kate will be one of the presenters at the 95th Annual Academy Awards ceremony on March 12, 2023. 

Do you agree with Goldie Hawn’s thoughts on award shows? Do you think they have lost their elegance today? What can you say about her thoughts on Chris Rock? Let us know, and pass this on to your family, friends and other award show fans.