Andrew Garfield took a moment to remember Goldie Hawn’s impact on his late mother while presenting an Oscar at the 2025 Academy Awards on March 2.
Garfield appeared alongside Hawn onstage to present the award for best animated feature film and grabbed her hand as he asked, “Goldie, Goldie, Goldie: Can I tell you something?”
After she said yes, he started to share how Hawn’s career impacted his mother’s life.
“There’s someone, there’s a person, who gave my mother, during her life, the most joy, the most comfort, and tonight, I feel very lucky because I get to thank that person from the bottom of my heart,” Garfield said. “That person is Goldie Hawn.”
“Aw, thank you, sweetie,” Hawn replied as she got emotional herself.
What Andrew Garfield has said about his mother
Garfield has been open with his grief after his mom, Lynn, died of pancreatic cancer in 2019.
“For me, grief is unexpressed love, and I’m never going to be able to express fully the love that I have for my mother, the gratitude that I have — that I got given the best mother around,” Garfield said on TODAY in 2021. “It’s a never-ending (thing).”
“It’s like we all leave this life with an unfinished song,” he added. “No matter how much of our song we get out, it’s never going to be fully done, and it was the same for my mother.”
Garfield also sat side by side with Elmo to discuss his grief in a video that went viral last year.
“I’m just thinking about my mum today,” Garfield told Elmo in a video posted on X in 2024. “You know, she passed away not too long ago, and I just miss her, miss her a lot.”
After Elmo said how sorry he was to hear that, Garfield replied: “You don’t have to say sorry. It’s actually kind of OK to miss somebody.”
The actor then described sadness as a gift.
“It’s kind of a lovely thing to feel, in a way, because it means you really loved somebody when you miss them,” he said.
He remembered all the cuddles and hugs he used to get from her, as Elmo gave him a little squeeze.
“It makes me feel close to her when I miss her in a strange way,” he said.
“I can celebrate her, and I can miss her at the same time,” Garfield added.
At the Oscars, Garfield and Hawn announced the animated movie “Flow” as the winner and also presented the award for best animated short film, which went to “In the Shadow of the Cypress.”
While presenting the awards, Hawn asked Garfield to step in and help her read the teleprompter when she started having trouble seeing the prewritten dialogue, which she said was due to cataracts, or a clouding of the lens in the eye.
