With her breakthrough role in Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” Kate Hudson received her first Oscar nomination at age 21. This season, she reaches another high note — and makes the case for a second nomination — with her performance as Claire Sardina, one half of a Neil Diamond tribute band, in the romantic drama “Song Sung Blue.”
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Years since Hudson received her only Oscar nomination, for playing rock musician enthusiast and bon vivant Penny Lane in “Almost Famous.”
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Hudson’s “Almost Famous” performance also earned her a Golden Globe Award, plus BAFTA and SAG Award nominations and several critics group prizes.
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Domestic box-office haul for the 2003 Hudson-Matthew McConaughey pairing “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” the peak of Hudson’s post-“Almost Famous” rom-com run.
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Hudson returned to the realm of music with the flawed yet prestigious “Nine,” which showed off her singing chops and drew a SAG Award ensemble nomination, her highest recognition post-“Almost Famous.”
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The past year and a half has brought a Hudson resurgence, with her high-profile rock album “Glorious,” hit Netflix show “Running Point” and current Oscar buzz.
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Hudson and Goldie Hawn; Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh; Laura Dern and Diane Ladd; Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland; Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman; and Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro are the six daughter-mother pairs who have been nominated for acting Oscars.
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A Hudson nomination for “Song Sung Blue” would make her and Hawn the third daughter-mother duo to each have multiple nominations, after Minnelli/Garland and Dern/Ladd.
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Supporting actress winner Hawn (“Cactus Flower”) and Hudson would be the first mother-daughter pair to win acting Oscars. (Minnelli won for “Cabaret” and Garland received a special “juvenile” award in 1940 but no competitive Oscars.)
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