Andrew Garfield’s Oscars appearance made us cry—and he didn’t even win an award.
On March 2, Garfield took the stage at Dolby Theater to present the award to the best animated feature film alongside Academy Award-winner Goldie Hawn. However, before reading off the teleprompter, the 41-year-old actor took a moment to thank his co-presenter for the joy she brought his mother, Lynn Garfield, before she passed away in 2019.
“Can I tell you something really quickly? There’s someone, there’s a person who gave my mother, during her life, the most joy, the most comfort,” he addressing the 79-year-old actor. “And tonight, I feel very lucky because I get to thank that person from the bottom of my heart—that person is Goldie Hawn.”
He continued, “I can feel her smiling at us in this moment,” to which Hawn replied, “And now I’m smiling too.”
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But Andrew Garfield’s Oscars candid moment wasn’t over. “You’ve given us movies full of joy, you’ve lifted our spirts, and you’ve made us feel that all was right with the world over and over again,” Garfield concluded.
Hawn, who took home the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Cactus Flower spoke about her love of making movies for people just like Garfield’s mother. “You know, I was so lucky making movies in this amazing Hollywood and making people laugh and maybe some didn’t, but that’s okay,” she told Garfield.
From there, the pair went back to their script, with Hawn asking her co-presenter to read her parts, telling Garfield, “I’m completely blind.”
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Of course, viewers watching from home were touched by Garfield’s “genuine” words, though it’s far from the first time. While promoting Tick, Tick…Boom! in 2021, the Oscar-nominated actor went viral for the poetic way he spoke about his mother during an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
“I love talking about her, by the way, so if I cry it’s only a beautiful thing,” he said at the time. “This is all of the unexpressed love. The grief that will remain with us until we pass because we never get enough time with each other, right? No matter whether someone lives until 60 or 15 or 99. I hope this grief stays with me because it’s all of the unexpressed love that I didn’t get to tell her, and I told her every day, we all told her every day, she was the best of us.”
He went on to compare his mother to Jonathan Larson, the main character, writer, and composer of Tick, Tick…Boom!, who passed away just before the debut of his hit Broadway musical Rent in 1996.
“I got to sing Jonathan Larson’s unfinished song, while simultaneously singing for my mother and her unfinished song,” he said. “This film is to do with this ticking clock that we all have, that we all know, somewhere deep down that life is sacred, life is short, and we better just be here as much as possible with each other, holding on to each other.”
Garfield continued, “Both John and my mother were artists and they were warriors for art. They knew the power of art and knew the power of leaving the world in a slightly more beautiful state than when they found it. So thank you for letting me talk about her.”
Great, now I’m crying again.
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