She won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 1969’s Cactus Flower but didn’t attend the ceremony.
“I never got dressed up.
I never got to pick up the award.
Goldie Hawn in ‘Cactus Flower’ and on the red carpet for ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’.Everett Collection; Charley Gallay/Getty Images
But another factor was at play, too.
“I forgot it was on television that night,” she admitted.
“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.'”
“He said, ‘Did you ever see the part where you’re being announced by Fred Astaire?’
And I said, ‘Fred Astaire?!’
He’s my idol.
And I didn’t know he was the one that announced my name.
I got emotional when I finally saw it,” Hawn toldVariety.
Luckily, the 1970 show wasn’t Hawn’s last big Oscars moment.
He would eventually return his statuette to the Academy in protest.
