Hollywood wooden star Hugh Jackman has thrown his full help behind his co star from the upcoming movie, Music Sung Blue, actor Kate Hudson’s bid for an Academy Award, making a robust case for why he believes she deserves to lastly take residence the golden statuette. Standing beside her on the thirty fifth annual Gotham Awards in New York Metropolis on Monday, the 58-year-old actor publicly championed Kate as a frontrunner this awards season.
“Kate Hudson just isn’t solely one of many nice stars of our enterprise, she is a consummate actor. I consider this time she goes to get an Oscar,” Hugh stated from the stage at Cipriani Wall Avenue, because the pair accepted the inaugural Musical Tribute honor.
The Gotham Awards, which highlight excellence in impartial filmmaking, marked one of many earliest main stops on the film-industry awards circuit, forward of the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards. The ceremony additionally marked the official marketing campaign kickoff for Music Sung Blue, the upcoming musical biopic centered on Mike and Claire Sardina, the couple behind the Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder.
Kate, has not been nominated for an Oscar since her breakout function in Nearly Well-known earned her a Finest Supporting Actress nod in 2001. Within the years since, she has headlined a slate of fashionable movies together with Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days (2003), Idiot’s Gold (2008), The Killer Inside Me (2010) and Deepwater Horizon (2016). Although Music Sung Blue has but to open in theaters, early screenings on the American Movie Institute Pageant sparked robust awards buzz.
Talking concerning the response through the Academy and Chanel Ladies’s Luncheon earlier this fall, Kate remained grounded, saying, “You by no means know with this stuff. I have been round now lengthy sufficient to know simply to get pleasure from that persons are actually loving the film,” she stated with amusing. “And simply, you realize, present as much as the place they inform me to go.”
Throughout the Gotham ceremony, Hugh additionally appeared again at Kate’s journey since Nearly Well-known, including with humor, “There’s a distinction, a vital distinction, I can let you know, between Kate Hudson in Nearly Well-known, which was simply three years in the past … and Kate Hudson in Music Sung Blue.”
In the meantime, Kate, in return, praised Hugh, who playfully lifted their awards like dumbbells beside her. She stated that “harmonizing and performing” with the Deadpool & Wolverine star has been one of many “nice joys” of her profession.