Jane Fonda thinks she should have done Oscars Robert Redford tribute

Anna Kaufman, USA TODAYTue, March 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM UTC

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Jane Fonda didn't enjoy the Robert Redford tribute at the Oscars.

The 88-year-old actress and activist revealed, following the March 15 ceremony, that she thought she should have been tapped to honor the late director rather than Barbra Streisand. Streisand, who co-starred with Redford in "The Way We Were," gave a short speech at the Academy Awards honoring their friendship, and sang a snippet of the movie's titular track.

"I want to know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford?" Fonda told Entertainment Tonight at the Vanity Fair after party.

Jane Fonda attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026.

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Fonda, in a playful tone added that Streisand "only made one movie with him, I made four! I have more to say." She added that she "was always in love with" Redford, who died at 89 on Sept. 16. "The most gorgeous human being and such great values," she said. "And he did a lot for movies, he really changed movies, lifted up independent movies."

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During her tribute, Streisand, who played the neurotic, political firebrand Katie Morosky opposite Redford's WASPy Hubbell Gardiner in "The Way We Were," called her former costar an "intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail."

1 / 0Robert Redford and Jane Fonda's bond lit up the screen for decades. See photos of the two.

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda had a lasting, close friendship and on-screen relationship as they starred in four acclaimed films together, including "Our Souls at Night," "The Electric Horseman," "Barefoot in the Park" and "The Chase." On Sept. 16, the Oscar-winning actress, who worked with Redford from the 1960s into the 2010s, honored the "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" star in a statement after his death at age 89. "It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone," Fonda said in the statement provided to USA TODAY. "I can't stop crying."See the golden duo's bond in frames, starting with the two at the Netflix premiere of "Our Souls at Night" on Sept. 27, 2017, in New York City.

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"Bob had a real backbone on and off the screen," Streisand said, revealing she could not have imagined anyone else in the role. "I miss him now more than ever," she added.

Fonda, who sported a pin with the text "Block the Merger," a clear nod to Paramount's recent bid to purchase Warner Bros, to the Oscars, frequently acted opposite Redford. The pair starred in a string of movies in the '60s and '70s, including "The Chase," "Barefoot in the Park," and "The Electric Horseman," then reunited decades later for 2017's "Our Souls at Night."

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