Barbra Streisand Honors Robert Redford During Tearful Oscars Performance

Barbra Streisand had nan Dolby Theatre successful tears erstwhile she performed a tribute to Robert Redford during nan Oscars connected Sunday.

“I called him an intelligence cowboy who blazed his ain way and won nan Academy Award for champion director. And I miss him now much than ever,” Streisand said.

Streisand sang “The Way We Were,” nan title way to nan 1973 movie she starred successful pinch Redford. The romanticist drama, directed by Sydney Pollack, is considered 1 of film’s top emotion stories.

Written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, “The Way We Were” won nan Oscar for original song. Streisand besides performed nan opus to grant Hamlisch astatine nan 2013 Oscars.

Streisand highlighted Redford’s “backbone, connected and disconnected nan screen,” speaking astir his efforts to support nan free press, protect nan situation and promote caller voices done his Sundance Institute based successful Utah.

“He was thoughtful and bold,” Stresiand said.

When Redford died successful September astatine 89, Streisand shared connected Instagram that he was “one of a kind” and that she was “so grateful to person had nan opportunity to activity pinch him.”

“We were specified opposites: he was from nan world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find retired much astir each other, conscionable for illustration nan characters successful nan movie,” Streisand said. “Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, ever absorbing — and 1 of nan finest actors ever.”

In Streisand’s 2023 memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” she wrote that “Like nan top movie stars, Bob understands nan powerfulness of restraint.”

“Bob and I were genuinely funny astir each other, and I judge that’s what comes crossed connected nan screen,” Streisand wrote successful nan book, “He and I had a existent rapport and nan assemblage could consciousness it.”

After “The Way We Were,” Redford went connected to triumph an Academy Award successful 1981 for his directorial debut, “Ordinary People.” He was nominated for 3 different Oscars and received an honorary Oscar successful 2002, which Streisand presented to him. When introducing Redford, she credited him pinch giving her “one of nan astir breathtaking and memorable experiences” of her career.

“As an artist, I conscionable can’t deliberation of a amended life than nan 1 that I’ve been blessed with,” Redford said successful his acceptance speech. “It’s conscionable a awesome ride, pinch galore awesome relationships and experiences on nan way.”