Ang maikli ngunit live na pagkanta ni Barbra Streisand, 83, sa 98th Academy Awards ang isa sa mga pinag-uusapang moments sa 98th Academy Awards na ginanap nitong Linggo, Marso 15, 2026 (U.S. time), sa Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, California.
Nagbalik sa Oscars si Barbra upang magbigay-pugay sa pumanaw na actor-director na si Rober Redford sa In Memoriam segment ng awards show.
Si Redford ang kapareha ni Streisand sa 1973 movie na The Way We Were.
Inawit ng legendary singer ang isang stanza o saknong mula sa kanyang popular na kanta nang magbigay-pugay siya sa legendary actor.
Pumanaw si Redford sa edad na 89 noong Setyembre 16, 2025.
May pagbabago na sa timbre ng boses ni Streisand dahil sa edad nito, pero umani pa rin ng mga papuri ang kanyang pagkanta sa Oscars 2026 ng theme song na ginamit sa pelikula nila ni Redford.
Read: Hollywood legend Robert Redford dies at 89
STREISAND PAYS TRIBUTE TO REDFORD
Bago umawit si Streisand, ibinahagi muna niya ang ilang mga anekdota tungkol sa pagkakaibigan nila ni Redford.
Lahad niya: “After I read the first script of The Way We Were, I could only imagine one man in the role, and that was Robert Redford.
"But he turned it down because he said the character had no backbone. He doesn’t stand for anything, and he was right.
"So many drafts later, Bob finally agreed to do it.
"He was a brilliant, subtle actor, and we had a wonderful time playing off each other because we never quite knew what the other one was going to do in a scene.
"And I’m thrilled that The Way We Were is now considered a classic love story, but it’s also about a dark time in our history, the late 40s and early 50s, when people were informing on each other and subject to loyalty oaths.
“Now, Bob had real backbone on and off the screen. He spoke up to defend freedom of the press, protect the environment and encouraged new voices at his Sundance Institute, some of whom are up for Oscars tonight, which is so great.
“He was thoughtful and bold.
"I called him an 'intellectual cowboy' who blazed his own trail, and won the Academy Award for best director."
Pagpapatuloy ni Streisand: "And I miss him now more than ever, even though he loved teasing me.
“He’d call me Babs, and I’d say, ‘Bob, you know, do I look like a Babs? I’m not a Babs, you know.’
"But the way he said it made me laugh.
“And many years later we were chatting on the phone about the usual — politics, art, our favorites, and as we were hanging up, he said, ‘Babs, I love you dearly and I always will.’
“And in the last note I ever wrote to Bob, I ended it with 'I love you, too,' and I signed it ‘Babs.'”