Barbra Streisand is in talks to carry out at this 12 months’s Oscars as a part of an In Memoriam tribute section on Robert Redford, sources confirmed to Deadline.
Streisand starred alongside Redford within the 1973 romantic drama The Method We Have been directed by Sydney Pollack, the one movie they have been in collectively. The title music, written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch and sung by Streisand, was Billboard’s No. 1 single of 1974, when it additionally received the Oscar in addition to Music of the 12 months on the Grammys.
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It’s not confirmed if that’s the music in play for a possible Streisand efficiency. The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, which has not launched many particulars about this 12 months’s ceremony exterior just a few presenters, declined remark.
The talks with Streisand have been first reported by the California Submit.
Redford, who received an Oscar for steering Odd Folks together with an honorary Oscar, died final September at age 89. He had been tipped to be a distinguished a part of the Oscars’ annual In Memoriam section, which honor these within the movie trade who’ve died prior to now 12 months. That record for this 12 months’s ceremony celebrating the 98th Oscars can be sure to characteristic names like Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Val Kilmer, Brigitte Bardot, and Robert Duvall amongst others.
This 12 months’s Oscars ceremony is ready for Sunday, March 15, airing stay on ABC and Hulu.
