Amy Sussman1/15Keanu Reeves, 2020 Reeves celebrated the 92nd Academy Awards with his mother, Patricia Taylor, by his side in a gorgeous white suit that perfectly complemented his classic look.
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2/15Charlize Theron and her mother, 2004 Theron won the Oscar for her role in "Monster" in 2004, and someone very special was by her side; her mother, Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz.
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Photo: Getty Images3/15Justin Timberlake, 2011 When Timberlake came to the Academy Awards as a presenter in 2011, the decision to bring his mother, Lynn Harless “was unanimous in my mind,” he told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush on the red carpet. “For me, this is one of the coolest things ever, it’s the first time I’ve ever been here, like this, and I think we want to remember the night . . . . If you ever get a chance to go to the Oscars, you gotta bring your mom.”
Photo: Getty Images4/15Jared Leto, 2015Jared Leto’s mother, Constance Leto, basically stole the show in 2014, and Jared, who won Best Supporting Actor for Dallas Buyers Club, wasn’t about to let you forget it: “In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child,” Leto said from the stage, “She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard, and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she’s here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom.”
Photo: Getty Images5/15Leonardo DiCaprio, 2014, 2016What else would you expect from “the world’s best son?” “She supported this little kid who said, ‘I want to be an actor,’ at 12 years old, which is ridiculous, and she drove me to all these auditions,” he said. “She’s the only reason I’m able to do what I do.”
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Photo: Getty Images6/15Colin Farrell, 2008The then-infamous heartbreaker did the smart thing and brought his mother, Rita, to the Awards with him in 2008.
Photo: Getty Images7/15Javier Bardem, 2008When Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor in 2008 for No Country for Old Men, he addressed his mother from the stage, saying: “Mom, this is for you! This is for your grandparents, for your parents, this is for the actors of Spain, who have brought, like you, the dignity and the pride to our job. This is for Spain, and this is for all of you.”
Photo: Getty Images8/15Jonah Hill, 2014Jonah Hill followed in the footsteps of DiCaprio (his Wolf of Wall Street costar) when he brought his mom, Sharon Feldstein, with him as his date to the Oscars. (According to reports, they took a group shot together to commemorate the occasion.)
Photo: Getty Images9/15Bradley Cooper, 2013, 2015Bradley Cooper made no bones about it. When he was nominated for Best Actor for Silver Linings Playbook, his date was already spoken for: his mother, Gloria Cooper. “One night, when I started the profession, [my mom said], ‘If you ever [get nominated], I am the date,’ ” Cooper told E! news. “She was freaking out.” She can’t have freaked out that much, because she was back in 2015, along with then-girlfriend Suki Waterhouse.
Photo: Getty Images10/15Chris Evans, 2013Chris Evans, who attended the Oscars in 2013 as a presenter with the rest of the cast of The Avengers brought his mother, Lisa Evans, along for the ride. “She’s so excited,” said Evans, walking the red carpet. “It's nice to remember how exciting and fun this stuff can be. Being with her brings all that back.”
Photo: Getty Images11/15Michael Fassbender, 2014Michael Fassbender may have jumped the gun in 2012, when he told The Hollywood Reporter that if he got an Oscar nod for Shame, he’d bring his mom along to the ceremony. (“I remember my mom always complaining . . . to me, saying, ‘This is such bullshit. It’s always the women who are naked,’ ” Fassbender said when Shame premiered. “So I did this one for you, Mom!”) When he did get the nod, in 2014, for 12 Years a Slave, his mother, Adele Fassbender, was right by his side.
Photo: Getty Images12/15Clint Eastwood, 2005Nominated for the second time in 2005 for his somber boxing drama, Million Dollar Baby (which took home a total of four Oscars, for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and his own, for Best Director), Clint Eastwood introduced his 96-year-old mother in the audience, where he thanked her for the good genes.
Photo: Getty Images13/15Ben Affleck & Matt DamonBack in 1998, way before Bennifers 1 and 2.0 and Jason Bourne were but a sparkle in their eyes, Ben and Matt brought their adoring mothers as their dates to the Academy Awards, and went on to win Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting.
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Photo: Getty Images14/15Russell Brand, 2011Russell Brand whisked his mother off to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards in 2011 as a way to “wipe the slate clean” for her having to put him in rehab on Christmas Day nine years earlier, he told the British tabloid The Sun.
Photo: Getty Images15/15Matthew McConaughey, 2014When Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club, he was quick to address his mother, Kay. “To my mother, who’s here tonight, who taught me and my two older brothers . . . [to] respect ourselves. And what we in turn learned was that we were then better able to respect others. Thank you for that, Mama.”
