Kate Hudson is reflecting on her career following her second Oscar nomination — 25 years after she received her first Academy Award nod. 

Last month, the 46-year-old star received a best actress Oscar nomination for her critically acclaimed performance in the 2025 biographical musical drama “Song Sung Blue.” Hudson was first nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award in 2001 after making her breakthrough in 2000 comedy drama “Almost Famous.”

On Feb. 12, Hudson attended the 28th Costume Designers Guild Awards at the Ebell in Los Angeles, where she received the Spotlight Award, which honors actors whose careers showcase an enduring commitment to excellence and a deep appreciation for the art of costume design. During an interview with Fox News Digital on the red carpet, Hudson reflected on the advice that she would give her younger self. 

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“I think giving advice to my younger self would be like discounting all of the decisions that I made that were also like good decisions — even the mistakes and the ones that were challenging decisions that I made formed everything for who I am right now, so I wouldn’t go back and do anything different,” she said.

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Kate Hudson shared what she would have done differently in her Hollywood career. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for IMDb)

However, looking back, Hudson, who has had a number of iconic on-screen fashion moments, realized that she did have one career regret. 

“You asked what I would do different and I was gonna say, I’d keep more clothes!” she told Fox News Digital. 

The following day, Hudson picked up another accolade when she was recognized for her acting achievements at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Hudson’s longtime friend Gwyneth Paltrow presented her with the Arlington Award, following an on-stage conversation about her career with The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg.

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The actress earned her first Oscar nomination in 2001 for her performance in “Almost Famous.” (DreamWorks Picture)

While speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of the event at the Arlington Theatre, Hudson expressed her excitement over receiving the award and looking back at her career at the event, which featured clips from all of her past projects.

“I came a little early, so I got to experience a little bit of Santa Barbara,” she said. “It’s so beautiful here. I love it here. And I’m so happy. I mean, this is exciting. I get to reflect on a lot of the films that I’ve made tonight, and yeah, it’ll be really, really interesting to see everything. And I love the love that ‘Song Sung Blue’ is getting, and we love this movie. It’s touched so many hearts, and so it’s just this whole experience has been wonderful.”

Hudson also reflected on her experience with how navigating awards season as an Oscar nominee differed from her first time around.

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Hudson received the Spotlight Award at the CDGAs. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Costume Designers Guild)

“I kind of related to having a third child,” said the actress. 

Hudson is mother to son Ryder Robinson, 21, whom she shares with her ex-husband, The Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson. She also shares son Bingham Hawn Bellamy, 14, with her ex-fiance, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy, and Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa, 7, with her fiancé, musician Danny Fujikawa. 

“It’s like, you just take everything in differently,” she continued. “You soak it up, and also you have all these relationships that you’ve created over the years, and people that you know and that you have really like spent a lot of time with and worked with. So the room feels a lot cozier than it did when I was 21.”

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“I was so young, right?” Hudson added, “So I just really started my career, and it was a new room for me. And now I get to be at these parties and celebrate friends. It does feel different.”

While speaking with Fox News Digital, Hudson shared how her three children have reacted to her Oscar nomination. 

“They know I’m busy, and they’re excited,” she said. “My older kids are really excited for me. And I think Rani just loves seeing all the outfits I leave the house.”

 “And she’s like, ‘Oh, what’s that one, Mom? What’s that?’ But they’re excited,” she said. 

After Paltrow arrived at the event, the “Shakespeare in Love” star and Hudson shared a warm embrace before posing on the red carpet together. Once inside the Arlington Theatre, Hudson took the stage for a lengthy Q-and-A sit-down with Feinberg in front of a packed audience. 

During their conversation, Hudson recalled words of wisdom that her father Kurt Russell gave her at the 2001 Academy Awards after she lost the Oscar to Marcia Gay Harden, who won for her performance in “Pollock.” Hudson’s biological father is musician Bill Hudson, 76, who was married to her mother Goldie Hawn, 80, from 1976 to 1982. Bill and Hawn also share son Oliver, 49.

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Hudson and Oliver were primarily raised by her mother, Hawn and her partner of 43 years, Kurt Russell, 74, whom the actress has publicly described as her father figure.

“I lost, and everything happened so fast. My dad just turned to me — he was down a couple, and Kurt just goes, ‘Congratulations, now you can go have a career,'” Hudson remembered. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s right.’ And that was Kurt’s way of saying, like, ‘Welcome, this is what it is. Everything happens and in a second it’s all over.'”

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After her star-making turn as free-spirited “Band-Aid” Penny Lane in “Almost Famous,” Hudson was cast in a string of hit romantic comedies, including 2003’s “How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days,” 2008’s “Fool’s Gold,” 2009’s “Bride Wars” and 2011’s “Something Borrowed,” among others.

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While speaking with Feinberg, Hudson reflected on her rom-com queen status and how she approaches projects in the genre. 

“I think it’s one of the hardest genres to get right,” Hudson said.

She explained that when starring in romantic comedies, she sets out “with the intention like everybody does a great film, not with the intention of making a rom-com.”

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The actress received the Arlington Award at the SBIFF. (Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

Hudson shared that while romantic comedies were foundational to her fame, she is actively seeking roles that allow her to transform and challenge herself, noting that being widely known for rom-coms sometimes made it hard for filmmakers to see her in different types of roles. 

“It was clear that that’s where the industry liked to hire me and then my goal, my hope, was to make the best versions of those,” she said. “In that time, it was also like there’s a lot of factors: you’ve got your team, you’ve got people saying, ‘We really think you should do this, these are great directors.’ And then you have moments where you’re also like, ‘That’s a lot of money and I’m a single mom.’” 

Hudson continued, “And despite working with some top filmmakers and making hits, I was starting to be like, I really want to be doing something different. And I think when you become really famous doing that genre, it’s hard for certain filmmakers to see you in anything other than what we’re watching. These sort of things that like, ‘Well, transforming isn’t what she does’ when, in fact, it’s what I love to do.”

She went on to explain that “Song Sung Blue” gave her that opportunity and felt like the beginning of a new phase in her career. The actress, who also received nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award and an Actor Award, emphasized that her choices are driven not by awards recognition but by stories that move audiences and challenge her as an artist.

Hudson starred alongside Hugh Jackman in “Song Sung Blue.” (Sarah Shatz/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved)

In “Song Sung Blue”, which was based on a true story, Hudson stars as Claire “Thunder”Sardina opposite Hugh Jackman as Mike “Lightning” Sardina, who performed as a Neil Diamond tribute band called Lightning & Thunder. During the film, Hudson sings onscreen and the star was widely praised by critics for both her acting and her singing. 

Hudson had previously embarked on a music career, releasing her debut studio album “Glorious” in May 2024, which charted on the Billboard Heatseekers. While speaking with Feinberg, Hudson recalled that she had long wanted to pursue music but had been warned that it could jeopardize her acting career.

“I always thought music would be something that I would do, but then it was like, ‘OK, don’t break what’s not broken’ and this idea of sort of crossover careers could have been a kiss of death,” she said. “You’re sort of warned against it, like ‘Just enjoy your career, enjoy this part right now.'” 

Hudson remembered that she had been particularly discouraged after telling someone that she wanted to make an album when she was in her 30s. 

“They’re like, ‘You’re kind of too old now to sort of break out as a musical act or to have a musical career,'” she recalled. 

“He wasn’t wrong,” Hudson admitted. “It just weighed on me. And then finally, COVID happened, and I was like, ‘I will just regret it if I don’t do it. I have to do it.'”  

“And so I did it, and then I couldn’t believe the reception that it received,” she remembered. “It was so warm and loving and loved. And I was like, ‘Why didn’t I do this before?'”

Hudson’s performance earned her a second Oscar nomination. (Courtesy of Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved)

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Hudson also shared her thoughts on what may come next as her awards recognition opens new doors.

“It doesn’t mean to me that all of a sudden I just want to be doing this for the concept of the accolades; I want to do it to put people in the theater too,” she said. “This feels like the beginning of maybe that part where I get to do a little bit more transformations than maybe I’ve been able to do in the past.”

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After the conversation concluded, Paltrow took the stage to present Hudson with the Arlington and gave a heartfelt speech about her longtime friend. 

Hudson’s longtime friend Gwyneth Paltrow presented her with her award. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

“We have logged a lot of life together and lived a lot of chapters alongside each other — marriages to musicians, plural. We had our expat years in London, babies and renovating houses. And, oh, her 30th birthday, where I got really drunk. My 40th birthday, where everybody, I think, got really drunk,” Paltrow joked as the audience laughed and cheered.

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Paltrow, who won a best actress Oscar in 1999 for her performance as Viola de Lesseps in “Shakespeare in Love,” recounted her reaction after watching Hudson in “Song Sung Blue.” 

“I FaceTimed you when I finished, and I burst into tears, not only because I was so proud of your skill and your brilliance, but because I felt you finally had a role that shows all of what you can do,” she said. 

Last Updated:February 18, 2026, 21:32 IST

Sahibzada Farhan hits century: On the basis of opener Sahibzada Farhan’s brilliant century, Pakistan made its place in the Super 8 of the T20 World Cup. After reaching the Super 8, Farhan said that he played his natural game and everything went as per plan. After the first century of Farhan’s T20 International career, due to the brilliant performance of spinner Shadab Khan (19/3) and Usman Tariq (16/4), Pakistan entered the Super Eight by defeating Namibia by 102 runs in the ‘do or die’ group match.

Sahibzada Farhan said that he is desperate to perform brilliantly in Super 8.

Climate activist groups sued President Donald Trump‘s administration on Wednesday in an effort to block officials from undercutting environmental regulations.

The lawsuit targets the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to revoke an Obama-era “endangerment finding” that serves as the underpinning for sweeping climate regulations. The finding, which the administration announced plans to revoke last week, asserted that pollution and climate change constitute harm to the American people. The lawsuit names the EPA and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, as plaintiffs.

“EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the Clean Air Act,” said Gretchen Goldman, president and CEO at the Union of Concerned Scientists, one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 

“This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science,” Goldman added.

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Climate groups filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Lee Zeldin. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Nearly 20 groups signed on to the lawsuit, including the American Public Health Association, American Lung Association, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and others.

The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

The 2009 “endangerment finding” identified six greenhouse gases that the Obama administration said pose “a threat to public health and welfare.” That harm finding was used to justify climate regulations from the EPA such as raising fuel economy standards and limiting power plant emissions.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an event in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Zeldin hailed the move as cutting through government red tape in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week.

“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” Zeldin said.

Trump held an event at the White House last week with Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. There they announced a new initiative for the Department of War to purchase electricity from coal-powered plants.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, left, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, right. (Costas Baltas/Getty Images)

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The Washington Coal Club also named Trump the “Undisputed Champion of Coal” during the event.

Trump has been consistently critical of global warming claims and climate regulation throughout both of his terms in office, famously withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement when he first took office in 2017.

On one hand, the Punjab government is claiming that ‘war against drugs’ is being waged to eliminate drugs in the state and its second phase is going on in Punjab. On the other hand, in Amritsar, the son of a head constable of Punjab Police has died under suspicious circumstances and the police action on this has raised many questions. This incident has also raised questions on the success of the anti-drug campaign and the functioning of Punjab Police.

Was admitted to drug deaddiction center

On Friday, February 13, 26-year-old Akashdeep of Guru Nanakpura locality under Islamabad police station of Amritsar died. His father Ashok Kumar is a head constable in Punjab Police. According to the father, a day before the incident (February 12), Akashdeep had come after being discharged from the drug de-addiction center. He was a drug addict due to which he was admitted to a drug deaddiction centre.

On the day of the incident, Akashdeep had gone with a friend. The family got information that Akashdeep was lying unconscious in the car. The family brought him home, but after some time his health deteriorated and he was taken to the hospital and died there.

Father had talked about drug overdose

On the day Akashdeep died, his father Ashok Kumar had alleged that his son died due to drug overdose. He said that drugs are easily available in Punjab and the government which is claiming that a campaign against drugs has been launched in the state, is having no impact.

He had said that if the people of Punjab want to save their children from drugs then they should send them out of the state. However, the very next day Amritsar Police shared a video of Ashok Kumar in the media in which he said that whatever he had said, he had said it out of emotions.

‘I became emotional after seeing my son’s dead body’

In the video shared by the police, Ashok Kumar had said that he became emotional after seeing his son’s body and had said a lot against the government which he should not have said. He had said that he did not know how his son died. Amritsar’s Assistant Police Commissioner Jaspal Singh had said in the statement given the next day of the incident that no mark was found on Akashdeep’s body which would show that he had consumed drugs. He said that the family has also refused to take any action in this matter.

Questions are also raised on the functioning of the police in this case because instead of conducting a post-mortem, an attempt was made to find out whether the death was due to drug overdose or not. The police did not conduct post-mortem of the deceased because the family did not give consent for it.

FIRST ON FOX: A newly proposed bill by House Republicans would cement President Donald Trump’s energy agenda by taking a sledgehammer to a vast array of his Democrat predecessor’s regulations.

Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Texas, is introducing legislation that would give all future energy-related regulations a five-year sunset window, while requiring many existing rules to be amended with a one-year expiry pending a review process.

It comes after Trump levied a similar executive order that would target energy red tape imposed by former President Joe Biden during his first year in office.

But if Goldman’s bill becomes law, it would significantly hamstring the ability of future Democratic administrations to impose new long-term energy policies like Biden’s, many of which Republicans have panned as burdensome and unnecessary.

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President Donald Trump has moved to roll back a host of former President Joe Biden’s energy regulations. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He argued to Fox News Digital that those regulations were compounding the rising costs Americans have seen in their daily lives.

“It is going through and looking at every single cost, basically from start to finish, of energy costs, and how it affects every single American taxpayer,” Goldman said of his legislation.

“All anyone has to do is look at where they were a year and a half ago with costs of certain things. It was all based on regulations passed by the Biden administration, and that’s exactly what we hope to cut and codify.”

The Texas Republican pointed out that increased energy costs, including prices at the gas pump, bled into other facts of Americans’ daily lives.

“My dad and I owned a wine and food store and, yeah, when gas prices went up, the guy who drove the 18-wheeler full of cheese from Chicago, Illinois, charged us an extra $2,000 for that delivery because his gas prices were up tremendously. And so we couldn’t afford to eat that cost, so the cheese prices went up,” he said as an example. 

“Everything that every single American taxpayer touches — whether they know it or not, when energy prices are high, their cost of living is in turn going to be high.”

Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Texas, leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 4, 2025.  (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

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His legislation would primarily target regulations issued under major energy and land laws overseen by the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior.

The House has already voted to roll back a number of Biden-era regulatory policies so far this term and with bipartisan support.

Last month, 11 Democrats voted with Republicans to overturn Biden administration regulations on showerhead pressure.

Both the House and Senate passed resolutions early last year to overturn Biden-era regulations targeting water heaters, with six Democrats joining Republicans in the House on that measure.

Rising energy costs have been targeted by both parties as they make competing arguments ahead of the November 2026 midterms.

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But Goldman is arguing that Democrats have less of a footing to talk about affordability with select goods like gas seeing a decrease in prices this year.

“We pushed back, and we made people realize, ‘No, wait a minute. Let’s talk about affordability. Let’s talk about where the cost of things were just over a year and two months ago, before Donald Trump came into office and before Republicans could push through good legislation that President Trump signed,” Goldman said. “I kind of find it quite interesting that all of a sudden the buzzword affordability isn’t much talked about anymore.”

Co-sponsors of Goldman’s bill include Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Reps. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, Randy Weber, R-Texas, Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., and Barry Moore, R-Ala. 

A Senate counterpart was introduced by Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho.