Barbra Streisand Honors Robert Redford at Oscars 2026, Sings 'The Way We Were'

Barbra Streisand is paying tribute to her late friend and co-star Robert Redford.

At the end of the In Memoriam segment, the 83-year-old icon came out on stage during the 2026 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 15) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

“Bob had a real backbone on and off the screen,” Barbra said of her The Way We Were co-star, calling him an “intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail.”

Keep reading to find out more…“I miss him now more than ever, even though he loved teasing me,” she continued. “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,’” Barbra concluded. “And in the last note I ever wrote to Bob, I ended it with, ‘I love you, too, and I signed it ‘Babs.’”

Barbra ended her tribute to Robert by singing a short snippet of “The Way We Were,” the melancholic title track from Sydney Pollack‘s 1973 movie.

Robert, who was also an Oscar winning director and the founder of the Sundance Film Institute, passed away in his sleep in September 2025 at the age of 89.