Oscars: Barbra Streisand Pays Tribute to Robert Redford

At the 98th Academy Awards, Barbra Streisand returned to the Oscar stage for the first time in over a decade to pay tribute to filmmaker and friend Robert Redford with a small snippet from the song “The Way We Were,” from the movie of the same name, which she sang during the In Memorium tribute at the Oscars.

“I’m thrilled that The Way We Were is now considered a classic love story, but a dark time in our history — the late ’40s and early ’50s — when people were informing on each other and subject to loyalty oaths,” said the Oscar-winning multihypenate. “Now, Bob had real backbone, on and off the screen. He spoke up to defend freedom of the press, protect the environment, and encourage new voices at his Sundance Institute, some of whom are up for Oscars tonight, which is great.”