When Jon Voight attended the Oscars with the Other Woman, Angelina Jolie recalled the touching story of her mother watching from home
The ‘Maria’ star accepted the Maltin Modern Master Award from Ava DuVernay at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Angelina Jolie had a complicated memory of the Oscars years before winning one herself.
The Maria star, 49, appeared at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Wednesday, Feb. 5, to accept the Maltin Modern Master Award and discuss her decades of screen work with its namesake, critic Leonard Maltin.
“I am trying to think of how much I’m going to share right now,” began Jolie when asked about what it meant to win her Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted.
She then remembered tuning into the 1979 Academy Awards ceremony the year her father, Jon Voight, won Best Actor for Coming Home.
Voight separated from Marcheline Bertrand, mother to Jolie and her brother James Haven, in 1976; their divorce was finalized in 1980. “My mom was home with two little kids,” Jolie explained to Maltin. “My mom’s dream was to be an actor. I believe my mother’s mother’s dream was to be an actor, which is probably why she took her to the theater in Chicago all the time.”
