15 Stars Who Brought Their Parents as Awards Show Dates
15 Stars Who Brought Their Parents as Awards Show Dates
Jacqueline WeissMon, September 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
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Melissa Elordi and Jacob Elordi attend the 98th Oscars; Irmelin Indenbirken and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the 86th Oscars.Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty; Jeff Vespa/WireImage
Awards shows can turn into family affairs when stars bring their parents as their dates.
Actors including Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper have been accompanied multiple times by their mothers to awards shows and red carpets, while both of Glen Powell’s parents make regular appearances supporting their son.
Meanwhile, 2024 was a big awards season for Charles Melton, who received several nominations for his role in May December. He often brought his mom Sukyong Melton as his date, including the 2024 Golden Globes in January of that year.
“Who wouldn’t want their mom to be with them?” he told PEOPLE the following month about bringing his mom along for awards season. “She’ll always tell me, no matter how old I get, I’m always going to be her baby Charles: ‘I don’t care if you have a house, and you’re paying bills, and you have kids, you’ll always be my baby.’ ”
Ahead, see 15 celebrities who have brought their parents as awards show dates.
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Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan and Donna Jordan attend the 98th Annual Oscars.Credit: John Shearer/98th Oscars/Getty
Michael B. Jordan has frequently been accompanied by his mother Donna Jordan at red carpet events, including the 2026 Academy Awards. She was sitting next to her son when the actor learned he won Best Actor for playing twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Sinners.
“God is good. God is good,” the actor began his acceptance speech. “Yo, Mama, what’s up? Y’all know how I feel about my mother. And my father’s here. Yo, Pops, where you at? My dad came in from Ghana. ... My brother [and my] sister’s here, my family.”
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Bradley Cooper
Gloria Campano and Bradley Cooper attend the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards.Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty
Cooper’s mom Gloria Campano is no stranger to awards shows, as she has accompanied her son on multiple occasions.
Ahead of the 2024 Oscars, Cooper told E! News that Campano would “100 percent” be joining him during the ceremony the following month, where his film Maestro was nominated for three awards.
“100 percent. There’s no question, she’s coming,” the actor said. “Because first of all, she’s an amazing hang. She’s cool. And I just get a thrill every time I go with her because [she says] exactly what she thinks of anybody.”
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Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande with her parents Joan Grande and Edward Butera at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.Credit: ALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
Ariana Grande had her parents Joan Grande and Ed Butera by her side at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Although the singer did not end up taking home any of the five awards she was up for, she put on a special performance in which she changed lyrics to one of her songs as a nod to her dad.
The Wicked star has previously shared she fell out of touch with her father, but they seemingly rebuilt their relationship years later. Instead of the original lyrics “I’ll be thanking my dad / ‘Cause she grew from the drama,” she sang “I’ll be thanking my dad / because he is so awesome.”
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Glen Powell
Glen Powell and his parents Glen Powell Sr. and Cyndy Powell at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards.Credit: ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty
In addition to appearing as extras in several of Powell’s movies, his parents Cyndy Powell and Glen Powell Sr. have also regularly attended red carpets and awards shows with their son, including the 2025 Golden Globe Awards red carpet, where he was a first-time nominee.
Cyndy gushed over her son during an interview with E! News on the red carpet, saying, “It’s a big night for us. Hit Man was one of those that he found, he wrote [and] produced. It’s a journey that we’ve been on a long time and we’re really proud.”
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Charles Melton
Sukyong Melton and Charles Melton attend the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards.Credit: Jon Kopaloff/WireImage
Melton has been accompanied by his mom Sukyong at multiple red carpet events.
In March 2024, the actor told PEOPLE how helpful it was to have his mom accompany him through the awards season following his role in May December.
“The best part was my mom making me breakfast, lunch and dinner, and just taking care of me,” he said. “You don’t get that much sleep.”
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Sebastian Stan
Georgeta Orlovschi and Sebastian Stan attend the 97th Annual Oscars.Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty
In March 2025, Sebastian Stan was accompanied by his mother Georgeta Orlovschi at the 97th Academy Awards, where he was nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Apprentice.
During a red carpet interview with E! News before the ceremony, Orlovschi expressed how proud she was of her son.
“He works very hard, so he deserves the best. I can’t be more proud. He’s adorable,” she said.
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Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem and his mother María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz at the 2008 Academy Awards.Credit: Bob Riha, Jr./Getty
For the Academy Awards in 2008, Javier Bardem was accompanied by his mother, the late Pilar Bardem, to whom he also dedicated his Best Supporting Actor win.
“Mama, this is for you,” the No Country for Old Men actorsaid in his acceptance speech in Spanish. “This is for your grandparents, for your parents Rafael and Matilde. This is for the comedian stars in Spain who, like you, have brought dignity and pride to our profession. This is for Spain, and this is for all of you.”
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Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence, Karen Lawrence and Gary Lawrence attend the 2013 Oscars Governors Ball.Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty
After accompanying Jennifer Lawrence to the 2013 Oscars, where she won Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, Karen and Gary Lawrence ended up taking their daughter’s statuette home with them.
“My parents took it back to Kentucky, ‘cause I felt odd having it, like, on display in my house,” the actress told Access Hollywood in July 2013, per Today.
She added, “If anybody’s coming over to my house, I didn’t want them to remember that. Just kind of puts a weird energy out.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Irmelin Indenbirken and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the 86th Oscars.Credit: Jeff Vespa/WireImage
DiCaprio’s mother Irmelin Indenbirken regularly accompanies him to red carpet events and awards shows, including the 2014 Oscars.
Two years later, DiCaprio, who had several nominations in years past, took home his long-awaited Oscar for Best Actor for his role in The Revenant.
The actor gave both of his parents a special shout-out during his acceptance speech, saying that “none of this would be possible” without them.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Luz Towns-Miranda attend the 89th Annual Academy Awards.Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mother, Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda, always knew her son would make it to the Academy Awards.
In February 2017, Towns-Miranda joined the Oscar nominee on the red carpet at the Oscars and shared her pride while speaking with PEOPLE.
“From the time he was tiny, he was really special,” she said. “I knew that he would be here one day and I told him, ‘I’m gonna be with you.’ ”
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift and mother Andrea Swift at the 2007 CMT Awards.Credit: Rick Diamond/WireImage
Taylor Swift’s mom Andrea Swift has not only accompanied her to awards shows, but also presented her onstage.
In 2015, Andrea introduced her daughter at the Academy of Country Music Awards when she was presented with one of the 50th Anniversary Milestone Awards.
“I’ve watched this milestone artist from the time she was a tangle-haired little girl growing up on our farm full of imagination and creativity until right now when she prepares for her next world tour,” Andrea told the audience before calling herself a “very proud mom.”
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Chris Affleck, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Nancy Carlsson-Paige at the 70th Academy Awards.Credit: Ke.Mazur/WireImage
Lifelong friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting at the 1998 Oscars, making Affleck the youngest recipient of the award at 25 years old. The pair were accompanied by their mothers, Nancy Carlsson-Paige and the late Chris Anne Affleck, for the special occasion.
“We were sitting next to our moms and we won, and we kind of hugged our moms,” Affleck recalled to Vanity Fair in a joint conversation with Damon in April 2023. “And I remember, how everyone had made such a big thing out of it. As if this was such a novelty.”
“And I remember thinking, being insecure, like, ‘Why? Why is it weird that we’re bringing our moms?’ ” he continued. “Like, ‘Who else do you think we would bring?’ You know what I mean?”
Affleck said that there was “nobody else that was going to go” at the time, adding, “Of course our moms were gonna go.”
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Jacob Elordi
Melissa Elordi and Jacob Elordi attend the 98th Oscars.Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty
Jacob Elordi kept a teenage promise to his mom when he brought her to the Oscars in 2026.
The Euphoria star, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the Creature in Frankenstein, revealed during a Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance ahead of the big night that Melissa Elordi would be his date.
“I’m going to take mum,” Elordi said. “I promised her when I was 15 that I would take her, so I have to honor that,” adding that she “fully believed in me the whole time.”
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Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh and her mom attend the 92nd Annual Academy Awards.Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty
Florence Pugh may not have won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2020, but her mom, Deborah Mackin, made the most of her evening after the ceremony with an unlikely new friend.
Pugh recounted during a virtual Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance in June 2021 about what happened at Madonna’s post-Oscars party when her “mom went missing for hours.”
The Little Women star recalled, “My mom suddenly comes crawling from somewhere, she’s holding onto banisters and doors, and I’m like, ‘Mama, are you okay?’ And she was like ‘Yeah, yeah,’ and I was like, ‘What happened?’ and she goes, ‘No, no, I’ve been hanging out with Snoop Dogg.’ ”
“So, my mom got high with Snoop Dogg,” Pugh added. “So I literally had to grab them both and leave. It was like, ‘Come on kids, we’re going home now. Fun is done.’ ”
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