Angelina Jolie Remembers Mother Watching Jon Voight Attend 1979 Oscars with ‘The Different Girl’

Throughout a dialog with critic Leonard Maltin on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant on Wednesday, per PEOPLE, the actress — who accepted the Maltin Trendy Grasp Award — mirrored on her profession, and her expertise with the Oscars.

When Maltin requested Jolie, 49, about her Academy Award win in 2000 for her efficiency in Lady, Interrupted, she mentioned, “I’m making an attempt to consider how a lot I’ll share proper now.”

Jolie — who’s the daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand — recalled watching the 1979 Academy Awards, throughout which her father received the Oscar for Greatest Actor for Coming House. The ceremony got here just some years after Voight and Bertrand’s separation in 1976, and Jolie shared that her mom watched her ex attend the awards present with “the opposite girl.”

“My mother was residence with two little youngsters,” Jolie recalled of Bertrand, who additionally welcomed Jolie’s brother James Haven with Voight. “My mother’s dream was to be an actor. I consider my mom’s mom’s dream was to be an actor, which might be why she took her to the theater in Chicago on a regular basis.”

“She was in her twenties, as a result of she had me when she was very younger,” she continued. “She was divorced to a really well-known man and she or he was residence together with her infants in an condo watching him win an Oscar with the opposite girl.”

“It was form of simply part of our household historical past,” Jolie added. “I bear in mind considering that [Bertrand] was there for me and my brother and that was the selection she made. And the way she should have felt on that night time all the time actually caught with me.”

Over twenty years later, the Maria star mentioned she was capable of share a particular second together with her mom when she received her Oscar for Greatest Supporting Actress in 2000.

“To have that second, to get off that stage and name her and say, ‘It is yours’ — and I gave it to her — top-of-the-line moments of my life,'” Jolie mentioned.

On Wednesday, Jolie remembered Bertrand, who died in 2007, when she was honored with the Maltin Trendy Grasp Award, which she accepted from Ava DuVernay on the movie competition.

The mother of six started emotional whereas talking about her late mom.

“Many individuals undergo life with out a inventive outlet. I consider my mom she had to surrender her desires of a inventive life, however she embraced that facet of mine,” Jolie mentioned. “My mom would write letters to my characters — ‘Pricey Gia,’ ‘Pricey Lisa Rowe,’ ‘Pricey Lara Croft’ … I attempt to think about typically now what she would write.”