Ahead of the 2025 Oscars, PEOPLE is looking back on moments from Academy Awards history. Jennifer Hudson, who won the Academy ...

referencing Hudson’s Academy Award-winning performance as Effie White. Hudson, visibly stunned, responded, “Are you talking about Dreamgirls? Wait, you were going to be in Dreamgirls?” ...

When Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose sang, "Dreamgirls will never leave you," they meant it! At the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (April 1), two of the Dreamgirls co-stars reunited ...

In 2006, Hudson starred in Dreamgirls and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award for her performance. Hudson won her first Grammy Award in 2009 for best R&B album; her second Grammy win ...

Dreamgirls was the winner of six Tony Awards, including Jennifer Holliday for Best Actress, and winner of the Academy Award for Jennifer Hudson.

Anika Noni Rose played the third member of the group. Admittedly, Hudson didn’t know much about Dreamgirls either, a story loosely based on The Supremes. After her stint on American Idol in 2004 ...

Jennifer Hudson at the 2007 Oscars.

Jennifer Hudson won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut in 2006’s Dreamgirls, but the American Idol alum didn’t know too much about the Academy Awards before her big night in 2007.