Many believe Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson is the frontrunner in the best supporting actress category for this year's Oscars. Perhaps she is.


The 21-year-old has already made Academy Award history as one of only three daughters to follow their mothers in landing an Oscar nomination. Liza Minelli and mom Judy Garland began the tradition, and they made room for Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd.


Now, Hudson and her mom, Goldie Hawn, are in the select group. Hawn is an Oscar winner, walking away with best supporting actress for her role in "Cactus Flower," made in 1969 -- 10 years before her daughter was born.


The parallels between mother's and daughter's life cannot be ignored, Hudson said at a luncheon this week honoring Oscar nominees.


"To be honest, our lives have been synchronized," Hudson said. "She found out she was nominated when she was working in London -- same thing happened to me."


On top of that, "we both got married at the same age."


Hudson was wed on New Year's Eve to Chris Robinson, lead singer of the rock group Black Crowes. For Hudson, the nuptials are even more noteworthy because of her early love of the group's music. An admitted "big Crowe head," Hudson said she bought one of the group's albums when she was 12.


"I loved their music," she said. "I never associated what the boys looked like, which is weird, but it's true. So when I met him (Chris) I didn't know it was him. When he told me, I went, 'Oh my god, I'm the biggest fan!'"


"Biggest fan" is her role in "Almost Famous," in which her character, Penny Lane, insists she is not a groupie; she prefers the term "band aid."


Hudson was not originally cast for the role, but stepped in and begged director Cameron Crowe to cast her when actress Sarah Polley dropped out. Crowe said OK, handing her a package of 25 CDs to acquaint her with music from the 1970s, the period in which the film unfolds.


But Hudson already knew the music, thanks to "pa," her term for her mother's longtime love, Kurt Russell. (Her biological father is Bill Hudson, onetime member of the defunct Hudson Brothers singing-comedy group.)


"Growing up, my pa always listened to The Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin," she said. "ZZ Top was a big one."


Growing up, she also was aware of the Oscar trophy which stood on the living-room mantel, and remembers one rock 'n' roll party that could have been taken right out of "Almost Famous."


"We had a huge party. My parents were out of town, and we ended up with 500 people in our house," said Hudson. " At the end of the night, my brother and I were upstairs, and he remembers the Oscar.


"We go running down the stairs and thank God it was still there." She was always a little afraid to touch her mom's trophy, Hudson admitted.


Maybe, she said, having one of her own could be different: "I've looked at it on the mantel my whole life … and dreamed about it."