There’s a new best actress in town!

On Sunday, January 5, Jodie Foster won the award for Best Female Actress in a Limited Series or Anthology Series at the 2025 Golden Globes for her role in True Detective: Night Country.

“The best thing about being at this age and this time is having a community of all these people, especially you, Sofía,” Foster said, referring to her fellow candidate Sofía Vergara.

As Foster walked on stage, Vergara yelled at the HBO star, “Give me one!”

Foster continued to thank him NightlandThe “wonderful, beautiful” showrunner, writer and director Issa López, co-star Kali Reis and the indigenous peoples who inspired the show’s story. “You changed my life and hopefully yours too,” Foster said.

She also called her children and her wife Alexandra Hedison.

“I just want to thank my family,” Foster said. “Because Kit, my son as a scientist, and Charlie, my son as an actor who is just starting his career, hopefully they understand the joy, that joy, that comes from doing really hard, meaningful, good work. So, my boys, I love you and this.”, of course, is for you and the love of my life, Alex, thank you forever.

Foster, 62, won for his role as Detective Liz Danvers. The series followed Danvers as she tried to figure out what happened to eight missing men who were working at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska, along with her partner Evangeline Navarro (Reis).

At the series’ premiere in January, Foster told reporters at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles that her character was an “Alaska Karen.”

“Liz Danvers is terrible. She is “Alaska Karen.” There’s no doubt about it,” she admitted. “She’s a terrible, terrible character. But you see why.”

“You see where that comes from and you realize what she’s fighting against, the turmoil that’s inside her, and the care and love that she has for her partner in the film (played by Reis), her other soldier character , feels.”

Other nominees included Cate Blanchett, Cristin Milioti, Naomi Watts and Kate Winslet, and each had a standout year in their own right.

Blanchett, 55, was nominated for her role in Disclaimer. The series, based on Renée Knight’s bestselling novel of the same name, followed acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) who, according to the official synopsis, “built her reputation by exposing the misdeeds and transgressions of others.”

But when Catherine is sent a novel by an unknown author, “she is horrified to realize that she is now the main character in a story that will reveal her darkest secrets.”

As she tries to discover the author’s true identity, she must “face her past before it destroys both her own life” and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). . ).

In conversation with The Hollywood Reporter In November, Blanchett said of the significance of her role: “Hopefully the show will make you realize that there are many points of view, and it’s not always the point of view that’s sung the loudest that’s the most true. And that can bury and obscure more fragile but equally powerful and valid perspectives, and that is of course my character.”

Milioti, 39, was nominated for her role as Sofia Falcone in The penguin. The eight-episode limited series that follows the events of Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of The Batmanshowed Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) trying to take a leadership role in Gotham City’s underworld

Speaking to PEOPLE in December, Milioti admitted that she didn’t necessarily “ever imagine” being nominated for a Golden Globe — but it was even more special to be recognized for a show she loves so much.

I remember her “gut feeling firing on all cylinders” when she first read the script The penguinMilioti said: “I thought, ‘I have to play this. I love this character so much.’ And I’m so happy that it worked.

“And to see what it did and to see how many people it reached, it was just… Yeah, it was incredible,” she continued about the HBO series.

Vergara, 52, was nominated for her role as the title character in the Netflix series Griselda.

She portrayed the godmother of cocaine, Griselda Blanco, in the limited series, which shows how Blanco built and ran a drug cartel in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s before she was killed in her native Colombia in 2012.

Vergara told PEOPLE that she spent three hours a day on hair and makeup to transform herself into Blanco — and the dedication paid off.

“People who have seen it now have been so responsive and telling me how much they love it,” she said. “It’s really exciting to see how people react to it. I’m very proud of it.”

Watts, 56, was nominated for her portrayal of New York socialite Babe Paley in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

The series tells the story of Truman Capote’s argument with Babe and her friends – whom he called “Swans” – after publishing a chapter of his book Answered prayers that revealed women’s secrets. The story, titled “La Côte Basque, 1965,” primarily alleged that Babe’s husband Bill, the co-founder of CBS, had cheated on her.

“It became a huge downfall for Babe,” Watts, who also produced the FX series, previously told PEOPLE. “She trusted him and felt there was a trust (in Capote). She felt seen and more connected to this person than she ever felt to anyone, so she couldn’t recover from that.”

Winslet, 49, was nominated for her role as Chancellor Elena Vernham The regime.

While The regime FYC At a panel event on June 5 in Los Angeles, the actress discussed the process of developing her character’s unique voice and accent. In the series, which also stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant, Winslet plays Vernham, the corrupt authoritarian ruler of a fictional European country whose controversial decisions trigger a civil war.

“It never made sense to me to speak like myself,” she said, adding: “I didn’t quite know what that meant or what to do about it. I just knew I had to find something that did it.” Don’t feel too close to me.

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