Kathy Bates expected a win at the 2025 Golden Globes, but instead received a shout-out from winner Anna Sawai on stage.

The Shogun The 32-year-old actress won the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama on Sunday, January 5, and when Sawai’s name was called, Bates, 76, jokingly tore up a piece of paper, seemingly planning an acceptance speech , as she stared into the camera.

Fellow contestant Keri Russell also had a remarkable reaction to Sawai’s win, as she couldn’t contain her excitement at not being the winner herself.

“Thank you, oh thank you,” the star of The diplomat you could tell.

Ironically, Sawai himself seemed to be rooting for Bates to win. “I have so many people to thank, but I’ll keep it brief. “Thank you to the voters who voted for me, even though I would vote for Kathy Bates any day,” she admitted in her acceptance speech, which drew laughter from the crowd.

She continued: “Thank you to our incredible writers. Without a good script, it is impossible to reach our full potential. Thank you. Everyone else – I’ll thank you later.”

Sawai’s win comes after her first-ever nomination in the category. Shogunwhich tells the story of feudal Japan in the 16th century, received multiple nominations throughout, including Best Television Series – Drama and a nod to Sawai’s co-stars Tadanobu Asano and Hiroyuki Sanada.

Asano was nominated for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television and Sanada received an award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama, both taking home the award.

Sawai’s nomination follows her historic win at the 2024 Emmy Awards – where the show itself made a splash with a whopping 25 nominations.

The actress became the first woman of Asian descent to win the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and her emotional win was followed by another history-making moment from her co-star as Sanada became the first Japanese actress in history to win the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series won Drama Series.

Along with Bates’ nomination for Matlock and Russell’s for The diplomat, House of the Dragonis Emma D’Arcy, Mr and Mrs Smith‘s Maya Erskine and Black pigeons Keira Knightley was also nominated in this category.

Bates’ nomination for Matlock is her ninth Golden Globe nomination overall and comes 27 years after she won a Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Television Movie for her role in The Movie The late shift. After her very first nomination, she also won in 1991 misery.

Bates’ only other nomination for a TV role was for American Horror Story: Freak Show in 2015. The remaining four nominations were for Fried Green Tomatoes, Primary Colors, Annie And About Schmidt.

With her latest role as the title character in Matlock Bates was “emotional” as she told PEOPLE that this period of her life was “just so exciting.”

“How can it get any better? I would love for this to continue,” she said of the wave she’s riding.

Considering she admitted she had “one foot out the door” when it came to her acting career until she read the reboot’s script, things are definitely looking up for Bates.

D’Arcy was nominated again for her role as the true heir to the Iron Throne, Rhaenyra Targaryen game of Thrones Prequel series House of the Dragon.

In the show’s second season, which aired from June to August, D’Arcy’s character Rhaenyra Targaryen was put to the test after suffering a heartbreaking death in the season one finale. Rhaenyra continued to face challenges from both her husband Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and her best friend Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke).

Following her nomination for the show in 2023, D’Arcy – who is non-binary and uses the pronouns “they/them” – said it was a “wonderfully ironic” moment to be recognized at the awards ceremony while discussing her thought about gender identity.

“It’s kind of surreal because when I first started, I really felt like I had to pretend to be a woman to succeed in this industry,” they told E! Red carpet news. “Anyway, it wasn’t sustainable and I stopped pretending, and strangely enough, that’s when I was nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Globes.”

“I think the most important thing is that it means that the space for trans and gender non-conforming people is getting bigger and bigger,” D’Arcy, 32, continued. “So I feel very privileged.”

Even though they didn’t take home the award that year, the show still managed to win Severance pay, Ozark, The crown And You better call Saul to win best television series.

Erskine, 37, is one of two first-time nominees in this category. The PIN15 Co-creator starred alongside Donald Glover in the remake of the Hulu series Mr and Mrs Smithin which Glover and Erskine’s Jane and John Smith do not play a couple like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in the 2005 film, neither of whom know that their other half is a spy, but that they enter into a relationship solely because of their spy work.

In addition to Erskine’s nomination, the Hulu series, which was renewed for a second season, received two additional nominations. Her accomplice Glover was nominated for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama, and the show itself was nominated for Best Television Series – Drama.

Black pigeons She secured Knightley’s fourth-ever Golden Globe nomination, but it was her first time being recognized for a TV role. She was already nominated in 2006 pride and Prejudicein 2008 for atonement and in 2015 for The imitation gamebut didn’t win for any of these films.

In the Netflix series, the 39-year-old actress plays a British spy whose carefully curated personal life goes into overdrive when her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is murdered. Knightley embarks on a risky journey with Ben Whishaw to identify her lover’s murderer, while continuing to keep her double life a secret from her politician husband.

Knightley said her “teenage self was excited about this role.” “Sometimes you have to listen to your teenage self and say, ‘This is for you,’ you know,” she told the L.A. Times the role. “I think she would have found that very cool.”

Season 2 of The diplomat earned Russell her fifth Golden Globe nomination, following her nomination in the same category for the first season in 2024. The Netflix series returned for the second season in October, and Russell and Rufus Sewell were back as politics’ most complicated couple , Kate (Russell). ) and Hal Wyler (Sewell).

The six-episode season saw them continue to grapple with Britain’s treacherous global power balance amid their ongoing relationship woes — and this time Allison Janney joined in on the fun, a move Russell tells PEOPLE “really complicates the mix of it all.” ”

It also meant a little more nervousness for her, as she told PEOPLE she was “nervous” about working with Janney, but luckily everything went smoothly. “She’s everything you expect her to be,” Russell, 48, said. “She’s kind and funny and smart and cool.”

Janney, 65, also received a nomination for her role at the Globes, and the show itself was nominated for Best Television Series – Drama.

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