Zoe Saldaña cries over 2025 Golden Globes win: ‘Full of gratitude’

Zoe Saldaña cries over 2025 Golden Globes win: ‘Full of gratitude’

Zoe Saldaña won a major award for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress at the 2025 Golden Globes.

“Oh my God,” he said Emilia Perez Actress as she took the stage to tearfully accept the award from presenters Dwayne Johnson and Auliʻi Cravalho at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 5.

“I’m full of adrenaline, but my heart is full of gratitude,” she continued.

After speaking more about how much the award meant to her and praising her co-stars, Saldaña, 46, shouted out to her family and said, “I love you – you are everything.”

The other nominees in Saldaña’s category included her Emilia Perez Co-star Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande (Evil), Felicity Jones (The brutalist), Margaret Qualley (The substance) and Isabella Rossellini (conclave).

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Zoe Saldana in Emilia Perez (2024).

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In Emilia PerezSaldaña, nominated for 10 Golden Globes, the most for a film this year, plays a lawyer who helps Mexican drug lord Manitas, who has always privately identified as a woman, fake his death and undergo gender-affirming surgery undergo. Years later, the former drug lord, now known as Emilia Pérez (Karla Sofía Gascón), hopes to reunite with his wife Jessi (Gomez) and their children.

This was the first Golden Globe nomination and win for Saldaña, who has starred in some of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time, such as: Avatar and Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy.

Saldaña told PEOPLE back in September 2024 about the “amazing” bond she had formed with her Emilia Perez Co-stars.

“There is so much love. There is so much respect. We keep our fingers crossed for each other. We are happy for each other. We watch each other’s makeup and wardrobe,” she said. “We knew what it meant to us. And to know that it will be special for so many people is impressive.”

Selena Gomez there Emilia Perez (2024).

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Two-time nominee Gomez, 32, is also nominated for best actress in a TV series, musical or comedy for Hulu’s Just murders in the building at this year’s awards ceremony. She was already nominated in this category in 2023 and 2024.

In the Spanish-language French musical Emilia Perez, Gomez plays Jessi.

Director Jacques Audiard narrated Living in Palm Springs The singer told him that the film “changed her life.”

“I find Emilia Perez “It was a useful experience for Selena,” Audiard said. “Will her followers follow her through this experience?” I don’t know because I don’t know her. But she told me just yesterday that this film changed her life. … I think it will influence their future decisions.”

Ariana Grande in Evil (2024).

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31-year-old pop star Grande wowed critics with her role as the lively Glinda, the future good witch Wizard of Oz Prequel EvilDirector Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. She plays the role of Elphaba alongside Cynthia Erivo, who is nominated in the Lead Actress category.

Earlier on Sunday, Grande wrote to her fans on her Instagram Stories: “All I can think about this afternoon and all morning is how deeply grateful I am to have been able to do this work and to have spent these years with Galinda. “

“I’m floating with gratitude today and can’t wait to celebrate all of the beautiful art created this year with my Ozian family and all of our new friends,” she continued. “Happy Golden Globes Day.”

Margaret Qualley in The substance (2024).

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The body horror film The substance Starring Qualley, 30, in the daring role of Sue, the younger and unpredictable version of faded star Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), who creates Sue from her own body after injecting her with a mysterious serum.

Qualley previously told PEOPLE that the Coralie Fargeat-directed film was “really outside of my comfort zone.”

She added: “I guess for me it’s something I’ve really never done before. I think I intentionally went the other direction throughout my career.”

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The brutalist (2024).

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Jones, 41, received her nomination for her key role The brutalist: Erzsébet, the wife of architect László (Adrien Brody), who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and comes to the United States in search of the American dream.

“I couldn’t put the script down,” she said diversity of the film. “I just loved the intelligence and found the ideology of the film fascinating, this idea of ​​fleeing fascism and falling straight into the arms of capitalism.”

Jones was nominated for Lead Actress in a Drama a decade ago for her role in the Stephen Hawking biopic The theory of everything.

Isabella Rossellini in conclave (2024).

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Rossellini, 72, was already nominated in 1997 for the Lindbergh baby abduction film Crime of the century. In conclaveShe plays the all-seeing Sister Agnes, a role with very few lines of dialogue.

“(Director Edward Berger) kept me in complete silence until I had a crucial scene that I thought so well underscored the patriarchal society of the Vatican and the submissive role of women,” she said city ​​and country Magazine.

“They are present but never speak – like shadows. I cycle through the film not saying anything, but when she speaks, she speaks so powerfully. I love that,” Rossellini added.

Check out PEOPLE’s full coverage of the 82nd annual Golden Globes ceremony, broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on CBS and Paramount+.

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