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James Cameron Champions Zoe Saldaña’s Oscar Win: The ‘Avatar’ Family Has Always Known Her to Be a ‘World-Class Performer’
Zoe Saldana won the Oscar for best supporting actress, and James Cameron championed his "Avatar" star for the victory.
After her Golden Globe win in January, Saldaña told press that Cameron was one of the first people to get in touch with her and send along congratulations. “I was sitting in the audience, and I received a message from James Cameron, who’s somewhere in New Zealand right now, cutting ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash.’ And he, after all these years, believes in me,” she said. Cameron told Variety as part of a Saldaña cover story last year that the Oscars are overdue to recognize her work as Neytiri in the “Avatar” franchise.
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