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Zoe Saldaña Hails ‘Emilia Pérez’ as the ‘Little Movie That Could’ in Critics’ Choice Speech: ‘I Hope We Can All Be Curious and Open-Hearted’
Zoe Saldana continues to cement her Oscar frontrunner status by winning the Critics Choice Award for supporting actress for 'Emilia Perez.'
Zoe Saldaña continued to cement her Oscar frontrunner status by winning best supporting actress honors at the 2025 Critics’ Choice Awards for her performance in Netflix’s “ Emilia Pérez.” She stars in the musical crime drama as Rita Mora Castro, an exasperated lawyer who agrees to help a drug lord undergo gender reassignment surgery. Saldaña won the award over fellow nominees Danielle Deadwyler (“The Piano Lesson”), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“Nickel Boys”), Ariana Grande (“Wicked”) Margaret Qualley, (“The Substance”) and Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”). The “Emilia Pérez” star’s win at the Critics’ Choice Awards came shortly after controversy involving lead actor Karla Sofia Gascon threw the musical’s Oscar campaign into a spiral.
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