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Zoe Saldaña Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for ‘Emilia Pérez’

After picking up nearly every precursor award, Zoe Saldaña ended her first Oscar run with a win for Best Supporting Actress for ‘Emilia Pérez.'

A teary Saldaña took the stage after being presented the award by last year’s winner, “The Holdovers” star Da’Vine Joy Randolph, shouting out to her mother and entire family who were in the audience (she issued another big, quite sweet shoutout to her husband, filmmaker and producer Marco Perego-Saldaña, and his “beautiful hair,” along with their three sons, who were not in attendance). Since the film premiered at Cannes 2024, Saldaña was considered the favorite and frontrunner of the category (even after a shared Best Actress win at the festival, which also included her co-stars Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Adriana Paz). At the Oscars, she beat out a strong array of other Best Supporting Actress nominees, including fellow first-timers Ariana Grande (“Wicked”), Monica Barbaro (“A Complete Unknown”), and Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”) — plus Felicity Jones (“The Brutalist”), who’s been nominated before.

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