Zoe Saldana wins Critics Choice Award for Supporting Actress

Zoe Saldaña won Best Supporting Actress honors at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, continuing with her performance in Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez” Strengthen your Oscar leader. She serves as Rita Mora Castro in the musical crime drama, an angry lawyer who agreed to help Vord perform gender redistribution surgery.

“My husband goes to the bathroom!” Saldaña began giving a written speech and thanked the critics' Choice Society and her fellow nominees. “I thank the critic for the role. I do. I sometimes read the reviews and internalize them, especially useful feedback like “her crying is distracting.” “She has too much franchise.” ”Or, my personal favorite, she is too blue.

Saldaña continued: “Thinking that 'Emilia Pérez' is a small movie that may and resonates with many people,” Saldaña continued. “For the entire cast and crew, talented artists, designers and musicians, I share with you.”

After thanking Netflix’s film team and her own family, Saldaña concluded: “I hope the impact of this movie on the audience and our world is that I hope we are all curious and open to each other. You never know When will you have the chance to be a hero in someone else’s story. Our world is too big and too beautiful to be any other way. Stay curious, stay friendly and stay blue-not too blue.”

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Saldaña now won the Golden Globe Award and the Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress Honors. She will be in the same category as the BAFTA and Screen Actors Association Awards ahead of the Academy Awards in March.

The “Emilia Pérez” star’s victory in the Critics’ Choice Awards came shortly after the controversy involving lead actor Karla Sofia Gascon, which plunged the musical’s Oscars into a short time after the controversy involved in lead actor Karla Sofia Gascon Spiral. Racist and offensive tweets were posted on X including Gascon Best Actress after 13 Oscar nominations. Saldaña argued about the controversy during a recent Q&A in London.

“I'm still dealing with everything that has happened in the last few days and I'm sad. It makes me feel very sad because I don't support it and I don't have any negative comments about people in any group,” Saldanya said .

She continued: “I can only prove that I am part of this movie, and that’s part of the experience, my experience and interaction with them are about inclusion, collaboration and race, racial, cultural and gender equality. This makes I feel sad. What makes me feel sad is that we have to face this setback now.”

The next one in Saldania is BAFTA on Sunday, February 16.