Zoe Saldaña Gives Loving Shoutout to Husband Marco Perego as She Wins BAFTA Award: 'You Are So Beautiful!'

Mar. 15, 2025

Zoe Saldaña accepts the Supporting Actress Award for Emilia Pérez on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall on Feb. 16, 2025 in London.Photo:Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty

Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty

Zoe Saldañais this year’s supporting actressBritish Academy Film Awardwinner for her work inEmilia Pérez.

“I want to thank my mom for being such a selfless person,” the actress continued. “Thanks to you I’m able to do anything I want. My husband, you are God’s favorite and I hate it — but you are so beautiful!”

Saldaña is mom to twin sons, Cy Aridio and Bowie Ezio, 10, and youngest son Zen Anton, 8, whom she shares with husbandMarco Perego, 45.

Also in the running for BAFTA’s supporting film actress prize this year wereJamie Lee CurtisforThe Last Showgirl,Selena GomezforEmilia Pérez, Ariana Grande forWicked,Felicity JonesforThe BrutalistandIsabella RosselliniforConclave. Of those, Grande, Jones, Rossellini and Saldaña are also contenders at the upcomingOscars.

Zoe Saldaña in ‘Emilia Pérez’.Shanna Besson/PAGE 114

Shanna Besson/PAGE 114

Her costar Gascón, 52, was not in attendance at the BAFTAs following recentcontroversyover herresurfaced social media postscriticizing Muslim culture,George Floyd, diversity and more. The Spanish actress, who made history as thefirst openly transgender acting nomineeat several awards shows,deactivatedher X account on Jan. 31, and apologized after makingvariousstatementsthat drew backlash.

Ariana Granda in ‘Wicked’.Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures

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Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘The Last Showgirl’.Roadside Attractions

Roadside Attractions

Curtis, 66, has a long history with the BAFTAs, becoming a winner in 1984 forTrading Placesand earning subsequent nominations in 1989, 2023 and now 2025. InThe Last Showgirl, the Oscar winner plays Annette, a Las Vegas cocktail waitress and friend to Pamela Anderson’s showgirl Shelly. The Gia Coppola-directed film also earned both stars nominations at the upcomingScreen Actors Guild Awards.

First-time BAFTA nominee Gomez, 32, costars with Saldaña and Gascón inEmilia Pérezas the rebellious Jessi, wife of Gascón’s titular character. TheOnly Murders in the Buildingstar was one of the movie’s four actresses, along with Adriana Paz, who jointly won a prize at the 2024Cannes Film Festival, where the musical-thriller kicked off its domination of this awards season.

Selena Gomez in ‘Emilia Pérez’.Shanna Besson/Pathé

Shanna Besson/Pathé

Brady Corbet’sThe BrutaliststarsAdrien Brodyas a fictional architect emigrating from Hungary to America in the wake of WWII, with Jones, 41, as his wife Erzsébet following behind years later. “In part, it’s a love story,” Jonestold PEOPLEin December of the epic film. “It’s about these two people who are wanting to make this love work no matter what it takes. I feel like we’re all really desperate for a story of this magnitude.”

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in ‘The Brutalist’.Lol Crawley

Lol Crawley

Despite decades of screen performances, Rossellini, 72, is making her debut as a BAFTA nominee. In the Edward Berger-directed, Peter Straughan-adaptedConclave, the Italian actress plays the all-seeing Vatican nun Sister Agnes, a role with very few lines of dialogue next to lead actorRalph Fiennes’ Cardinal Thomas Lawrence. The film led this year’s BAFTA list with 12 nods.

Isabella Rossellini in ‘Conclave’.Courtesy of Focus Features

Courtesy of Focus Features

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