Zoe Saldaña Has an Emotional FaceTime with Her Sons After Winning Her First Oscar at the 2025 Academy Awards

Mar. 15, 2025

Zoe Saldaña wins the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ‘Emilia Pérez’.Photo:Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty

Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty

Zoe Saldañashared an adorable moment with her family backstage at the 2025 Oscars.

“Mom won! Mom won!” she enthusiastically said to her boys, as she held the award up in front of the camera.

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Despite her high-profile career, appearing in movies likeGuardians of the GalaxyandAvatar, Saldaña always prioritizes special moments with the “best people” in her family of five. Saldaña and Perego have done their best to keep their children out of the spotlight.

“Marco and I have a great deal of respect for theprivacy of our kids,” she told PEOPLE in 2017. “We have to choose for them and part of that is giving them the anonymity that they need.”

Still, Saldaña’s kids know about her Hollywood fame. “I see how [Zen] is trying to place me in his mind like, ‘OK, you’re Mama, but you’re also Gamora,'” she said of her youngest during an interview forInStyle. “The fact that thatgives me street cred with my kids, it’s fun, it’s great.”

Zoe Saldaña, her husband and her kids.Zoe Saldana /Instagram

Zoe Saldana /Instagram

Saldaña has previously opened up aboutnot raising her boys with gender-specific roles, but “teaching our little boys to honor women and to celebrate women.”

“We’re very hard on our boys the same way we’re hard on women. And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions,” she explained to PEOPLE in 2023.

“And then once you learn to do that so much for so long, you become completely excommunicated from your feelings,” she continued. “We definitely understood the assignments and accepted it knowing that we were raising boys during a time when women’s movements are so important.”

source: people.com