The Costume Designers Guild has fashioned its 2025 Spotlight Award reipoient. Emilia Pérez co-star and Lioness lead Zoe Saldaña will pick her prizes at the 27th annual CDG Awards on February 6 at The Ebell in Los Angeles.
The Spotlight Award celebrates an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special appreciation of the importance of costume design. The guild notes that Saldaña is a fitting honoree in that she can inhabit a costume and make the character come alive no matter how elaborate or otherworldly — from Neytiri in the Avatar films to Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and beyond.
She plays cartel lawyer Rita Mora Castro in Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez, which is riding huge awards-season buzz. Saldaña is nominated for Golden Globe, Critics Choices and other awards for the role. She also stars as a clandestine CIA operative in the Paramount+ drama Lioness aka Special Ops: Lioness, which just wrapped its second season.
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Since breaking out role in Center Stage a quarter-century ago, the New Jersey native’s credits also include Crossroads, Drumline, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Losers, Takers, Colombiana and the NBC miniseries Rosemary’s Baby. She also has done voice work for Missing Link, The Book of Life, Vivo and the limited series Maya and The Three.
Saldaña received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018
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