She stars as a hard hitting defense attorney in the riveting legal drama The Mauritanian, which hit theaters earlier this month.
And Jodie Foster earned the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for the role during the 78th Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday evening.
As she graciously accepted her honor, the 58-year-old planted a joyous smooch on her wife of nearly seven years Alexandra Hedison.
Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster earned the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for the role during the 78th Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday evening
Smooch! As she graciously accepted her honor, the 58-year-old planted a joyous smooch on her wife of nearly seven years Alexandra Hedison
Beaming into the event from home like the rest of the night’s nominees, Jodie sat comfortably with Alexandra by her side and her beloved pooch Ziggy in her lap.
The award was presented to Foster by her ‘bestie’ and fellow Hollywood heavyweight Jamie Lee Curtis.
‘Oh, my god, are you kidding me?! I think you made a mistake um, I am — uh, I’m a little speechless I just never expected to ever be here again!’ began Jodie, clearly taken aback by her win.
This is Foster’s third Golden Globe over the span of her impressive career, but the first since 1992 for her performance in Silence Of The Lambs. She also took home the Cecil B. DeMille award in 2013.
‘I have to thank all of my amazing filmmakers, Kevin McDonald, Tahar Rahim, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shailene Woodley,’ continued Foster, whose friends could be heard ‘screaming down stairs’ over the news.
Taken aback: ‘Oh, my god, are you kidding me?! I think you made a mistake um, I am — uh, I’m a little speechless I just never expected to ever be here again!’ began Jodie, clearly taken aback by her win
Dog mom: Beaming into the event from home like the rest of the night’s nominees, Jodie sat comfortably with Alexandra by her side and her beloved pooch Ziggy in her lap
She continued: ‘The real life people, Nancy Hollander, and most of all, the person that we all serve, we love you Mohamedou Ould Salahi, you taught us so much about being a human being, and being joyful and forgiving, that’s a lesson you give to all of us.’
At one point, Jodie had to wrestle Ziggy to stay in place as she finished her speech, which included a thank you to Shailene’s partner and rumored fiance Aaron Rodgers.
‘I love my wife, thank you Alex and Ziggy and Aaron Rodgers, the Hollywood Foreign Press, right? This is awesome! What a night!’ concluded the star.
Foster was up against fellow actress Glenn Close, Olivia Colman, Amanda Seyfried, and Helena Zengel, but she was the one to walk away with the gong.
Foster’s film The Mauritanian tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was wrongly held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp without charge or trial for 14 years.
Awarded: This is Foster’s third Golden Globe over the span of her impressive career, but the first since 1992 for her performance in Silence Of The Lambs. She also took home the Cecil B. DeMille award in 2013; Jodie pictured in 2013
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony, which usually takes place in early January, was pushed back to February 28 as Hollywood continues to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic and new safety guidelines.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey return to host for the fourth time. The comedy duo did the honors in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
It is the first ever awards show to be broadcast from two separate coasts.
Fey, 50, is broadcasting from atop New York City’s Rockefeller Center in the Rainbow Room and Poehler, 49, in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the ceremony is usually held annually.
Nominees will be tuning into the ceremony remotely but presenters have been asked to appear in person.
The impressive list of presenters this year includes; Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Annie Mumolo, Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Wiig and Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, Sterling K. Brown, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Margot Robbie, Tiffany Haddish, Anthony Anderson, Kate Hudson and Kenan Thompson.
Nominees: Foster was up against fellow actress Glenn Close, Olivia Colman, Amanda Seyfried, and Helena Zengel, but she was the one to walk away with the gong
Thankful: ‘I love my wife, thank you Alex and Ziggy and Aaron Rodgers, the Hollywood Foreign Press, right? This is awesome! What a night!’ concluded the star
Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of three-time Golden Globe nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and producer/philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee, are serving as the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors.
Jane Fonda, 83, is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an accolade for film. The acting icon has previously won Golden Globes for her roles in Klute, Julia and Coming Home.
Norman Lear will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award, a counterpart to the DeMille Award that focuses on life achievement in television. The writer, director and producer is a six-time Golden Globe winner.
Nominations were announced on February 3 with streaming giant Netflix receiving 42 nominations across film and television.
David Fincher’s Mank lead with six nominations across film, while The Crown also topped the TV categories with the same number of nominations.
Netflix smash-hit Emily in Paris found itself as one of the more controversially nominated shows, landing a nomination for best TV series, musical or comedy. The show’s star, Lily Collins, also got a nod for best actress.
Hey bestie! The award was presented to Foster by her ‘bestie’ and fellow Hollywood heavyweight Jamie Lee Curtis
Much of the uproar surrounding the nomination stems from the snubbing of Michaela Coel, whose HBO drama I May Destroy You failed to land any nominations.
Deborah Copaken, one of the writers of Emily in Paris, even spoke out to criticize the Hollywood Foreign Press for shunning Coel.
Copaken tweeted that it was ‘just wrong’, and later expanded on her thoughts in an op-ed for the Guardian.
‘Am I excited that Emily in Paris was nominated? Yes. Of course. I’ve never been remotely close to seeing a Golden Globe statue up close, let alone being nominated for one,’ she wrote.
‘But that excitement is now unfortunately tempered by my rage over Coel’s snub. That I May Destroy You did not get one Golden Globe nod is not only wrong, it’s what is wrong with everything.
‘We need art that reflects all of our colors, not just some. But we also need to give awards to shows (and music and films and plays and musicals) that deserve them, no matter the color of the skin of their creators,’ she went on to write.
Last year’s 77th Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, averaged 19.2 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched network telecasts of 2020.