On Sunday, Jan. 5, Jodie Foster won the award for best female actor in a limited or anthology series at the 2025 Golden Globes for her role in True Detective: Night Country.
The greatest thing about being this age and being in this time is having a community of all these people, especially you, Sofía,” Foster said, referring to her fellow nominee Sofía Vergara.
On Foster’s way up to the stage, Vergara screamed to the HBO star, “Give me one!”
Foster proceeded to thank Night Country’s “wonderful, beautiful” showrunner, writer and director Issa López, costar Kali Reis and the Indigenous people who inspired the show’s story. “They changed my life and hopefully they’ll change yours,” Foster said.
She also shouted out her kids and wife Alexandra Hedison.
“I just want to thank my family,” Foster said. “Because Kit, my scientist son, and Charlie, my actor son who’s starting his career, hopefully you understand the joy, such joy, that comes from doing really hard, meaningful, good work. So my boys, I love you, and this, of course, is for you. And the love of my life, Alex, thank you forever.”
Foster, 62, won for starring as Detective Liz Danvers. The series followed Danvers as she attempted to figure out what happened to eight missing men who worked at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska, alongside her partner Evangeline Navarro (Reis).
At the series’ January premiere, Foster told reporters at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles that her character was an “Alaska Karen.”
“Liz Danvers is awful. She is ‘Alaska Karen.’ No two ways about it,” she admitted. “She’s an awful, awful character. But you see why.”
“You see where that came from and you see what she’s struggling against and the turmoil that’s in her and the protectiveness and the love that she has for her partner in the film [played by Reis], her other trooper character.”
Other nominees included Cate Blanchett, Cristin Milioti, Naomi Watts and Kate Winslet, and each had an outstanding year themselves.
Blanchett, 55, was nominated for her role in Disclaimer. The series based on Renée Knight’s best-selling novel of the same name, followed acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who “built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others,” per the official synopsis.
But when Catherine is sent a novel by an unknown author, “she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.”
As she tries to find out the writer’s true identity, she has to “confront her past before it destroys both her own life” and her relationships with both her husband, Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen), and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in November about the gravity of her role, Blanchett said, “Hopefully, the series allows you to see that there are many points of view, and it’s not always the point of view that’s being sung the loudest that is the most true. And it can bury and obscure more fragile but equally powerful and valid perspectives, and that is of course my character.”