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. RELATED: Zoe Saldaña On ‘Lioness’ Season 3, What To Expect From ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ & Her Hopes For ‘Star Trek 4’: “I Wish We Were Able To Do It Sooner” 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 al.
