Jodie Foster Makes Rare Personal Comments About Sons Kit and Charlie and Wife Alex as She Wins 2025 Golden Globe

There's a new best actress in town!

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."

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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.

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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."

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Milioti, 39, was nominated for her role as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin. The limited eight-episode series, which picks up after the events of Robert Pattinson's 2022 portrayal of The Batman, showed how Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) tries to take a leadership role in the Gotham City underworld

In a conversation with PEOPLE in December, Milioti confessed a Golden Globe nomination is not something she necessarily "ever envisioned" for herself — but it was all the more special to be recognized for a show she loves so much.

Recalling her "gut alarm was firing on all cylinders" when she first read the script for The Penguin, Milioti said, "I was like, 'I need to play this. I love this character so much.' And I'm so lucky that it worked out."

"And so to see what it's done and to see the amount of people it's reached, it's just been... Yeah, it's been incredible," she continued of the HBO series.

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Vergara, 52, was nominated for her role as the titular character in Netflix's Griselda.

She channeled Godmother of Cocaine Griselda Blanco in the limited series that follows how Blanco built and ran a drug cartel in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s before being killed in her native Colombia in 2012.

Vergara told PEOPLE she spent three hours a day in hair and makeup to transform into Blanco — and the commitment paid off.

“The people that have watched it now have been so responsive and they've been telling me how much they love it,” she said. “It's really exciting to see how the people are reacting to it. I'm very proud of it.”

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Watts, 56, was nominated for her portrayal as New York City socialite Babe Paley in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans.

The series tells the story of Truman Capote’s falling out with Babe and her friends — who he called “swans” — after he published a chapter of his book Answered Prayers that aired out the women’s secrets. The story, titled "La Côte Basque, 1965,” most notably alleged that Babe’s husband Bill, the co-founder of CBS, cheated on her.

“It became such an undoing for Babe,” Watts, who also executive produced the FX series, previously told PEOPLE. “She confided in him and felt that there was a trust [with Capote]. She felt seen and more connected to this human being than she'd ever connected to anyone, so it was something she couldn't recover from.”

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Winslet, 49, was nominated for her role as Chancellor Elena Vernham in The Regime.

During The Regime FYC panel event in Los Angeles on June 5, the actress discussed the process of coming up with her character's unique voice and accent. In the show, which also stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant, Winslet plays Vernham, the corrupt authoritarian ruler of a fictional European country whose controversial decisions incite a civil war.

"It never made sense to me to speak like myself," she said, adding, "I didn't quite know what that meant, or what I was going to do about it. I just knew that I had to find something that didn't feel too close to me."

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