Zoe Saldaña has worn bold looks throughout her awards season run, including a striking red dress at the Critics Choice Awards. Tonight at the SAG Awards, she continued her red carpet hot streak in a custom Saint Laurent black one-sleeve dress with an embellished ruffle detail, accenting the look with dangling diamond earrings and a cage-like bracelet.
Saldaña has two nominations tonight: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and the Emilia Pérez cast’s shared nod for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Next week, Saldaña will end awards season at the Oscars, where she is up for Best Supporting Actress. She is considered a frontrunner in the category.
For our December Women in Hollywood issue, Saldaña spoke to ELLE about the biggest highlights of her long-running career, including the press tour for Emilia Pérez. “I’m a girl from Queens,” she began. “I really love being from Jackson Heights, but it’s such a world in its own. The day that Steven Spielberg gave me my first opportunity or James Cameron or J.J. Abrams or James Gunn, and then Jacques Audiard, my heart skipped a beat. Those are those moments where through that struggle that I have with loving myself, I’m repurposed. I’m compelled to see myself as others are seeing me, and the sacrifices that I’m putting in every day are being rewarded. It’s a shot of oxygen into my lungs, and it reshapes me and raises me; it reconnects me to my higher self.”
