Zoe Saldaña Gets Sweet Shoutout for Her Epic Performance inEmilia PérezSong 'El Mal' as It Wins at Golden Globes 2025

Mar. 15, 2025

(L-R) Zoe Saldana, Camille and Clement Ducol are pictured at the 2025 Golden Globes on January 5, 2025.Photo:Rich Polk/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty

Rich Polk/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty

For their work inEmilia Pérez, Clément Ducol and Camille are the winners of this year’s best original songGolden Globe Awardfor “El Mal” — and they made sure to give a shoutout to starZoe Saldaña, one of the performers of the epic track.

“Songs are butterflies, and we need butterflies, even if it’s to denounce the corruption in the world. So first, thank you to all songwriters, singer-songwriters, in the world. Thank you, of course, to the Golden Globes and its members. Thank you to Netflix, to our agents and publicists, and thank you to ourEmilia Pérezfamily, toKarla [Sofía Gascón], all the cast.”

As Saldaña joined the pair onstage, Camille continued: “Zoe, I’m dyslexic too,Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz,Édgar Ramírez, and, of course, Jacques Audiard… Thank you. He’s such a visionary artist. You made us grow as artists and as persons. And thank you to all the all the people that put all their hearts and soul and and time and money into into this movie.”

Next highlighting Saldaña and Gascón, “‘El Mal’ wouldn’t be what it is without your performance. You just should shake the house, and shake our souls. Salud,” Camille added.

Also nominated in the original song category wereMiley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt and Lykke Li forThe Last Showgirl’s “Beautiful That Way”; Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Luca Guadagnino forChallengers’ “Compress / Repress”;Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler and Sacha Skarbek forBetter Man’s “Forbidden Road”; andMaren Morris, Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Michael Pollack and Ali Tamposi forThe Wild Robot’s “Kiss the Sky.”

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Selena Gomez in ‘Emilia Pérez’.PAGE 114/WHY NOT PRODUCTIONS/PATHÉ FILMS/FRANCE 2 CINÉMA

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Composer Clément Ducol and singer-songwriter Camille teamed up to write the songs inEmilia Pérez, a musical thriller set in Mexico and sung largely in Spanish despite the fact that both artists are French.

Upon earning her Globe nod for “Beautiful That Way,” Cyrus, 32,thankedThe Last ShowgirlstarPamela Andersonin an social mediaposton Dec. 12. “I am continuing to root for her; it’s so fun to watch her shine,” Cyrus wrote of Anderson, also nominated at this year’s Globes for her lead performance in the Gia Coppola-directed film.

The Grammy winner wrote the ballad alongside American musician Andrew Wyatt (a previous Globe winner for “Shallow” from 2018’sA Star Is Bornand nominee for both “Dance the Night” and “I’m Just Ken” from last year’s Barbie) and Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li, a first-time nominee. Cyrus was last recognized at the Globes in 2009 for original song “I Thought I Lost You” in the movie Bolt.

(Left-right:) Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O’Connor in ‘Challengers’.Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures

Better Man, a musical biopic about the life and career of Williams, 50, makes the British singer-songwriter a first-time Globe nominee. “Forbidden Road,” co-written and co-produced with Wexler and Skarbek, joins several of his previous hits as musical moments in the Michael Gracey-directed film — which uses Williams’ voice and stop-motion actor Jonno Davies to depict the pop star as a singing, strutting chimpanzee.

‘Better Man’; Robbie Williams.ONE Media/YouTube, Monica Schipper/Getty

ONE Media/YouTube, Monica Schipper/Getty

Musicians Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Pollack and Tamposi all pitched in to writeThe Wild Robot’s inspiring tune “Kiss the Sky,” as did Morris, 34, who sings it in the film. The Chris Sanders-created animated hit, adapted from Peter Brown’s novel about a robot befriending an island’s wildlife, features the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor and more.

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