After their wins at the 2025 Oscars, Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin have performed the difficult-to-achieve feat of sweeping all the awards shows of the season. When it came to the winners of the 2025 Oscars, two of the least surprising were Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin. Saldaña acted in Emilia Perez, a popular movie musical-crime film fraught with controversy but a shoo-in for the awards. The film has plenty of scenes that could be considered “Oscar bait,” giving the actors moments to show off their emotional range. No one shines quite as bright as Zoe Saldaña.

Meanwhile, Culkin acts in the dramedy A Real Pain, which didn’t gain nearly as much attention in the media but deserves praise. Despite the decreased coverage, the movie has a narrative depth to it, and many scenes show off Kieran Culkin’s veracity and emotional range as an actor. Both of the actors were predicted winners weeks ahead of the 2025 Oscars. Although their wins weren’t surprising, their achievements deserve attention. Saldaña and Culkin’s wins complete their awards sweep, adding them to a select group of actors.

Zoe Saldaña & Kieran Culkin’s Oscars 2025 Wins Completes Their Respective Awards Sweeps

Zoe Saldaña & Kieran Culkin Won The Same Award Across The Big 5 Awards Ceremonies

Though the term is often generalized to mean “many awards in one year,” a true awards sweep requires actors to win the same award across the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Golden Globes, and the Oscars. This means an actor who wins an acting award in one and a directing award in another, for example, wouldn’t qualify for an awards sweep.

Early into the 2025 Oscars, Kieran Culkin won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Benji Kaplan in A Real Pain, making him the 43rd actor to sweep all five major awards. Later, Zoe Saldaña replicated the feat, winning all the awards for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rita Mora Castro in Emilia Pérez, making her the 44th to sweep the awards season.

44 Actors Have Now Completed Awards Sweeps

Other Actors To Sweep The Awards Include Robert Downey Jr., Brad Pitt, and Viola Davis

Neither of these sweeps was entirely surprising, as Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin were projected to win Oscars alongside the other awards shows, despite the shows having very different voting panels. However, it doesn’t change how impressive the sweep is. Thus far, only 44 actors have previously completed the awards sweep, with others falling short by one award. The successful sweeps of 2025 put Saldaña and Culkin up there in the ranks with Brad Pitt and Viola Davis.