Zoe Saldaña received message from James Cameron after Golden Globes win

Zoe Saldaña received a congratulatory message from director James Cameron after her Golden Globes win on Sunday.

The Guardians of the Galaxy star took home the Golden Globe for supporting actress in a musical or comedy for her performance as Rita Mora Castro in the crime musical Emilia Pérez.

In the press room, Saldaña told reporters that she heard from her Avatar director after collecting her statuette.

"I was sitting in the audience, and I received a message from James Cameron, who's somewhere in New Zealand right now, cutting Avatar: Fire and Ash. And he, after all these years, believes in me," she gushed, reports Variety. "So that, to me, nourishes my desire to continue growing as an artist."

Saldaña made her debut as Neytiri, a member of the blue-skinned Na'vi people, in 2009's Avatar and reprised the role for 2022's Avatar: The Way of the Water and this year's Avatar: Fire and Ash. The fourth and fifth films will be released in 2029 and 2031.

Cameron previously told Variety that the actress doesn't get enough credit for her motion capture performance.

"I've worked with Academy Award-winning actors, and there's nothing that Zoe's doing that's of a calibre less than that," he said last year. "But because in my film she's playing a 'CG character,' it kind of doesn't count in some way, which makes no sense to me whatsoever. She can go from regal to, in two nanoseconds, utterly feral. The woman is ferocious. She is a freaking lioness."

Elsewhere in her press room interview, Saldaña gave a shout-out to her Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard for giving her the award-winning role.

"I'm indebted to filmmakers like Jacques Audiard that, after conversations and auditions and promises that I can do something, they really decided to bet on me. And it worked," she said.

Emilia Pérez won four Golden Globes overall, including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language and Best Original Song for El Mal.