“Outstanding” is enough of an understatement to describe the winner of the award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie at the 76th Emmy Awards!

Jodie Foster won her first-ever Emmy Award on Sunday, September 16, taking home the prize for her role in True Detective: Nightland.

It was an award that had previously brought her four nominations. “This is an incredibly emotional moment for me,” she said.

The actress won the coveted award ahead of fellow nominees Brie Larson (Chemistry lessons), Juno Temple (Fargo), Naomi Watts (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) and Sofia Vergara (Griselda).

Larson, 34, plays Elizabeth Zott in the Apple TV+ series based on Bonnie Garmus’ best-selling novel. After several setbacks in her chemistry career, Elizabeth takes a job hosting a cooking show – and wants to incorporate science into her classes.

“It was so nice for me to be able to do something loving and sweet and not always talk about the darkest things that happen in the world,” Larson said The Hollywood Reporter from Chemistry lessonswhich also received a nomination for Outstanding Miniseries or Anthology. “I think it’s a very sweet portrayal of working with someone you love, and the fact that their minds and their uniqueness and specialness and their love of science brings them together, I think it’s very sweet.”

Temple, 35, traveled to the Midwest in Season 5 of FX’s Fargoin which she plays the grumpy housewife Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, formerly known as Nadine Bump.

“I’m not sure characters like Dot Lyon appear very often,” Temple said fashion“She is such an extraordinary little creature.”

Teenager Nadine suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), whom she married at age 17. Nadine eventually left Roy and fled to Minnesota, where she adopted the new moniker Dot Lyon. Dot spends much of season five continuing to avoid Roy, relying on her firearms skills and ability to booby-trap a house.

“I’ve had people tell me that Dot is able to booby trap a house and that there should be a Dot Lyon security system for the house,” Temple said The Hollywood Reporter. “People tell me how strong they thought she was and how cool it is to see a woman who is a mother, a baker and a wife all at the same time, who lives a very simple life and loves being at home and then also has this ability to survive.”

In the latest season of True DetectiveFoster’s character Liz Danvers tries to solve the mystery of eight men who disappeared from a research station in Alaska. Foster, 61, described Liz as “kind of horrible” and “damaged” for Today.

“She’s grieving and doesn’t want to face demons that bring suffering,” Foster said. “I think we all don’t want to suffer. In her case, that’s what the tough facade hides; she just doesn’t want to break down.”

Nightland marks the most viewed True Detective season, and in February HBO True Detective for a fifth season.

Watts, 55, plays New York socialite Babe Paley in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swanswhich tells the story of Truman Capote’s falling out with Babe and her friends – whom he called “swans” – after he published a chapter of his book Answered prayers that exposed the women’s secrets. The story, titled “La Côte Basque, 1965,” primarily alleged that Babe’s husband Bill, the co-founder of CBS, had cheated on her.

“It became fatal for Babe,” said Watts, who was also an executive producer. the FX series, told PEOPLE. “She confided in him and felt there was trust (in Capote). She felt seen and more connected to this person than she had ever been connected to anyone, so it was something she couldn’t recover from.”

Babe and Truman had once been best friends, but their relationship never recovered after what she perceived as a betrayal. “It’s easy for us to walk away from that now and say, ‘Yeah, if she had just found a way to forgive, they could have moved on and had a much nicer time,'” Watts said. “I just don’t know what it would really be like to live in that situation. I feel like I would have wanted the friendship and I miss it too much to recover.”

Like Watts, 52-year-old Vergara also took on the role of a real person in Netflix’ Griselda. In the miniseries, Vergara plays the “Godmother of Cocaine”, Griselda Blanco. It shows how Blanco built and ran a drug cartel in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s before she was murdered in her native Colombia in 2012.

Vergara told PEOPLE that she spent three hours a day on hair and makeup work to transform herself into Blanco — and the effort was worth it.

“People who have seen it now have reacted so much and told me how much they love it,” she said. “It’s really exciting to see how people react to it. I’m very proud of it.”

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