Marvel won its first major award for any of its films on Tuesday.

Angela Bassett won a Best Supporting Actress in Any Motion Picture Golden Globe for her portrayal of Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This is the first time an actor has won an individual award for their performance in a film based on Marvel comics, but Bassett has won before – she garnered a Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy award for her performance in the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do With It?, the Tina Turner biopic.

Bassett thanked her husband and fellow actor Courtney B. Vance, her family, and the cast and crew of her film, then told the crowd how nervous she was.

“I got to find my words. I’m so nervous. My heart is just beating,” Bassett began, taking the stage to accept the award. “The late Toni Morrison said that your life is already a miracle of chance just waiting for you to order its destiny. But in order for that destiny to manifest, I think that it requires courage to have faith. It requires patience, as we just heard. And it requires a true sense of yourself. It’s not easy because the past is circuitous and it has many unexpected detours, but, by the grace of God, I stand here. I stand here grateful.”

She also thanked her fellow Marvel collaborators, Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler, Victoria Alonso, Nate Moore, Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito. Bassett also acknowledged the death of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer in 2020. Boseman’s death casts a shadow over the plot of Wakanda Forever.

“We embarked on this journey together with love. We mourned, we loved, we healed. We were surrounded each and every day by the light and the spirit of Chadwick Boseman,” Bassett said. “We have joy in knowing that with this historic Black Panther series, it is a part of his legacy that he helped to lead us. We showed the world what Black unity, leadership and love looks like, behind and in front of the camera. To the Marvel fans, thank you for embracing these characters and showing us so much love.”

Bassett’s win marks the first major award for a Marvel movie, but one Marvel-adjacent actor had been nominated for Golden Globes before: Ryan Reynolds got a nomination for 2016’s Deadpool (actor in musical/comedy).

On the DC side, Jack Nicholson scored a Golden Globes nod for 1989’s Batman (actor in musical/comedy), and Joaquin Phoenix won for 2019’s Joker (actor in drama) as did Heath Ledger for 2008’s The Dark Knight (supporting actor). Phoenix and Ledger, who both played variations on the DC Comics villain the Joker, were the major winners in their respective years across awards season, taking home the SAG Awards and the Oscars as well (Ledger’s wins were posthumous).