Lady Gaga & Glenn Close Tie for Best Actress at Critics' Choice Awards

The Critics' Choice Awards made the remarkable choice to award double wins in two of its major acting categories. Both resulted in major moments of female empowerment.

Glenn Close and Lady Gaga tied for the category of Best Actress in a Movie, for their roles in The Wife and A Star Is Born, respectively.

Close, whose win at the Golden Globes pushed her to the forefront in the Oscars race, said she was "thrilled" by the tie and the statement it sent to the world about women.

"The world pits us against each other in this profession," Close said, according to Deadline. "And I know, from the other women in this category, we celebrate each other and we are proud to be in this room together."

Gaga, who won Best Original Song for "Shallow" earlier in the evening, dedicated the award to sufferers of substance abuse and their loved ones.

"I wanted nothing more to show the truth and power of this very heartbreaking dynamic," Gaga said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "The true star of the film is not me; it is bravery and it is perseverance."

Gaga, with tears in her eyes, also thanked her costar and director, Bradley Cooper. "I have never had an experience with a director or an actor like I had with you, and I will cherish it forever," Gaga said. "You seamlessly were both the love of my life and the man behind the camera."

Stunningly, this category was not the only emotional tie of the evening. Patricia Arquette (Escape From Dannemora) and Amy Adams (Sharp Objects) both won for Best Actress in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series.

"I actually can't think of a more beautiful thing than a tie, because there isn't a winner when we get to do such great work and we have such wonderful opportunities," said Adams, who then wrapped her arm around Arquette onstage, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Arquette then thanked director Ben Stiller for showing female roles need not be "likable" or exclusive to a certain body type.

"A lot of friends of mine who might be a little bigger body-type said, 'Thank you, for once in my life I got to see a bigger boned woman or a different body type woman be sexual, unapologetic and have it not be a fetish or a joke,'" Arquette said.