Highlights from the 2025 Golden Globes

After Zoe Saldaña snagged an early Golden Globes, she received a heartfelt message from James Cameron, who, according to her, is busy working on “Avatar: Fire and Ash” somewhere in New Zealand.

“After all these years, he believes in me,” said Saldaña, who won best female supporting actor for her role in “Emilia Pérez.” “He gives me the desire to continue as an artist.”

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Saldaña said she wondered if she should pivot from acting into other endeavors like gardening, baking goods or becoming the “sexiest soccer mom.”

“But the truth is I’m an artist through and through. I need to create every day. If not, I don’t know what I can do. I don’t know why I’m here,” she said. “And that’s how my loved ones can get the best of me — when I’m allowed to create.”

For Jodie Foster and Demi Moore, age is just a plot twist. At 62, both are still writing their script based on their contentment.

“It feels like there’s a hormone that happens when suddenly like ’Oh, I really don’t care about stupid things anymore,’” said Foster, who won best female actor in a limited series award tonight for “True Detective: Night Country.”

“I’m not going to compete with myself. I’m excited about what’s left with my life. For me, this is the most contented moment in my career.”

Moore said she was determined not be dismissed.

“It’s what we are choosing to buy into,” said Moore, who won her first Globe for female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy for her role in “The Substance.” “It all goes back to how we hold ourselves.”

The 10-year-old daughter of “The Brutalist” director Brady Corbet got her share of screen time. By the time her father made it backstage, Ada was sitting on a chair along the wall yawning. Earlier in the evening, she was crying at a table in the ballroom, then she was onstage holding the trophy after the film won best movie drama.

“I was pretty moved to see the person I love more than anything in the world,” Corbet said. “I’ve never seen her cry from joy before so it was very touching.”

Glaser’s final dress count was nine, not counting the one from the carpet: silver, black, pink, red, different pink, different red, different black, different silver, gold.

The reign of “Emilia Pérez” continued into one of the night’s biggest prizes: the film won the Golden Globe for motion picture, musical or comedy, the final trophy of the evening. Karla Sofía Gascón, who stars as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman in the film and may soon become the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar, delivered a moving speech.

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“I chose this color tonight, the Buddhist color, because I have a message for you,” she said in her speech, referring to the orange of her gown. “The light always wins over darkness. You can maybe put us in jail. You can beat us up. But you never can take away our soul.”

There’s a tortoise on the loose, and his name is Tenshu Margarita. The errant creature was last spotted at the back of the property of Justin Marks, the showrunner and executive producer of “Shogun,” and his wife, Rachel Kondo, the co-creator, executive producer and writer.

Accepting the Golden Globe for best drama series, Marks recounted how he and Kondo went from hunting for the 50-pound (22.5-pound) pet to the awards stage, being watched by “Han Solo” (a bemused Harrison Ford).

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“I have to thank everyone up here who over and over again bet on this film that kept falling apart.”

As he accepted the Golden Globe for best film drama, Brady Corbet, the director behind the 3-hour-and-35-minute (plus an intermission) film “The Brutalist,” proposed a new rule:

“Final cut tiebreak goes to the director,” Corbet said to a smattering of applause.

He added, “That’s sort of a controversial statement, it shouldn’t be. I was told that this film was undistributable. I was told that no one would come out and see it. I was told the film wouldn’t work.”

He said the big night for his movie — which also won best actor for Adrien Brody and best director for Corbet, shows the importance of the visions of filmmakers. “Please let’s support them, let’s prop them up.”

“I’m incredibly moved. I prepared one speech, not two,” “The Brutalist” writer, producer and director Brady Corbet began his second acceptance speech, this time for motion picture, drama. He dedicated much of his additional time on stage to filmmakers: “No one was asking for a 3.5-hour film about a mid-century designer on 70mm,” he joked, “But it works.”

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However! The true star of the evening was his scene-stealing daughter. She joined Corbet on stage to hold his award this time; earlier in the night, when he was handed the trophy for best director, the cameras cut to her crying in the audience. They even lingered on her during the commercial break. That’s star power, baby.

Four years ago when she received the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award, Oprah Winfrey gave a long, rousing speech shortly before the first term of Donald Trump that brought calls for her to run for president.

When Viola Davis received it on Sunday night, she only got to say a sentence: “It’s an honor to be here as the recipient of the Cecil B. Demille Award.”

The actor acknowledged the honor as she simultaneously acted as the presenter of best female actor in a drama film.

Last year there was no DeMille Award given at all, nor was there a Carol Burnett Award for television. The Golden Globes foundation, which had newly taken over the show after controversies with the previous owner, said without giving a reason that they were taking the year off, but the awards would return.

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Set in the 1970s and based on true events, “I’m Still Here” tells the story of the Paivas, an upper-class family shattered by the Brazilian dictatorship. It follows the advocacy of Eunice Paiva, whose husband is taken into custody by the military and was never seen again.

She’s played for most of the film by Fernanda Torres, who won best female actor in a drama.

The film opens in limited release in the U.S. Jan. 17 before expanding.

Fernanda Torres won her first Golden Globe for female actor in a movie, drama for her role in “I’m Still Here.”

“I didn’t prepare anything because I was glad already,” she started her speech. “I want to dedicate it to my mother. You have no idea. She was here 25 years ago. And this is like proof that art can endure.”

Earlier on the red carpet, she said she was the second Brazilian to be nominated – her mother was the first.

Each of the three men most prognosticators are picking to win the Golden Globe for best male actor in a drama has a significant place in the symmetrical and carefully-styled Wes Anderson cinematic universe.

Adrien Brody, nominated for “The Brutalist,” has been in five Anderson films starting his co-starring role in 2007’s “The Darjeeling Limited.”

He appeared with one of his fellow nominees, Ralph Fiennes of “Conclave,” in “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and with another, Timothée Chalamet of “A Complete Unknown,” in “The French Dispatch.”

The six women nominated for the Globe for best female actor in a drama include some truly major stars, but none for movies that have been widely seen in the U.S. Here’s a brief look at each of them:

• Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl″: Anderson, the former “Baywatch” star and tabloid staple, could be the comeback story of the year for her career-shifting title role in Gia Coppola’s indie drama about an aging Las Vegas showgirl preparing for the final performance of her fading show.
• Kate Winslet, “Lee”: The Oscar-winning Winslet could get her sixth Golden Globe for starring in this biopic of Lee Miller, an American ex-model who became a high-fashion photographer in Europe then a groundbreaking battlefield photojournalist for Vogue during World War II.
• Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”: The Oscar-winning Kidman could get her seventh Golden Globe for playing a robotics CEO who has a kinky affair with a much younger intern (Harris Dickinson) in the darkly comic, techno-erotic thriller.
• Angelina Jolie, ”Maria”: Jolie, another Oscar and Globe winner, had to learn how to “breathe again” to play opera legend and cultural luminary Maria Callas reflecting on her life as it nears an end.
• Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”; In a film that has been a cultural and box office phenomenon in Brazil, Torres plays the justice-seeking wife of a disappeared leftist congressman in a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled the nation for more than two decades.
• Tilda Swinton, “The Room Next Door”: Swinton, an Oscar winner who has yet to win a Globe, plays a former war reporter who reconnects with an old friend (Julianne Moore) while dying from cancer in a New York hospital in the first English-language film from Spanish cinema giant Pedro Almodóvar.

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The Golden Globes are raising a glass to former “Cheers” star Ted Danson by naming him the Carol Burnett Award honoree for 2025.

Danson, a three-time Globes winner, has been a fixture on TV since he broke out as Boston bartender Sam Malone on NBC’s comedy “Cheers.” His other credits include “The Good Place,” “Mr. Mayor,” “Fargo,” “CSI” and “CSI: Cyber,” “Damages” and “Becker.” Danson currently stars in Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside.”

The Carol Burnett Award was inaugurated in 2019 and is presented to an honoree who has “made outstanding contributions to television on or off screen.” Past recipients include Norman Lear, Ryan Murphy and Ellen DeGeneres. The first was Burnett herself.

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Viola Davis became one of Hollywood’s most revered actors through an array of powerful roles, from “Fences” to “The Woman King,” and now her decorated career has earned her one of the Golden Globes’ highest honors.

Davis will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The actor has won praise for a string of compelling characters in films such as “The Help,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Doubt,” while captivating TV audiences through the legal thriller drama “How to Get Away with Murder.”

The DeMille Award has been bestowed to 69 of Hollywood’s greatest talents. Past recipients include Tom Hanks, Jeff Bridges, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand and Sidney Poitier.

The award for female actor in a television series, drama went to Anna Sawai for her role in “Shogun.” It is her first win and first nomination.

“Thank you to the voters for voting for me,” she said, “Even though I would vote for Kathy Bathes anyway.” She kept it short and sweet, holding back tears.

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“Baby Reindeer” won the Golden Globe for limited series, anthology series or made for TV movie, led by a moving speech from creator and star Richard Gadd.

To describe the success of his program, he said: “I think in a lot of ways people were kind of crying out for something that kind of spoke to the painful inconsistencies of being human. I think for a while now, there’s been this kind of belief in television that stories that are too dark and complicated won’t sell, and no one will watch them. So, I hope that ‘Baby Reindeer’ has done away with that theory,” he said. “We need stories that speak to the complicated and difficult nature of our times.”

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“Hey Dwayne,” a grinning Vin Diesel said as he took the Golden Globes stage as a presenter.

There were scattered laughs as the camera cut to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The two beefy action stars have reportedly had an intense years-long feud on the sets of the “Fast and Furious” films. But Diesel said in 2023 that they were done beefing.

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There was a lot of competition in the best song category — Miley Cyrus, Maren Morris, Robbie Williams, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross among the nominees. But the trophy went to Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard for “El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez” — a first time win for Ducol and Camille.

“This is such an American experience,” Camille started the acceptance speech. “Songs are butterflies. And we need butterflies.”

Nikki Glaser certainly dressed for her role as host for the night. With each stage appearance, Glaser swapped one sparkling dress for another, from her opening monologue low-cut silver dress to her pink sequined “Pope-ular” look. Glaser switched dresses more than five times throughout the night, not including her Prabal Gurung gold silk satin red carpet gown.

The dynamic duo of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won their fourth Golden Globe for their propulsive, synthy score to the hot-and-bothered, threesome-adjacent tennis psychodrama “Challengers.”

“To be honest, we always thought we’d get the call, ‘Can you turn it down a little bit,’ but it never came,” Ross said in his acceptance speech. “And here we are.”

Colin Farrell picked up his third career trophy, this one for “The Penguin.”

“The Golden Globes have been very good to me over the years,” he said backstage. “One would think there’s been a fix.”

Farrell held a trophy as he addressed the media, but as he walked off he handed it off as all winners do backstage.

“Take it away. It’s all bull----,” he said, laughing. “Smoke and mirrors.”

While co-presenting the award for original score alongside Brandi Carlile, Elton John delivered one of the night’s greatest jokes. “It’s a very special night for me to be here because I don’t know if you know, but there’s been a lot of stories going on around about my regressive eyesight, and I just wanted to reassure everybody that it’s not as bad as it seems,” he paused. “So I’m pleased to be here with my co-host Rihanna.”

“A Complete Unknown” is overflowing with songs from Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. “Maria” is just as teeming with operatic performances from Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. But both are nominated in the drama category, not the musical-or-comedy category at the Golden Globes.

So when is a musician’s biopic a musical? Depends what year you’re asking. And the answer shows how arbitrary the Globes’ category distinctions can be.

“Walk the Line,” the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic from “A Complete Unknown” director James Mangold, was nominated as a musical. So was the 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” the 1993 Tina Turner biopic “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” and the 2004 Ray Charles biopic “Ray.” All won Globes for their leads.

But in 2019, the Freddie Mercury story “Bohemian Rhapsody” competed as a drama, winning best film and best actor for Rami Malek, a twofer that “A Complete Unknown” now seeks to repeat.

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Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” emerged less like a new film worth checking out than a movie colossus to behold.

Corbet’s visionary three-and-a-half-hour postwar American epic, shot in VistaVision, has taken on the imposing aura of its architect protagonist’s style. Little about it is tailored to today’s more prescribed movie world. It even has an intermission. And yet “The Brutalist” isn’t just one of the most acclaimed films of the year, it’s edged perilously close to the mainstream.

For Corbet, the 36-year-old director, it’s a surprising turn of events. His 215-minute movie, he thought, was surely destined for cult-movie status.

▶ Read more about Corbet’s vision for “The Brutalist,” which won him a best director Golden Globe tonight

Host Nikki Glaser broke down the 2025 Golden Globes midshow like a veteran sports anchor.

According to her, “cast and crew” received 11 shout-outs in acceptance speeches, followed by “mom” with three and God? That’s a 0.

Sorry, “Conclave.”

Actor Sebastian Stan snagged his first Golden Globes win for “A Different Man.” In the movie, Stan plays a man with neurofibromatosis. In his acceptance speech, Stan encouraged acceptance and championing inclusive roles.

“Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now,” he said.

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Stan also spoke out about the reception to his other recent role as former President Donald Trump in “The Apprentice.”

“This was not an easy movie to make neither is ‘The Apprentice,’ the other film that I was lucky to be a part of, and I’m proud of being,” he said. “These are tough, tough subject matters, but these films are real and they’re necessary, and we can’t be afraid and look away.”

She was in the sushi bar area chatting with people.

Demi Moore won her first ever Golden Globe for female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy for her role in “The Substance.”

“I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like, over 45 years and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor,” she started her speech before launching into what will undoubtedly be viewed as one of the evening’s most moving:

“Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that, I was a popcorn actress and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged. And I bought in, and I believed that.”

At a certain point, she thought her career was over — until “The Substance” hit her desk. “I had a woman say to me, just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick. And so today I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and the love that is driving me.”

As presenter Kerry Washington said afterward, “Good luck to the next person.”

Hugh Grant was clearly the scariest and maybe most unmusical part of this Golden Globe cycle. So why is he nominated in the musical or comedy category? Chalk it up to the occasional Globes’ head-scratcher.

Grant got an acting nod for playing a cardigan-wearing, sweet-looking monster who terrorizes two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in “Heretic,” a movie where he gloriously weaponized his natural charm. This character had several moaning captives in cages in his horrific basement.

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“Massive thanks to the Golden Globes for so warmly welcoming a blatant gate crasher,” Grant wrote on X in response to being put in the same category as Glen Powell for “Hit Man” and Jesse Eisenberg in “A Real Pain.” 

The Globes have made these sly picks before. The 2015 sci-fi adventure drama “The Martian” — in which an astronaut fights starvation by eating potatoes grown in biowaste — also landed a best musical or comedy nomination and won.

In its rules, the Globes don’t define comedy, allowing the nominating committee the freedom to highlight any performances and movies they just, well, like. 

Keeping score in Hollywood is real, and it’s a thing at the Globes, too.

Projected on a back wall in the ballroom during a commercial break was a “Globes Leaders” list showing the outlets that are piling up the most trophies. Netflix, no surprise, was on top midway through the show.

The Globes, unlike the Oscars, have split actors into two categories since 1951. The studios that submit films pick their own lane, but the Globes can overrule them, and occasionally do.

The reason given for the split in the official Globes history is so “no genre would be slighted.” But the division has practical perks for Oscar campaigns, by keeping twice as many major nominees and winners in the conversation early in awards season.

Jodie Foster’s first Golden Globe nomination in 1977 was not for “Taxi Driver,” for which she was nominated for an Oscar that year, but “Freaky Friday.”

She took home the best female actor in a limited series award tonight for “True Detective: Night Country.”