Hollywood is getting dressed up as the Golden Globes return for their annual champagne-soaked celebration of film and television workers at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The show serves as the ceremonial start to the 2025 awards season.
The audacious musical “Emilia Pérez” leads all nominees with 10. Other nominees include “The Bear,”“Shōgun,”“Wicked” and “Challengers.” Comedian Nikki Glaser is emceeing the ceremony.
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Jesse Eisenberg did not know Kieran Culkin was about to drop out of his movie.
It was just a few weeks before shooting was about to begin on “A Real Pain,” and Eisenberg and much of the crew were already in Poland preparing.
“I connected with the character right away,” Culkin said. “I knew I wanted to do it. Like, creatively, I wanted to be a part of this thing.”
But the final season of “Succession” stretched on longer than anticipated. Suddenly the time with his family he’d been counting on was disappearing under the crush of professional obligations and he wanted out. Word of this development came directly to Fruit Tree, the production company run by Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting, who decided to keep it to themselves for a beat.
▶ Read more about how Stone convinced Culkin to stay on, yielding a Golden Globe tonight
Kieran Culkin took home his second-ever Golden Globe for male supporting actor, motion picture for his role in “A Real Pain.”
“My wife and I did a shot of tequila with Mario Lopez — definitely feeling that, the whole speech is gone,” he started before shifting gears to sincere gratitude.
“I’m here because Jesse Eisenberg wrote an incredible script,” he said.
You can take the boys out of the boardroom, but you can’t stop their rivalry.
Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong, who played siblings vying for control of their family corporation on “Succession,” find themselves battling for the same Golden Globe.
Both actors are nominated for best male actor in a supporting role in a movie — Culkin for “A Real Pain” and Strong for “The Apprentice.”
Culkin and Strong naturally battled it out in the best male performance in a TV drama at the Globes with “Succession” over its four-season run, with Culkin and Strong each winning once.
Last year, Culkin, Strong and Brian Cox — who played their father on “Succession” — all found themselves in the same Globes fight for best male TV drama lead. (Culkin won that round.)
Of course, their battle for No. 2 boy might be moot — four others are nominated in their category: Yura Borisov, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce and Denzel Washington.
“I never thought I’d be so happy to be called a hack,” said Jean Smart, who won her second Globe for best female actor in a TV comedy for playing stand-up comic Deborah Vance on “Hacks,” a role that has also brought her three straight Emmys.
While addressing Zendaya, Glaser brought up Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent indictments.
Diddy has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with the aid of a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. He has denied the allegations.
“’Challengers,’ girl, oh my god, it was so good. I mean, that movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card,” Glaser joked. “I mean, seriously? Oh, no, no, I know, I’m sorry. I’m upset too. The afterparty is not going to be as good this year, but we have to move on. I know ‘Stanley Tucci Freak Off’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.”
Selena Gomez (nominated for “Emilia Pérez” ) spent most of her teen years starring in “Wizards of Waverly Place” on the Disney Channel. Ariana Grande ( “Wicked” ) spent most of hers on Nickelodeon’s “Victorious” and “Sam & Cat.”
Zoe Saldaña ( “Emilia Pérez” ) played a green-skinned extraterrestrial warrior, Gamora, in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Avengers” films, and a blue-skinned extraterrestrial warrior, Neytiri, in the “Avatar” franchise. Felicity Jones ( “The Brutalist” ) played rebel mission leader Jyn Erso as the star of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
Margaret Qualley ( “The Substance” ) is the daughter of Andie MacDowell, a four-time Globe nominee for films including “Sex, Lies and Videotape” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” Isabella Rossellini ( “Conclave” ) is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman, who won four Golden Globes to go with her three Oscars.
Standup comic and first-time Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser opened the show with pointed jokes but not the barbed roasts she’s known for. A few of her lines:
“Welcome to the 82nd Golden Globes, Ozempic’s biggest night.”
“If you’re watching on Paramount+, you have six days left to cancel your free trial.”
“I loved ‘Wicked,’ my boyfriend loved ‘Wicked,’ my boyfriend’s boyfriend REALLY loved ‘Wicked.’”
To a mustachioed Timothee Chalamet: “You have such beautiful eyelashes on your upper lip.”
Glaser said she said she doesn’t plan to roast the room because the people in it are powerful and can do anything “except tell people who to vote for.”
She was not nearly as ruthless or as dirty as she was in May at the Netflix “Roast of Tom Brady” in a show-stealing appearance that helped her get the Globes gig.
The show is underway from Beverly Hills, California, airing live on CBS.
What does host Nikki Glaser have in store for her starry audience and viewers at home? We’ll find out.
Twenty-seven awards across film and TV will be handed out tonight.
The Globes, taking place about two weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, could get very political if presenters and winners are so inclined to continue what’s been a mutually antagonistic relationship between Hollywood and Trump. That may be unlikely, though; so far in Hollywood’s awards season, most nominees have tried to stay out of the fray.
That’s with a major exception, though, in “The Apprentice,” the young Trump drama starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Both were nominated by the Globes. Stan was also nominated a second time for his performance in “A Different Man.”
Preparations for the Golden Globe red carpet looks often occur months in advance but somehow actors emerged onto the red carpet in color-coordinated looks with several golden gowns making their appearance.
Actor Mindy Kaling, who is set to present at the ceremony, stunned in a gold strapless Ashi Studio dress. Actor Cate Blanchett took a golden Louis Vuitton look from her closet and rewore it to the ceremony. Golden stones were added to update the look from the Cannes Film Festival carpet in 2024. Actor Eiza González also shone in a shimmery gold sequined dress.
With 10 minutes to showtime, the crowd was anxiously trying to make it to their seats in time while getting in hellos.
Andrew Garfield gave a hand to Zendaya, holding her train as she walked down the stairs.
Angelina Jolie slinked through the crowd mostly unbothered with her daughter close by, walking past Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet happily catching up.
After a rocky few years and the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have seemingly stabilized. Now the question is: Can they still put on a good show?
The show will seek to rekindle some of the frothy comic energy of the days when Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted. Last year’s comeback edition, hosted by Jo Koy, was widely panned, but it delivered where it counted: Ratings rebounded to about 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. CBS signed up for five more years.
▶ Here’s what to look for heading into Sunday’s Globes
Inside, Timothée Chalamet had a hard time making his way to the table, with someone stopping him every few steps to congratulate him on “A Complete Unknown.” He made a beeline to Luca Guadaganino, though for a catch-up with his old director.
Harrison Ford found his way to the “Complete Unknown” table first to say hi to his “Indiana Jones” director James Mangold and greet Elle Fanning. He too wanted to get a word with Chalamet who had finally planted himself in his seat.
Steve Martin meanwhile found a quiet-ish spot at his table to check his phone. Martin Short soon joined him. Sharon Stone found them and brought some energy to the table.
Dressed in Balenciaga, no one is having a better night than 18-time nominee and six-time Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman.
“I’m incredibly grateful to be invited to be here, to be included,” the star said. “And (I’m) so happy that “Babygirl” has been recognized and that people are going to see it. So just thank you to the fans, thank you to everyone.”
This year, she’s up for performance by a female actor in a motion picture, drama, for “Babygirl.”
The Golden Globes, known as the “party of the year,” will bring back the celeb-beloved Nobu Restaurants group.
Chef Nobu Matsuhisa returns with several signature dishes, highlighted by The Gold Standard Roll — sushi that includes king crab inside, topped with salmon, gold flakes and caviar, and yuzu sauce on the side. The dish is served in the restaurant for $77.
Other dishes from Matsuhisa include seaweed tacos, yellowtail jalapenos, sashimi salad, black cod and three pieces of tuna, white fish and salmon sushi.
Elle and Dakota Fanning swanned into the ballroom to pose for photographs. But the sisters had one more to add to the group: Grandma.
“Can we get some with grandma?” Dakota asked. The photogs obliged happily.
They made their way down to the main floor where Dakota stopped to talk to her “Ripley” costar Andrew Scott. Scott then beelined to Kerry Washington, already chatting with Glenn Close, and the three did a little dance.
Fanning by then had found Zoë Kravitz who she excitedly greeted.
With just 40 minutes to showtime, few, however, had committed to taking their seats and indulging in the Nobu sushi.
Colman Domingo says he hopes the profit-sharing model of his film “Sing Sing” — where the whole cast gets the same pay and everyone who works on the film gets a stake in its earnings — can become the norm.
The tiny film about a prison theater program used ex-inmates as actors and earned Domingo a Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a drama alongside actors from big studio movies.
“It feels like a no-brainer to me,” Domingo said on the Globes red carpet, ”especially when everyone’s taking a risk together and getting paid such a low amount. The idea is making sure that everyone has ownership of it … and everyone has an equity when it succeeds.”
First-time Golden Globe nominee Kathryn Hahn is over the moon.
“It’s very out of body,” she said of her nomination for performance by a female actor in a television series, musical or comedy. “I love ‘Agatha All Along’ so much. I love that witch so much. And so, to have the show recognized at all … has been really sweet for all of us.”
Looking back on a huge 2024, Glen Powell says his family is crucial to his success and keeping him centered.
Powell attended the Golden Globes with his parents, posing with them on the red carpet.
“You know, I got my family,” the “Hit Man” star said when asked how he remains grounded after such a groundbreaking year. “I got my sisters, cousins, my family keeps me grounded. That’s for me … that’s the key. They’re here with me tonight, so it’s like … It never feels like a storm when you have ... them around.”
Actor Cate Blanchett shone in a gold sequined gown from Louis Vuitton that she previously wore on the Cannes Film Festival carpet in 2024. It’s not the first time Blanchette has reworn a red carpet look in sustainable fashion. She famously rewore looks to the Venice Film Festival in 2020.
The actress is nominated for Best Performance by a female actor for “Disclaimer.”
Sorry, “60 Minutes” heads.
The Golden Globes are tonight on CBS, but the network’s NFL coverage, not the long-running TV newsmagazine, will be the lead-in and could last until near showtime.
While “60 Minutes” is being preempted this week, it’s slated to return Jan. 12.
“Wicked” director Jon Chu says he’s happy some people see his film as subversive.
Walking the Golden Globes red carpet not long after diapering his newly arrived fifth child, Chu said, “We hope that in this time of cynicism and pessimism and maybe even cruelty we rise up for who we are and take control of the story. I love that we get to do those things in a delicious little musical.”
“Wicked” is nominated for four Globes including best musical or comedy film.
The darling of “Wicked,” Cesily Collette Taylor posed for cameras on the Golden Globe’s red carpet in her white and black polka dot dress.
Fans of the film were taken with the child star’s delivery of the line “Yeah!” as a young Nessarose. (The adult Nessarose is played by Marissa Bode.)
Taylor, who accessorized with an adorable white bow and a white beaded bag, beamed on the carpet in her pink-rimmed wheelchair.
The Golden Globes red carpet is heading up with stars, like “Hit Man” star Glen Powell who flashed his high-wattage smile as he walked the carpet arm in arm with his mother.
Elsewhere, his old “Top Gun: Maverick” co-star Monica Barbaro tripped on her blush gown while walking toward a roaming photographer. She laughed about the minor stumble.
“Can we pretend I didn’t just do that,” Barbaro said. “Let’s do that again.”
Barbaro plays Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown.”
Most of the famous nominees at the Golden Globes have yet to walk the red carpet, but some semblance of them have.
Max Braunstein and Miles Mitchell showed up on the Beverly Hills carpet holding signs that read “I won a lookalike contest and now I’m at the Golden Globes.”
Braunstein earned the honor for his resemblance to Glen Powell, nominated for best male actor in a movie musical or comedy for “Hit Man,” while Mitchell got his trip for looking like Timothée Chalamet, nominated for best male actor in a drama for his own mimicking of Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.”
Variety and “Entertainment Tonight” are teaming up for the official red carpet preshow, which will air on the outlets’ websites, goldenglobes.com, and Paramount+. Their show, hosted by Variety’s Marc Malkin and E.T.’s Rachel Smith, begins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
And after taking a year off, E! will return to covering the fashion fiesta of the Globes red carpet with a show starting at 6 p.m.
Backstage once the show starts, The Associated Press will livestream Globe winners speaking to reporters backstage at the show, beginning at 8:15 p.m. Eastern.
Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, the co-directors of the nominated animation film “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” walked onto the carpet proudly carrying their claymation stars.
“These are the actual figures from the film,” Crossingham said.
Feathers McGraw, the film’s villain, did not make the cut. A representative for the scheming penguin could not immediately be reached for comment.
The line of cars to get to the Golden Globes red carpet is the great democratizer.
Everyone entering the venue has to go through an elaborate and time-consuming security check from the bomb squad. Trunks popped. Windows open. Security dog does the round in the trunk.
One member of the team told The Associated Press that security hasn’t necessarily increased from years past and that they always treat the checks with the same level of seriousness.
Attendees are known to grumble about the backlog it can cause, but this year’s event is following terror incidents in New Orleans and Las Vegas. There’s a heightened appreciation for the rigor, even if the line of big black SUVs is already long and slow three hours before the show.
Kris Bowers, one of The Associated Press’ Breakthrough Entertainers of 2023, is nominated for his first Golden Globe.
His work on “The Wild Robot,” the tear-inducing, fish-out-of-water-but-starring-a-robot animated tale, is up for original score. It may be a new honor for him, but Bowers is far from a novice: The Emmy- and Grammy-nominated composer has created moving compositions for prominent filmmakers, including Ava DuVernay and Justin Simien, and Oscar-winning films like “King Richard” and “Green Book.”
He’s quickly becoming Hollywood’s favorite composer — and a name that cannot be ignored.
▶ Read more about Kris Bowers
There are two men named Brody hoping to go home with a Globe on Sunday. And both those actors happen to share the same initial of their first names — A.
Adrien Brody was nominated as best male actor in a movie drama for his work on “The Brutalist,” while Adam Brody got a nod for best male lead in a TV comedy or musical for “Nobody Wants This.”
The works are very different even if the stars’ names are similar. Adrien Brody stars as a Hungarian architect who escaped the Holocaust and sails to the United States to find his American Dream. Adam Brody’s comedy explores the relationship between a charming rabbi and an agnostic sex-positive podcaster.
No less a star than Kim Kardashian has mixed them up. She recently offered a shoutout on Instagram gushing over “Nobody Wants This” but tagged Adrien Brody instead of Adam.
Sharing a last name at awards shows is most common among famous siblings, like Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal or Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. But the whole same-last-name-and-same-first-initial could happen if Raini Rodriguez from “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” gets nominated the same year as “Modern Family” star Rico Rodriguez.
There are six songs up for best original song at the 2025 Golden Globes:
Some things to note:
The larger-than-life “Dune: Part Two” score, composed by the Academy Award-winning Hans Zimmer, is up for a Golden Globe but will not compete at the Oscars this year.
The Academy rules state: “In cases such as sequels and franchises from any media, the score must not use more than 20% of pre-existing themes and music borrowed from previous scores in the franchise.”
Because the “Dune: Part Two” score pulls from the first, it qualifies as preexisting music and therefore cannot compete in that contest.
Will it win tonight? Lisan al Gaib says ... hopefully!
The original score nominees are a collection of newer voices and long-established talent: “Emilia Pérez” by Clément Ducol and Camille, “The Brutalist” by Daniel Blumberg; “Dune: Part Two” by Hans Zimmer, “The Wild Robot” by Kris Bowers, “Challengers” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and finally, “Conclave” by Volker Bertelmann. What to know:
The Golden Globes are not a perfect predictor for what will happen at the Oscars, and no one should appreciate that more than Robbie Williams.
The English pop star who launched his career in the British boy band Take That knows a little something about writing a big pop tune. But according to Variety, the song “Forbidden Road” from his cheeky monkey biopic, “Better Man” was disqualified from the Oscars shortlist — after initially making the 15-song cut — because it “incorporates material from an existing song that was not written for the film” and is therefore ineligible.
No matter! The song is still up for the original song trophy at the Globes.
If you want to watch all the nominated TV dramas this year, prepare to dig into your wallet — the category is split among a lot of streaming services.
You’ll need Peacock for “The Day of the Jackal,” Netflix for both “Squid Game” and “The Diplomat,” Prime Video for “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and Apple TV+ for “Slow Horses.” The only linear channel in the bunch is FX’s “Shōgun,” but all episodes also stream on Hulu.
Streaming viewership exploded during the pandemic and hasn’t looked back. Nielsen says streaming accounted for 40.5% of TV use in October 2024, with broadcast at 24% and cable at 26.3%.
Over a decade ago in 2010, just for comparison, broadcast networks were still making a strong showing, with wins for network programs like “Glee” on Fox, “30 Rock” on NBC and “The Good Wife” on CBS. Basic-cable shows like “Mad Men” on AMC and pay-cable offerings, including “Dexter” on Showtime, were viable options.
No more. In 2020, all commercial broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, The CW — were shut out completely during Golden Globes nominations.
The irony is the Globes telecast has always been on a legacy network. This year it is CBS, with a streaming option for customers who have Paramount+ with Showtime.
After a tumultuous few years for the annual award show, the Golden Globes have secured their future — for now, at least.
In March, the Globes and CBS reached a five-year deal to broadcast the show and stream it live on Paramount+.
CBS stepped in to air the 81st Golden Globes last January and was rewarded with a rating boost. The telecast pulled in an average of 9.4 million viewers, up about 50% from 2023, when NBC moved the Globes to a Tuesday.
For years, the Globes had resided at NBC before scandal enveloped the organization behind the awards, leading NBC to give them up.
The Golden Globes have always had quirks, like A-lister tunnel vision, and while there might not be anything quite as glaring as the infamous year of “The Tourist,” this batch is not without its oddities: Some good, some bad, some simply perplexing.
Here are some of the biggest surprises from the nominations:
▶ Read more on why these were surprises
Dax Shepard, left, and Kristen Bell arrive at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Ted Danson, left, and Mary Steenburgen arrive at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Adrien Brody arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Kirsten Dunst, left, and Jesse Plemons arrive at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Viola Davis, left, and Julius Tennon arrive at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Timothee Chalamet arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Isabella Rossellini arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Monica Barbaro arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Matty Matheson arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Eiza Gonzalez arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Kate Hudson arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Emma Wall, left, and Jeremy Strong arrive at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Glen Powell arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Kit Hoover, left, and Scott Evans arrive at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Heather McMahan arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
A general view of atmosphere at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
