The stars are out Sunday night in Los Angeles for the 82nd annual Golden Globes, the world’s largest award show celebrating both film and television.
Emilia Pérez boasts the most nominations for a movie, with 10, followed by The Brutalist (7) and Conclave (6). In the television categories, The Bear leads with five nominations, followed by Only Murders in the Building and Shōgun, which earned four each. Denzel Washington earned his 11th Golden Globes nomination for his starring role in Gladiator II, becoming the nominated Black performer in the history of the ceremony. And Golden Globe winner Viola Davis is the 2025 recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]In recent years, the Golden Globes have come under fire for a lack of diversity in its membership. A 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation found that there were no black members. The Golden Globes’ 334-member voting body is now 60% racially and ethnically diverse: 26.3% Latinx, 13.3% Asian, 11% Black, and 9% Middle Eastern.
Comedian Nikki Glaser makes Golden Globes history as the first woman to solo host the ceremony. She just came off of a banner year. Her 2024 comedy special Someday You’ll Die is nominated for a Golden Globe tonight and also earned an Emmy nomination. She went viral for her 2024 roast of NFL star Tom Brady, and is perhaps best known for hosting the hit reality dating show Fboy Island over the last few years. She can also be seen in her friend Amy Schumer’s comedy movies Trainwreck and I Feel Pretty.
Here are some of the highlights of the 2025 Golden Globes:
Nikki Glaser kicked the night off in her signature style
Glaser started out swinging in her monologue by welcoming the crowd to the Golden Globes, “Ozempic’s biggest night.” (Later, she even gave props to the servers of the night, charged with giving the actors food they would simply look at, not eat.)
She took shots at the streaming sites, joking that nominee Eddie Redmayne played an elite sniper that no one can find because his show, The Day of the Jackal, is on Peacock. Glaser joked that she’s seen more actual Peacocks than shows on Peacock. And poking fun at the content on Netflix, she called the film Emilia Pérez—nominated for 10 Golden Globes—“the most ambitious film to play after Is It Cake?”
Timothee Chalamet was among several celebrities who got roasted in the monologue when Glaser shouted out Tilda Swinton for being nominated for her “role as” Chalamet and joked that his impersonation of Bob Dylan’s singing in A Complete Unknown was so accurate because it is “absolutely horrible.” She also called on Adam Sandler in the audience to say Chalamet’s last name in his distinct babyish voice.
Glaser ended the monologue with some real talk, saying that the point of making art isn’t to win awards. The point “is to start a tequila brand so popular, you never have to make art again.”
Demi Moore’s affirming win for The Substance
Demi Moore has been nominated for a Golden Globe three times, but she won for the first time tonight. While accepting her first Golden Globe for her starring role in the body horror comedy The Substance, she opened up about how a producer once called her a “popcorn actor.” The degrading remark ate her up over the years, so much so that when the role for The Substance came up, she was questioning whether to keep acting or not. As she put it, “The universe told me that you’re not done.”
She urged women to be kinder to themselves, explaining, “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.”
WickedWicked jokes
Decked out in a pink-sequined gown, Nikki donned a version of the mitre—a tall hat that the Pope wears—and she started to sing the song “Popular” and then pretended to take a call in which the person on the other line told her to stop because it wasn’t funny. It wasn’t the first Wicked gag of the night. In the monologue, she cracked that her “boyfriend’s boyfriend really loved Wicked.”
Best supporting actors give the most supportive speeches
Zoe Saldana burst into tears when it was announced that she had won her first Golden Globe: best supporting female actor for Emilia Pérez. The tears didn’t stop flowing when she got on stage, where she thanked director Jacques Audiard and her co-stars, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez, who was also nominated in the category.
Kieran Culkin won a best supporting male actor award for his role in the movie A Real Pain, in which he paid Jesse Eisenberg’s cousin who acts like a total brat on a trip to see his Jewish grandmother’s ancestral homelands in Poland. Apologizing for being too tipsy from a shot of tequila that he can’t remember his speech, he improvised, singing his wife’s praises several times and lavishing praises on the screenwriter and director Jesse Eisenberg.
Shogun’s Tadanobu Asano won the award for best supporting male actor in a television drama series. He started off his speech saying, “Maybe you don’t know me. I’m an actor from Japan.” Fist-pumping, he explained that he was happy to accept this “very big present” and that he was flying back to Tokyo right after the show for a shoot in the morning.
Funniest lines in acceptance speeches
Jessica Gunning won TV’s best supporting female actor award for playing a stalker in Baby Reindeer. When she got on stage, she said she almost tripped, and “almost showed my Golden Globes.” She told the audience she hasn’t been this excited since her parents bought her a hamster.
When Peter Straughan accepted the award for best motion picture screenplay, he joked, “I’m one ball of gratitude squeezed into a borrowed tux.”
Presenting the best presenters
Jennifer Coolidge introduced the best male actor in a musical or comedy TV series category “men who had the daunting task of carrying the entire weight of a series on their shoulders.” She joked that the lead actors get the best treatment, the only ones who get green juice.
Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara had a raunchy introduction to the award for best female actor limited series, which went to Jodie Foster for True Detective: Night Country. They called each other kindred spirits for their Canadian heritage. She talked about her long career in acting in Canadian films, losing “half a nipple” along the way, while he claimed he was an adult film star in Canada, sweeping the Beaver awards.
