Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical Emilia Pérezabout a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to become a woman, has led Golden Globes 2025 nominations.
It scored 10 nods to lead over other contenders such as the musical smash Wickedthe papal thriller Conclave and the post-war epic The Brutalist,
Australian stars Nicole Kidman and Guy Pearce were nominated for their roles in the movies baby girl and The Brutalist.
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The nominations for Globes, which will air on January 6 in Australia, were announced overnight by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut.
The embattled Globes, which are no longer presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Associationare still in comeback mode after years of scandal and organizational upheaval.
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Working in the Globes’ favor this year: an especially starry field of nominees.
Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Denzel Washington, Ariana Grande, Glen Powell and Selena Gomez all scored nominations.
The young Donald Trump drama The Apprentice also landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. The president-elect has called The Apprentice a “politically disgusting hatchet job” made by “human scum”.
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How much the recent presidential election will figure into Hollywood’s awards season remains to be seen. In the season’s first awards ceremony, the Gotham Awards, Trump went unmentioned but sometimes alluded to. Stan also received a nomination overnight for the dark comedy. A Different Man,
While Oppenheimer and, to a lesser degree, Barbiesailed into the Globes nominations as the clear heavyweights of awards season, no such frontrunner has emerged this year. The Globes don’t often align with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, a much larger group that far more closely reflects the film industry. But they can give movies a major boost, and ripe fodder for their awards marketing.
Following Emilia PérezBrady Corbett’s The Brutalist landed seven nominations, including best picture, drama, and acting nods for Adrian Brody and Guy Pearce. The soon-to-be-released film, from A24, is uncommonly ambitious, with a runtime of three-and-a-half hours, including an intermission.
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Close behind it was Edward Berger’s. Conclavestarring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal tasked with leading the conclave to elect a new pope. It landed six nominations, including best picture, drama, and acting nods for Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anorastarring Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, was nominated for five awards, including best picture, comedy or musical, and best female actor for Madison and best supporting actor for Yura Borisov.
The Golden Globes will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, who scored her own nomination for best stand-up special. CBS, which began airing the Globes last year in the US on a new deal, will hope Glaser manages to do better than last year’s emcee, Jo Koy, whose stint was widely panned.
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Who are this year’s Golden Globes nominees?
The nominees for best motion picture drama are: The Brutalist; A Complete Unknown; Conclave; Dune: Part Two; Nickel Boys; September 5.
The nominees for best film musical or comedy are: Wicked; Anora; Emilia Pérez; Challengers; A Real Pain; The Substance,
The nominees for best male actor in a motion picture musical or comedy are: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real PainHugh Grant, HereticGabriel LaBelle, saturday nightJesse Plemons, Kinds of KindnessGlen Powell, HitmanSebastian Stan, A Different Man,
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The nominees for best female actor in a motion picture drama are Angelina Jolie, MariaFernando Torres, I’m Still HereKate Winslet, LeeNicole Kidman, baby girlPamela Anderson, The Last ShowgirlTilda Swinton, The Room Next Door,
The nominees for best animated film are: flow, Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, Moana 2, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul, The Wild Robot,
The nominees for cinematic and box office achievement are: Alien: Romulus, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Deadpool & Wolverine, Gladiator II, Inside Out 2, twisters, Wicked, The Wild Robot,
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The nominees for best original score: Conclave; The Brutalist; The Wild Robot; Emilia Pérez; Challengers; Dune: Part Two.
How about the TV categories?
The nominees for best television drama are: Shogun; The Diplomat; Slow Horses; Mr and Mrs Smith; The Day of the Jackal; Squid Game.
The nominees for TV series (comedy or musical) are: Abbott Elementary; The Bear; Hacks; Nobody Wants This; Only Murders in the Building; The Gentlemen.
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The nominees for best male actor in a drama series are: Donald Glover, Mr. and mrs. SmithJake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent; Gary Oldman, Slow Horseseddie redmayne, The Day of the Jackalhiroyuki sanada, ShogunBilly Bob Thornton landman,
The nominees for female actor in a comedy series are: Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants ThisQuinta Brunson, Abbott ElementaryHey Edebiri, BearSelena Gomez, Only Murders in the BuildingKathryn Hahn, Agatha All AlongJean Smart, Hacks,
The nominees for female actor in a limited series, anthology or made-for-TV film are: Cate Blanchett, DisclaimerChristina Milioti,The PenguinJodie Foster, True Detective: Night CountryKate Winslet, The RegimeNaomi Watts, Feud: Capote vs. The SwansSofia Vergara, Griselda.
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What’s new this year?
Last year, the Globes introduced two new categories that remain this time around: the cinematic and box office achievement award and the best performance in stand-up comedy on television.
One tweak this time comes in the lifetime achievement awards.
This year, those are going to Ted Danson (for the Carol Burnett Award) and Viola Davis (for the Cecil B. DeMille Award). Those will be handed out in a gala dinner on January 4 in Australia, several days before the Globes.
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What’s the deal with the Golden Globes, anyway?
The Globes aren’t ever quite drama-free, but things have settled down for the embattled awards body.
Last year’s Globes were the first after the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their acquisition by Dick Clark Productions and billionaire Todd Boehly’s private equity firm Eldridge Industries.
However, earlier year, the Ankler reported that former members of the HFPA filed a letter with the California Attorney General’s office questioning the validity of the purchase.
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