Golden Globes 2025 recap: Shogun and Baby Reindeer score as Nikki Glaser roasts ‘Ozempic’s biggest night’
The 82nd Golden Globes has wrapped up.
The biggest stars of film and television kicked things off with elegant fashion on the red carpet.
Musical Emilia Perez was the most nominated film of this year, followed by The Brutalist and Conclave. All three films will be released in Australia later this month.
Comedian Nikki Glaser was host for 2025, Best known for her Comedy Central roasts, particularly against Tom Brady, she held no punches while grilling the room.
Scroll down for all of the biggest moments from what can often be the industry’s loosest awards event.
Who even votes for the Globes?
You may remember the controversy from a few years ago when it was revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which used to run the Golden Globes, had no black members, and was mired in some thorny, potentially corrupt practices.
Hollywood heavyweights distanced themselves (Tom Cruise returned his previous statues) and HFPA was given the ultimatum they had to clean themselves up.
HFPA and the Globes was eventually bought out by Penske Media (which also owns industry bibles The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Deadline) and the voting body was expanded.
The old HFPA had fewer than 100 members and some of them were... questionable... but in the restructure, some members were purged and eligible Golden Globes voters were expanded to draw from more international entertainment journalists and critics, predominantly from critics body FIPRESCI.
Now, there are about 300 voters who decide the Globes winners.
While there are no crossovers with the Oscars voting body (which is about 10,000 invited members from across the industry), the Globes is helpful in creating momentum for an Oscars campaign.
The nominating period for the Oscars opens later this week and if you win a Globe and get up on stage and make a great speech, you can put a lot of wind in your sails for an Academy Award.
Who is hosting the Globes this year?
After last year’s unmitigated disaster (sorry, Jo Koy), the Globes has tapped comedian Nikki Glaser as the host.
Glaser is a stand-up who is best known for her work as host of many Comedy Central roasts, including the one of Tom Brady which went viral. She’s also nominated this year for a Globe in the stand-up special category.
How scathing and roasty Glaser might get will be a surprise, but she’s already said she won’t be making any jokes about Donald Trump or the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni controversy.
The stars are arriving
Glittering gowns and smart suits, half the fun of any awards show is starring at the fashions.
Some of the early arrivals have included Adam Brody, Andrew Scott, Jessica Gunning and Glen Powell.
Which Australians are nominated?
There are five Australian nominees this year.
The best hope is Nicole Kidman, who is a strong contender to win in the best actress, drama category, for her role in Babygirl, in which she plays a high-powered CEO who starts an affair with a younger intern at her company.
She has already won the best actress award for the role at the Venice International Film Festival, where the film premiered in 2024. Babygirl is due to be released in Australia on January 30.
Guy Pearce is in the running for a best supporting actor gong for his performance in The Brutalist (out in Australia on January 23) but he has stiff competition in the category from Kieran Culkin, who has been sweeping the precursor awards for his role in A Real Pain.
On the TV side, Cate Blanchett and Naomi Watts are both up in the actress in a limited series, for Disclaimer and Feud: Capote vs the Swans, respectively.
Finally, there’s filmmaker Adam Eliot, whose claymation movie Memoirs of a Snail is nominated in Animated Feature.
How to watch the Golden Globes
The Golden Globes ceremony will be broadcast live on Channel 10 from 12pm AEDT but red carpet coverage will start at 11am.
You can also stream it on the 10Play app if you, like quite a significant number of Australians, no longer have a working antenna/terrestial connection.
Who’s leading the nominations tally?
The Golden Globes recognises achievements in film and TV but the movies is the main game.
The most nominated film this year is Emilia Perez, which clocked 10 nods. It’s a Spanish-language, Mexico-set, French-financed and produced musical about a drug cartel lord who fakes their own death and re-emerges as a woman. The film stars transgender actor Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, who are all nominated for their performances.
Second in the tally is The Brutalist with seven nominations, a three-and-a-half hour epic set in the post-WWII years about a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who contends with the limitations and myths of the American Dream. Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce are both nominated.
They’re followed by Conclave with six nominations, Anora and The Substance with five apiece and Challengers, A Real Pain, Wicked and The Wild Robot, which each have four nods.
On the TV side, nominees include Shogun, Nobody Wants This, The Bear and Baby Reindeer.
