After the Jo Koy–shaped disaster of a Golden Globes telecast last year, the Golden Globes Foundation will surely be eager to forget the whole thing ever happened and turn a new page. (Glad Koy had fun, though.) This time, the voting body has placed their hopes and dreams on the shoulders of Nikki Glaser, who will serve as host for tonight’s festivities. The bar for a better ceremony is a low one to clear, and Glaser is a capable hand: A famously punchy comedian, she’s rolling off a strong 2024 punctuated by a killer turn on the Tom Brady roast last summer. She’s also been working the pre-game press circuit by emphasizing how much she’s been preparing for the gig, a shrewd move that draws a sharp contrast with her predecessor. Expect much star power for her to feast on: Viola Davis and Ted Danson are set to be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Carol Burnett Award, respectively, and among the extensive list of scheduled presenters are Catherine O’Hara, Colin Farrell, Rob McElhenney (but not Ryan Reynolds), Jennifer Coolidge — and Elton John!
As for the awards themselves, there’s a lot to keep track of. The Oscar race is still very much up for grabs, which gives the Globes an opportunity to leave a mark. Emilia Pérez, a Globes-y film if there ever was one, leads the pack with ten nominations, the most ever for a comedy/musical, with The Brutalist and Conclave trailing shortly behind with seven and six noms, respectively. The Globes’ approach of splitting Drama and Comedy/Musical categories also means fun extra noms — like Hugh Grant getting a nod for Heretic — and potentially wacky outcomes. We’re on Mikey Madison Watch for her star turn in Anora, but will love for The Substance mean a Demi Moore win? Will Denzel Washington edge out Kieran Culkin in the Supporting Actor category? That’s politicsssss …
Meanwhile, on the TV side, there’s already a bit of weirdness with Squid Game’s second season receiving a Best Drama Series slot despite not being released when the Globes announced their noms. A lackluster response since its December 26 drop, along with Emmy darling Shōgun, stands in its way. The Best Comedy Series category is stacked with mainstays Hacks, The Bear, Abbott Elementary, and Only Murders in the Building duking it out, though, who knows: Nobody expected Nobody Wants This to become the hit that it did. You can find predictions from our resident experts Nate Jones and Joe Reid here, and you can peruse the full list of nominations here.
A long night awaits us all, so come hang out with Vulture as we shepherd you through the whole thing. —Nicholas Quah
Our two Best Picture winners were also the only films to win multiple awards. (Emilia’s Best International Film win made the difference in trophy count, as the musical edged The Brutalist 4-3.) They’ll come into Oscar voting as the presumptive Best Picture front-runners, each representing a powerful constituency: Emilia appears to be the pick of the increasingly influential overseas voters, while Analog Cinephiles love The Brutalist. Each is also leading the race to become this season’s official Oscar villain, but that’s a conversation for a different day.
That’s the biggest TV takeaway. The Bear has definitely fallen behind Hacks in the overall awards olympics. Colin Farrell delivered an incredible acceptance speech and should be considered the prohibitive Emmy favorite going forward. FX, HBO/Max, and Netflix won every single TV award, which should give all three decent bragging rights heading into the new year.
3. Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara, doing pure Canadiana
2. Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford, standing so close together it’s practically erotic
1. Andrew Garfield and Andrew Garfield’s reading glasses
What is the point of handing out a Golden Globe off-telecast? These awards have no value off television!
… And that Shōgun is sweeping once again, after the Emmys — but it’s still fun to see. She’s a great actress and an even better hang, as I learned when I profiled her last spring. For obvious reasons, she won’t be coming back for the next Shōgun season currently being cooked up, but if you haven’t caught her on Pachinko, you still have the rest of tonight to hit up that free Apple TV+ weekend.
Now everyone’s Cali sober and getting up early the next day.
If I was the producer of a popular TV show, I would simply give people a day off the day after the Globes.
A shout out to the creation of language courtesy of Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy winner and Hacks co-creator Paul W. Downs.
Paulson’s said she’s been 17 characters across five Ryan Murphy shows; Brosnahan’s said she was on the high-school wrestling team.
I would have less of a problem with “Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” if every time one was presented the presenter wasn’t like, “And now for the movies people actually watch” [judgy stare]
➼ all the singer-songwriters
➼ all my sisters at Netflix
➼ Mario Lopez
From the moment Michelle Yeoh said “the internet” had been talking about her and Jeff Goldblum in Wicked, I knew one of them was about to say the word “zaddy.” Have we learned nothing from the horror that was Elon Musk on SNL?
Sir, you hold that on the toilet and now you have it out here?
It happened during Hiroyuki Sanada’s acceptance speech, then again during Flow’s. In this brand spankin’ new year of 2025, who doesn’t keep their phone on silent?
Sebastian Stan’s performance in A Different Man is brilliant, moving, wonderful. But it’s Adam Pearson who makes the movie, showing up a third of the way through and basically stealing it right out from under the other actors. Not only that, it was Pearson’s wildly charming personality that inspired director Aaron Schimberg to make the movie in the first place. It’s really frustrating Pearson wasn’t even nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He was mostly blanked by critics’ groups, too, who should know better.
They should’ve kissed.
Stan takes home the Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for A Different Man. He’s also nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for The Apprentice.
Moore hasn’t really had a moment in the spotlight to make her case for an Oscar nomination. As she accepts Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, she’s hitting all the marks. Tying the award into her career narrative as well as the themes of the movie — it’s a masterful speech.
Just had a vision almost like a prophecy of a million thirst posts of Andrew Garfield idly adjusting his décolletage
It’s clear Golden Globe voters are jealous of the Emmys getting to show Shōgun all that love. Hiroyuki Sanada repeated his Emmy win, but the Globes did the Emmys one better by awarding Tadanobu Asano Best Supporting Actor. Expect this to continue all night.
Jeremy Allen White wasn’t there to accept his third consecutive win for The Bear, but Colin Farrell was there to shout out Carolina the craft-services goddess when he won for The Penguin. (Sadly, Cristin Milioti didn’t win for her Lead Actress performance; that statue went to Jodie Foster for Night Country.)
No huge surprises so far, save perhaps Conclave in Screenplay. (Though we’ll have to see whether that was a consolation-prize Screenplay win or a sign-of-things-to-come Screenplay win.) With two wins so far Emilia Pérez is looking as strong as it appeared on nomination morning. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
I’ll take that silver lining.
She said “cinnamon” to spice up the blandest sentence ever written.
Stand-Up nominees by how much they deserved to win for their specials this year, a perfect objective ranking
1. Sandler
2. Glaser
3. Youssef
4. Meyers
5. Wong
6. Foxx
Something Cardinal Bellini just didn’t have.
Sorry, no moment tonight is going to be cuter, more unexpected, and more indicative of why the Golden Globes are so damn fun than this win for the man who played the ever-tricksy Yabushige on Shōgun. So many other contenders in this category felt like they were shoo-ins (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Harrison Ford) that it was delightful to see that people actually watched Shōgun and connected with Asano’s performance rather than just voting for a familiar name. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Yabushige forever!
➼ Fun facts that may as well have been sourced from the IMDb trivia section appear onscreen any time there’s a chance you might change the channel (like when someone has to walk to the microphone).
➼ The music feels hastily sourced, like we’re in the Netflix reality-show version of an awards show.
➼ All the ring lights from the COVID-era show have been recycled into centerpieces for the tables.
Making sure the celebrities are onscreen at all times suggests that if we click away for even a moment every producer of this show will lose their jobs, families, perhaps even their lives. This is the vibe of Hollywood in 2025: Please, please, please don’t turn us off.
It would’ve killed in the room.
One function of the Golden Globes is to serve as an audition for the eventual Oscars telecast. If you’re wondering why winners like Saldaña are perhaps investing their Globes victory with more emotion than you expected, that may be why. (She also shouted out Netflix’s awards guru Lisa Taback alongside CEO Ted Sarandos.)
This year’s telecast is certainly trying out a bunch of different things, like pin-pointing nominees in the seating chart — producing a visual effect that my colleague Nate Jones compared to The Sims — and slapping viewers with a torrent of trivia in a sweaty bid to prevent people from tuning out if, say, Jean Smart is taking too long to reach the stage. But the weirdest choice has to be how the camera is framing the presenters as they’re doing their bits practically in close-up. That’s way too much face! Gah!
I had flashed a brief vision of Landman winning this and it’s nice to remember there is in fact a worse possible version of now.
They’re the Ooly ones not the Tattly ones.
Congrats to former Evan Hansen Ben Levi Ross.
Zoe Saldaña: This is the most important thing that has ever happened.
Jean Smart: Thanks, looking forward to Hacks next season.
Nikki Glaser gave us a very well-calibrated opening Globes monologue, a fun and well-executed balance of jokes at people and for people and with the people in the room. It was silly in moments, especially as she prompted Adam Sandler sing “Chalamet”; it was politically sharp in brief lines but smartly veered more toward skewering Hollywood’s sense of self-importance rather than specific political content. (Save for one crack at RFK Jr.’s dead bear story.) It was the kind of opening monologue that seems relatively straightforward and simple to pull off — not formally innovative or reinventing the wheel. Except so often it’s a disaster. Glaser did it perfectly.
They look like those weird Bud Light bottles.
The red carpet, that is. The night’s fashion is all about big statement looks: Keri Russell in a massive shoulder. Nicole Kidman in a ponytail the size of a horse’s tail. Adrien Brody wearing the Venom symbiote as a brooch. Meanwhile, King of the Carpet Marc Malkin over at Variety tried to make everyone sing and instead made everyone uncomfortable. If you’re not watching the Marc Malkin livestream, you’re only getting half the story.
Watch out for the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama race, where a win for Lee’s Kate Winslet or Babygirl’s Nicole Kidman would move them into second place on the all-time Globes leaderboard. That would be Winslet or Kidman’s sixth trophy, tying Alan Alda, Angela Lansbury, Shirley MacLaine, and Jack Nicholson. (Winslet has two shots tonight, as she is also nominated for HBO’s The Regime.) The record is eight, set by — who else — Meryl Streep.
Our No. 1 boy has consistently repped the hypebeast head accessory of choice from GQ to the subway, and here he is on the Golden Globes red carpet with a customary bucket hat that goes along with his — green? Teal? Seafoam? — suit. Which looks like it’s made out of velvet? Anyway, he’s got a little matching pair of glasses too. Love this for him.
Winter wildlife dukes it out in Limited Series …
In the Best Limited or Anthology Series and Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series categories, it’s likely going to come down to The Penguin versus Baby Reindeer. The latter was one of the big Prestige TV triumphs last year and won six Emmys. This will be The Penguin’s first foray at a major awards ceremony, and lead stars Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti are major contenders.
Keep an eye on Nobody Wants This in Comedy …
Historically, the Globes have gravitated toward new shows. With The Bear, Hacks, and Abbott Elementary having won the bulk of the Comedy awards over the last three years, the field could be open for Netflix’s rom-com entry — and stars Adam Brody and Kristen Bell — to sweep right in.
If Jeremy Allen White wins Best Actor in a TV Comedy for The Bear …
It would be his third straight win. The last three-peat in this category was Michael J. Fox for Spin City from 1997–99, and the last three-peat in any TV category was Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker (1999–2001).
If Harrison Ford wins Best Supporting Actor in a TV Show …
It would be his first competitive win at a major awards ceremony ever, after having won Lifetime/Career Achievement awards everywhere from Cannes to the César Awards to the Critics Choice to the Globes themselves (he won the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2022).
If Kathryn Hahn wins …
Similar to Harrison Ford, Kathryn Hahn has never won a major acting award, and if she does so tonight, it’ll be the first major acting win for a Marvel TV series.
If Nikki Glaser or Seth Meyers wins the Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television award …
It will be the second time in the two-year history of this award that Globes voters awarded a current or former host of the Golden Globes (five-time host Ricky Gervais won last year).
➼ a Walmart Birkin enters my closet
➼ whenever people try to sneak Gracie Abrams into the 2024 pop girlies canon
➼ the Glen Powell I ordered on Temu vs. the Glen Powell I got
➼ soy milk vs. oat milk
➼ Glen Powell and Beyond Powell stun in photo
When Viola Davis accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at tonight’s Golden Globes, she’ll be completing a circle that began eight years ago, when she stood on that same stage at the Beverly Hilton and presented the same award to her friend and colleague Meryl Streep.
The challenge of commemorating a career as storied as Streep’s was no short order, but Davis was up for it. With a sense of drama that only someone who delivered the Sophie’s Choice monologue could appreciate, Davis opened with extreme portent: “She sees you …”
Over the course of her four-minute introduction, Davis pulled out all the weapons in her bag: speaking in the second person, calling out Meryl for being a collard-greens know-it-all, liberally quoting from Émile Zola and her own husband, Julius. She punctuated her tribute to “Dame” Streep by telling Meryl, “You make me proud to be an artist.”
Awards season is predicated on the concept of celebrities fêting other celebrities with shiny trinkets and flowery words. It invites even the most enthusiastic awards watchers among us to indulge in our cynicism and dismiss the whole spectacle as inescapably phony. Many presenters and recipients try to deflect these charges with humility, but that’s the wrong instinct. Davis and subsequently Streep — whose acceptance speech included a biographical survey of half the celebrities in the room and a call for resistance made in a voice gone hoarse by hollering at Women’s March protests the day before — know the only way out is through. Davis introduced Streep like she was delivering an inauguration speech on the Capitol steps, and Streep accepted like the de facto president of Hollywood that, on that night at least, she was.
As Davis steps into the recipient role tonight, she’s left her own presenter with a lot to live up to.
It’s possible I saw him walking up Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn an hour or so ago.
There are several ways to keep up with the evening’s pregame: Cable viewers can watch it live on E! right now, and cord-cutters have the option of tuning in to Entertainment Tonight’s pre-show collab with Variety that can be viewed on ET’s website, YouTube channel, and streaming network, along with the Globes’ website and Variety’s various social-media accounts.
In addition to this liveblog, Vulture’s Rebecca Alter will be live-tweeting (skeeting?) on Bluesky all throughout the evening, while Bethy Squires will be offering key commentary on the red-carpet fits and flops on Instagram and TikTok. Our list of winners will be updated as the categories are announced.
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the voting body behind the Golden Globes. It’s the Golden Globes Foundation.