The 2025 Golden Globes ceremony takes place tonight. British stars including Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Cynthia Erivo and Kate Winslet will compete for top prizes alongside Timothée Chalamet, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie and Colman Domingo.
The nominees were announced on December 9: the divisive musical crime comedy Emilia Peréz leads the pack at 10 nominations, while Hulu’s The Bear dominates the TV categories.
Other films in contention for trophies include hit musical Wicked, Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora and Brady Corbet’s epic drama The Brutalist, which was hailed a “masterpiece” after its festival premiere.
Stand-up comedian Nikki Glaser makes history as the first woman to host the Golden Globes solo. Her appointment comes after Jo Koy became the last-minute 2024 host, delivering a widely panned performance.
The awards ceremony will be broadcast on CBS, and US audiences can stream the show on Paramount+. There is no official channel to watch the ceremony in the UK.
Golden Globes 2025
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- Winners list — updated live
- Best dressed stars on the red carpet
Nikki Glaser wins fans on social media with ‘masterclass’ hosting performance
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Tom Murray
Viewers are heaping praise on host Nikki Glaser for her hilarious but restrained jokes about the celebrities in the room.
“Caught Nikki Glazer’s #GoldenGlobes monologue online. She has the right energy and perspective. She’s not afraid of the stars but doesn’t hate them. She’s not one of them so she can make fun of them but not destroy them. Also she put in the effort and worked hard at it unlike others in the past,” wrote one person.
“Clapped for Nikki Glazer in my living room after the ‘hardest working actors in show business - and by that I mean your servers’ bit,” wrote another.
“From Disasterclass to Masterclass,” said a third, referencing Jo Koy’s widely mocked hosting job last year.
Brady Corbet wins Best Director — Motion Picture and sends his condolences to Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena’s families
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Tom Murray
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet said his heart was with Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena’s family after the late director was found dead last week, aged 47.
Plaza’s representatives said in a statement: “The family is devastated and asks for privacy at this difficult time.”
Fans think Zendaya might be engaged...
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Tom Murray
Zendaya arrived at the 2025 Golden Globes with a massive diamond ring on her ring finger. The 28-year-old has been dating Tom Holland for four years.
Outside The Beverly Hilton hotel, Zendaya posed in front of the cameras, flashing an oval diamond set on a thin gold band. There is no word on whether the ring could be for an engagement — and possible future wedding — but it was spotted by cameras and social media users.
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Selena Gomez praised for reaction to losing Golden Globe to Zoe Saldaña
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Tom Murray
Selena Gomez is receiving praise for her response to losing at the Golden Globes to her co-star Zoe Saldaña.
Gomez was nominated in two categories – Best Supporting Actress for her role in divisive Netflix musical Emilia Pérez and Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for Only Murders in the Building.
However, Gomez lost in the former category to her fellow co-host Saldaña, who herself beat category favourite Ariana Grande, who had been nominated for Wicked.
Gomez was overjoyed for her co-star, though, and showing she had no problem with losing, stood up and jumped up and down, applauding as Saldaña graced the stage.
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Demi Moore wins ‘first ever’ award in acting career for ‘The Substance'
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Tom Murray
Demi Moore has won Best Actress in a Comedy for her role in The Substance.
“I’ve been doing this for 45 years and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor,” while it’s not strictly true, it is Moore’s first major award win in her career.
The Independent’s Louis Chilton predicted Mikey Madison would win for Anora.
“This category has several deserving winners this year — Zendaya deserves recognition for her stunning turn as the lone woman in Challengers‘ messy tennis love triangle, as does Demi Moore, who was haunting and unexpected in the maximalist body horror The Substance,” wrote Chilton.
“But it’s hard to see anyone beating Madison, who emerged from relative obscurity (unless you’re a Better Things fan, that is) to electrify Anora every minute she’s on screen. This category is Musical or Comedy, after all, and Madison’s Ani is by far the funniest performance on this list.”
Video: Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser's best jokes from 2025 ceremony
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Glen Powell and Nikki Glaser flirt during Golden Globes
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Glaser spoke to CNN last week, confessing that she thinks the 36-year-old Top Gun: Maverick star is “hot.”
Powell belatedly responded to the comedian’s praise during the Golden Globes red carpet on January 5, telling CNN: “Nikki, I feel the same way. You won the genetic lottery (and) you’re funny as hell.”
Later, during her opening monologue, Glaser teased Powell, joking that she would see him later that night.
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Jodie Foster wins Best Actress in a Limited Series
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Tom Murray
Jodie Foster won her category for her role in True Detective: Night Country, just as The Independent’s Adam White predicted.
“The Wolf of Wall Street’s Cristin Milioti was the breakout surprise of the DC Comics show The Penguin, playing a furious and psychopathic heiress to a mob fortune,” wrote White.
“It’s annoyingly likely that she’ll be overlooked here, though, in favour of one of the bigger names in this star-stacked category. We just about give the edge to Jodie Foster, though, for working wonders in a True Detective revival that became increasingly baffling as it went on.”
‘Emilia Pérez' wins Best Motion Picture: Non-English Language
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Tom Murray
Emilia Pérez takes home its second Globe of the night for Best Motion Picture: Non-English Language.
Watch live: Golden Globes 2025 winners speak backstage
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Nikki Glaser criticized for ‘gross’ Diddy joke
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Tom Murray
Glaser made several safe jokes about this year’s nominees and generated huge laughter from the crowd — but one joke didn’t land so well.
After previously saying she would keep her opening monologue relatively safe, Glaser did find space for a quip about the scandal involving rapper and music mogul Diddy, which she addressed to Dune star Zendaya.
“Zendaya, you were incredible in Dune,” she said, adding: “Oh my God, I woke up for all of your scenes. You were so good... and Challengers, girl? Oh my God! That movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card, I mean seriously.”
She continued: “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 a Stanley Tucci freak off doesn’t have the same ring to it. No baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.”
The crowd of A-listers in the room sighed and groaned at the joke that has been branded “gross” and “crazy” by viewers.
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Winners list in full — updated live
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Struggling to keep up already? The Independent has you covered with the winners list in full — updating live.
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Kieran Culkin wins Best Supporting Actor
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Kieran Culkin wins Best Supporting Actor for his role in Jesse Eisenburg’s A Real Pain.
Culkin won a Golden Globe last year for his work on Succession, playing media empire heir Roman Roy.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively ‘to skip’ Golden Globes
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Tom Murray
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively will not attend tonight’s Golden Globe Awards, according to reports.
Reynolds’s film Deadpool & Wolverine is nominated in the category of Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
However, Deadline reports that neither Reynolds or his co-star Hugh Jackman will attend the ceremony.
Reynolds’s wife Lively is currently in the midst of a legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni.
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Zoe Saldaña takes home first award of the night
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Zoe Saldaña wins the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Emilia Perez.
She may also win the award for most emotional acceptance speech of the night...
‘Ozempic’s biggest night’ — Nikki Glaser gets ceremony underway
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Tom Murray
Nikki Glaser pulled no punches as she kicked off the Golden Globes in Los Angeles, telling the A-List audience that the award show was “Ozempic’s biggest night.”
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Emma Stone debuts pixie cut
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Tom Murray
Emma Stone looked very different on the Golden Globes red carpet as she debuted a new pixie cut.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia star showed off her new cropped hairstyle alongside a bold red dress.
It comes after fans speculated Stone had shaved her head for the Greek director’s latest film, which filmed back in October.
The most daring looks on the red carpet
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Tom Murray
Every year, celebrities collaborate with designers and stylists to create one-of-a-kind outfits or pull from elite archives. However, not everyone manages to hit the sartorial mark...
Andrew Scott took a risk with his bright blue suit and matching tie while Matty Matheson stepped out in funky, Western-esque suiting complete with a bolo tie and loafers with stitched stars over the top.
See all the most daring looks — updated live — here:
Glen Powell meets the winner of his lookalike contest on the Golden Globes red carpet
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Tom Murray
No, you’re not seeing double. After offering the winner of his lookalike contest the chance to give their parents a cameo in one of his forthcoming films, Powell met the lucky doppelganger at the Golden Globes.
The contest was won by Maxwell Braunstein, a physician’s assistant in Austin. He took home “a whopping $5, a cowboy hat, free queso from Torchy’s for a year, and a thumbs up from the real Glen Powell’s mom,” according to Fox 7.
Don’t get it twisted, #GlenPowell loved meeting his look-alike. #GoldenGlobes #AwardsSeason pic.twitter.com/Du56baTThm
— E! News (@enews) January 5, 2025
Watch: Stars begin to arrive at 2025 Golden Globes red carpet
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Wallace and Gromit have arrived on the red carpet
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The arrival everyone was waiting for... Directors and creators Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham held the figurines of Wallace and Gromit as they stepped onto the red carpet.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl arrived on Netflix this week and immediately debuted with a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Best dressed stars on the red carpet
Sunday 5 January 2025 23:43
Tom Murray
Stars are filtering onto the red carpet already, showing off an array of bedazzled outfits.
Ali Wong looked as if she was swimming in red chiffon seaweed with her floor-length gown while Glen Powell stepped out in Top Gun style with aviator sunglasses and a sleek black suit.
Follow along with our best dressed list — updating live — here:
The 2025 Golden Globes gift bag is worth $1 million — here’s everything inside
Sunday 5 January 2025 23:21
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Demi Moore: ‘I had to let go of any parts of me that value perfection’
Sunday 5 January 2025 23:01
Roisin O'Connor
For her Oscar-tipped role in Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body-horror thriller ‘The Substance’, the actor tackles stardom, ageing and full-frontal nudity. Adam White talks to her, along with Fargeat and her co-star Margaret Qualley
REVIEW: Amy Adams deserves better than the dog’s dinner that is Nightbitch
Sunday 5 January 2025 22:41
Roisin O'Connor
This adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s magical realist bestseller is toothless and emotionally pat, and bears all the insight of a motivational poster, writes critic Clarisse Loughrey
Host Nikki Glaser tells ‘The Independent’ she’s ‘ready'
Sunday 5 January 2025 22:37
Tom Murray
Asked about her nerves ahead of the show, host Glaser said: “I’m excited to finally tell these jokes in front of a crowd who they are meant for. I’m ready.
“I feel like I’m 42 weeks pregnant. I need this baby to come.”
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Hello and welcome to The Independent’s Golden Globes live blog!
Sunday 5 January 2025 22:34
Tom Murray
Hello! We’re less than an hour away from the Golden Globes red carpet coverage officially kicking off. Hosts Ashley Graham and Jonathan Van Ness have already arrived in full glam. Follow along with us for all the updates — including the best and most daringly dressed stars on the red carpet.
TRAILER: Wicked starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
Sunday 5 January 2025 22:21
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REVIEW: The Wicked movie is fun and well acted – but why does it look so terrible?
Sunday 5 January 2025 22:01
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Who will win at the 2025 Golden Globes, and who should win
Sunday 5 January 2025 21:40
Roisin O'Connor
Ahead of tonight’s ceremony, Louis Chilton and Adam White have surveyed the major categories at the Globes to determine which films and TV shows will reign supreme, from ‘The Substance’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’ to ‘Nobody Wants This’ and ‘Anora’
VIDEO: Watch Taylor Swift’s reaction to Jo Koy NFL joke at the 2024 Golden Globes
Sunday 5 January 2025 21:21
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Who is Nikki Glaser’s boyfriend? Everything we know about Chris Convy and her dating history
Sunday 5 January 2025 21:01
Roisin O'Connor
Comedian and Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser and her boyfriend, Chris Convy, have been in an on-and-off relationship for over a decade.
The two first met in 2013 while working together on Glaser’s MTV show Nikki & Sara Live, where Convy, a producer, was part of the team. Their chemistry began behind the scenes, though their relationship didn’t develop right away.
“We met in New York… He was a producer on the show and he was from St. Louis, where I was from,” Glaser shared in an October 2022 interview with Graham Bensinger. She recalled that Convy’s confidence and humor initially made her assume he was a drinker, but she later discovered he didn’t drink at all — a revelation that deepened her interest. “I just had a crush from afar… It was very Jim and Pam [from The Office]. I was Jim, and he had no idea.”
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Golden Globe nominations 2025: The full list of movies and TV shows
Sunday 5 January 2025 20:40
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REVIEW: Daniel Craig is marvellous in the erotic, agonising fever dream of Queer
Sunday 5 January 2025 20:21
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Luca Guadagnino follows up his triumphant tennis drama ‘Challengers’ with another tale of seduction and desire, writes critic Clarisse Loughrey
VIDEO: Emilia Perez teaser trailer
Sunday 5 January 2025 20:01
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Cheer up, Ricky Gervais fans – Nikki Glaser is the perfect Golden Globes host
Sunday 5 January 2025 19:41
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The stand-up comedian had a breakout year thanks to her new HBO special and a viral performance at Netflix’s ‘Roast of Tom Brady’. Kevin E G Perry examines why her close-to-the-bone comedy makes her the ideal choice to host this weekend’s Golden Globes
REVIEW: Timothée Chalamet tries his best in A Complete Unknown, a Bob Dylan biopic that plays too safe
Sunday 5 January 2025 19:01
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VIDEO: The Brutalist trailer
Sunday 5 January 2025 18:41
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Chelsea Handler defends mocking ex Jo Koy over disastrous Golden Globes hosting gig
Sunday 5 January 2025 18:21
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Chelsea Handler defended mocking her ex-boyfriend Jo Koy’s controversial hosting gig at the 81st Golden Globes last year.
The Filipino-American comedian faced significant backlash after his opening monologue was widely criticized as “awkward,” “distasteful,” and “unfunny.”
One of the most contentious moments in Koy’s performance involved a joke about the film Barbie, which many found sexist. Additionally, comments directed at celebrities like Taylor Swift, Robert De Niro, and Meryl Streep drew groans and boos from the audience.
During the Critics Choice Awards that year, Chelsea Handler took a playful jab at Koy’s performance. Referring to his controversial decision to blame his writers for a failed joke during his monologue, Handler quipped while delivering her own well-received joke, “I have to give credit to my writers — because unlike some people, I know how valuable they are.”
In a new interview with Parade, Handler elaborated on her comment, saying, “Listen, I would’ve done that had anybody thrown their writers under a bus. I know more than anybody how valuable writers are. My whole life and my whole career is because I have great writers.”
The 2025 Golden Globes gift bag is worth $1 million — here’s everything inside
Sunday 5 January 2025 18:01
Roisin O'Connor
Gifts include a trip to the Northern Lights in Finland, a $40,000 non-surgical facelift, and a $272,000 wine and dine experience with Liber Pater.
Nikki Glaser’s most controversial jokes
Sunday 5 January 2025 17:41
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Nikki Glaser says she’s so ready to host the Golden Globes she feels ‘42 weeks pregnant’
Sunday 5 January 2025 17:21
Roisin O'Connor
Exclusive: The stand-up comedian and actor told The Independent that she was excited to deliver her jokes ‘in front of the crowd they were meant for’
VIDEO: Top moments from the 2024 Golden Globes
Sunday 5 January 2025 17:00
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Who will win at the 2025 Golden Globes, and who should win
Sunday 5 January 2025 16:20
Roisin O'Connor
Ahead of tonight’s ceremony, Louis Chilton and Adam White have surveyed the major categories at the Globes to determine which films and TV shows will reign supreme, from ‘The Substance’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’ to ‘Nobody Wants This’ and ‘Anora’
Cheer up, Ricky Gervais fans – Nikki Glaser is the perfect Golden Globes host
Sunday 5 January 2025 16:00
Roisin O'Connor
The stand-up comedian had a breakout year thanks to her new HBO special and a viral performance at Netflix’s ‘Roast of Tom Brady’. Kevin E G Perry examines why her close-to-the-bone comedy makes her the ideal choice to host this weekend’s Golden Globes
VIDEO: Emilia Perez shines in 2025 Golden Globes nominations
Sunday 5 January 2025 15:10
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Nikki Glaser to steer clear of one ‘hot-button’ topic at Golden Globes
Sunday 5 January 2025 14:50
Roisin O'Connor
Nikki Glaser may be preparing for the many jokes she will be telling during the 2025 Golden Globes, but there is one recent event that she has decided to not bring up.
The comedian and actress recently admitted in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment that while she may roast celebrities throughout the January 5 award show, she does not plan on bringing up anything regarding Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
“I think the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,” she told the outlet.
“I also don’t want to give his name any ... I’m mad I even know his name, to be honest with you, so I don’t need to say it anymore.”
Ricky Gervais shares the jokes he’ll never get to say at the Golden Globes
Sunday 5 January 2025 14:41
Jacob Stolworthy
Ricky Gervais has shared the brutal jokes he would have made if he was hosting the Golden Globes this weekend.
The comedian, 63, presented the awards ceremony for three consecutive years in 2010, 2011, and 2012 before returning to compère in 2016 and 2020. He is fondly remembered for making blunt quips at the expense of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
One day before comic Nikki Glaser becomes the first woman to host the Globes in its 82-year history, Gervais, who has advised the star to “be herself”, decided to come up with some jokes he’d have told in 2025 if he was fronting the ceremony again.
Golden Globe nominations 2025: The full list of movies and TV shows
Sunday 5 January 2025 14:30
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All the movies, TV shows and actors in contention for trophies
When and how to watch the ceremony
Sunday 5 January 2025 14:10
Roisin O'Connor
The 2025 Golden Globes are just around the corner, ready to kick off awards season and celebrate the best in TV and film from the past year.
Nominees were announced on December 9. The divisive Emilia Peréz leads the pack on 10 nominations, while Hulu’s The Bear once again dominated the TV categories.
This year’s ceremony comes three
