Golden Globes 2025: Every film and TV show nominated – and what’s worth watching

The Golden Globes, the awards that used to be presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced its nominations for its 82nd ceremony. Taking place in Los Angeles on January 5 2025 (or the small hours of the morning on January 6 for the UK), the ceremony will be hosted by American comedian Nikki Glaser (who is also a nominee). She will be hoping to fare rather better than last year’s host, US stand-up Jo Koy, who was pilloried for his “cringeworthy” and “distasteful” jokes.

Can we expect different from Glaser? “Some of my favourite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina [Fey], Amy [Poehler], or Ricky [Gervais] have said exactly what we all didn’t know we desperately needed to hear,” she has said. “I just hope to continue in that time honoured tradition (that might also get me cancelled).”

Leading the film nominations is Jacques Audiard’s drug cartel musical Emilia Perez, with 10 nominations, followed by The Brutalist (seven) and Conclave (six). The half-a-billion-grossing Wizard of Oz prequel Wicked, meanwhile, has four. In the television categories, The Bear is the unsurprising forerunner, with five nominations, followed closely by Japanese-American epic Shogun and comedy-drama Only Murders in the Building, both of which have four. Below are the half-dozen films and TV shows to watch.

Film

Wicked

Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Cynthia Erivo); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Ariana Grande), Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

To win Globes voters’ hearts, all Jon M Chu’s CG-drenched adaptation of the Wizard of Oz prequel musical had to do was attract rave reviews or strike box office gold. However improbably, it’s managing both. With nods in four categories, it has fewer shots on goal than many rivals, but – all together now – no fellow nominee that is or was is ever gonna bring it dah-wow-wow-own.

Emilia Pérez

Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language; Best Director – Motion Picture (Jacques Audiard); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Karla Sofía Gascón); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture; Best Score’ Best Original Song (for El Mal and Mi Camino)

The Globes’ international voting base was always likely to rally behind this wacky chimera from Cannes: a Mexico-set musical from venerable French auteur Jacques Audiard about a cartel boss who undergoes sex reassignment. It split critics (I’m not a fan), and as the story of a murderous crook who comes out as transgender largely to escape justice, its progressive credentials are dubious to say the least. But in various respects it’s nebulously Boo Trump, so is likely to fare well.

The Brutalist

Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Director – Motion Picture (Brady Corbet); Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Adrien Brody); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Felicity Jones); Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Guy Pearce); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture; Best Score

Opening in the UK in late January, here is the cineaste’s choice: a four-hour American epic (complete with intermission) about a Bauhaus-trained architect who escapes the Holocaust to pursues his dream in the US. Magnificent in every respect, and anchored by a phenomenal lead performance from Adrien Brody, it’s also wildly enjoyable despite its concrete heft.

Conclave

Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Director – Motion Picture (Edward Berger); Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Ralph Fiennes); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Isabella Rossellini); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture; Best Score

Filling this year’s King’s Speech slot – finely made yet cosily middlebrow – is Edward Berger’s stylish adaptation of Robert Harris’s 2016 page-turner about a papal election gone sour. This is likely to be another awards season mainstay, thanks both to its likeable blue-chip cast and its impeccable craft (which the Globes’ limited categories largely don’t recognise).

Anora

Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; Best Director – Motion Picture (Sean Baker); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Mikey Madison); Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Yura Borisov); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Another Cannes favourite (it took this year’s Palme d’Or) is this madcap modern-day screwball about a wily stripper who weds the genially gormless son of an oligarch. Mostly unfolding at a pitch that makes fevers look relaxing, in the end it might prove a bit much for voters – but it’s among the last year’s very best, and a riveting, ravishing watch.

The Substance

Nominated for: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director; Motion Picture (Coralie Fargeat); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Demi Moore); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Margaret Qualley); Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Speaking of a bit much, here is an unexpectedly strong showing for this fabulously grisly body horror in which Demi Moore plays an ageing ex-starlet whose use of an occult youth serum causes all sorts of gory havoc. Quite how it qualifies as a musical or comedy is unclear, but the Globes wouldn’t be the Globes without some frankly libidinous massaging of the rules.

TV

The Bear

Nominated for: Best Female Supporting Actor, Television (Liza Colon-Zayas); Best Male Supporting Actor, Television (Ebon Moss-Bachrach); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy (Ayo Edebiri); Best TV Actor, Comedy (Jeremy Allen White); Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

The darling of awards darlings, Christopher Storer’s superb drama, set in a struggling Chicago restaurant, matches its five nominations from last year (where it won three). In all honesty, the third series dipped in quality comparatively, but once a show is on a roll at US awards… Colon-Zayas’s nomination is testament to Storer’s ability to give the wider cast their moment in the sun.

Shogun

Nominated for: Best Male Actor in a Television Series, Drama (Horiyuki Sanada); Best Male Supporting Actor, Television (Tadanobu Asano); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series, Drama (Anna Sawai); Best Television Series, Drama

Having already broken the record for the most Emmys awarded to a single season of television (18) the only surprise is that Shogun has only got four nominations here. What an achievement it is – a sweeping epic set at the end of feudal Japan, with dialogue mainly in Japanese, it took the US and UK by storm. Proof that audiences still have an attention span – and taste.

Only Murders in the Building

Nominated for: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy (Selena Gomez); Best TV Actor, Comedy (Steve Martin and Martin Short); Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

Always the bridesmaid, Steve Martin and Martin Short’s comedy-murder-mystery has won none of its previous 12 Golden Globes nominations (it hasn’t won any Primetime Emmys either, only the lesser Creatives Arts Emmys). Still, it has four more bites of the cherry here – richly deserved for a show that keeps reinventing itself (the first two series lampooned podcasts, the third musicals, the fourth the movie industry – what will the fifth season take on? Awards, perhaps…)

Mr & Mrs Smith

Nominated for: Best Male Actor in a Television Series, Drama (Donald Glover); Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series, Drama (Maya Erskine); Best Television Series, Drama

Arguably the most significant thing about this show’s success is that it at long last puts one of the industry’s oldest jokes to bed. Following the enormous success of Fleabag and Atlanta, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover were made very rich by what seemed in hindsight to be very foolish contracts from Amazon. At long last, one of them bears fruit (even if Waller-Bridge eventually dropped out of this project). A smart series.

Baby Reindeer

Nominated for: Best Female Supporting Actor, Television (Jessica Gunning); Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Richard Gadd); Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Possibly the most talked about show of the decade, and one that still has an eye-wateringly expensive legal case hanging over it. That’s not bothered the awards panels though, and Richard Gadd’s painfully honest account of being a victim of sexual assault and of stalking has a chance to follow its Emmys sweep with further glory here. An unlikely British underdog story.

Slow Horses

Nominated for: Best Male Actor in a Television Series, Drama (Gary Oldman); Best Male Supporting Actor, Television (Jack Lowden); Best Television Series, Drama

Speaking of unlikely British underdogs… This anti-James Bond, based on Mick Herron’s series of spy novels, has been a sensation on both sides of the Pond. Showrunner Will Smith has wrapped a fifth series. But a sixth has been announced, and Smith’s name is nowhere near it. Still, it’s a reliably excellent show. And what a theme tune.

Ripley

Nominated for: Best Female Supporting Actor, Television (Dakota Fanning); Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Andrew Scott); Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Steven Zaillian’s series had two mountains to overcome – living up to Patricia Highsmith’s source material and banishing memories of Anthony Minghella’s much-loved 1999 adaptation. It did both with aplomb, choosing to be the opposite of Minghella’s zesty, vibrant film. It’s slow, tender, black-and-white, seedy and utterly beautiful. Kudos to Netflix for letting Zaillian make something so at-odds with today’s popcorn-ready, cliffhanger-TV culture.

Squid Game

Nominated for: Best Television Series, Drama

Some 31 shows have received nominations this year, ranging from the sublime (The Penguin) to the ridiculous (Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen), ensuring the red carpet will be nicely stuffed in early January. Perhaps the most eye-raising is the inclusion of the all-conquering South Korean drama Squid Game. Not watched the second series yet? That’s because it’s not out till Boxing Day. Privileged lot, the Golden Globe voters.

The 2025 Golden Globes nominations in full

Best Original Score, Motion Picture

Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot
Clément Ducol, Camille, Emilia Pérez
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Challengers
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell, Hit Man
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
The Girl with the Needle
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Vermiglio

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

Beautiful That Way: The Last Showgirl, by Miley Cyrus, Lykke Li and Andrew Wyatt
Compress/Repress: Challengers, by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Luca Guadagnino
El Mal: Emilia Pérez, by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
Forbidden Road: Better Man, by Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler & Sacha Skarbek
Kiss The Sky: The Wild Robot, by Delacey, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack & Ali Tamposi
Mi Camino: Emilia Pérez, by Clément Ducol and Camille

Best Motion Picture – Animated

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Ariana Grande, Wicked
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Peter Straughan, Conclave

Best Director – Motion Picture

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Edward Berger, Conclave
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Zendaya, Challengers

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator II
Inside Out 2
Twisters
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Kate Winslet, Lee

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Anora
Challengers
Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked

Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

TV

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

Abbott Elementary
The Bear 
The Gentlemen
Hacks 
Nobody Wants This 
Only Murders in the Building

Best Television Series – Drama

The Diplomat
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Shogun
Squid Game 
Slow Horses 
The Day of the Jackal

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series, Drama

Donald Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Smith 
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent 
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses 
Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun Billy Bob Thornton, Landman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun 
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford, Shrinking 
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses 
Diego Luna, La Maquina 
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role on Television

Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks 
Dakota Fanning, Ripley 
Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer 
Allison Janney, The Diplomat 
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

Baby Reindeer 
Disclaimer 
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story 
The Penguin 
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
Jean Smart, Hacks

Best Performance by an Actress In a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Sofía Vergara, Griselda
Naomi Watts, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Kate Winslet, The Regime

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline, Disclaimer
Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott, Ripley

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama

Kathy Bates, Matlock
Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley, Black Doves
Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Jamie Foxx, What Had Happened Was 
Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll Die 
Seth Meyers, Dad Man Walking 
Adam Sandler, Love You 
Ali Wong, Single Lady 
Ramy Youssef, More Feelings