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The bar wasn’t set very excessive for the Golden Globes on Sunday evening. After final 12 months’s host, Jo Koy, memorably bombed, the emcee this 12 months, Nikki Glaser, might hardly do worse. But she wasn’t content material to merely do higher. After workshopping her opening monologue in dozens of membership appearances over the vacations, she killed when it counted, cracking up the celebs available on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., and successful over viewers on social media. The remainder of the evening went roughly easily, with a mixture of anticipated and shock winners. But it wouldn’t be an awards ceremony if there weren’t some actually off-kilter moments. Here are the highs and lows as we noticed them.
Best Host: Nikki Glaser
When Glaser started placing collectively her Golden Globes monologue in early December, she instructed her writing employees, “Don’t be scared to be bizarre.”
You noticed proof of this in her stellar monologue on Sunday, which included the type of laborious punchlines she is understood for, together with a superb insult of Paramount+ and a joke in regards to the impact of Sean Combs’s arrest on the after-party. But there was additionally an impression of Adam Sandler saying Timothée Chalamet’s identify that was simply pure silliness — Sandler even joined in. Glaser doesn’t often do impressions, however she dedicated and it went over rather well, including to the celebratory, enjoyable tone to kick the evening off.
If there was a joke that crushed in each take a look at run, it was most likely when she talked about a couple of nominees: “‘Wicked,’ ‘Queer,’ ‘Nightbitch,’” then added “Not simply issues Ben Affleck yells after intercourse.” On Sunday, it killed once more. — Jason Zinoman
Glaser’s evening began on the crimson carpet with a billowing strapless gold ball robe. For her first onstage look, she become a sequined silver sleeveless robe. By 8:30, she was on her third costume of the evening. An hour into the ceremony, she was on Dress No. 5 (a sequined pink sleeveless stunner). By the top of the evening, she had donned what appeared like 47 extra. All that was lacking? We’d have cherished to see a dupe of Demi Moore’s viral yellow “Substance” coat. — Sarah Bahr
Most Refreshing Development: Unexpected Winners
Thus far, it’s been an excitingly unpredictable awards season, and although the Globes actually gave loads of {hardware} to already-strong contenders like “Emilia Pérez” and “The Brutalist,” it nonetheless seems like a large open discipline. In the appearing races, sudden wins for the likes of Demi Moore, Fernanda Torres and Sebastian Stan produced a number of the most heartfelt speeches of the evening and made already aggressive Oscar classes even more durable to foretell. And a complete shutout of “Anora,” which went into Sunday flying excessive, signifies that little is set this season, a enjoyable improvement after a number of years during which the last word Oscar winners appeared a foregone conclusion lengthy earlier than the Globes weighed in. — Kyle Buchanan
Least Refreshing Development: Retro Red-Carpet Looks
Given that Hollywood awards exhibits rejoice the artwork of taking part in a job, maybe it shouldn’t have been an enormous shock that the dominant development of the 2025 Globes crimson carpet was … retro role-playing. Ariana Grande did her finest Audrey Hepburn impression in 1966 Givenchy couture; Selena Gomez channeled Jackie Kennedy in ice-blue Prada and a stylized bob; and Nicole Kidman and Margaret Qualley sported monumental Catherine Deneuve bouffants — all in a sea of principally conventional tuxedos.
You can name it a return to classicism, or a retreat to the previous, or the legacy of Joan Rivers, who instilled the concern of mockery in celebrities all over the place. But by the point Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro had arrived of their newfangled Balmain and Dior variations of oldfangled Nineteen Fifties ball robes, it was laborious to not want that the stylists and designers working behind the scenes would begin dealing with ahead somewhat than again, and persuade their purchasers to take a couple of extra (unscripted) dangers. — Vanessa Friedman
See all of the seems to be from the crimson carpet.
Most Rousing Speech: Demi Moore
While the Globes haven’t any direct bearing on Oscar nominations, academy members are absolutely paying consideration, and Demi Moore, who received for “The Substance,” could have landed herself a spot in one of the best actress class along with her rousing speech. Both poignant and relatable, Moore spoke movingly about her profession struggles over greater than 30 years, together with being instructed she was a “popcorn actress.” She added that she had obtained the “bonkers” script for “The Substance” when she was at a low level in her profession, considering she was carried out.
But at 62, Moore has had a reversal of fortune and the celebs within the room cheered her on, some even giving her a standing ovation. Thinking of “these moments after we don’t suppose we’re good sufficient, or fairly sufficient, or skinny sufficient, or profitable sufficient, or principally simply not sufficient,” Moore mentioned, a girl instructed her, “Just put down the measuring stick.” — Nicole Sperling
Most Sincere Speech: Tadanobu Asano
Many Golden Globe nominees have been to the Beverly Hilton earlier than. And though the Globes are actually a extra severe operation than they as soon as have been, actors nonetheless deal with wins with various ranges of reverence. That made Tadanobu Asano’s acceptance speech for “Shogun” stand out. It was his first win, on his first nomination, and it confirmed. “Maybe you don’t know me,” he started. “I’m an actor from Japan. My identify is Tadanobu Asano. Wow!” His friends stood and cheered him on. And as he grinned and clutched his award, he added: “This is a really large current for me!” He certain appeared like he meant it. — Matt Stevens
Weirdest Honor: Box Office Achievement
The award for “cinematic and field workplace achievement” debuted in 2024, and this 12 months it was, unsurprisingly, given to “Wicked.” The official standards is that it’s the “most acclaimed, highest-earning and/or most seen” function, which principally describes each nominated movie. But it additionally should have made $150 million worldwide, with at the very least $100 million domestically, which is just about the dictionary definition of a blockbuster. (“Wicked” completed 2024 with nicely over $680 million worldwide.)
This is a bizarre award to provide out, and its presenter Vin Diesel made it even weirder by contrasting, in his preamble, his personal “Fast and Furious” collection and the work of Steven Spielberg (who invented the summer time blockbuster with “Jaws” in 1975). But it’s additionally only a tad participation trophy-ish handy out a golden statue to rejoice a film making financial institution on the field workplace, regardless of how enjoyable the film is. To quote Don Draper: “That’s what the cash’s for.” — Alissa Wilkinson
Biggest Lesson Not Learned
Amid an onslaught of commercials for weight reduction injections and numerous pharmaceutical lotions, capsules, drops and dietary supplements, Nikki Glaser took a number of the ordinary potshots at Hollywood’s penchant for cosmetic surgery. “I really like the place you set your cheekbones!” she riffed to the viewers in her opening monologue.
But not like different hosts, she acknowledged that she had been getting her tweaks on, too. Claiming, with air quotes, that she had began wholesome habits like “consuming extra water,” she mentioned: “I really like how meditating removes your eyelids” — aka the widespread tuck often known as an higher bleph. “I realized nothing from ‘The Substance,’” she added.
That that film, a feminist physique horror story, received Demi Moore her first Globe for taking part in an getting older star who finds a grotesque method to youthify herself, solely added to the night’s corridor of mirrors. — Melena Ryzik
Best and Worst Innovation: Telecast Fun Facts
Hey, do you know that Mindy Kaling was named after the TV present “Mork & Mindy?” Or that Zoe Saldaña’s go-to karaoke music is “Piece of My Heart”? The Golden Globes went all “Pop-Up Video” through the telecast, sharing these “information” about winners and presenters by way of onscreen textual content. At first, the addition appeared semi-clever, however it all grew to become an excessive amount of when the announcer shared extra information on high of those we needed to learn. Even should you’re celebrity-obsessed, this turned out to be T.M.I. — Mekado Murphy
I discovered the trivia on the Golden Globes to be refreshingly bizarre. Awards season fun-facts can really feel so canned: who hung out with who to arrange for a job, when was the final large win for a nominee. T.M.I. or not, my evening was vastly improved by studying that Demi Moore is an avid doll collector with a separate residence to deal with her greater than 2,000 classic dolls. — Annie Aguiar
Wisest Advice: ‘Hacks’
The Globes are a notoriously boozy affair, however after “Hacks” received for finest tv comedy, Paul W. Downs, a co-creator of the collection, warned in opposition to giving his star a celebratory drink. The present is at the moment in manufacturing on its fourth season, and a 6 a.m. name time awaited the forged and crew the following morning.
“So if Jean Smart asks you for a shot, please don’t give it to her, OK?” Downs mentioned. “Kate Winslet, I’m taking a look at you, wherever you might be. Give her water.” The digital camera lower to Winslet, who shook a finger at Downs. Downs relinquished, “Just slightly shot. Maybe one.” — Esther Zuckerman
Most Supportive Presenter: Elton John
Elton John reacted like a proud guardian when he introduced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross had received finest unique rating for “Challengers,” yelping with utter, seemingly real delight. He was a superb stand-in for these of us within the viewers who have been thrilled to see a win for that thumping, propulsive music. When Reznor and Ross took the stage, John could possibly be seen grinning eagerly behind them, as if he had simply received himself. — Kellina Moore
Strangest Camera Work
For an ostensibly glamorous ceremony, the present itself seemed horrible onscreen. Presenters have been filmed awfully shut up, giving the whole lot a harsh and informal vibe. The swirling digital camera work throughout a number of the acceptance speeches felt just like the crimson carpet slo-mo sales space had damaged out of its enclosure. And presenters didn’t face the whole theater, however somewhat turned on to a digital camera off to 1 facet. Seth Rogen referred to as it out, saying “It’s inelegant. It’s unusual. This entire half of the room can see my bald spot. I might have crammed that in. I mentioned no, however I remorse that now.” — Margaret Lyons
