Below are The Hollywood Reporter’s government editor (awards) Scott Feinberg’s 5 greatest takeaways from Monday’s announcement of the 2025 Golden Globes nominations on the movie facet.
1. Emilia Pérez surges again to life
In final week’s flurry of awards bulletins, the highest critics teams on each coasts, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, in addition to the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review, nearly completely snubbed Emilia Pérez. But Netflix’s Spanish-language musical roared again to life on Sunday with a sweep of the European Film Awards, and on Monday with a field-leading 10 Golden Globe nominations, surpassing Cabaret’s and Barbie’s 9 to set a brand new all-time report on the musical/comedy facet. (It completed only one behind drama Nashville for the all-time Globes report.)
It was broadly anticipated that the extremely uncommon movie would land eight noms — for greatest musical/comedy image, director (Jacques Audiard), screenplay, non-English-language movie, unique rating, “El Mal” within the track class, Karla Sofía Gascón within the lead actress class (who turns into the primary trans performer ever nominated for an appearing Globe) and Zoe Saldaña within the supporting actress class — nevertheless it additionally scored a second supporting actress nom, for Selena Gomez (who moreover nabbed a TV appearing nom for Only Murders within the Building), and a second track nom, for “Mi Camino” (the track that Gomez performs within the movie).
Audiard alone is technically nominated for 5 awards, which is as many as any movie aside from A24’s The Brutalist (seven) and Focus’ Conclave (six): as a producer of a greatest image nominee and of a greatest non-English-language movie nominee, as a greatest director nominee, because the screenwriter and as a co-writer of “El Mal.”
2. The Golden Globes group reveals it’s not the HFPA
The sturdy displaying by Emilia Pérez, plus different main noms for Sony Classics’ Brazilian movie I’m Still Here (Fernanda Torres for greatest drama actress) and Janus/Sideshow’s Indian movie All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia for greatest director), comes on the heels of final 12 months’s Globe noms, during which three of the six greatest drama image nominees had been non-English-language movies.
The Globes have all the time been voted on primarily by non-Americans. But till final 12 months, Globe noms had been solely decided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a bunch of fewer than 100 individuals based mostly in and round LA. The HFPA operated like a membership, with cliques of members usually banding collectively to push by way of Hollywood’s greatest names (bear in mind Angelina Jolie’s nom for The Tourist?), which made the ceremony extra enjoyable for members and the telecast extra more likely to generate large scores.
But that type of coordination appears to have markedly decreased because the HFPA was bought and its members had been both disinvited from or absorbed into the brand new Golden Globes group. Today, the Globes’ membership is comprised of 334 journalists based mostly all over the world, and noms are decided not solely by them but additionally by non-member critics — a lot of whom are drawn from FIPRESCI, a global federation of movie critics who attend most of the main movie festivals all over the world — who received’t be on the present, and whose tastes are completely different from the outdated HFPA’s.
3. One-third of the directing nominees are girls
The Globes have a number of classes in a variety of areas (separating dramas and musicals/comedies), however, like each different main awards present, just one class for administrators. Therefore, it is vitally notable that the voters nominated two girls for greatest director — Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light and Coralie Fargeat for MUBI’s The Substance — over a variety of males who had been broadly considered stronger bets, together with Ridley Scott for Paramount’s Gladiator II, Denis Villeneuve for Warners’ Dune: Part Two, Jon M. Chu for Universal’s Wicked and RaMell Ross for Amazon/MGM’s Nickel Boys.
Oddly sufficient, whereas Fargeat’s movie was additionally nominated for greatest image (musical/comedy) and he or she herself was additionally nominated for greatest screenplay, Kapadia’s movie was not additionally nominated for greatest image (drama) and he or she herself was not additionally nominated for greatest screenplay. However, All We Imagine as Light is nominated for greatest non-English-language movie — a class it has just about swept within the precursor awards bulletins — reverse, amongst others, Emilia Pérez.
4. Much-needed boosts
Quite a lot of movies that obtained Globe noms badly wanted them, having largely underperformed so far. Take, for instance, The Substance. Its five-nom displaying — it’s up for greatest musical/comedy image, director, actress (Demi Moore), supporting actress (Margaret Qualley) and screenplay — is a large shot of momentum for this body-horror satire of Hollywood, and should properly lead voters from different awards teams to prioritize watching it.
Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, in the meantime, was a late launch and had solely spots on the AFI’s and NBR’s prime 10 lists to verify that it was resonating — till the Globes nominated it for greatest drama image, actor (Timothée Chalamet) and supporting actor (Edward Norton).
Briarcliff/Rich Spirit’s two-hander The Apprentice had been largely ignored till Monday, when Sebastian Stan was nominated for greatest drama actor and Jeremy Strong was nominated for greatest supporting actor. (Stan additionally obtained a greatest comedy actor nom for A Different Man.) Also receiving two noms: Roadside’s The Last Showgirl, with Pamela Anderson making the reduce for greatest drama actress and the Miley Cyrus tune “Beautiful That Way” touchdown a greatest unique track slot.
Kate Winslet snuck into the most effective drama actress class as the only real nominee from Roadside’s Lee (along with touchdown a TV appearing nom for The Regime).
And two movies landed just one nom, and it was for greatest drama image: Nickel Boys, which has carried out very properly with the latest awards bulletins; and Paramount’s September 5 which was MIA from them (save for a greatest modifying LAFCA award).
5. Hard knocks
Speaking of Paramount, its different large awards hopeful, Gladiator II, obtained noms just for cinematic/box-office achievement and Denzel Washington within the supporting actor class — no greatest drama image, no Ridley Scott for greatest director, no Paul Mescal for greatest drama actor and no rating. That’s tough.
A24’s Sing Sing additionally underperformed. Colman Domingo is a finalist for greatest drama actor, however the movie was lacking from the most effective drama image race, and likewise got here up brief with its screenplay, unique track “Like a Bird” and supporting actor Clarence Maclin.
Totally MIA from the noms: Bleecker Street’s Hard Truths (Marianne Jean-Baptiste was broadly anticipated to be a greatest drama actress nominee), Netflix’s The Piano Lesson (most pundits predicted Danielle Deadwyler for a greatest supporting actress nom) and each of Saoirse Ronan’s 2024 autos, Apple’s Blitz and Sony Classics’ The Outrun. (Head right here for extra snubs and surprises.)
Note: Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that additionally owns The Hollywood Reporter.
