The bar wasn’t set very excessive for the Golden Globes on Sunday night time. After final yr’s host, Jo Koy, memorably bombed, the emcee this yr, Nikki Glaser, may hardly do worse. However 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 celebrities available on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., and successful over viewers on social media. The remainder of the night time went roughly easily, with a mixture of anticipated and shock winners. However it wouldn’t be an awards ceremony if there weren’t some really off-kilter moments. Listed below are the highs and lows as we noticed them.
Finest Host: Nikki Glaser
When Glaser started placing collectively her Golden Globes monologue in early December, she informed her writing workers, “Don’t be scared to be bizarre.”
You noticed proof of this in her stellar monologue on Sunday, which included the form of exhausting punchlines she is thought for, together with insult of Paramount+ and a joke in regards to the impact of Sean Combs’s arrest on the after-party. However there was additionally an impression of Adam Sandler announcing Timothée Chalamet’s identify that was simply pure silliness — Sandler even joined in. Glaser doesn’t normally do impressions, however she dedicated and it went over very well, including to the celebratory, enjoyable tone to kick the night time off.
If there was a joke that crushed in each check run, it was in all probability when she talked about a couple of nominees: “‘Depraved,’ ‘Queer,’ ‘Nightbitch,’” then added “Not simply issues Ben Affleck yells after intercourse.” On Sunday, it killed once more. — Jason Zinoman
Glaser’s night time 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 night time. An hour into the ceremony, she was on Costume No. 5 (a sequined pink sleeveless stunner). By the top of the night time, she had donned what appeared like 47 extra. All that was lacking? We’d have beloved to see a dupe of Demi Moore’s viral yellow “Substance” coat. — Sarah Bahr
Most Refreshing Growth: Surprising Winners
Up to now, it’s been an excitingly unpredictable awards season, and although the Globes definitely gave a variety of {hardware} to already-strong contenders like “Emilia Pérez” and “The Brutalist,” it nonetheless looks like a large open area. Within the performing races, surprising wins for the likes of Demi Moore, Fernanda Torres and Sebastian Stan produced among the most heartfelt speeches of the night time 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 wherein the last word Oscar winners appeared a foregone conclusion lengthy earlier than the Globes weighed in. — Kyle Buchanan
Least Refreshing Growth: Retro Pink-Carpet Appears to be like
Provided that Hollywood awards exhibits have a good time the artwork of enjoying a job, maybe it shouldn’t have been an enormous shock that the dominant pattern of the 2025 Globes crimson carpet was … retro role-playing. Ariana Grande did her greatest 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 huge Catherine Deneuve bouffants — all in a sea of largely conventional tuxedos.
You possibly 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 in every single place. However by the point Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro had arrived of their newfangled Balmain and Dior variations of oldfangled Fifties ball robes, it was exhausting to not want that the stylists and designers working behind the scenes would begin dealing with ahead reasonably than again, and persuade their purchasers to take a couple of extra (unscripted) dangers. — Vanessa Friedman
See all of the appears to be like from the crimson carpet.
Most Rousing Speech: Demi Moore
Whereas the Globes haven’t any direct bearing on Oscar nominations, academy members are certainly paying consideration, and Demi Moore, who gained for “The Substance,” might have landed herself a spot in the most effective actress class together with her rousing speech. Each poignant and relatable, Moore spoke movingly about her profession struggles over greater than 30 years, together with being informed she was a “popcorn actress.” She added that she had acquired the “bonkers” script for “The Substance” when she was at a low level in her profession, considering she was carried out.
However at 62, Moore has had a reversal of fortune and the celebrities within the room cheered her on, some even giving her a standing ovation. Considering of “these moments once we don’t assume we’re good sufficient, or fairly sufficient, or skinny sufficient, or profitable sufficient, or principally simply not sufficient,” Moore stated, a lady informed her, “Simply put down the measuring stick.” — Nicole Sperling
Most Honest 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 had 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. “Possibly 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 can be a very massive current for me!” He certain appeared like he meant it. — Matt Stevens
Weirdest Honor: Field Workplace Achievement
The award for “cinematic and field workplace achievement” debuted in 2024, and this yr it was, unsurprisingly, given to “Depraved.” The official standards is that it’s the “most acclaimed, highest-earning and/or most seen” characteristic, which principally describes each nominated movie. However it additionally should have made $150 million worldwide, with at the least $100 million domestically, which is just about the dictionary definition of a blockbuster. (“Depraved” completed 2024 with effectively over $680 million worldwide.)
This can be a bizarre award to present out, and its presenter Vin Diesel made it even weirder by contrasting, in his preamble, his personal “Quick and Livid” sequence and the work of Steven Spielberg (who invented the summer time blockbuster with “Jaws” in 1975). However it’s additionally only a tad participation trophy-ish handy out a golden statue to have a good time a film making financial institution on the field workplace, regardless of how enjoyable the film is. To cite Don Draper: “That’s what the cash’s for.” — Alissa Wilkinson
Greatest Lesson Not Discovered
Amid an onslaught of commercials for weight reduction injections and numerous pharmaceutical lotions, drugs, drops and dietary supplements, Nikki Glaser took among the traditional potshots at Hollywood’s penchant for cosmetic surgery. “I really like the place you place your cheekbones!” she riffed to the viewers in her opening monologue.
However in contrast to 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 stated: “I really like how meditating removes your eyelids” — aka the widespread tuck often known as an higher bleph. “I discovered nothing from ‘The Substance,’” she added.
That that film, a feminist physique horror story, gained Demi Moore her first Globe for taking part in an growing old star who finds a grotesque method to youthify herself, solely added to the night’s corridor of mirrors. — Melena Ryzik
Finest and Worst Innovation: Telecast Enjoyable Information
Hey, do you know that Mindy Kaling was named after the TV present “Mork & Mindy?” Or that Zoe Saldaña’s go-to karaoke track is “Piece of My Coronary heart”? The Golden Globes went all “Pop-Up Video” in the course of the telecast, sharing these “information” about winners and presenters through onscreen textual content. At first, the addition appeared semi-clever, but it surely all grew to become an excessive amount of when the announcer shared extra information on high of those we needed to learn. Even in case 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 massive win for a nominee. T.M.I. or not, my night time 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 Recommendation: ‘Hacks’
The Globes are a notoriously boozy affair, however after “Hacks” gained for greatest tv comedy, Paul W. Downs, a co-creator of the sequence, warned in opposition to giving his star a celebratory drink. The present is presently in manufacturing on its fourth season, and a 6 a.m. name time awaited the solid and crew the following morning.
“So if Jean Sensible asks you for a shot, please don’t give it to her, OK?” Downs stated. “Kate Winslet, I’m you, wherever you might be. Give her water.” The digital camera lower to Winslet, who shook a finger at Downs. Downs relinquished, “Just a bit shot. Possibly one.” — Esther Zuckerman
Most Supportive Presenter: Elton John
Elton John reacted like a proud dad or mum when he introduced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross had gained greatest authentic rating for “Challengers,” yelping with utter, seemingly real delight. He was stand-in for these of us within the viewers who had 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 gained himself. — Kellina Moore
Strangest Digicam Work
For an ostensibly glamorous ceremony, the present itself seemed horrible onscreen. Presenters had been filmed awfully shut up, giving every little thing a harsh and informal vibe. The swirling digital camera work throughout among the acceptance speeches felt just like the crimson carpet slo-mo sales space had damaged out of its enclosure. And presenters didn’t face your entire theater, however reasonably turned on to a digital camera off to at least one aspect. Seth Rogen known 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 stated no, however I remorse that now.” — Margaret Lyons
