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Grownups took dozens of top nominations for the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, which will be telecast live on CBS on Sunday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. ET and stream on Paramount+.
The year’s big winners were the movie Emilia Pérez, leading the field with 10 nominations — not bad for a violent musical about a drug lord seeking gender-affirming surgery— and The Bear, whose five nominations beat the four each earned by Emmy champ Shōgun and Only Murders in the Building.
Grownups outnumbered youngsters in three key categories, movie drama actor (Adrien Brody, 51, The Brutalist; Daniel Craig, 56, Queer; Colman Domingo, 55, Sing Sing; Ralph Fiennes, 61, Conclave) and actress (Pamela Anderson, 57, The Last Showgirl; Nicole Kidman, 57, Babygirl; Tilda Swinton, 64, The Room Next Door; Fernanda Torres, 59, I’m Still Here), and limited TV series actress (Cate Blanchett, 55, Disclaimer; Jodie Foster, 62, True Detective: Night Country; Sofía Vergara, 52, Griselda; Naomi Watts, 56, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans).
Half of the honored supporting movie drama actors were over 50 (Edward Norton, 55, A Complete Unknown; Guy Pearce, 57, The Brutalist; and Denzel Washington, 69, Gladiator II), as were half the movie musical comedy or musical actresses (Amy Adams, 50, Nightbitch; Karla Sofía Gascón, 52, Emilia Pérez; Demi Moore, 62, The Substance). Heretic’s Hugh Grant, 64, was the sole grownup actor nominated in the movie musical or comedy category, but it’s a notable role since he plays the bad guy, a murderer instead of his usual rumpled rom-com hero. In a statement, he thanked his directors “for spotting my need to kill.”
As usual, grownup women on TV got fewer nominations than male actors. Half the noms went to men in both TV drama series (Gary Oldman, 66, Slow Horses; Hiroyuki Sanada, 64, Shōgun; Billy Bob Thornton, 69, Landman) and TV musical or comedy (Only Murders in the Building’s Martin and Short and Ted Danson, 76, A Man on the Inside, about a spy sent to investigate a retirement community).
Kathy Bates, 76, got her ninth Globe nom for Matlock, and is up for her third win. But there were terrible snubs as well. Many fans feel June Squibb, 95, was robbed of her rightful nomination for her first leading role, in Thelma. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, won kudos from the prestigious British Independent Film Awards and New York and LA film critics’ groups for Hard Truths, but that reportedly grueling movie proved a hard sell at the Globes. Meryl Streep, 75, got ignored for her hilarious part in Only Murders in the Building, despite the nominations of costars Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, 79, and Martin Short, 74. (She has 30 previous Globe noms and eight wins.)
Some of the most impressive nominees of the year are in their 70s, including Kevin Kline, 77 (Disclaimer), Isabella Rossellini, 72 (Conclave) and Jean Smart, 73 (Hacks). And at 82, Harrison Ford reveals his unexpected gift for TV comedy in Shrinking.
Here’s the complete list of nominees:
Movies
Best Motion Picture – Drama
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Nickel Boys
- September 5
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- Anora
- Challengers
- Emilie Pérez
- A Real Pain
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best Motion Picture – Animated
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Moana 2
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
- Alien: Romulus
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Gladiator II
- Inside Out 2
- Twisters
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
- All We Imagine as Light (India)
- Emilia Pérez (France)
- The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
- I’m Still Here (Brazil)
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
- Vermiglio (Italy)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
- Pamela Anderson, 57 - The Last Showgirl
- Angelina Jolie - Maria
- Nicole Kidman, 57 - Babygirl
- Tilda Swinton, 64 - The Room Next Door
- Fernanda Torres, 59 - I’m Still Here
- Kate Winslet - Lee
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