I’ve simply woken up from a wierd and complicated dream. I dreamt that the 2025 Golden Globe Awards had been really tolerable.
However it wasn’t a dream. It was a broadcast! And Nicole Kidman, and Timothée Chalamet, and Angelina Jolie and “Wicked” had been there, Auntie Em!
Look, it’s nonetheless an award present — a style that in simply 10 quick years has gone from a much-watched particular occasion that individuals legitimately cared about to a rung under a rerun of “Chicago Med.”
The Globes stay far too long-winded. The saggy center, when TV trophies had been unenthusiastically dished out like steamed broccoli, felt longer than “The Brutalist” — the 3 ½ hour winner of greatest movement image – drama.
Having presenters ship their intros straight to digicam as they ignored the seated viewers was an especially awkward selection. As Seth Rogen rightly mentioned, it was “inelegant and strange.” Scrap it.
And, for higher or worse, this needed to be essentially the most eccentric record of movie winners at any main award present ever held on American soil. It was like being at Cannes solely with extra deodorant.
However this yr’s Globes had been infinitely superior to 2024, when the ceremony was a sleepy and predictable coronation for “Oppenheimer” and comic Jo Koy’s abysmal internet hosting was an unwatchable cringe-fest.
His terrific successor, Nikki Glaser, was terribly humorous proper from her first line: “Welcome to the 82nd annual Golden Globes: Ozempic’s biggest night!”
She took intention at Chalamet’s facial hair and the terrible “Joker: Folie à Deux” and she by some means managed in a joke to attach alleged rapist Sean “Diddy” Combs with Stanley Tucci … in a means that bought an enormous chortle.
What of the winners? Fairly weird.
For example, one of many large victors was “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language French musical drama from Netflix a couple of Mexican drug cartel chief who transitions into a girl. It gained movement image – musical or comedy, worldwide movie, music and supporting actress (Zoe Saldana).
And drama champ “The Brutalist” is a nearly-four-hour-long epic with an intermission a couple of fictional Jewish Hungarian architect. Its director, Brady Corbet, additionally gained and so did its main man, Adrien Brody.
Quite a bit can change in two months, however they’re now those to beat on the Oscars.
The speeches? Humble, largely charming and refreshingly apolitical.
Demi Moore was particularly robust when she gained greatest actress in a movement image – musical or comedy for her function within the wild physique horror movie “The Substance,” through which an injection clones her and turns her right into a grotesque ogre.
“I’ve been doing this for over 45 years — and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor,” Moore mentioned.
“Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me I was a ‘popcorn actress’… that corroded me over time to the point that a few years ago that I thought that this was it.”
Apparently not. This large win injects Moore with a large dose of Oscars momentum.
Nevertheless, few anticipated Sebastian Stan to take house actor – comedy for “A Different Man,” a darkish movie through which his character suffers from the facial disfigurement neurofibromatosis.
He’s good in it, by the way in which. However this can be a voting physique of worldwide journalists with more and more eclectic tastes. Stan can be fortunate if he makes the reduce on the Oscars.
Not so for Kieran Culkin, who snatched greatest supporting actor for his elegant work in “A Real Pain.” He’ll be strutting to the Dolby Theater in March, inasmuch as self-deprecating Culkin can strut.
Oh and there had been upsets galore: “Anora,” the most effective motion pictures of the yr, was completely shut out.
Fernanda Torres gained greatest actress – drama for “I’m Still Here,” a Brazilian movie, which certainly made heavyweight losers Kidman (“Babygirl”) and Jolie (“Maria”) attain for a bottle of Champagne as soon as the digicam reduce away.
And “Wicked” proved this yr’s “Barbie” — from juggernaut to jugger-not. The one trophy the “Wizard of Oz” prequel managed was the Field Workplace and Cinematic Achievement Award. A cute, meaningless comfort prize. Its Oscar chances are high evaporating like a watery witch.
“Others have more strength,” an insider mentioned. “The Academy is now too international for ‘Wicked.’ It’s tanked internationally.”
On the TV facet, “Hacks” gained tv collection – comedy, whereas “Shōgun” took drama. Jean Sensible, Jeremy Allen White, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai. No surprises there.
The most important winner of the night time, although, was Glaser.
Her monologue was as hilarious as you’d count on from a girl with the Tom Brady roast on her resumé. She saved the telecast shifting and didn’t overplay her hand.
The Globes had been enterprise as regular — frankly you both watch award reveals otherwise you don’t — and didn’t notch any viral moments folks can be speaking about this morning (no Will Smith slap right here!).
They won’t be chattering, however they undoubtedly gained’t be roasting Nikki both.
