Golden Globes 2025 Winners: Emilia Perez and Shogun Triumph Nothing to Do For Vermiglio?

An evening of substantial balance, that of the Golden Globes 2025, held on Sunday 5 January at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles: the prizes of the foreign press residing in Hollywood saw many of the most popular names triumphs on the eve: with 4 statuettes, ‘numerical winner ’ of the event, on the cinema front, was the most launched Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard, who divided the cinematographic honors with The Brutalist by Brady Corbet. The surprise of the evening was the victory of Demi Moore for Best Actress in a comedy film for The Substance, at the expense of highly rated names such as Mickey Madison, Cynthia Erivo, and Karla Sofia Gascòn. Nothing to do even for The Wild Robot, beaten by the ”underdog” Flow in the category of Animation. But here is the complete list of the winners.

Emilia Perez Traveled with the Wind in the Stern, with ten nominations and four awards won, and the same happened, in the TV series category, to Shogun, which also won the prestigious Golden Globe for Best Drama Series. There were more surprises among the prizes awarded to the interpreters. Self-Adrien Brody was given as a favorite already on the eve, Fernanda Torres’s figurine as best actress in a drama film was not at all obvious (she had to deal with Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton, and Pamela Anderson), nor that of Sebastian Stan as best performer in a comedy or musical film.

On the TV series front, to dominate is Shogun, the sumptuous historical saga set in feudal Japan that was awarded four Golden Globes, including one for the best drama series. Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd’s autobiographical story about his experience with a stalker, is the best miniseries (and actress Jessica Gunning also receives the prize). Hacks, the story of a legendary comedian and her pupil, gets the prize for the best television series in the comedy genre. IS Wicked? The story of the two friendly-enemy witches of The Wizard of Oz is a bit of the Barbie of 2025: with all the commercial success and the great certificates of esteem to the actresses and the praises of the film, some prizes were expected. Instead, as for the film phenomenon with Margot Robbie, nothing. Just a Golden Globe for the best box office result. Little stuff.

Golden Globes 2025 Winners: Here’s The Complete List of Winners

Golden Globes 2025 Winners: FILM

Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Brutalist – WINNER
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Anora
Challengers
Emilia Pérez – WINNER
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked

Best Motion Picture – Animated 

Flow – WINNER
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 – WINNER
The Wild Robot

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

All We Imagine as Light (India)
Emilia Pérez (France) – WINNER
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 – The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Tilda Swinton – The Room Next Door
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here – WINNER
Kate Winslet – Lee

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama 

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist – WINNER
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Amy Adams – Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance – WINNER
Zendaya – Challengers

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle – Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons – Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell – Hit Man
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man – WINNER

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez – WINNER

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain – WINNER
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Director 

Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker – Anora
Edward Berger – Conclave
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist – WINNER
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light

Best Screenplay 

Emilia Pérez
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
The Substance
Conclave – WINNER

Best Original Score

Conclave
The Brutalist
The Wild Robot
Emilia Pérez
Challengers – WINNER
Dune: Part Two

Best Original Song

“Beautiful That Way,” Music & Lyrics By: Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus, Lykke Zachrisson – The Last Showgirl
“Compress / Repress,” Music & Lyrics By: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
“El Mal,” Music & Lyrics By: Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez – WINNER
“Forbidden Road,” Music & Lyrics By: Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, Sacha Skarbek – Better Man
“Kiss The Sky,” Music & Lyrics By: Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, Ali Tamposi – The Wild Robot
“Mi Camino,” Music & Lyrics By: Clément Ducol, Camille – Emilia Pérez

Golden Globes 2025 Winners: Series

Best Television Series – Drama

The Day of the Jackal
The Diplomat
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Shōgun – WINNER
Slow Horses
Squid Game

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy 

Abbott Elementary
The Bear
The Gentlemen
Hacks – WINNER
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

Baby Reindeer – WINNER
Disclaimer
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Kathy Bates – Matlock
Emma D’Arcy – House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine – Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley – Black Doves
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Anna Sawai – Shōgun – WINNER

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Donald Glover – Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jake Gyllenhaal – Presumed Innocent
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne – The Day of the Jackal
Hiroyuki Sanada – Shōgun – WINNER
Billy Bob Thornton – Landman

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn – Agatha All Along
Jean Smart – Hacks – WINNER

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson – A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel – Shrinking
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear – WINNER 

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Cate Blanchett – Disclaimer
Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country – WINNER
Cristin Milioti – The Penguin
Sofía Vergara – Griselda
Naomi Watts – Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
Kate Winslet – The Regime

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

Colin Farrell – The Penguin – WINNER
Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline – Disclaimer
Cooper Koch – Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan McGregor – A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott – Ripley

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Liza Colón-Zayas – The Bear
Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
Dakota Fanning – Ripley
Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer – WINNER
Allison Janney – The Diplomat
Kali Reis – True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Tadanobu Asano – Shōgun – WINNER
Javier Bardem – Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford – Shrinking
Jack Lowden – Slow Horses
Diego Luna – La Máquina
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Jamie Foxx – Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was
Nikki Glaser – Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die
Seth Meyers – Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking
Adam Sandler – Adam Sandler: Love You
Ali Wong – Ali Wong: Single Lady – WINNER
Ramy Youssef – Ramy Youssef: More Feelings

Adrien Brody, who interprets the architect protagonist of The Brutalist is the best dramatic actor while Brady Corbet, who spent seven years working on the film (which lasts three hours), wins as the best director. Brody is moved to compare his character, a survivor of the Shoah who arrived in America in search of a better life, to the journey undertaken by his mother, also a Hungarian immigrant. «I don’t know how to fully express all the challenges you have faced and experienced, and the many people who have struggled to immigrate to this country », she says. “I hope this job manages to cheer you up a bit and give you voice”.

Golden Globes 2025 Winner Posters

The biggest twist of the evening, however, is the victory of Fernanda Torres as best actress in a drama movie with I’m Still Here. The prize already seemed to be awarded to Nicole Kidman, in the CEO version with the young lover who gives her orders like a puppy (literally) in Babygirl, or as an alternative to Angelina Jolie, perfect in the role of the divine Callas in Maria. Instead, she defeats all of Torres, with her heartbreaking interpretation of a woman whose husband is kidnapped and made to disappear by the police during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

In the best actress category in a comedy – the fieriest of this edition – it is to tick it, Demi Moore, with his role in The Substance, the horror tale of French director Coralie Fargeat, in which the 62-year-old American actress interprets an ex-Holly Glory dedicated to a youthful serum, which generates a double of herself rejuvenated, with destructive impulses. A rematch for Demi Moore, snubbed for a long time by auteur cinema: “Thirty years ago a producer told me that I was a popcorn actress (from Blockbuster, editor’s note)”, he says in the award acceptance speech. “I pretended nothing. I could make hit movies that made a lot of money, but I couldn’t be rewarded, and it was like that for me. But over the years this has hurt me … A few years ago, I thought that maybe it was the right time. Maybe I had done what I had to do”. Her powerful interpretation made her beat the transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon of Emilia Perez and young Mikey Madison of Anora.

The award winner who cries the most is Zoe Saldana, overwhelmed with emotion as she withdraws from the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy, won thanks to the role of the lawyer who helps a Mexican drug dealer start a new life and turn into a woman in the musical-thriller Emilia Perez. “My heart is full of gratitude to the Golden Globes for celebrating our film”, he says on stage in tears. More ironic instead Kieran Culkin, designated best-supporting actor for A Real Pain, a dramatic comedy about two American Jewish cousins who go to Poland to learn about the history of their family: thanks his wife for “having endured what you call my mania”.