Nikki Glaser saves Golden Globes 2025 from being…
I’ve simply woken up from a unusual and complicated dream. I dreamt that the 2025 Golden Globe Awards had been really tolerable.
But 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 show — a style that in simply 10 short years has gone from a much-watched particular occasion that people legitimately cared about to a rung beneath a rerun of “Chicago Med.”
Nikki Glaser made a hilarious Golden Globes host. Penske Media through Getty Images
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 best movement image – drama.
Having presenters ship their intros straight to digital camera as they ignored the seated viewers was an extraordinarily awkward alternative. As Seth Rogen rightly stated, it was “inelegant and strange.” Scrap it.
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And, for higher or worse, this needed to be probably the most eccentric checklist of movie winners at any main award show ever held on American soil. It was like being at Cannes solely with more deodorant.
But 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 approach that acquired a big chortle.
Demi Moore gained best actress in a movement image – musical or comedy for “The Substance.” Kevin MazurGetty Images
What of the winners? Pretty weird.
For occasion, one of the massive victors was “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language French musical drama from Netflix about a Mexican drug cartel chief who transitions into a girl. It gained movement image – musical or comedy, worldwide movie, tune and supporting actress (Zoe Saldana).
And drama champ “The Brutalist” is a nearly-four-hour-long epic with an intermission about a 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, principally charming and refreshingly apolitical.
Adrien Brody gained best actor in a movement image – drama for “The Brutalist.” CBS
Demi Moore was particularly robust when she gained best actress in a movement image – musical or comedy for her position within the wild physique horror movie “The Substance,” wherein an injection clones her and turns her 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 stated.
“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 massive win injects Moore with a massive dose of Oscars momentum.
However, few anticipated Sebastian Stan to take home actor – comedy for “A Different Man,” a darkish movie wherein his character suffers from the facial disfigurement neurofibromatosis.
He’s good in it, by the best way. But that is a voting physique of worldwide journalists with more and more eclectic tastes. Stan shall be fortunate if he makes the cut on the Oscars.
Not so for Kieran Culkin, who snatched best supporting actor for his chic work in “A Real Pain.” He’ll be strutting to the Dolby Theater in March, inasmuch as self-deprecating Culkin can strut.
Kieran Culkin’s Oscar probabilities skyrocketed together with his Golden Globes win. AFP through Getty Images
Oh and there had been upsets galore: “Anora,” one of the best films of the yr, was completely shut out.
Fernanda Torres gained best 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 digital camera cut away.
And “Wicked” proved this yr’s “Barbie” — from juggernaut to jugger-not. The solely trophy the “Wizard of Oz” prequel managed was the Box Office and Cinematic Achievement Award. A cute, meaningless comfort prize. Its Oscar likelihood is evaporating like a watery witch.
“Others have more strength,” an insider stated. “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 Smart, Jeremy Allen White, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai. No surprises there.
Nobody was stunned that Jean Smart gained for her humorous work on “Hacks.” AFP through Getty Images
The largest winner of the night time, although, was Glaser.
Her monologue was as hilarious as you’d anticipate from a girl with the Tom Brady roast on her resumé. She stored the telecast transferring and didn’t overplay her hand.
The Globes had been business as regular — frankly you both watch award exhibits otherwise you don’t — and didn’t notch any viral moments people shall 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.
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