The Golden Globes 2025: The Winners & Who Should Have Won

Hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the 82nd Golden Globe Awards took place earlier today.

All in all, we have a diverse variety of winners this year. You can check out all the winners below. We have also added who we thought should have won, but many of the nominees this year have been great and deserving, so the winners mostly all deserved their awards.

For instance, Shogun won all four awards for which it was nominated, which is deserving. Check out our full review of the series by heading over here. Meanwhile, The Substance (and Conclave) were robbed of many awards.

Still, at least Demi Moore won and that was well-deserved!

TELEVISION

Best Television Series – Drama

The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Prime Video)
Shogun (FX/Hulu) — WINNER
Squid Game (Netflix)

Writer’s note: Shogun definitely deserves it.

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX/Hulu)
The Gentlemen (Netflix)
Hacks (HBO/Max) — WINNER
Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Writer’s note: Only Murders in The Building has been excellent with every single season with a brilliant cast, so we would have chosen that.

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

Baby Reindeer (Netflix) — WINNER
Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)
The Penguin (HBO/Max)
Ripley (Netflix)
True Detective: Night Country (HBO/Max)

Writer’s note: The Penguin should have won.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

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

Writer’s note: Again, Shogun definitely deserves it.

Best Performance by an Actress 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
Anna Sawai, Shogun — WINNER
Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Writer’s note: Again, Shogun definitely deserves it. Also, check out Anna Sawai in Apple TV+’s Monarch Legacy Of Monsters as well.

Best Performance by an 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

Writer’s note: The Bear is great, we have no complaints.

Best Performance by an Actress 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

Writer’s note: Anyone on this list could have easily won this.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

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

Writer’s note: Again, Shogun definitely deserves it.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role on Television

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

Writer’s note: Kali Reis was amazing in True Detective Night Country.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a 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

Writer’s note: Well-deserved, not shocking at all.

Best Performance by an Actress 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

Writer’s note: If only Kali Reis could have joined her.

FILM

Best Motion Picture – Drama

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

Writer’s note: That, or Dune Part Two.

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

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

Writer’s note: The Substance was robbed, we really need a ‘Horror’ category.

Best Motion Picture – Animated

Flow — WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Writer’s note: Flow is good, but The Wild Robot was such an emotional and epic ride.

Best Director – Motion Picture

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

Writer’s note: We would have chosen Edward Berger or Coralie Fargeat, both of their movies were definitely best of 2024.

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Peter Straughan, Conclave — WINNER

Writer’s note: Well-deserved, if you haven’t, go watch Conclave.

Best Performance by an 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

Writer’s note: Ralph Fiennes was robbed.

Best Performance by an Actress 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

Writer’s note: Congratulations to Fernanda Torres.

Best Performance by an 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

Writer’s note: Not surprising at all.

Best Performance by an Actress 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

Writer’s note: Of course, well-deserved.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

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

Writer’s note: Yura Borisov was pretty good in Anora as well.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

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

Writer’s note: Margaret Qualley was robbed.

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez — WINNER
The Girl with the Needle
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Vermiglio

Writer’s note: No complaints for this one.

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot
Clément Ducol, Camille, Emilia Pérez
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Challengers — WINNER
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two

Writer’s note: Hans Zimmer or Volker Bertelmann.

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

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

Writer’s note: No complaints about this one.

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator II
Inside Out 2
Wicked — WINNER
Twisters
The Wild Robot

Writer’s note: Wicked was wicked good.