It at all times looks as if everybody wins and nobody actually loses on the Golden Globes.
The occasion has traditionally been often called extra of a boozy get together than a severe awards present, an off-the-cuff hangout with Hollywood’s most charming celebrities fairly than a cutthroat winner-takes-all state of affairs — even when it’s had its fair proportion of controversy.
There have been no unhealthy Barbie jokes this 12 months, nor had been there any corruption scandals. Celebrities drank a bit, ate a bit, and politely laughed a bit on the only a few innocuous barbs that host Nikki Glaser threw their means.
For these counting, movies Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist took residence probably the most main award wins. And status TV darling Shōgun and comedic class favourite Hacks received large too. Listed here are the three largest takeaways from Hollywood’s largest shindig:
Nikki Glaser was a fantastic host, particularly in comparison with final 12 months
On the 2024 Golden Globes, comic Jo Koy bombed in a mystifying means: he made boob jokes about Barbie, launched quips about what number of cameras had been on Taylor Swift, and acquired booed throughout his monologue. Koy severely miscalculated the tone of the night time, leaving viewers and celebrities within the viewers miffed — to the purpose the place Koy publicly blamed his writers. Yikes!
For 2025 host Nikki Glaser, there was nowhere to go however up.
She may have mentioned just about something and it nonetheless can be seen as an improve from Koy’s efficiency, however the comic did greater than that, expertly ribbing the celebrities on the Beverly Hilton whereas maintaining issues mild. She teased in regards to the look of Timothee Chalamet’s facial hair and Adrien Brody’s penchant for starring in acclaimed Holocaust motion pictures, and instructed the celebrities of Depraved that she didn’t know something in regards to the musical as a result of she had buddies in highschool. Glaser understood the task of being a self-deprecating clown whereas, on the similar time, tastefully punching up.
She instructed Selection as a lot earlier this week, explaining that to organize for internet hosting this 12 months she roughly needed to study why Koy bombed so onerous. “It taught me the significance of contextualizing your self to the room as a comic,” Glaser instructed the commerce publication. “Comedians, we’d like to be considered in the identical mild as these A-listers, however we simply aren’t …I’m going the opposite means and never assuming anybody is aware of who I’m, and ensuring they’re launched to me earlier than I begin making jokes about them.”
The finding out paid off and Glaser’s technique labored.
The wall between TV and flicks has just about dissolved as award-winning actors star in increasingly reveals — it’s now commonplace to see large stars like Eddie Redmayne and Nicole Kidman on the small display — and increasingly streaming providers produce feature-length movies, together with with theatrical releases.
It is smart then that the biggest streamer of all of them, Netflix, can be primed to have a giant night time on the one awards present that celebrates each mediums. On Sunday night time, Netflix took residence a number of main awards. Emilia Pérez received for Greatest Movement Image Musical or Comedy, Greatest Movement Image Non-English Language, Greatest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Supporting Function (Zoe Saldana), and Greatest Authentic Track (“El Mal”). Regardless of its regressive premise and considerations from LGBTQ critics, the movie is poised to proceed its profitable streak on the Oscars, the place Netflix has but to take residence a Greatest Image award. Emilia Pérez might be its hottest contender but.
On the TV entrance, Child Reindeer received Greatest Tv Restricted Sequence, whereas actress Jessica Gunning snagged the win for Greatest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Supporting Function in a Tv Sequence for a similar present.
The Globes have grow to be a really nice, perhaps forgettable present (this can be a praise!)
It wasn’t that way back that the Golden Globes had been taken off the air. In 2021, a blockbuster Los Angeles Instances investigation discovered rampant corruption and moral lapses inside the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation which in the end led to NBC dropping the Globes in 2022.
That created an existential disaster for the present, primarily as a result of the Globes exist to be enjoyable, and main scandal and controversy are absolutely the reverse of that. Because the present returned in 2023, the query of whether or not or not the Globes matter in any respect has hung within the air.
This 12 months, it looks as if the reply to why the Globes exist is clearer than ever: to be an entertaining, unserious get together the place everybody desires to have a very good time.
The speeches had been humorous sufficient, heartwarming at occasions, and largely apolitical; the actors and actresses had been charming and largely well-behaved (there was minimal censoring of an occasional F-bomb); and the entire occasion solely ran 15 or so minutes late. Zendaya regarded implausible and sparked engagement rumors, Timothée Chalamet was in attendance together with his girlfriend Kylie Jenner.CBS even employed a graphic overlay to indicate viewers the place the nominees had been sitting and the way shut to one another all of them had been.
It’s all designed to make you are feeling like being within the Beverly Hilton on Golden Globes night time can be as enjoyable because it appears to be like on TV.
The truth that the 2025 installment was barely unremarkable although nonetheless pretty entertaining must be thought of a major win, as a result of on the finish of the day, having a boring awards present is healthier than having no present in any respect!