It all the time looks like 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 critical awards present, an informal hangout with Hollywood’s most charming celebrities quite than a cutthroat winner-takes-all scenario — even when it’s had its justifiable share of controversy.
There have been no dangerous Barbie jokes this 12 months, nor had been there any corruption scandals. Celebrities drank just a little, ate just a little, and politely laughed just a little on the only a few innocuous barbs that host Nikki Glaser threw their manner.
For these counting, movies Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist took house essentially the most main award wins. And status TV darling Shōgun and comedic class favourite Hacks received large too. Listed here are the three greatest takeaways from Hollywood’s greatest shindig:
Nikki Glaser was an incredible host, particularly in comparison with final 12 months
On the 2024 Golden Globes, comic Jo Koy bombed in a mystifying manner: he made boob jokes about Barbie, launched quips about what number of cameras had been on Taylor Swift, and obtained 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 might have stated nearly something and it nonetheless could 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 conserving 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 mates 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 arrange for internet hosting this 12 months she roughly needed to study why Koy bombed so exhausting. “It taught me the significance of contextualizing your self to the room as a comic,” Glaser instructed the commerce publication. “Comedians, we might like to be considered in the identical mild as these A-listers, however we simply aren’t …I’m going the opposite manner 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 learning paid off and Glaser’s technique labored.
The wall between TV and films has nearly dissolved as award-winning actors star in increasingly more exhibits — it’s now commonplace to see large stars like Eddie Redmayne and Nicole Kidman on the small display — and increasingly more streaming providers produce feature-length movies, together with with theatrical releases.
It is smart then that the most important streamer of all of them, Netflix, could be primed to have an enormous night time on the one awards present that celebrates each mediums. On Sunday night time, Netflix took house a number of main awards. Emilia Pérez received for Finest Movement Image Musical or Comedy, Finest Movement Image Non-English Language, Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Supporting Position (Zoe Saldana), and Finest Authentic Music (“El Mal”). Regardless of its regressive premise and issues from LGBTQ critics, the movie is poised to proceed its profitable streak on the Oscars, the place Netflix has but to take house a Finest Image award. Emilia Pérez may very well be its hottest contender but.
On the TV entrance, Child Reindeer received Finest Tv Restricted Sequence, whereas actress Jessica Gunning snagged the win for Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Supporting Position in a Tv Sequence for a similar present.
The Globes have develop into a really nice, possibly 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 throughout 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 like the reply to why the Globes exist is clearer than ever: to be an entertaining, unserious get together the place everybody desires to have time.
The speeches had been humorous sufficient, heartwarming at instances, and principally apolitical; the actors and actresses had been charming and principally well-behaved (there was minimal censoring of an occasional F-bomb); and the entire occasion solely ran 15 or so minutes late. Zendaya seemed improbable and sparked engagement rumors, Timothée Chalamet was in attendance along with his girlfriend Kylie Jenner.CBS even employed a graphic overlay to point out 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’re feeling like being within the Beverly Hilton on Golden Globes night time could be as enjoyable because it seems on TV.
The truth that the 2025 installment was barely unremarkable although nonetheless pretty entertaining needs to be thought of a big win, as a result of on the finish of the day, having a boring awards present is best than having no present in any respect!
