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The 2025 awards season has officially arrived in style. Golden style.
The Golden Globe Awards were held in Los Angeles on Sun., Jan. 5 at the iconic Beverly Hilton, with the carpet kicking off around 6 p.m. EST and the official ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. EST.
As per usual, the Globes honored the best and buzziest TV shows and movies. The night’s biggest film winner was musical Emilia Pérez, while on the TV side of things Shōgun and Hacks reigned victorious.
PEOPLE covered all the winners as they were announced, but also reported live from the red carpet ahead of the big show, sharing every celebrity style moment, cast reunion and couple’s night out.
Keep reading for a full recap of the night.
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Copy The Link To This Blog Post Emilia Pérez defeated Wicked to win the final award of the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, Sunday: best picture — musical or comedy.
After some brief comments from director Jacques Audiard, titular star Karla Sofía Gascón gave an emotional acceptance speech.
“You can maybe put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you never can take away our soul, our existence, our identity,” the trans actress said, adding, “I am who I am, not who you want.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post The Brutalist director Brady Corbet kept his speech mostly short while accepting the honor for best picture — drama for the 3.5-hour period film.
He did speak, however, about having to fight to release his cut of the movie. Corbet revealed, “I was told my film wouldn’t work.”
“I was told that this film was in distributable. I was told that no one would come out and see it,” he explained. Yet, “Films don’t exist without the filmmakers. Please. Let’s support them.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Adrien Brody won the 2025 Golden Globe for best performance by a male actor in a motion picture — drama.
During a lengthy and emotional acceptance speech, Brody reflected on his own career journey and shared the message of his film,The Brutalist.
Adrien Brody. CBS
“I will cherish this moment forever,” said Brody.
He also gave a shout-out to girlfriend Georgina Chapman, praising her “resilience.” Chapman was previously married to Harvey Weinstein.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres beat Angelina Jolie, Tilda Swinton and more to take home the 2025 Globe for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture — drama.
Torres stars in foreign language film I’m Still Here.
“I didn’t prepare anything because I was glad already and this is such an amazing year for female performances,” said Torres. “So many actresses here that I admire so much.”
She also paid tribute to her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, a fellow Brazilian actress who “was here 25 years ago.” Montenegro appeared in 1999’s Central Station.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Anna Sawai. Rich Polk/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty
Shōgun was victorious twice more during Sunday’s Globes broadcast.
First, star Anna Sawai won best performance by a female actor in a television series – drama for her role as Toda Mariko in the series.
Then, the series overall won best television series — drama.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Adam Brody (left) and Dax Shepard. Francis Specker/CBS via Getty
While the cameras may stop rolling during the commercial breaks, photographers are still quick at the trigger inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom.
Getty’s photographers have been capturing fun, behind-the-scenes moments all night during the Globes.
Some things you missed? Dax Shepard giving his wife Kristen Bell’s onscreen husband Adam Brody a smooch on the cheek. Selena Gomez hanging with her fiancé Benny Blanco — and her Only Murders in the Building costars Steve Martin and Martin Short. And an Air Force One reunion between Harrison Ford and Glenn Close.
Glenn Close and Harrison Ford. Michael Buckner/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty
PEOPLE also caught some fun celebrity moments, including Gomez and Blanco singing along to her song “Good for You” and Zendaya giving her Dune costar Timothée Chalamet and his girlfriend Kylie Jenner a hug. Jake Gyllenhaal also stopped to say hello to Jesse Plemmons, while Naomi Watts got an assist in fixing her dress from hubby Billy Crudup.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Hacks kept the laughs going on Sunday night, winning the 2025 Globes honor for best TV series — musical or comedy.
Series co-creator Paul W. Downs accepted the award, telling the gathered audience, “We are so lucky to get to tell this story … We’re honored to be in this room with all of these storytellers.”
Downs also told the celebrities in attendance that the series is back in production with a “6 a.m. call time tomorrow” and advised no one to let Jean Smart take any shots at afterparties.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post While introducing the Golden Globe nominees for best TV series — musical or comedy on Sunday, Melissa McCarthy took the opportunity to speak out on some very serious issues important to her.
“I just want to say The Bear really opened my eyes about the severity of cocaine addiction in the bear community,” said McCarthy.
“I think that’s Cocaine Bear, which was a movie,” her co-presenter Awkwafina corrected.
McCarthy retorted, “Okay, I still want to use my platform to raise awareness about bear-related cocaine addiction in film or television.”
McCarthy also chose to “invoke my advocacy and go on record as being against murders in condos and townhouses, duplexes and, of course, on water craft.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Baby Reindeer is the 2025 Golden Globe winner for best limited series, anthology series or TV movie.
Star and creator Richard Gadd accepted the honor, thanking Hollywood for embracing “this show” and his “messed up kind of story.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie. Michael Buckner/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier costars Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie shared a sweet moment together after the former won a Golden Globe for his film A Different Man on Jan. 5.
The pair was captured hugging backstage as Stan showed off his trophy.
Earlier, when Mackie was presenting onstage with new Marvel member Harrison Ford, he laughed and told the audience, “We’re still friends with Sebastian Stan by the way.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson’s years-long feud has hit the Golden Globes.
Diesel presented the award for cinematic and box office achievement at the 2025 Golden Globe awards, pausing during his introduction to say, simply, “Hi Dwayne” to Johnson in the audience.
The camera cut to Johnson, who gave a subtle smile in response.
Johnson posted on X in 2023, though, that he and Fast & Furious franchise costar Diesel had “put all the past behind us.” Wrote Johnson, “We’ll lead with brotherhood and resolve — and always take care of the franchise, characters & FANS that we love.”
Wicked was the ultimate winner of the cinematic and box office achievement award.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Elton John presented the award for best original score – motion picture during Sunday’s Globes, and took the opportunity to address recent comments he’s made about his eyesight.
He assured the crowd that his eyesight is “not as bad as it seems,” before jokingly thanking his fellow presenter “Rihanna” — aka Brandi Carlile.
John revealed in December “I have lost my sight” after having some “issues.”
The iconic singer ultimately gave the award to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their Challengers soundtrack.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Kylie Jenner will have a camera roll of memories to take home from this year’s Golden Globes.
Jenner was spotted snapping a photo of Chalamet as they sat next to each other in the Globes ballroom at the Beverly Hilton.
She whipped out a digital camera while she and Chalamet chatted with his A Complete Unknown costar Elle Fanning at their table.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Flow, an animated movie from Latvia, won the award for best motion picture — animated, defeating several Disney nominees.
It marks the first time a film from Latvia was nominated at the Globes.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Sebastian Stan used part of his 2025 Golden Globes acceptance speech to call out his loved ones.
Stan won the award for best performance by a male actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy for his film A Different Man.
Stan gave a shout-out to partner Annabelle Wallis, telling the actress, “Annabelle, I love you.”
He also praised his stepdad during the powerful speech. “This is for my mom, who left Romania in search of a better life, gave me everything, and for my stepfather, Tony, who took on a single mom and a grown up kid. Thank you for being a real man.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Demi Moore just won her first-ever Golden Globe — and used the opportunity to reflect on her lengthy career in Hollywood.
Moore was awarded the best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy for her turn as Elisabeth Sparkle in horror film The Substance.
Demi Moore. Rich Polk/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty
“This is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor, and I’m just so humbled and so grateful,” she said.
Choking up during her speech, Moore recalled how, earlier in her career, a director had diminished her as a “popcorn actress.”
Moore internalized the comment, and watched her career wax and wane — until coming across the “absolutely bonkers script” for The Substance.
“The universe told me that you’re not done,” she told the audience at the Beverly Hilton, later praising, “The people who’ve believed in me when I haven’t believed in myself.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post While Taylor Swift made waves on the Golden Globes red carpet in 2024, she is not in the building for the 2025 iteration of the awards show.
Swift typically pops up at music awards ceremonies, but was at the Globes last year as a nominee in the cinematic and box office achievement category.
The pop star had last attended the Globes in 2020.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Jodie Foster was met with some jeers as she took the stage to accept the Golden Globe for best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television — jeers from her competition!
Fellow nominee Sofia Vergara jokingly yelled at Foster “give me one,” causing the latter to chuckle as she took the stage.
Foster won the honor for her role in True Detective: Night Country.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post “No one to thank on this one, I did it all by myself,” joked Colin Farrell as he took the stage to accept the honor for best male actor in a limited series, anthology series or made for TV movie at the 2025 Golden Globes.
Farrell won the honor, his third globe, for his role as the titular character in The Penguin.
Of his performance — and victory, Farrell joked, “I guess it’s prosthetics from here on out.”
Colin Farrell gives an acceptance speech during the 82nd Annual Golden Globes on Jan. 5, 2025. CBS
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Ali Wong won best performance in stand-up comedy on television, Sunday, during the 2025 Globes.
Wong took the honor for her special Ali Wong: Single Lady, defeating projects from Adam Sandler, Jamie Foxx, Rami Youssef, Seth Meyers and Sunday night’s host Nikki Glaser.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Jeremy Allen White is, once again, a Golden Globe winner for his role as Carmy in The Bear.
The star won best performance by a male actor in a television series — musical or comedy at the 2025 ceremony, but was not in attendance.
Instead, presenter Jennifer Coolidge accepted the honor on his behalf, saying only that White “could not be here tonight.”
White has been on the East Coast filming Deliver Me from Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen biopic.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Tadanobu Asano will soon be on a plane back to Japan to film more of Shōgun — but with a big “present” in tow.
The actor won best performance by a male actor in a supporting role at the 2025 Golden Globes.
During his speech, he introduced himself to American audiences, saying of his win, “This is very big present for me.”
“I’m very happy,” he concluded.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Nikki Glaser returned to the stage in Glinda pink — and a papal cap — to pitch a brand new musical based on the success of both Wicked and Conclave.
Singing along to the tune of “Popular,” Glaser crooned that she wanted to be “Pope-ular.”
“I’ll teach you some Catholic prayers,” she sang before receiving a phone call.
Into the phone, Glaser (back turned) could be heard saying, “This whole thing sucks? I’m embarrassing myself in front of Elton John.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Jessica Gunning won the Golden Globe for best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television on Sunday. She took home the honor for her role of Martha in Baby Reindeer.
Taking the stage, she laughed, “I almost tripped up. You nearly saw my Golden Globes, there.”
Jessica Gunning. CBS
During her speech, Gunning reflected on being 8 years old and getting a hamster for Christmas. At the time, she felt, “I can’t believe this is happening to me.”
That mantra has been a theme for Gunning post Baby Reindeer, she said: “Eight year old me, she’d be absolutely chuffed to bits.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Hiroyuki Sanada was the winner of the 2025 Golden Globe for best performance by a male actor in a television series – drama on Sunday.
The Japanese actor thanked his fellow Shōgun castmembers for sharing this amazing journey during his acceptance speech.
“And I’d love to say thank you for everyone who has been in my life. All of you have brought me here,” he added.
He then delivered a message for up-and-coming actors and actresses: “Never give up.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Kieran Culkin is a big winner at the Golden Globes — but still wasn’t quite ready to give a speech. Why? Because he “did a shot of tequila with Mario Lopez” before taking the stage.
“Definitely feeling that — full speech is gone,” Culkin joked as he accepted the Globe for best performance by a male actor in a supporting role.
The A Real Pain star said, “Thanks Golden Globes people, you guys are nuts.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet. CBS
Kylie Jenner was all smiles — and glowing — as she sat next to boyfriend Timothée Chalamet at the Golden Globes on Jan. 5.
Jenner laughed and smiled as Chalamet was the focus of host Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue.
The couple attended the Globes together in 2024, as well.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Jean Smart is loving being a hack.
The Hacks star won her second Golden Globe for the HBO series, taking best actress in a television Series – musical or comedy on Sunday, Jan. 5.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Zoe Saldaña was extremely emotional as the night’s first winner, winning best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in a motion picture for Emilia Pérez.
“I tend to forget when i’m really anxious,” Saldaña said as she cried while taking the stage, revealing she has dyslexia. “My heart is full of gratitude.”
“I’m just so blessed,” said the star.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Nikki Glaser earned endless chuckles during her opening monologue at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
She touched on countless news moments from 2024, including Diddy‘s freak-offs, the Wicked press tour, and Selena Gomez’s recent engagement.
First remarking about the level of talent gathered at the Beverly Hilton, Glaser remarked to the group, “You could really do anything, except tell the country who to vote for.” She then joked of Donald Trump’s presidential win, “I’m scared. Ariana [Grande] hold my finger.”
Nikki Glaser. Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty
She also joked of that viral moment from Wicked‘s promotional run, “Tonight we celebrate the best of film and hold space for television.”
Glaser also directed her attention to A Complete Unknown‘s Timothée Chalamet (sitting next to date Kylie Jenner), poking fun at his thin mustache: “You have the most gorgeous eyelashes on your upper lip.”
Then, she told Glen Powell, “You were in everything [this year]” before listing some of his projects. He was also in “my head when I’m having sex with my boyfriend, thank you so much for the assist.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post The 2025 Golden Globes ceremony has begun — and soon the awards will be divvied up!
PEOPLE is updating a full list of the evening’s winners live as the night goes on, so you won’t miss a single victor.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Zendaya. Amy Sussman/Getty
Strapless is in — and so are chic, throwback hairdos, at least according to the Golden Globes red carpet.
Zendaya stepped out in a burnt-orange ball gown and matching pumps. Selena Gomez, too, went Old Hollywood in a pale, Cinderella blue Prada gown. Gomez’s hair, like Zendaya’s, was pinned up in big 1950s curls.
Nicole Kidman and Demi Moore opted for superstar shine. Moore sparkled in a structural Armani Privé gold dress, while fellow nominee Kidman picked a rhinestoned, custom-made Balenciaga gown.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Emma Stone. Kevin Mazur/Getty
Emma Stone stepped out for the 2025 Golden Globes on Jan. 5 with a new pixie cut for the first time after fans speculated that she’d gone for the big chop for her latest role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ movie Bugonia.
See more of her super short ‘do here.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson brought his oldest daughter Simone Johnson with him to walk the Globes red carpet on Sunday.
During their E! interview ahead of the ceremony’s start, Dwayne called the pair “a chill father and daughter group.”
He also spoke about why he’s loved being a part of the Disney Moana franchise as a dad of three girls, praising the films’ focus on “emboldening and empowering all young women.”
“It’s awesome,” he said.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Cynthia Erivo. Michael Buckner/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty
Cynthia Erivo’s incredible manicures have gone viral amid the Wicked press tour, and now she’s revealed just how long they take to craft.
While appearing on E! Live from the Red Carpet at the Globes on Jan. 5, Erivo revealed that her multi-colored, super-long nails took five hours to create.
But she isn’t just sitting there bored — multitasker Erivo said she is checking emails while her hands get glammed.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Satine lives again.
Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor had a sweet run-in on the 2025 Golden Globes red carpet, Sunday, nearly 24 years after playing lovers in beloved musical movie Moulin Rouge!
Copy The Link To This Blog Post With just 45 minutes to go until showtime, the Golden Globe Awards red carpet is getting crowded.
From Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, to adorable celebrity couples like Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, everyone who’s anyone in Hollywood is at the Beverly Hilton.
See every image here as each celebrity steps onto the carpet.
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody. David Fisher/Shutterstock
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Elle Fanning. Kevin Mazur/Getty
Superstar sisters!
Dakota Fanning and sister Elle Fanning are both nominees at the 2025 Golden Globes, and made the occassion a family affair.
While chatting with E!’s Zuri Hall during the preshow on Jan. 5, Elle revealed that Dakota brought their grandmother as her date. “We got ready together all in the same room,” said Elle.
Dakota is nominated for best female supporting actor for her role in Netflix’s Ripley (“I hope she wins,” said Elle). Dakota’s film A Complete Unknown is up for best motion picture — drama.
Dakota Fanning. Getty Images
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Glen Powell and his parents. ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty
Glen Powell had the cutest two dates at the 2025 Globes — his mother and father!
“It’s a big night for us,” mom Cyndy Powell told E!’s Zuri Hall during a preshow interview on Jan. 5.
Glen is nominated on Sunday for best actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy for his movie Hit Man.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Demi Moore just arrived to the Golden Globe Awards in style — and on foot.
The Substance star revealed during a preshow interview that she opted to walk to the Globes red carpet at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 5. She made the trek from a nearby hotel where she got ready.
Unfortunately, Moore’s beloved pooch Pilaf had to stay behind at the hotel, she revealed during E! Live from the Red Carpet. “I feel a little naked without her,” she admitted.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Ariana Grande will never forget her one short day in the Emerald City.
The 2025 best supporting actress in a motion picture — comedy or musical nominee said on the Globes red carpet that she opted for a yellow Givenchy 1966 archival gown because of its color.
“It’s yellow because follow the yellow brick road,” the Wicked star explained on Variety‘s preshow. “And it’s one of Glinda’s favorite colors.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post A few sniffles couldn’t keep Kate Hudson from the Golden Globes carpet.
Hudson, wearing a Carolina Herrera gown, said during the Variety preshow that her prep for Sunday’s awards show was more “spiritual.” Why? “I’m getting over a cold.”
She told Variety that she had to psych herself up to attend — and present: “I can do this. I can get through today.”
Read more about Hudson’s night here.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post While Pamela Anderson’s affinity for going barefaced is now well-known, she also opted not to work with a stylist for the first big red carpet of the 2025 awards season.
Anderson chatted with reporters during Variety‘s Golden Globes preshow on Jan. 5, and revealed that her look — a black gown — for the evening came together with “no stylist, no glam team, just me.”
The Last Showgirl star is nominated for best actress in a motion picture – drama on Sunday night.
Pamela Anderson. Getty Images
Copy The Link To This Blog Post While Kendall Roy opted, mostly, for baseball caps during Succession‘s run, his portrayer, Jeremy Strong, apparently loves a bucket hat.
Strong had on a mint-colored bucket hat to match his Loro Piana suit for the Jan. 5 2025 Golden Globe Awards, which he paired with a cream turtleneck, bold Jacques Marie Mage glasses and a Richard Mille watch.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Monsters star Cooper Koch got some exciting DMs while captivating viewers with his portrayal of Erik Menendez in the Netflix series.
Koch said during the E! Live from the Red Carpet preshow at the Golden Globes that Kim Kardashian sent him a message on social media praising his performance as Erik.
Kardashian and Koch later went, together, to visit Erik and his brother Lyle Mendez in prison.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Cate Blanchett. Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage
Cate Blanchett isn’t afraid to reuse and recycle!
The actress wore a gold sequined Louis Vuitton gown on the Golden Globes red carpet, Sunday — just eight months after she last stepped out in it for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
While last year, Blanchett went for a chic updo with the gown, for the Globes, she instead picked a simple, sleek bob.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Globes host Nikki Glaser is more than ready for her nine-minute monologue — because she’s rehearsed it 93 times. Seriously!
Glaser said during E! Live from the Red Carpet Golden Globes preshow that when she delivers her monologue on Sunday, it will the the 94th time she’s done it. It has changed, though.
Nikki Glaser. Kevin Mazur/Getty
“We’re constantly making edits, trying to top jokes,” she explained. “A lot of work has gone into it.”
But all that practice doesn’t mean Glaser won’t go off-the-cuff. She assured, “I practice so much so that when I get up there I’m off book and I can just be in it.”
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Wondering who some of the night’s big names are bringing as their 2025 Golden Globes dates?
Ariana Grande is bringing her mother Joan Grande, Angelina Jolie’s daughter Zahara will join her on the carpet, and Jamie Foxx’s daughter Corinne Foxx is his escort for the evening.
Some of the married couples attending will include Adam Brody and Leighton Meester, Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard andJesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Liza Colón Zayas. Getty Images
The fun has begun.
Stars have started to hit the red carpet for the 2025 Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
Among the early arrivals? The Bear‘s Liza Colón Zayas, who won an Emmy last year for her role on the series as Tina.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post While Glen Powell and Timothée Chalamet might not yet be on the Globes carpet, their lookalikes are.
PEOPLE caught a glimpse of the winners of both recent lookalike contests posing together. Both held signs that read, “I won a lookalike contest and now I’m at the Golden Globes.”
Miles Mitchell was victorious in his contest for his resemblance to Chalamet; while the Powell winner is Maxwell Braunstein.
Copy The Link To This Blog Post Stand-up comic Nikki Glaser may be known for her blistering jabs during celebrity roasts, but as a first-time host of the Golden Globes, she actually plans to keep it nice.
In an interview ahead of her hosting gig on Sun., Jan. 5, Glaser told PEOPLE, “I’m not out for blood. I want everyone to have a good night.”
“I am really in service of the people that are being honored there,” she assured.
Read the full interview here.
