The 2025 Golden Globes was a night of laughs, moving speeches and some awkward moments. Films Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist won the top film awards, while Hacks and Shōgun won big in the TV categories.
Demi Moore won her first Golden Globe for The Substance, Zoe Saldaña won for Emilia Pérez and I’m Still Here star, Fernanda Torres, won the award for best actress in a drama, the same category her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, was nominated in for Central Station in 1999. Additionally, Kieran Culkin took home an award for A Real Pain, while Adrien Brody won for The Brutalist.
Here’s a recap of some of the notable moments you missed at the 2025 Golden Globes:
Nikki Glaser starts the night with Ozempic and Diddy jokes
Host Nikki Glaser started the show by calling it “Ozempic’s biggest night,” getting a laugh from the crowd.
Glaser also took a stab at Sean “Diddy” Combs. When talking to Zendaya from the stage about Challengers the host said, “That movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card.”
She also spoke to Timothée Chalamet about his look, specifically his facial hair, saying, “You have gorgeous eyelashes on your upper lip.”
Then Glaser did her best Adam Sandler impression saying Chalamet’s name, funnily throwing it to Sandler himself to do his own rendition.
Moving on to Nicole Kidman, who was up for her 20th Golden Globe nomination, and her husband Keith Urban, Glaser said, “Thank you to Keith Urban for playing guitar around the house so much that she wants to leave and make 18 movies a year. Keep strumming you kooky koala.”
Later in the evening Glaser did a little bit of a musical number, combining Wicked with Conclave for “Pope-lar,” to the music of “Popular” from Wicked.
Demi Moore isn’t just a ‘popcorn actress’
Demi Moore easily had one of the most moving speeches of the night, winning the award for best actress in a musical or comedy for The Substance. She started by saying she’s been acting for over 45 years and it’s the first time she’s ever won an award celebrating her work.
“Thirty years ago I had a producer tell me that I was a ‘popcorn actress,’ and at that time I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged,” Moore said. “And I bought in and I believed that.”
“That corroded me over time to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe that this was it. Maybe I was complete. Maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do. And as I was at kind of a low point, I had the magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me that you’re not done.”
Moore went on to thank the film’s writer and director, Coralie Fargeat, and her costar Margaret Qualley for their collaboration, before leaving the audience with a message to take away from the film.
“In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty enough, or skinny enough or successful enough, or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me, just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.”
Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara: Canadian work ‘got stopped at the border’
Canadian talent was on full display at the Golden Globes, including Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara having a very Canadian moment, joking about some fake Canadian work.
“Back home, we each have extensive history in award-winning performances,” O’Hara said. “I guess they got stopped at the border.”
“Actually Catherine won not one but two Golden Antlers for her work as Mama Morissette in The Alanis Morissette story,” Rogen said.
O’Hara then responded by highlighting Rogen playing Young Ryan in “Gosling” the Ryan Gosling unauthorized biopic.
“It was unauthorized and that Mickey Mouse handjob scene was very controversial,” Rogen said.
O’Hara and Rogen then joked about their adult work in Canada, including “Pipeline Polly,” “Log Riders, “Sticky Syrup,” and the “Moose Knuckles” trilogy.
‘I am who I am, not who you want’
Emilia Pérez was a big hit at the Golden Globes, with the film winning four awards, including best picture, musical or comedy.
Karla Sofía Gascón, the trans actress who leads the movie, gave an impactful speech as she stepped up to the microphone with the trophy, after the film won the best picture award.
“The light always wins over darkness,” Gascón said. “You can maybe put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you never can take away our soul, our existence, our identity.”
“And I want to say to you, raise your voice, freedom, and I say, I won. I am who I am, not who you want.”
‘Ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end’
Sebastian Stan won the award for best performance by a leading actor in a musical or comedy film for A Different Man, and used his acceptance speech to call out our “ignorance” on disability.
“Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now,” Stan said. “We have to normalize it and continue to expose ourselves to it, and our children, and encourage acceptance.”
“One way we can do that is by continuing to champion stories that are inclusive. This was not an easy movie to make, neither is The Apprentice, the other film that I was lucky to be a part of, I’m proud of being in. These are tough subject matters, but these films are real and are necessary and we can’t be afraid and look away.”
Elton John jokes about his regressive eyesight
Presenting the award for best score with Brandi Carlile, Elton John provided an update on his loss of sight.
“It’s a very special night for me to be here because, I don’t know if you know, but there’s been a lot of stories going … around about my regressive eyesight,” John said. “And I just wanted to reassure everybody that it’s not as bad as it seems.”
He then made a joke saying, “I’m so pleased to be here with my cohost, Rihanna,” gesturing towards Carlile.
Sweet moments from ‘The Brutalist’ filmmaker’s daughter
When Brady Corbet went on stage to accept the best director award at the Golden Globes, for his film The Brutalist, his daughter, Ada, stole the spotlight.
As Corbet mentioned her on stage, saying how stunning she looked in her dress, the camera showed Ada brought to tears by her dad’s win.
Later in the night, when The Brutalist won the award for best picture, in the drama category, we got to see Ada on stage behind her dad, holding the trophy.
Corbet also said that his heart is with Aubrey Plaza and her family, after her husband, Jeff Baena’s death.
Sofía Vergara yells at Jodie Foster after win
Jodie Foster and Sofía Vergara were both nominated for best actress in a limited or anthology series, or made for TV movie category at the Golden Globes. When Foster was announced as the winner Vergara jokingly shouted out, “No! Again!” and then, “Give me one!”
In her speech Foster said, “You know, the greatest thing about being this age and being in this time is having a community of all these people, especially you, Sofía.”
Foster won the award for her work in True Detective: Night Country.
‘Any story when done right is universal’
With Baby Reindeer winning the Golden Globe for best limited or anthology series, or TV movie, Richard Gadd took the time to call out the misconception in TV that stories that are “too dark and complicated won’t sell and no one will watch them.”
“I hope that Baby Reindeer has done away with that theory, because I think right now, when the world’s in that state that it’s in, and people are really struggling, we need stories that speak to the complicated and the difficult nature of our times,” Gadd said. “Any story when done right is universal and all the weird, idiosyncratic struggles we go through on a daily basis are just as worthy of being committed to screen as any.”
“So commissioners, streamers, when you’re totting up the numbers and putting together the budgets for this year, remember to keep some back for the little person to tell their story.”