The Best, Worst, and Most WTF Moments of the 2025 Golden Globes
By CT Jones, Jon Blistein
January 5, 2025
America’s favorite kinda-serious but not-that-serious awards show, the Golden Globes, returned tonight, offering Hollywood the chance to — as host Nikki Glaser put it — “celebrate the best of film and hold space for television.” And that’s just what the 2025 Golden Globes did. Shōgun, Baby Reindeer, and Hacks held the most space in the TV categories; The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez took home multiple prizes, and Demi freaking Moore won her first-ever prize for acting.
As for the show itself, there were goofy bits and flat-out dumb ones, a solid opening monologue from Glaser, some extremely well-deserved wins, and a runtime that inevitably exceeded the three hours everyone was praying for. It was as good a way as any to kick off the 2025 awards season, so without further ado let’s run down the best, worst, and weirdest moments from the 82nd Golden Globes.
The bar wasn’t exactly sky-high for host Nikki Glaser after Jo Koy opened last year’s show with a true clunker of a monologue. But Glaser — who secured the gig partly on the strength of her standout performance at Netflix’s Tom Brady roast — understood the assignment perfectly and delivered one of the better awards show monologues in a long time. The stand-up’s jokes were just spicy enough to keep the assembled celebs on edge, with bits about Timothée Chalamet’s mustache (“the most gorgeous eyelashes on your upper lip”), Harrison Ford confusing Zendaya and Ariana for weed strains, and “two-time Holocaust survivor Adrien Brody.” But Glaser never got particularly vicious, and balanced the roasts with just the right amount of self-deprecation. “Glen Powell, you were in everything,” she quipped at one point. “Twisters, Hit Man, my head when I’m having sex with my boyfriend. Thank you so much for the assist. I’ll see you tonight.” That’s how you do it, folks. —Jon Blistein