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Historically speaking, the point of the Golden Globes has always been two-fold. First: Get some memorable speeches out of a bunch of celebrities packed into a ballroom and plied with booze on national television. Second: Give some insight into who’s favored to win at the more prestigious Academy Awards. For better and worse, this year’s Globes didn’t really bother to do either. Save for Kieran Culkin, none of the winners seemed too buzzed to speak. Meanwhile, the nebulous Hollywood Foreign Press Association of old has been revamped and reformed with a new, broader group that has far more eclectic taste. The 2025 winners were all over the map, clarifying only that a wide-open awards season lies ahead.By comparison, last year’s Oscar race was settled six months before the ceremony, as it just so happened that Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was both one of the year’s most acclaimed and highest-grossing movies. The inevitability of Oppenheimer gave voters the chance to acknowledge a genuine theater-packing hit and temporarily stave off existential crises about whether awards season really matters anymore—always a concern, as critical tastes have further diverged from what audiences tend to like.This year’s race, though, is the most unpredictable in a long time. Ahead of the Oscars, which take place March 2, spiky arthouse projects, foreign-language musicals, and brassy blockbusters are all elbowing for attention. The Globes spread the wealth to some early favorites, with Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist gaining the most traction. But smaller works such as I’m Still Here and A Different Man—which might be lucky to get any Oscar love at all—also scored big.Emilia Pérez won the most movie awards with four, though besides Best Musical or Comedy, its only other major trophy went to Zoe Saldaña for Supporting Actress. Otherwise, a sweep for the Netflix-distributed musical drama about a transsexual cartel leader—which led all movies with 10 nominations—didn’t quite materialize. Still, it pointedly nabbed the big prize over Wicked, a smash hit that has dominated the zeitgeist since Thanksgiving. That film was instead given the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award, a chintzy pat on the head cooked up for last year’s Globes ceremony. (Barbie, a similarly populist hit that didn’t win the top prizes, received it then.)[Read: The 10 best movies of 2024]On the more serious side, the muscular epic The Brutalist won Best Drama, along with Best Director for Brady Corbet and Best Actor in a Drama for its lead, Adrien Brody, who plays a Hungarian architect struggling in post-war America. At 215 minutes, it makes a heftier ask of audiences than most films, but Corbet’s speech was a passionate entreaty for Hollywood to support riskier work. “Nobody was asking for a three-and-a-half-hour film about a midcentury designer, in 70-millimeter,” he said. Tonight, it was feted nonetheless. The Globe wins might lightly anoint The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez as Oscar favorites, but both are still relatively outside of the mainstream, and hardly a sure thing. Another movie—be it a box-office hit like Wicked, a more down-the-middle favorite like A Complete Unknown, or a critical fave like Sean Baker’s Anora, which oddsmakers had predicted for three Globes but which ended up with none—might easily challenge them, come March.The reconstituted Hollywood Foreign Press also took some swings that felt very far from the Globes of old, which sometimes seemed like it rewarded projects that had sent the best gift baskets to voters. Flow, a tiny, dialogue-free Latvian movie about a cat, beat out The Wild Robot and Inside Out 2 for best animated film. Fernanda Torres won Best Actress in a Drama for the charged Brazilian film I’m Still Here, over celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman. Sebastian Stan picked up Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for A Different Man, an acidic though little-seen satire—it grossed under $1 million during its U.S. theatrical run.Maybe the biggest surprise of the night was Demi Moore’s upset win for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for The Substance, a spectacular piece of gross-out horror that has managed to stay in the awards conversation despite being loaded with gore and nudity. Moore beat out the ostensible favorite Mikey Madison (of Anora), megastar Zendaya (of Challengers) and Emilia Pérez’s Karla Sofía Gascón. Her success very much throws a bomb into that Oscar category, and should give a boost to a movie I had figured was too lurid for traditionally stuffy awards voters.All of these unexpected wins did come at the expense of high-grossing movies that viewers at home have actually seen. The Brutalist is only now starting its wider theatrical rollout, whereas proven hits such as Wicked, Dune: Part Two, and Challengers were largely overlooked as the night dragged on. A crowded Oscar race approaches—and if it looks like the moneymakers aren’t picking up steam, industry observers will once again ponder the point of an awards season that doesn’t try to reflect the public’s tastes. If that must be the case, at least Golden Globe voters got appreciably weird with it.

In an interview she gave prior to hosting last night’s Golden Globes ceremony, the comedian Nikki Glaser explained how she prepared for the job. She put together two writers’ rooms and did more than 90 test runs. She debated the meanness of punchlines. She fought with her boyfriend (who is also her producer) over whether the actor Jesse Eisenberg or the podcast “Call Her Daddy” would be better recognized by the stars in the room.Her efforts paid off. Glaser’s 10 minutes on stage to start the evening ran smoothly, clearing the exceptionally low bar set by last year’s emcee, Jo Koy. She immediately—and frequently—made herself the butt of the joke, putting the audience at ease. The attendees received her warmly as she made light of how no one watches Peacock, how movie stars now dominate television, and how poorly Joker: Folie à Deux fared with critics. These cracks were about as exciting as the fun facts about presenters that popped up on chyrons as they walked on stage, which is to say: They were perfectly nice, but nowhere near groundbreaking.And yet, Glaser’s good-natured delivery turned out to be the ideal vehicle for some unexpected bite as well—but only if you listened carefully. In between her many, many self-effacing barbs, Glaser slid in some stingers about the guests seated before her. Early in her set, she targeted their egos and political endorsements. “You’re all so famous, so talented, so powerful, I mean, you could really do anything,” she gushed. “I mean, except tell the country who to vote for.” Later, she used their camera-readiness against themselves. “I look out and I see some of the hardest working actors in show business, and by that I mean your servers,” she said, as the attendees started applauding for the waitstaff. It was the exact reaction Glaser seemed to have wanted. “Yes, give it up,” she said, smiling. “They’ll be bringing you your cocktails to drink and your food that you’ll look at.” The comedian’s rapid-fire delivery kept the audience from pausing to consider what exactly they were clapping for, and her cheerful demeanor masked her humor’s acidity.Glaser has a knack for jovially delivering harsh truths, as if she’s sharing a little harmless gossip. It’s why her roast of Tom Brady—a performance that earned the appreciation of fellow comics and catapulted her into the upper echelon of today’s roastmasters—worked so well; she killed him with kindness, beaming her way through every insult about his personal life, his career, and his legacy. She did a muted version of the same approach at the Globes, singling people out with lighter, but no less backhanded one-liners that made them smile anyway. Just watch how she made Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez’s fiancé, laugh after saying he was only present “because of the genie who granted him that wish.” She grinned at Gomez and Blanco before adding a quick “I love you” to soften the blow. She also slipped in a remark about women considered past their Hollywood primes (“It turns out if you’re a woman over 50 in a lead role, they call it a comeback; if you’re a guy over 50 in a lead role, congratulations, you’re about to play Sydney Sweeney’s boyfriend”) in the middle of an extended gag in which she treated the evening’s halfway point as if it were halftime at a sporting event. (The bit even came complete with a list of the most thanked people during the night’s acceptance speeches, including Mario Lopez but not, Glaser noted, God. “No surprise in this godless town,” she quipped.)While developing her own routine, Glaser said that she rewatched clips of past Golden Globes hosts she admired, including Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. That experience may have informed one of her monologue’s last jokes, which was significantly sharper than her others: “I predict five years from now, when you’re watching old clips of this show on YouTube, you’ll see someone in one of the crowd shots and you’ll go, ‘Oh my God, that was before they caught that guy!’” she said. “Like, we could be making history tonight, and like, we don’t even know with who!” As the audience laughed heartily at her sorority-girlish excitement, Glaser landed her punchline. “He knows, you know. Or she, it could be a woman. I think 100 percent of the time it’s a man, but it could be a woman. It won’t be. It never is.” The casual delivery, the tossed-off tone—Glaser made these lines, about how scandal-prone Hollywood can be, sound like she just thought of them, like she’s just making random observations. She’s just saying.But of course, nothing Glaser did at the Globes was offhand. She studied her predecessors, tested her material, and even created bits—including singing a song involving a silly pun on Conclave and Wicked—that offered classic awards-show humor. Most of all, she calibrated her meanness, bringing an understated sort of savagery as the night’s emcee. Glaser promised she wouldn’t roast the people in the room, and it’s true: On that front, she was innocent. But that didn’t mean she was entirely innocuous.

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