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Golden Globes 2025 nominations: snubs and surprises
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Golden Globes 2025 nominations: snubs and surprises

Grown Ups scored dozens of best-of-breed nominations for the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, which will air live on CBS on Sunday, January 5 at 8 p.m. ET and stream on Paramount+.

The big winner of the year was the film Emilie Pérezleading the pack with 10 nominations – not bad for a violent musical about a drug lord seeking gender-affirming surgery – and The bearwhose five nominations beat the four each won by the Emmy champion Shogun And Only murders in the building.

Adults outnumbered young people in three key categories, film actor (Adrien Brody, 51, The Brutalist; Daniel Craig, 56 years old, Weird; Colman Domingo, 55 years old, Sing Sing; Ralph Fiennes, 61 years old, Conclave) and actress (Pamela Anderson, 57, The last showgirl; Nicole Kidman, 57 years old, Little girl; Tilda Swinton, 64, The room next door; Fernanda Torres, 59 years old, I’m still here) and limited series television actress (Cate Blanchett, 55, Disclaimer; Jodie Foster, 62, True Detective: Land of the Night; Sofia Vergara, 52 years old, Griselda; Naomi Watts, 56, Feud: Capote against the swans).

Half of the dramatic film actors honored were over 50 (Edward Norton, 55, A complete stranger; Guy Pearce, 57, The Brutalist; and Denzel Washington, 69, Gladiator II), just like half of the musical actresses or musical actresses (Amy Adams, 50 years old, Night female dog; Karla Sofia Gascón, 52 years old, Emilie Pérez; Demi Moore, 62 years old, The bottom). HereticHugh Grant, 64, was the only adult actor nominated in the musical or comedy category, but it’s a notable role since he plays the villain, a murderer instead of his usual crumpled romantic comedy hero. In a press release, he thanked his directors “for spotting my need to kill”.

As usual, adult women on television got fewer nominations than male actors. Half of the nominations went to men in both TV series (Gary Oldman, 66, Slow horses; Hiroyuki Sanada, 64 years old, Shogun; Billy Bob Thornton, 69, Landman) and a musical or television comedy (Only murders in the building‘s Martin and Short and Ted Danson, 76, A man insideabout a spy sent to investigate a retirement community).

Kathy Bates, 76, earned her ninth Globe nomination for Matlockand is vying for his third victory. But there were also terrible rebuffs. Many fans believe June Squibb, 95, was robbed of her rightful nomination for her first leading role, in Thélma. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, received accolades from the prestigious British Independent Film Awards and film critics groups in New York and Los Angeles for Hard truthsbut this seemingly exhausting film proved a tough sell at the Globes. Meryl Streep, 75, was ignored for her hilarious role in Only murders in the buildingdespite the nominations of his costars Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, 79, and Martin Short, 74. (She already has 30 Globe nominations and eight wins.)

Some of the year’s most impressive nominees are over 70, including 77-year-old Kevin Kline (Disclaimer), Isabelle Rossellini, 72 years old (Conclave) and Jean Smart, 73 years old (Tips). And at 82, Harrison Ford reveals his unexpected gift for television comedy in Contraction.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Movies

Best Film – Drama

  • The Brutalist
  • A complete stranger
  • Conclave
  • Dune: part two
  • Nickel Boys
  • September 5

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

  • Anora
  • Challengers
  • Emilie Pérez
  • A real pain
  • The bottom
  • Wicked

Best Animated Film

  • To flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memory of a snail
  • Moana 2
  • Wallace & Gromit: Revenge Most Birds
  • The wild robot

Film and box office achievement

  • Extraterrestrial: Romulus
  • Beetle juice Beetle juice
  • Deadpool and Wolverine
  • Gladiator II
  • Inside Out 2
  • Twists
  • Wicked
  • The wild robot

Best Film – Non-English Language

  • Everything we imagine as light (India)​
  • Emilie Pérez (France)​
  • The girl with the needle (Denmark)​
  • I’m still here (Brazil)​
  • The seed of the sacred fig (Germany)​
  • Vermilion (Italy)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Film

  • Pamela Anderson, 57 years old – The last showgirl
  • Angelina Jolie- Married
  • Nicole Kidman, 57 years old – Little girl
  • Tilda Swinton, 64 years old – The room next door
  • Fernanda Torres, 59 years old – I’m still here
  • Kate Winslet- Lee