Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, And Conclave Lead The 2025 Golden Globes Nominations

The confetti has hardly settled on last night’s British Independent Film Awards, but — never an organisation to be knowingly upstaged — the Hollywood Foreign Press today unveiled the nominees for the 2025 Golden Globes. And while the GGs (as nobody calls them) may have lost some of their shine in recent years, the noms can be a decent bellwether for the Oscars and BAFTAs yet to come. With that being said, this year the pack is being led by Jacques Audiard’s trans coming-of-age drama-cum-musical gangland thriller Emilia Pérez (10 nominations), Brady Corbet’s monumental deconstruction of the American Dream The Brutalist (7 nominations), and Edward Berger’s papal conspiracy thriller Conclave (6 nominations).

All three of the above are up for top honours including Best Motion Picture — Drama (and Comedy/Musical for Emilia Pérez) and Best Director, sharing space with the likes of A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Challengers, Wicked, Anora, and The Substance — all of which are nominated in multiple key categories (and many of which feature in our newly published Best Movies of 2024 list.) In the actor and actress head-to-heads, highlights among the nominees include Sebastian Stan, who’s nominated for Best Actor in both Drama and Musical/Comedy categories for his work in A Different Man and The Apprentice (we’ll let you decide which film is in which race); Hugh Grant, who’s scored a well-earned Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy nod for Heretic; and also Isabella Rossellini, who has become the first Italian actor to land a nom for Best Performance by a Female Actor for her sterling turn in Conclave.

Elsewhere, the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Award continues to exist, giving Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Twisters a chance for some statuette-based love this awards season — and Hans Zimmer’s Dune: Part Two score is defying its disqualification from Oscar consideration with a Best Score nod at the GGs (again, nobody else is calling it that.) All that, and we haven’t even touched on the dazzling array of TV nominees — though you’ll be unsurprised to learn that The Bear leads the way with five nominations, closely followed by 2024 faves including Shōgun, Slow Horses, Baby Reindeer, and the not-actually-out-yet Squid Game Season 2.

Anyway, for a full rundown of all of this year’s nominations for the Golden Globes, which are set to be handed out on Sunday 5 January, read on…

The 82nd Golden Globes Award Nominees

Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nickel Boys

September 5

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Anora

Challengers

Emilia Pérez

A Real Pain

The Substance

Wicked

Best Motion Picture – Animated

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir Of A Snail

Moana 2

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Cinematic And Box Office Achievement

Alien: Romulus

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Deadpool & Wolverine

Gladiator II

Inside Out 2

Twisters

The Wild Robot

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

All We Imagine As Light

Emilia Pérez

The Girl With The Needle

I’m Still Here

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig

Vermiglio

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Adrien Brody — The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet — A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig — Queer

Colman Domingo — Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes — Conclave

Sebastian Stan — The Apprentice

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Pamela Anderson — The Last Showgirl

Angelina Jolie — Maria

Nicole Kidman — Babygirl

Tilda Swinton — The Room Next Door

Fernanda Torres — I’m Still Here

Kate Winslet — Lee

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Amy Adams — Nightbitch

Cynthia Erivo — Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón — Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison — Anora

Demi Moore — The Substance

Zendaya — Challengers

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Jesse Eisenberg — A Real Pain

Hugh Grant — Heretic

Gabriel LaBelle — Saturday Night

Jesse Plemons — Kinds Of Kindness

Glen Powell — Hit Man

Sebastian Stan — A Different Man

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Yura Borisov — Anora

Kieran Culkin — A Real Pain

Edward Norton — A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce — The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong — The Apprentice

Denzel Washington — Gladiator II

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Selena Gomez — Emilia Pérez

Ariana Grande — Wicked

Felicity Jones — The Brutalist

Margaret Qualley — The Substance

Isabella Rossellini — Conclave

Zoe Saldaña — Emilia Pérez

Best Director — Motion Picture

Jacques Audiard — Emilia Pérez

Sean Baker — Anora

Edward Berger — Conclave

Brady Corbet — The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat — The Substance

Payal Kapadia — All We Imagine As Light

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Jacques Audiard — Emilia Pérez

Sean Baker — Anora

Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold — The Brutalist

Jesse Eisenberg — A Real Pain

Coralie Fargeat — The Substance

Peter Straughan — Conclave

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

‘Beautiful That Way’, — Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus, Lykke Zachrisson (The Last Showgirl)

‘Compress/Repress’ — Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Luca Guadagnino (Challengers)

‘El Mal’ — Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)

‘Forbidden Road’ — Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, Sacha Skarbek (Better Man)

‘Kiss The Sky’ — Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael
Pollack, Ali Tamposi (The Wild Robot)

‘Mi Camino’ — Clément Ducol, Camille (Emilia Pérez)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Volker Bertelmann — Conclave

Daniel Blumberg — The Brutalist

Kris Bowers — The Wild Robot

Clément Ducol, Camille — Emilia Pérez

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross — Challengers

Hans Zimmer — Dune: Part Two

And here are the TV nominees…

Best Television Series – Drama

The Day Of The Jackal

The Diplomat

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Shōgun

Slow Horses

Squid Game

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

The Gentlemen

Hacks

Nobody Wants This

Only Murders In The Building

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Baby Reindeer

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Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story

The Penguin

Ripley

True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Kathy Bates — Matlock

Emma D’Arcy — House Of The Dragon

Maya Erskine — Mr. And Mrs. Smith

Keira Knightley — Black Doves

Keri Russell — The Diplomat

Anna Sawai — Shōgun

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Donald Glover — Mr. And Mrs. Smith

Jake Gyllenhaal — Presumed Innocent

Gary Oldman — Slow Horses

Eddie Redmayne — The Day Of The Jackal

Hiroyuki Sanada — Shōgun

Billy Bob Thornton — Landman

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Kristen Bell — Nobody Wants This

Quinta Brunson — Abbott Elementary

Ayo Edebiri — The Bear

Selena Gomez — Only Murders In The Building

Kathryn Hahn — Agatha All Along

Jean Smart — Hacks

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Adam Brody — Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson — A Man On The Inside

Steve Martin — Only Murders In The Building

Jason Segel — Shrinking

Martin Short — Only Murders In The Building

Jeremy Allen White — The Bear

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Cate Blanchett — Disclaimer*

Jodie Foster — True Detective: Night Country

Cristin Milioti — The Penguin

Sofía Vergara — Griselda

Naomi Watts — Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans

Kate Winslet — The Regime

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Colin Farrell — The Penguin

Richard Gadd — Baby Reindeer

Kevin Kline — Disclaimer*

Cooper Koch — Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story

Ewan McGregor — A Gentleman In Moscow

Andrew Scott — Ripley

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Liza Colón-Zayas — The Bear

Hannah Einbinder — Hacks

Dakota Fanning — Ripley

Jessica Gunning — Baby Reindeer

Allison Janney — The Diplomat

Kali Reis — True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Tadanobu Asano — Shōgun

Javier Bardem — Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story

Harrison Ford — Shrinking

Jack Lowden — Slow Horses

Diego Luna — La Máquina

Ebon Moss-Bachrach — The Bear

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Jame Foxx — Jamie Foxx: What Happened Was

Nikki Glaser — Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die

Seth Meyers — Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking

Adam Sandler — Adam Sandler: Love You

Ali Wong — Ali Wong: Single Lady

Ramy Youssef — Ramy Youssef: More Feelings