Sunday’s Golden Globes to launch Hollywood’s awards festivities

By Lisa Richwine and Jane Ross

BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) -Hollywood will kick off its 2025 awards festivities on Sunday on the annual Golden Globes the place movies equivalent to “Depraved,” “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Perez” compete for trophies and a spotlight forward of the Oscars.

Timothee Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Angelina Jolie are among the many stars within the working for appearing honors on the red-carpet ceremony that might be hosted for the primary time by comic Nikki Glaser. The present might be broadcast stay on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

Previous Globes exhibits have been extra relaxed than the Oscars, the ceremony that bestows the movie business’s highest honors in March. Nominees from each motion pictures and tv sipped cocktails and champagne throughout the Globes whereas hosts equivalent to Ricky Gervais delivered searing jokes in regards to the A-list crowd and Globes voters.

Glaser, a stand-up comedian identified for skewering soccer legend Tom Brady throughout a roast on Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), stated she set some boundaries for herself this 12 months.

“There’s positively jokes that I wished to make that I needed to lower that simply are too crucial or too cynical,” Glaser stated in an interview with Reuters.

“This isn’t a roast,” she added. “This can be a night time to have a good time stuff, so I need to set an excellent tone and I need individuals who have been nominated to really feel happy with themselves. I do not need them to really feel below assault.”

The presenter lineup options big-name celebrities together with Dwayne Johnson, Elton John, Andrew Garfield and Awkwafina.

For the awards, Spanish-language musical “Emilia Perez” and post-World Warfare Two epic “The Brutalist” lead the night time’s film nominees. 

“The Brutalist” stars Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who flees to the US to chase the American dream. The three-1/2 hour story is taken into account a frontrunner for the night time’s prime prize, finest movie drama. 

Rivals embrace “Conclave,” in regards to the collection of a pope, and two motion pictures starring Chalamet – Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown” and sci-fi epic “Dune – Half II.”

In contrast to the Oscars, musical and comedy movies compete in a separate class on the Globes. Nominees in that subject embrace field workplace smash “Depraved” and darkish romantic comedy “Anora.”

Successful a Globe will help movies within the run-up to the Academy Awards in March. If a film or actor takes residence a Globe, “it will increase the chance a member of the movie academy will try that undertaking,” stated Scott Feinberg, govt editor for awards at The Hollywood Reporter. 

Feinberg predicted “The Brutalist” or “Conclave” would earn the drama prize on the Globes. The musical or comedy class is tougher to gauge, he stated, as a result of the nominees are so totally different from each other.

“Emilia Perez,” a musical thriller, tells the story of a Mexican drug lord who transitions from a person to a girl. “Depraved,” a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” was tailored from a preferred Broadway stage present. 

“Anora,” a couple of intercourse employee who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, is extra of a standard comedy whereas “The Substance” starring Demi Moore as a fading celeb searching for a fountain of youth, is basically a horror film, Feinberg stated. 

“That (class) is simply far and wide,” Feinberg stated.

Winners of the Globes are chosen by 334 leisure journalists from 85 nations, in contrast with roughly 9,000 voters who choose the Academy Awards. The Globes voting physique was expanded in recent times and organizers instituted reforms after being criticized for moral lapses and an absence of variety.

In TV classes, restaurant story “The Bear” leads the Globes nominees, adopted by thriller comedy “Solely Murders within the Constructing” and historic epic “Shogun.”