The Most Shocking 2025 Golden Globe Nominations & Snubs

The Most Shocking Snubs & Surprises Of The 2025 Golden Globes Nominations

To no one's surprise, The Bear led amongst its competition with 5 nominations, followed closely by four nominations for both Shōgun and Only Murders in the Building. And Selena Gomez's Emilia Pérez got 10 nominations!

Some notable snubs of this year's Golden Globes include leaving Wicked's Jon M. Chu and Dune 2's Denis Villeneuve out of the director category (which baffles me even more after Greta Gerwig's Barbie snub at the Oscars), Sing Sing in the screenplay category, and Saoirse Ronan in the acting categories even though the Oscar-nominated actress was in both The Outrun and Blitz!

As far as surprises go, September 5 is nominated for Best Picture, despite the fact it hasn't been released yet. And, okay I know Wicked already announced they'd be submitting Cynthia Erivo for a lead actress and Ariana Grande for supporting, but my group chats STILL can't believe it! Also Zendaya being nominated in lead actress in a comedy/musical for Challengers...since when is Challengers a comedy?!

Golden Globe Nominations For Movies

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
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

• All We Imagine as Light (India)
• Emilia Pérez (France)
• The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
• I’m Still Here (Brazil)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
• Vermiglio (Italy)

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

• Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl
• Angelina Jolie for Maria
• Nicole Kidman for Babygirl
• Tilda Swinton for The Room Next Door
• Fernanda Torres for I’m Still Here
• Kate Winslet for Lee

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

• Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown
• Daniel Craig for Queer
• Colman Domingo for Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes for Conclave
• Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice

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

• Amy Adams for Nightbitch
• Cynthia Erivo for Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison for Anora
• Demi Moore for The Substance
• Zendaya for Challengers

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

• Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
• Hugh Grant for Heretic
• Gabriel LaBelle for Saturday Night
• Jesse Plemons for Kinds of Kindness
• Glen Powell for Hit Man
• Sebastian Stan for A Different Man

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Selena Gomez for Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande for Wicked
Felicity Jones for The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley for The Substance
Isabella Rossellini for Conclave
Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Yura Borisov for Anora
Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain
Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce for The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong for The Apprentice
Denzel Washington for Gladiator II

Best Director

• Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
• Sean Baker for Anora
• Edward Berger for Conclave
• Brady Corbet for The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
• Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light

Best Screenplay

• Emilia Pérez
• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Real Pain
• The Substance
• Conclave

Best Original Score

• Conclave
• The Brutalist
• The Wild Robot
• Emilia Pérez
• Challengers
• Dune: Part Two

Best Original Song

“Beautiful That Way” forThe Last Showgirl
“Compress / Repress” for Challengers
“El Mal” for Emilia Pérez
“Forbidden Road” for Better Man
“Kiss The Sky” for The Wild Robot
“Mi Camino" for Emilia Pérez

TV Show Golden Globe Nominations For 2025

Best Television Series – Drama

• The Day of the Jackal
• The Diplomat
• Mr. and 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
• Disclaimer
• 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 for Matlock
• Emma D’Arcy for House of the Dragon
• Maya Erskine for Mr. and Mrs. Smith
• Keira Knightley for Black Doves
• Keri Russell for The Diplomat
• Anna Sawai for Shōgun

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

• Donald Glover for Mr. and Mrs. Smith
• Jake Gyllenhaal for Presumed Innocent
• Gary Oldman for Slow Horses
• Eddie Redmayne for The Day of the Jackal
• Hiroyuki Sanada for Shōgun
• Billy Bob Thornton for Landman

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

• Kristen Bell for Nobody Wants This
• Quinta Brunson for Abbott Elementary
• Ayo Edebiri for The Bear
• Selena Gomez for Only Murders in the Building
• Kathryn Hahn for Agatha All Along
• Jean Smart for Hacks

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

• Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This
  
• Ted Danson for A Man on the Inside
• Steve Martin for Only Murders in the Building
• Jason Segel for Shrinking
• Martin Short for Only Murders in the Building
• Jeremy Allen White for The Bear

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

• Cate Blanchett for Disclaimer
• Jodie Foster for True Detective: Night Country
• Cristin Milioti for The Penguin
• Sofía Vergara for Griselda
• Naomi Watts for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
• Kate Winslet for The Regime

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

• Colin Farrell for The Penguin
• Richard Gadd for Baby Reindeer
• Kevin Kline for Disclaimer
• Cooper Koch for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
• Ewan Mcgregor for A Gentleman in Moscow
• Andrew Scott for Ripley

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Liza Colón-Zayas for The Bear
• Hannah Einbinder for Hacks
• Dakota Fanning for Ripley
• Jessica Gunning for Baby Reindeer
• Allison Janney for The Diplomat
• Kali Reis for True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Tadanobu Asano for Shōgun
• Javier Bardem for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
• Harrison Ford for Shrinking
• Jack Lowden for Slow Horses
• Diego Luna for La Máquina
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach for The Bear

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

• Jamie Foxx for Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was
• Nikki Glaser for Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die
• Seth Meyers for Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking
• Adam Sandler for Adam Sandler: Love You
• Ali Wong for Ali Wong: Single Lady
• Ramy Youssef for Ramy Youssef: More Feelings