Golden Globes 2025 live updates: Shogun sweeps, Demi Moore scores first-ever win

Hiroyuki Sanada took home Best Actor in a TV Drama for Shogun, while his castmate Tadanobu Asano claimed Best Supporting Actor. Meanwhile, Guy Pearce was edged out by Kieran Culkin for Best Supporting Actor in a Film. In other news, a clearer frontrunner for Best Picture has emerged...

Welcome to The Australian's rolling coverage of the 2025 Golden Globes.

January is upon us, and with it comes the start of Hollywood's award season. Today, it's all about the Golden Globes.

This awards season is shaping up to be interesting, with no clear frontrunner for Best Picture — just the way we like it. Last year, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer was the unchallenged ruler. But 2025 is playing it coy — perhaps today's Golden Globes will offer some clarity. 

This year’s cinematic race boasts an eccentric lineup: Leading the pack is Jacques Audiard's audacious musical thriller Emilia Perez with 10 nominations. Not far behind is Brady Corbet's three-and-a-half-hour epic of architecture and anguish, The Brutalist, with seven nods.

And let’s not forget Sean Baker’s Anora, the scrappy underdog that snagged the Palme d’Or, and Edward Berger’s catty Vatican drama Conclave.

This year, Australia has more than a few reasons to tune in. Adam Elliot’s claymation weeper Memoir of a Snail has slithered into the Best Animated Motion Picture race, while Nicole Kidman earned a nod for her age-gap romp Babygirl. Guy Pearce is here too, radiating menace in The Brutalist, while Cate Blanchett and Naomi Watts hold court in television’s acting categories for Disclaimer and Feud: Capote vs. The Swan.

Speaking of television, FX’s awards darling The Bear leads with five nominations, followed by Only Murders in the Building and Shogun, each earning four.

Ted Danson and Viola Davis will receive the Carol Burnett Award and the Cecil B. DeMille Award, respectively.

It is, of course, always tough to predict the famously capricious Globes—particularly now, two years into the ceremony’s rebuilding phase.

After the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was dissolved in the wake of scandals over ethics, diversity, and transparency, the voting body has been replaced by a group of 300 international entertainment journalists from 85 countries. The result is a larger, more diverse pool of voters, but there’s a sense that the Globes may have traded some of their old chaos for a more mainstream sensibility.

The Golden Globes ceremony begins at 11am AEDT on Channel 10, with Nikki Glaser as the host—a move we hope will be less of a misstep than last year’s Jo Koy self-immolation.