Golden Globes: Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ leads the nominations

Freshly crowned Best European Film at the European Film Awards this weekend, Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical Emilia Pérez, about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, leads the nominations for the 82nd Golden Globes.

The film scored 10 nods, including Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director and Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) for Karla Sofía Gascón – who made history earlier this year by becoming the first transgender performer to win Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. The film’s noms tower over other contenders like the musical Wicked, the papal thriller Conclave and the post-war epic The Brutalist.

Both Anora and The Substance, two of our favourite films this year, scored five nominations apiece.

Elsewhere, the Donald Trump origin drama The Apprentice also landed nominations for its two central performances by Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Stan is also nominated for Best Actor in the second acting category (Comedy or Musical) for his turn in A Different Man.

The president elect has called The Apprentice a “politically disgusting hatchet job” made by “human scum.” 

The nominations for Globes, which will take place on 5 January, were announced today by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut. The awards, which will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, mark the first major ceremony of next year’s season, which will culminate with the Oscars on 3 March.

Here’s the full list of the 2025 nominees:

Film

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 Perez
• A Real Pain
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Director – Motion Picture

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Perez
• Sean Baker – Anora
• Edward Berger – Conclave
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine As Light

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical

• 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 an Actress 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 an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical

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

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a 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 an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

• Selena Gomez – Emilia Perez
• Ariana Grande – Wicked
• Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance
• Isabella Rosellini – Conclave
• Zoe Saldana – Emilia Perez

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

• Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard
• Anora – Sean Baker
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
• A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
• Conclave – Peter Straughan

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

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

• ‘Beautiful That Way’ – The Last Showgirl, Miley Cyrus, Lykke Li and Andrew Wyatt
• ‘Compress/Repress’ – Challengers, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Luca Guadagnino
• ‘El Mal’ – Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
• ‘Forbidden Road’ – Better Man, Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler & Sacha Skarbek
• ‘Kiss The Sky’ – The Wild Robot, Delacey, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack & Ali Tamposi
• ‘Mi Camino’ – Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol and Camille

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 Animated Feature Film

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Moana 2
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures

• Alien: Romulus
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Gladiator II
• Inside Out 2
• Twisters
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Cecil B. DeMille Award

TV

Best Television Series – Drama

• The Day of the Jackal
• The Diplomat
• Mr and Mrs Smith
• Shogun
• Slow Horses
• Squid Game

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

• Abbott Elementary
• The Bear
• The Gentlemen
• Hacks
• Nobody Wants This
• Only Murders in the Building

Best Performance by an 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 an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

• 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 an Actress 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
• Anna Sawai – Shōgun
• Keri Russell – The Diplomat

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

• 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 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 an 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 – AGentleman in Moscow
• Andrew Scott – Ripley

Best Performance by an Actress 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 an Actor in a Supporting Role in Television

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

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in 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 Stand-Up Comedian on Television

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

Carol Burnett Award