2025 Golden Globe Nominations – Motion Picture: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Breaks Record With 10

Emilia Pérez has broken the all-time record for a comedy or musical at the Golden Globes, raking in a huge 10 nominations at Monday’s 2025 Golden Globe Awards announcements. The number bests last year’s Barbie and 1972’s Cabaret, which each landed nine nominations. (The all-time record holder is 1975’s Nashville, which earned 11 in the drama category).

The audacious, Cannes-winning musical earned nominations for Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Director (Jacques Audiard), Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Karla Sofía Gascón), two in Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez), Screenplay, Score, Motion Picture – Non-English Language (representing France) and two original songs: “El Mal” and “Mi Camino.”

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist had the next best numbers with seven across the drama categories including Motion Picture, Director, Screenplay, Lead Actor (Adrien Brody), Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce) and Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones). Conclave was right behind with six, earning the exact same as The Brutalist save supporting actor.

Joining them in the Motion Picture – Drama top six were Dune: Part Two, Nickel Boys and September 5, the latter two being their only nominations and for Dune, missing out on several more as well (including Box Office Achievement), only earning a score nod, a category its ineligible for at the Oscars and BAFTA.

In Musical or Comedy, Anora and The Substance grabbed five nominations each with Anora earning them in Musical or Comedy Actress (Mikey Madison), Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov), and Director and Screenplay (Sean Baker). For The Substance, it performed in a big way, with nods for Demi Moore in Musical or Comedy Actress, Margaret Qualley in Supporting Actress and Director and Screenplay nominations for Coralie Fargeat.

Wicked, the singular box office hit of the season had a surprisingly quiet morning, earning just three nominations plus the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category. With director Jon M. Chu not making the director cut, or Jonathan Bailey in supporting actor, the film grabbed nods for Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Actress for Cynthia Erivo and Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande-Butera.

Challengers and A Real Pain round out the Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy nominees, with each film earning four nods.

The controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice earned two nominations: for Sebastian Stan’s portrayal of the former President and President-elect during his real estate tycoon days, and Jeremy Strong as confidante Roy Cohn. Stan recently went public during a post-film Q&A that he was set to participate in Variety’s Actors on Actors but no other actor, via through a publicist or otherwise, wanted to join Stan to talk about his film and performance.

EGOT-winning actress, producer and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis is the Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree for 2025 and 14-time Golden Globe nominee and three-time winner Ted Danson is the Carol Burnett Award honoree.

For the first time, the Golden Globes will host a separate event to honor the recipients of the Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett Award winners at a gala dinner on Friday, January 3, two days before the main telecast. Also, the Globes is planning a luncheon to recognize first-time nominees, taking place later this month.

Comedian Nikki Glaser is set to host the 82nd Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday, January 5, 2025 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/5:00-8:00 PM, live PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.

Motion Picture – Drama

The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Anora
Challengers
Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked

Director

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

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

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

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

Actress 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

Supporting Actor 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

Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

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

Screenplay

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

Motion Picture – Animated

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

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)

Original Score

Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two
Clément Ducol and Camille, Emilia Pérez
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot

Original Song

“Beautiful That Way” from The Last Showgirl (music & lyrics by: Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus, Lykke Zachrisson)
“Compress / Repress” from Challengers (music & lyrics by: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Luca Guadagnino)
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez (music & lyrics by: Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard)
“Forbidden Road” from Better Man (music & lyrics by: Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, Sacha Skarbek)
“Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot (music & lyrics by: Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, Ali Tamposi)
“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez (music & lyrics by: Clément Ducol, Camille)

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

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