82nd Golden Globe Predictions – Motion Picture: Expect a ‘Wicked’ Good Day

As always, the Globes split between drama and comedy/musical categories for lead acting and are now also, like Critics Choice, six nominees per category.

A big question with any early awards announcement is visibility, have the films been seen? Just this week found some films that seemed like all but locks miss out on nominations and wins, and it could be due in part to enough screenings for voters, or more likely, screeners being sent out. For the Globes, now at about 300 members and no longer requiring its international journalists to be LA-based, that could present a problem for some late-breaking films like A Complete Unknown or Nosferatu or ones that have so far held their screeners back a bit too long, like The Brutalist, which did well with New York but got blanked by NBR (a NY-based org) eyebrows were raised. Word is the screener issue may have been a major factor. There’s also the issue of actual submissions. We know that Disney didn’t submit Mufasa: The Lion King or screen it early enough for voters, so it won’t show up in the animated feature category. But while the Globes have always had their eyes on the stars, the ever-evolving group, trying very hard to shake its less than golden past, has tried to break from tradition a bit with a nominee like Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves) last year.

EGOT-winning actress, producer and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis has been named the Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree for 2025 and 13-time Golden Globe nominee and three-time winner Ted Danson is the Carol Burnett Award honoree.

Nominations for the 82nd Golden Globes will be announced on Monday, December 9 by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut. Comedian Nikki Glaser is set to host the show 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. (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the special airs).*

Final Golden Globe nomination predictions below.

Motion Picture (Drama)

• The Brutalist (A24)
• A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
• Conclave (Focus Features)
• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros)
• Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM)
• Sing Sing (A24)

Spoilers: Babygirl (A24), Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)

Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) 

• Anora (NEON)
• Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)
• Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
• The Substance (MUBI)
• Wicked (Universal Pictures)

Spoilers: A Different Man (A24), Saturday Night (Sony Pictures)

Actor (Drama) 

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24)
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
• Daniel Craig, Queer (A24)
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24)
• Ralph Fiennes, Conclave (Focus Features)
• Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment)

Spoilers: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount Pictures),  Jharrel Jerome, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM)

Actor (Comedy or Musical) 

• Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
• Hugh Grant, Heretic (A24)
• Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros)
• Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight Pictures)
• Glen Powell, Hit Man (Netflix)
• Sebastian Stan, A Different Man (A24)

Spoilers: Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night (Sony Pictures), Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios)

Actress (Drama) 

• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)
• Angelina Jolie, Maria (Netflix)
• Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24)
• Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Kate Winslet, Lee (Roadside Attractions)

Spoilers: Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl (Roadside Entertainment), Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics)

Actress (Comedy or Musical) 

• Amy Adams, Nightbitch (Searchlight Pictures)
• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked (Universal Pictures)
• Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• Mikey Madison, Anora (NEON)
• Demi Moore, The Substance (MUBI)
• Zendaya, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)

Spoilers: June Squibb, Thelma (Magnolia Pictures), Tilda Swinton, The End (NEON)

Supporting Actress 

• Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
• Selena Gomez. Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• Ariana Grande, Wicked (Universal Pictures)
• Saoirse Ronan, Blitz (Apple Original Films)
• Isabella Rossellini, Conclave (Focus Features)
• Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)

Spoilers: Felicity Jones, The Brutalist (A24), Margaret Qualley, The Substance (MUBI)

Supporting Actor 

• Jonathan Bailey, Wicked (Universal Pictures)
• Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24)
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24)
• Stanley Tucci, Conclave (Focus Features)
• Denzel Washington, Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)

Spoilers: Yura Borisov, Anora (NEON), Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment)

Director 

• Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• Sean Baker, Anora (NEON)
• Edward Berger, Conclave (Focus Features)
• Jon M. Chu, Wicked (Universal Pictures)
• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (A24)
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros)

Spoilers: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (MUBI), RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM)

Screenplay 

• Anora (NEON)
• The Brutalist (A24)
• Conclave (Focus Features)
• Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
• The Substance (MUBI)

Spoilers: Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM), The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics)

Original Score 

• The Brutalist (A24)
• Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)
• Conclave (Focus Features)
• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros)
• Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• The Wild Robot (DreamWorks Animation)

Spoilers: The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics), Saturday Night (Sony Pictures)

Original Song 

• “Forbidden Road” from Better Man (Paramount Pictures)
• “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• “Beautiful That Way” from The Last Showgirl (Roadside Attractions)
• “Piece by Piece” from Piece by Piece (Focus Features)
• “Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation)

Spoilers: “Winter Coat” from Blitz (Apple Original Films), “Compress/Repress” from Challengers (Amazon MGM)

Animated Feature  

• Flow (Janus Films/Sideshow)
• Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation)
• Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films)
• Moana 2 (Walt Disney Pictures)
• Piece by Piece (Focus Features)
• The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation)

Spoilers: Transformers One (Paramount Pictures), Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)

Non-English Language Film 

• All We Imagine as Light from India (Sideshow/Janus Films)
• Emilia Pérez from France (Netflix)
• The Girl with the Needle from Denmark (MUBI)
• I’m Still Here from Brazil (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig from Germany (NEON)
• Vermiglio from Italy (Sideshow/Janus Films)

Spoilers: Flow from Latvia (Janus Films/Sideshow), Kneecap from Ireland (Sony Pictures Classics)

Cinematic Box Office Achievement 

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros)
• Deadpool and Wolverine (Marvel Studios)
• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros)
• Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
• Inside Out 2 (Pixar)
• Moana 2 (Walt Disney Pictures)
• Twisters (Universal Pictures)
• Wicked (Universal Pictures)

Spoilers: Despicable Me 4 (Universal Pictures/Illumination), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)

*Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to stream live but will have access to on-demand the day after the special airs.