Golden Globes 2025 Nominations: Emilia Perez and Brutalist Favorites, Other Frenchmen in the works?

Awards season is entering its second phase! At the beginning of the school year (or at least May, for those who went to Cannes), this marathon will end on March 2, 2025 with the 97th Oscar ceremony, the anteroom of which is described as the Golden Globes. Presented by the Hollywood-based foreign press, these awards provide the first real trend and even influence the Academy voters, while the latter are still thinking about the nominations.

In 2024, this is where the future successes of Oppenheimer (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Music), Badass (Best Actress) or Anatomy of the Fall (Best Original Screenplay) began. And not everything should change during the 82nd edition of the Golden Globes, which is scheduled for January 6.

While we wait to see who will replace Oppenheimer, with less than a month to go, discover the nominations that will give us the first clues, especially about the French chances. Even if the separation between drama and comedy/musical in the main categories blurs the lines a bit. All the better for suspense.

Favorite of France?

Will Emilia Perez and Jacques Audiard get their revenge at the Golden Globes after seeing the Palme d’Or in favor of Anora and Sean Baker? The French director’s Spanish-language musical is actually the heavy favorite with no fewer than ten nominations, including Best Picture (Comedy/Musical), Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Supporting Actress (Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana). ), Best Original Song and Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) for Carla Sophia Gascon.

If her victory is not yet certain, Emilia Perez will only be able to win, at best, a maximum of eight awards, as she will appear twice in the categories of Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Original Song. risk its negative performance. And it will have to compete with two rivals at Cannes, starting with Annoir, the 2024 Palme d’Or, very logically nominated for Best Film (Comedy/Musical), Best Director or Best Actress for Mike Madison.

A duel that, like the finale of The Good, the Bad and Ugly, could be played by three, because we might as well have to hope for… The Substance. Another French film (this time in English), by Coralie Fargeat, which takes home five nominations after winning the screenplay prize at the last Cannes Film Festival. Also watch out for underdogs Wicked and A Real Pain from Jesse Eisenberg, who could be involved in this battle, which is a little more decisive than expected.

Cruel winner?

On the drama side, the favorites are Brutalist and Conclave, both of which appeared at the recent Venice Film Festival. Or Brady Corbett’s Mural , which some are already comparing to The Godfather , which leads with seven nominations (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Adrien Brody, etc.), compared to Edward Berger’s thriller The Pope with six. Made a splash at the Oscars with his adaptation of Nothing in the West in 2023. Competing in the same categories (including Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes), this feature film set during the election. The new pope can disrupt the predictions.

Still on the drama side, the battle for the title of best actress will be very uncertain. Especially since each nominee represents one of the rare chances of an award for their film, such as Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door) or Angelina Jolie (Maria). If the latter is the favorite in the projections, who knows if he will make his name on the list again, twenty-five years after James Mangold’s Stolen Life, whose Bob Dylan biopic (The Perfect Stranger) is competing. Three awards, including Best Actor in a Drama (Timothée Chalamet).

13 years after the artist?

In terms of expected surprises, Wild Robot seems to rob Disney and Pixar of the triumphs that seem to have promised them on the animation side (Moana 2 and Vice Versa 2), as the latest from Dreamworks studios is also nominated for the best. Music categories Original and Best Original Song, making it the record holder for animated feature film in Golden Globe history. A sign that he is popular with voters.

And while some participate in two films (Sebastian Stan with The Apprentice and A Different Man, Luca Guadagnino with Challengers and Queer), we note the weak presence of blockbusters like Dune 2 (two nominations, including Best Drama and Best). Original Music, and the film will not be able to compete in this section at the Oscars), Gladiator II (also two citations, including Best Supporting Actor Denzel Washington and Best Performance Box-Office, a category introduced in 2024) or Deadpool & Wolverine. Because only Wicked, among the year’s biggest hits, managed to seriously engage in the fray.

But John M. Chu’s film, as well as its two female leads (Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande), will have to compete against Emilia Perez in the comedy/musical category, which will most likely have a singer winner. and French, which hasn’t happened since 2012’s Artist.

Film nominations

Best Motion Picture Drama (2024 Winner: Oppenheimer)

• September 5
• Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune – Part 2
• The Nickel Boys
• a complete stranger

Best Actress in a Drama (Winner 2024: Lily Gladstone – Killers of Flower Moon)

• Pamela Anderson – The last showgirl
• Angelina Jolie – Maria
• Nicole Kidman – little girl
• Tilda Swinton – neighboring room
• Fernanda Torres – I’m here again
• Kate Winslet – Lee Miller

Best Actor in a Drama (Winner 2024: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer)

• Adrien Brody – Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet – a complete stranger
• Daniel Craig – Queer
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
• Sebastian Stan – Apprentice

Best Comedy or Musical (2024 Winner: Badass Creatures)

• real pain
• Anora
• challengers
• Emilia Perez
• substance
• evil

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (2024 Winner: Emma Stone – Badass)

• Amy Adams – Overnight
• Cynthia Erivo – Evil
• Carla Sophia Gascon -Emilia Perez
• Mike Madison – Anora
• Demi Moore – Substance
• Zendaya – challengers

Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (2024 Winner: Paul Gimmatt – Winter Break)

• Jesse Eisenberg – Real pain
• Hugh Grant – the heretic
• Gabrielle LaBelle – Saturday Night
• Jesse Plemons – Faces of Kindness
• Glenn Powell – Hitman
• Sebastian Stan – different man

Best Supporting Actress (Winner 2024: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – Winter Break)

• Selena Gomez -Emilia Perez
• Ariana Grande – Evil
• Felicity Jones – Brutalist
• Margaret Quall – Substance
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
• Zoe Saldana -Emilia Perez

Best Supporting Actor (2024 Winner: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer)

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Kieran Culkin – Real Pain
• Edward Norton – a complete stranger
• Guy Pearce – Brutalist
• Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Director (Winner 2024: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer)

• Jacques Audiard -Emilia Perez
• Sean Baker – Anora
• Edward Berger – Conclave
• Brady Corbett – Brutalist
• Coral Farjit – Substance
• Payal Kapadia – Everything we imagine is light

Best Screenplay (Winner 2024: Anatomy of a Fall)

• Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
• Anora – Sean Baker
• Brutalist – Brady Corbett and Mona Fastvold
• Conclave – Peter Straughan
• Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard
• Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best Animated Feature (2024 Winner: The Boy and the Heron)

• stream
• Memories of a Snail
• A wild robot
• Moana 2
• On the contrary 2
• Wallace and Gromit: Palm of Revenge

Best Foreign Language Film (Winner 2024: Anatomy of a Fall)

• Everything we imagine as light (India)
• Emilia Perez (France)
• Wild Fig Tree Seeds (Germany)
• I’m still here (Brazil)
• Young Lady with a Needle (Denmark)
• Vermilio or Mountain Bride (Italy)

Best Music (2024 Winner: Oppenheimer)

• Brutalist – Daniel Bloomberg
• Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
• Dune – Part 2 – Hans Zimmer
• Emilia Perez – Clement Ducol and Camille
• Wild Robot – Chris Bowers

Best Song (2024 Winner: Barbie – “What Was I Made For”)

• a better man “The Forbidden Way”
• Triggers – “compression/inhibition”
• Emilia Perez – “My way“
• Emilia Perez – “El Mal”
• The Last Showgirl – “beautiful this way”
• Wild Robot – “kiss the sky”

Best Box Office Performance (2024 Winner: Barbie)

• Alien: Romulus
• BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Gladiator II
• A wild robot
• On the contrary 2
• evil

See you on the night of January 6-7, 2025 to find out the winners