Golden Globes 2025: Who will win and who should win
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Ahead of the ceremony on Sunday 5 January, Louis Chilton and Adam White have surveyed the major categories at the Globes to determine which films and TV shows will reign supreme, from ‘The Substance’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’ to ‘Nobody Wants This’ and ‘Anora’.
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Death, taxes, and the relentless march of awards season: these are the certainties of life. The first major ceremony of the year, the Golden Globes, is being held on Sunday 5 January (or the early hours of Monday morning in the UK), and will recognise some of the very best achievements in film and television over the past 12 months.
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With the Globes still striving to resuscitate their reputation following the 2021 scandal over racism and voting integrity, this year’s awards have been decided by an expanded and diversified voting body. Quality, it is hoped, should win out, as it largely did last year.
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Among the heavyweight contenders this year are The Brutalist, the ambitious mid-century epic starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish architect, and Anora, Sean Baker’s bitingly funny drama about a sex worker (Mikey Madison) who marries a feckless Russian playboy.
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Emilia Perez, the divisive Netflix musical about a transgender crime boss, and the Ralph Fiennes-starring papal thriller Conclave are also among the nominees in film. Meanwhile, when it comes to television, the frontrunners are the Japan-set historical drama Shogun, the fraught restaurant comedy The Bear, and the buzzy miniseries Baby Reindeer, which drew on creator-star Richard Gadd’s real-life experiences with a stalker.
![[Mikey Madison in ‘Anora’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/03/09/newFile-2.jpg)
