The Big Picture · Discussion
January 6, 2025/ 92 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Joanna Robinson
Sean, Amanda, and Joanna recap the 2025 Golden Globes, where The Brutalist took drama, director, and actor and Emilia Pérez won musical or comedy, two arthouse winners the hosts read as the voting body tilting toward critics. Plus the acting races (Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña, Adrien Brody), Flow's animation upset, and Anora's shutout.
20 films across 2 segments.
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The film winnerswho took home a globe
Jacques Audiard's Netflix film won Best Musical or Comedy, plus Non-English Language, Zoe Saldaña for supporting actress, and Original Song for 'El Mal.' The hosts are baffled by its momentum; none of them can find anyone outside Netflix who loves it, and they chalk the win up to the Globes' international voting body asserting itself.
Brady Corbet's film swept the three big drama prizes: picture, director, and actor for Adrien Brody. Sean's most-anticipated; Amanda hasn't seen it yet. Corbet's 'it worked' speech about Final Cut and empowering filmmakers landed, and the daughter in the final frame moved even the skeptics.
Won Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and nothing else, this year's Barbie. Jon M. Chu got the podium as a consolation. Amanda liked it more than she expected; the group agrees Barbie was the better movie.
Shut out entirely. A real stumble for Sean Baker's film and for Mikey Madison, whom Sean and Joanna had both picked to take musical or comedy actress.
Kieran Culkin won supporting actor, the season's one locked front-runner. Otherwise the film had no presence at the ceremony, and Jesse Eisenberg didn't win screenplay.
Won screenplay (Peter Straughan's adaptation) and nothing else. The hosts debate whether it's fading, and Sean floats a scornful Megyn Kelly tweet as a best-picture tell.
Demi Moore won actress in a musical or comedy over Mikey Madison and delivered what the hosts call the speech of the night, a comeback narrative that puts her squarely in the best-actress race.
Sebastian Stan won actor in a musical or comedy, Sean's favorite win of the night: a tiny film almost nobody saw, beating out Stan's own turn in The Apprentice.
The Latvian animated feature beat a Pixar billion-dollar movie, The Wild Robot, and Wallace & Gromit. 'A win for cat people,' and the clearest sign of the Globes' new critics-group identity.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won original score. Sean runs to 'Match Point' from the soundtrack; the win carries an old-Globes celebrity veneer through Reznor.
Fernanda Torres won actress in a drama, a shock over Kidman and Jolie. Walter Salles's film; her mother Fernanda Montenegro was nominated 25 years ago for his Central Station, and a large Brazilian contingent sits in the voting body.
The Oscar race, read through the Globesnarratives, snubs, and the field
Timothée Chalamet lost actor to Brody despite his coronation run. The hosts rate James Mangold's Dylan film good-not-great, carried by performances and reaching hard for Walk the Line. Monica Barbaro's Joan Baez singing went unnominated; Boyd Holbrook's Johnny Cash drew praise.
Nicole Kidman's film; Amanda hasn't seen it yet. Sean teases Kidman's big TV and Netflix year as the kind of momentum that pushes a nominee over the line. Next episode: a Kidman Hall of Fame.
Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, the classic-Globes actress win that didn't come. The hosts call Callas one of the hardest 20th-century voices to nail, and note Jolie didn't sing the arias.
Tilda Swinton's Almodóvar film, floated as a possible fifth best-actress slot.
Sebastian Stan's other 2024 nomination, and the vote-splitting worry against his A Different Man run for a lead-actor slot.
Daniel Craig; the 'represents queer' case for the last actor slot against Stan, who'd be splitting his own two performances.
Robert Eggers's film, source of the running Aaron Taylor-Johnson girdle bit, and the kind of kids-are-talking-about-it energy the Globes ignored. Joanna wants a gif of Willem Dafoe grabbing the cat.
Its total awards-season disappearance is the mystery Joanna keeps circling back to: a popular, acclaimed film that's simply absent from the conversation.
Hugh Grant; Bill Simmons floated it for the race, but the hosts see at most an outside screenplay shot.
Also mentioned raised along the way
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