Golden Globes 2025: the winners, the losers, the red carpet – live!

Speaking of the menswear, what better place to start than with The Bear actor and chef Matty Matheson? He has been lighting up red carpets not only with his looks but his poses, too. The cream and white is a brave choice ahead of a sit-down dinner, the trousers that look like they haven’t met an iron are very much on-trend and the arms spread wide are bringing the kind of energy we hope is a sign of things to come this year.

Cate Blanchett has walked more red carpets than most people have had hot dinners – at past Golden Globes she has worn everything from custom Mary Katrantzou to Givenchy couture, Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier. This outfit speaks to her Hollywood credentials – confident and seemingly riffing on the Oscars statuette.

It’s the apex and the denouement of celebrity lookalike contests: Glen Powell has apparently brought his lookalike (from the Austin competition) to the Globes, and introduced him to his mom.

A good place to look for the brightest sartorial sparks tonight may be the menswear, because where men’s red carpet fashion used to be all about the tux, in recent years it has been responsible for some of the most memorable, daring and interesting looks – think Billy Porter in a Christian Siriano ballgown or Timothée Chalamet in a Louis Vuitton harness. Eyes peeled this evening for Colman Domingo, who has proven on recent red carpets that he knows his way around a brooch, as well of course as Chalamet who has a track record of pushing the dial.

But I am also hoping to see plenty of fireworks from the womenswear, both from long-time big hitters such as Tilda Swinton, nominated for her role in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, a film in which her character meets death in a powerful yellow suit, and relative newcomers such as Anora’s Mikey Madison, who has been showing some serious fashion chops of late in JW Anderson, custom Prada and Schiaparelli.

To the red carpet, which is already under way and … last year the Golden Globes followed a months-long actors’ strike, meaning that the stars went hard, sartorially speaking, in part because they’d spent so long at home – or at least not in couture, in front of cameras, on red carpets. The early flair continued and awards season brought with it such wizardry as a trend for straps that levitated inches above the shoulder, architectural gowns that borrowed as much from Brunel as from Balenciaga and such boldness as Billie Eilish dressed for the office, if the office were a gen Z take on Chanel HQ. This year, let’s hope that the same sense of occasion and innovation continues.

For one indication that it might, look to the fortunes of luxury fashion. Due to slumping sales, anger over massive price inflations and perceived downturns in quality, it is having a relatively unhappy time of it and, as the industry site the Business of Fashion puts it: “Ironically, the slump may also be the reason the red carpet is more entertaining than usual; brands with something to prove can put on a good show.” The red carpet is at the heart of the fashion industrial complex and brands will be seeing in it a chance to shine, both on the night itself and on social media for nights long afterwards. Luxury fashion’s losses may well be red carpet watchers’ gain.

Benjamin Lee

Last year’s host, Jo Koy, set the bar pretty low with a mostly reviled set, making lazy jokes about Barbie’s boobs and Barry Keoghan’s penis, so it’s made tonight easier for comedian Nikki Glaser. Not that she needed the help – the rising star has become one of the funniest, and most daring, comics around.

Her recent HBO special Someday You’ll Die, nominated tonight, confronted ageing, death and lack of interest in becoming a parent, and it capped off a year that saw her go viral with her brutal roast of Tom Brady.

Here’s a reminder of why:

Adrian Horton

Last year, the Nu Globes introduced a new category, cinematic and box office achievement, that seemed invented to give something to Barbie and get Taylor Swift to the show. This year, the category is basically a bid for blockbuster audience interest, with Twisters, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Alien: Romulus and Inside Out 2 among the nominees.

The crowd-pleaser Wicked, the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation of all time, could be the winner, or maybe the Globes will take this chance to acknowledge the box office dominance of Deadpool & Wolverine.

Welcome back!

Adrian Horton

We are a mere five days into January, my friends, and awards season is upon us. Of course, the major film award players have been campaigning for months already, but tonight the race begins in earnest – and, at least on the film side, there’s no clear favorite.

Jacques Audiard’s audacious thriller/soap opera/musical Emilia Pérez leads the nominations with 10, while Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist and Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave follow with seven and six, respectively. Cannes’s Palme d’Or winner Anora and Coralie Fargeat’s divisive body horror The Substance each have five. On the TV side, it’s basically a repeat of September’s Emmy awards, which heavily favored Shōgun, Hacks and Baby Reindeer, all nominated tonight.

We’re on year two of the new and improved Golden Globes – this year, once again, the awards will be determined by the new 334-member Golden Globes Foundation voting bloc, which replaced the disgraced (and now dissolved) Hollywood Foreign Press Association. More diverse and younger membership should mean different tastes … though last year was pretty cut and dry (Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Succession). Stick with us for the highlights of what should be a return-to-form, A-list awards show.