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GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS AND OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2025 

As of this writing, the Golden Globe 2025 nominations have been announced, with EMILIA PEREZ leading with ten nominations. This was followed by THE BRUTALIST with seven nominations, CONCLAVE with six, ANORA and THE SUBSTANCE with five each. It has been surprisingly delightful for the Cannes Best Screenplay winner, THE SUBSTANCE, a body horror genre film that got classified in the Musical or Comedy category. Who among these films will win the award race? Based on buzz and my own critical gut feel, here is my forecast.

The following are the Golden Globe nominations and my prediction to win each category.

Best film – drama

  • The Brutalist – WINNER
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Nickel Boys
  • September 5

Best film – musical or comedy

  • Anora – WINNER
  • Challengers
  • Emilia Pérez
  • A Real Pain
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

Best non-English language film

  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Emilia Pérez – WINNER
  • The Girl with the Needle
  • I’m Still Here
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  • Vermiglio

Best animated film

  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Moana 2
  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot – WINNER

Cinematic and box office achievement

  • Alien: Romulus
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
  • Deadpool & Wolverine
  • Gladiator II
  • Inside Out 2
  • Twisters
  • Wicked – WINNER
  • The Wild Robot

Best actress – drama

  • Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
  • Angelina Jolie, Maria
  • Nicole Kidman, Babygirl – WINNER
  • Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
  • Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
  • Kate Winslet, Lee

Best actor – drama

  • Adrien Brody, The Brutalist – WINNER
  • Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
  • Daniel Craig, Queer
  • Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
  • Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
  • Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best actress – musical or comedy

  • Amy Adams, Nightbitch
  • Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
  • Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
  • Mikey Madison, Anora – WINNER
  • Demi Moore, The Substance
  • Zendaya, Challengers

Best actor – musical or comedy

  • Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
  • Hugh Grant, Heretic
  • Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
  • Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
  • Glen Powell, Hit Man – WINNER
  • Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best supporting actress

  • Ariana Grande, Wicked – WINNER
  • Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
  • Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
  • Margaret Qualley, The Substance
  • Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
  • Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best supporting actor

  • Yura Borisov, Anora
  • Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – WINNER
  • Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
  • Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
  • Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
  • Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best director

  • Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
  • Sean Baker, Anora
  • Edward Berger, Conclave
  • Brady Corbet, The Brutalist – WINNER
  • Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
  • Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light

Best screenplay

  • Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
  • Sean Baker, Anora – WINNER
  • Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
  • Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
  • Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
  • Peter Straughan, Conclave

Best original song

  • Beautiful That Way, The Last Showgirl
  • Compress/Repress, Challengers
  • El Mal, Emilia Pérez
  • Forbidden Road, Better Man
  • Kiss The Sky, The Wild Robot
  • Mi Camino, Emilia Pérez – WINNER

Best original film score

  • Conclave
  • The Brutalist – WINNER
  • The Wild Robot
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Challengers
  • Dune: Part Two

The Golden Globes will air on January 6, 2025.

Moreover, the Golden Globe nominations, and especially its winners, are a good precursor to Oscar nominations. So, aside from the Golden Globes, I will also make an early prediction of who will be nominated for the Oscars for the top categories.

Here now are my Oscar 2025 nominations predictions.

Best picture

  • The Brutalist
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • September 5
  • Anora
  • Emilia Pérez
  • A Real Pain
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

Best director

  • Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
  • Sean Baker, Anora
  • Edward Berger, Conclave
  • Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
  • Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Best actor

  • Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
  • Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
  • Daniel Craig, Queer
  • Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
  • Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Best actress

  • Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
  • Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
  • Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
  • Mikey Madison, Anora
  • Demi Moore, The Substance

Best supporting actor

  • Yura Borisov, Anora
  • Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
  • Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
  • Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
  • Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best supporting actress

  • Ariana Grande, Wicked
  • Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
  • Margaret Qualley, The Substance
  • Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
  • Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best adapted screenplay

  • Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
  • Peter Straughan, Conclave
  • Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing
  • Joslyn Barnes & RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
  • Chris Sanders, The Wild Robot

Best original screenplay

  • Sean Baker, Anora
  • Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
  • Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
  • Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
  • Tim Fehlbaum & Moritz Binder, September 5

Best international feature

  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Emilia Pérez
  • The Girl with the Needle
  • I’m Still Here
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best documentary feature

  • Sugarcane
  • No Other Land
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
  • Daughters
  • Black Box Diaries

Best animated feature

  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot

Oscar nominations will be announced on January 17, 2025. The Oscar Awards will air on March 2, 2025.

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