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MY FEARLESS FORECAST
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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Rolmar Baldonado

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