BEVERLY HILLS, California—Hollywood will kick off its 2025 awards festivities on Sunday at the annual Golden Globes.
Timothee Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Angelina Jolie are among the stars in the running for acting honors at the red-carpet ceremony that will be hosted for the first time by comedian Nikki Glaser. The show will be broadcast live on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
Past Globes shows have been more relaxed than the Oscars, the ceremony that bestows the film industry’s highest honors in March. Nominees from both movies and television sipped cocktails and champagne during the Globes while hosts such as Ricky Gervais delivered searing jokes about the A-list crowd and Globes voters.
Glaser, a stand-up comic known for skewering football legend Tom Brady during a roast on Netflix, said she set some boundaries for herself this year.
“There’s definitely jokes that I wanted to make that I had to cut that just are too critical or too cynical,” Glaser said in an interview with Reuters.
“This is not a roast,” she added. “This is a night to celebrate stuff, so I want to set a good tone and I want people who were nominated to feel proud of themselves. I don’t want them to feel under attack.”
Unlike the Oscars, musical and comedy films compete in a separate category at the Globes.
Winning a Globe can help films in the run-up to the Academy Awards in March. If a movie or actor takes home a Globe, “it increases the likelihood a member of the film academy will check out that project,” said Scott Feinberg, executive editor for awards at The Hollywood Reporter.
Winners of the Globes are chosen by 334 entertainment journalists from 85 countries, compared with roughly 9,000 voters who select the Academy Awards. The Globes voting body was expanded in recent years and organizers instituted reforms after being criticized for ethical lapses.
