Shock Golden Globe wins for Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres as Angelina Jolie & Cynthia Erivo are beaten for Best Actress
In a string of unexpected victories, Emilia P. Rez won four Golden Globes in 2025, while Wicked was passed over.
Demi Moore defeated celebrities including Amy Adams (Nightbitch), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), and Zendaya (Challengers) to win the first-ever Golden Globe for Best Actress—Musical or Comedy—in The Substance at the age of sixty-two.
Ghost actress Demi stated in an emotional victory speech that when she received the script for The Substance, she was “at a low point” and thinking about leaving the business.
Demi, who portrays a woman who exchanges her body for a younger, more attractive version of herself, stated, “The universe told me, you are not done.”
This is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor, even though I’ve been doing this for more than 45 years.”
With the start of the Oscar season in Hollywood last night, she is currently in the lead to win an Oscar.
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The loss to Fernanda Torres of Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, and Pamela Anderson was another significant surprise of the evening.
For I’m Still Here, the 59-year-old Brazilian actress took home the Best Actress-Drama award.
She said to the celebrity-studded audience after pulling off an upset: “I didn’t prepare anything because I was glad already [to be nominated].”
Conclave and Anora went home empty-handed, but Baby Reindeer and Shgun took home the major TV prizes and the epic period drama picture The Brutalist took home three gongs.
Ariana Grande also had a dismal evening because her popular movie Wicked did not win any major prizes.
Fans claim the musical was “robbed” despite earning $450.7 million in seven weeks and winning the award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
Zoe Salda won the award for best supporting actress in Emilia Prez, beating pop diva Ariana.
For A Different Man, Sebastian Stan won the award for best actor in a comedy or musical.
“Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now, we have to normalize it and continue to expose ourselves to it, and our children, encourage acceptance,” he said to audiences while portraying a character with a deformity of the face.
In the best supporting actor category, Kieran Culkin defeated Jeremy Strong, his co-star from Succession.
His performance in A Real Pain, which tells the story of two cousins who journey throughout Poland in remembrance of their grandmother, earned him the prize.
Top gongs at The Golden Globe Awards 2025
The following are the recipients of some of the evening’s most significant honors:
The best drama flick
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WINNER: The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Nickel Boys
- September 5
Best movie, comedy or musical
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WINNER: Emilia P rez
- Anora
- Challengers
- A Real Pain
- The Substance
- Wicked
The best animated movie
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WINNER: Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Moana 2
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
Cinematic and box office success
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WINNER: Wicked
- Alien: Romulus
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Gladiator II
- Inside Out 2
- Twisters
- The Wild Robot
Dramatic best actress
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WINNER: Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
- Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
- Angelina Jolie, Maria
- Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
- Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
- Kate Winslet, Lee
Dramatic best actor
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WINNER: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
- Timoth e Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
- Daniel Craig, Queer
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best actress in a comedy or a musical
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WINNER: Demi Moore, The Substance
- Amy Adams, Nightbitch
- Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
- Karla Sof a Gasc n, Emilia P rez
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Zendaya, Challengers
Best actor in a comedy or a musical
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WINNER: Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
- Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
- Hugh Grant, Heretic
- Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
- Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
- Glen Powell, Hit Man
Top supporting actress
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WINNER: Zoe Salda a, Emilia P rez
- Ariana Grande, Wicked
- Selena Gomez, Emilia P rez
- Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
- Margaret Qualley, The Substance
- Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Top supporting actor
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WINNER: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
- Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
- Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
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