Golden Globe Nominations 2025: The Biggest Snubs and Surprises
This time when we say, “The Golden Globes are back,” we’re not meaning that in a laudatory way.
On Monday morning, the long-embattled awards organization announced its 2025 nominees, celebrating the best of film and television, and the top thing that already stands out on the snubs and surprises front is the lack of recognition for Black talent. Can it be a surprise if it’s more of a return to form?
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What initially sank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2021 was a report by the Los Angeles Times highlighting glaring issues with the assembly of journalists from all over the globe, including professional misconduct, and the lack of a single Black voting member. This resulted in the awards ceremony spending a year off air, the Golden Globes becoming a private company owned by Penske Media Eldridge (which also owns IndieWire), and the HFPA disbanding.
Fast forward to 2024, and the Golden Globes had seemingly gotten the train back on the rails, securing a broadcast deal with CBS, and even revealing a 2024 nominees list that was more inclusive of international talent, and more closely reflective of how Academy members would vote for the Oscars.
Unfortunately, as we highlight what 2025 Golden Globes nominations shocked and surprised us, while some choices feel inspired, many of them feel like a backtracking of the improvements the organization once strove to make.
Below, we highlight the good, the bad, in the ugly, in terms of snubs and surprises from the Golden Globes 2025 nominations.
Proma Khosla and and Ben Travers also contributed to this article.
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