The 2025 Golden Globe nominations have officially been announced, and will likely influence the other major Hollywood award shows. The Golden Globe Awards have been around since 1944 and, despite some controversy over the years, remains one of the most important nights for the year's biggest movies and TV shows during awards season. The 2025 Golden Globe Awards will be held on Sunday January 5, 2025, and will be the first major show of awards season.

The 2024 horror movie hit The Substance earned several nominations. So, what do the nominations for the 2025 Golden Globes mean as we get closer and closer to the Academy Awards?

Why The Golden Globes Are Still Important For The Oscars & Awards Season

The Golden Globes Is The First Major Ceremony Of Awards Season

The Golden Globes has been one of the most controversial award shows in recent years since it was previously run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The HFPA faced criticism for allowing people with very little journalistic background to become . Also, more notably, it was reported in 2021 that the HFPA had not had a Black member since 2002. Following the controversy, Dick Clark Productions purchased the HFPA's assets, rights, and properties, and now produces the Golden Globe Awards.

The winners at the Golden Globe Awards will very likely influence the other major award shows, such as the British Academy Film Awards and the Academy Awards.

Therefore, despite the controversy, the Golden Globes remains one of the most important award shows in Hollywood. Usually, the biggest movies of the year are honored at the awards ceremony, and plenty of stars attend the celebration. The winners at the Golden Globe Awards will very likely influence the other major award shows, such as the British Academy Film Awards and the Academy Awards. There's a good chance that the results of the Golden Globes and the winner's speeches could sway any undecided voters for the other award shows.

What Winning A Golden Globe Means For Actors & Directors At The Oscars

Winning A Golden Globe Could Lead To Oscar Success

Oftentimes, an actor or director winning a Golden Globe will suggest that they may also find success at the Academy Awards. Being recognized very early in awards season will give an actor or director the necessary momentum to find continued success at the other award shows. However, winning a Golden Globe does not necessarily guarantee a win at the Oscars, and there are many notable differences between the winners of Golden Globes and Oscars in recent years.

Looking first at the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, 2024 proved that success at the Golden Globes could very likely mean success at the Oscars, as Cillian Murphy and Emma Stone won major awards at both award shows. However, in 2023, Austin Butler and Colin Farrell won the major actor awards at the Golden Globes, but Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor Oscar at the Academy Awards. Similarly, in 2021, Nicole Kidman and Rachel Zegler won the major actress awards at the Golden Globes, but Jessica Chastain eventually ended up winning the Best Actress Oscar.

Results between the award shows can also vary in the ing actor and actress categories. However, in recent years, most actors who won Golden Globes also went on to win at the Academy Awards. The results were different in 2022 for the ing Actor category, as Kodi Smit-Mhee won the Golden Globe but Troy Kotsur won the Oscar, and in 2023 for the ing Actress category, as Regina King won the Golden Globe but Jamie Lee Curtis won the Academy Award. Despite those results, most winners for ing actor and actress Golden Globes have indeed gone on to win Oscars.

Several actors, such as Sebastian Stan and Selena Gomez, received Golden Globe nominations in multiple different categories this year.

Moving away from actors and onto directors, it would not be surprising if the winner of the Best Director Golden Globe also wins the highly-coveted directing award at the Academy Awards. In recent years, directors such as Christopher Nolan, Jane Campion, and Chloé Zhao have won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar. Of course, there are years when the winners are different. For example, in 2023, Steven Spielberg won the Golden Globe for Best Director for his work on The Fabelmans, whereas directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won the Oscar for helming Everything Everywhere All at Once.

What Winning A Golden Globe Means For A Movie's Best Picture Oscar Chances

The Best Picture Winner Is Sometimes Very Unpredictable

Any film nominated under the Best Motion Picture - Drama or Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards could very well also get nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. However, winning a Golden Globe in either of those categories does not guarentee Oscar success. In fact, several Best Picture winners in recent years, such as Everything Everywhere All at Once, CODA, and Parasite, did not win Best Motion Picture in either category at the Golden Globes.

Based on the Golden Globe nominations, the current favorites for Best Picture seem to be Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, and Concalve, but there's a strong chance this could change as we get closer to the Academy Awards.

Since the three aforementioned films started gaining a lot more momentum a bit later into awards season, they did not win the major awards at the Golden Globes. Therefore, it's possible that a losing film at the 2025 Golden Globes will eventually end up winning Best Picture. Based on the Golden Globe nominations, the current favorites for Best Picture seem to be Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, and Concalve, but there's a strong chance this could change as we get closer to the Academy Awards.

In the acting and directing categories, there are several names that stand out at this point in time. Similarly, certain movies currently seem to have a lot more buzz around them than others. There's a very high chance that artists behind films like Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, Conclave, and even Wicked will win awards at the 2025 Golden Globes, and could very likely find success at the Academy Awards, as well. However, awards season is undoubtedly always filled with a lot of surprises, and new favorites could emerge in the next few months.