Plenty of acclaimed, awards-hopeful movies went into Monday morning’s 2025 Golden Globe nominations anticipated to land a number of nominations however underperformed relative to expectations.
Regardless of current awards from critics teams and wins and nominations simply final week from the Gotham Awards and Impartial Spirit Awards, respectively, the next initiatives solely landed one nomination every: Babygirl, A Completely different Man (which simply final week gained greatest characteristic on the Gotham Awards), Nickel Boys, The Outrun, The Piano Lesson, Seed of the Sacred Fig and Sing Sing.
Moreover acclaimed awards hopefuls (and anticipated nominees in a number of classes) Blitz, The Room Subsequent Door, September 5 and Saturday Evening every solely landed one nomination.
Additionally, regardless of racking up quite a few critics prizes and an award from the British Impartial Movie Awards simply yesterday, Arduous Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste missed out on a Golden Globe nomination this morning, with the movie additionally failing to land any nominations.
Equally, the BIFAs massive winner, Kneecap, did not land a nomination within the class of greatest non-English language movie.
Gladiator II additionally went into Monday’s nominations announcement as a crucial and business hit on par with launch date companion Depraved, however whereas the latter movie landed 4 noms, Gladiator II (a sequel to Oscar greatest image winner Gladiator) solely landed two nods, for the Globes’ comparatively new cinematic and field workplace achievement class and supporting actor Denzel Washington. It missed out on one of the best drama movie nomination numerous specialists predicted and star Paul Mescal and director Ridley Scott, additionally anticipated to be nominated within the appearing and directing classes, respectively, weren’t acknowledged with particular person nods.
Different notable movie snubs embrace no greatest director nod for Depraved helmer Jon M. Chu or Dune: Half Two‘s Denis Villeneuve and no nominations in any respect for animated hopefuls Piece by Piece or That Christmas.
Although Joker: Folie à Deux was a crucial and business bomb, there have been nonetheless predictions that stars Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga would land awards nominations for his or her efficiency within the sequel to the Oscar winner. However Joker 2 was shut out from the Golden Globe nominations this morning.
On the TV aspect, arguably the most important shock from Monday morning’s Golden Globe nominations was a supporting actor nod for Diego Luna in La Máquina, a Spanish-language Hulu restricted collection that premiered this fall about an getting old Mexican boxing legend (performed by Gael García Bernal) persuaded to tackle one final match. Luna performs his supervisor. Regardless of the collection’ optimistic critiques (it has a 90 p.c freshness ranking on Rotten Tomatoes), Luna wasn’t on specialists’ predictions of probably Golden Globe nominees and his efficiency hasn’t gotten almost the extent of consideration that another TV collection contenders have, together with supporting actor hopefuls who missed out on nods like Abbott Elementary‘s Tyler James Williams and Presumed Harmless‘s Peter Sarsgaard.
Talking of Presumed Harmless, the Golden Globes are one of many first massive awards organizations to contemplate the drama that debuted in June and have become Apple TV+’s most watched drama collection lower than a month after its premiere, with the present that was initially meant to be a restricted collection touchdown a second season. However the present missed out on a collection nod, along with the one for Sarsgaard, and solely landed one nom for star Jake Gyllenhaal.
Equally, Jason Segel and Harrison Ford landed nods for his or her roles in Shrinking, however the collection wasn’t nominated, and Home of the Dragon‘s Emma D’arcy was nominated however the collection wasn’t (regardless of the present profitable one of the best drama collection Golden Globe for its first season), and Man on the Inside star Ted Danson was nominated however the collection missed out on a nod.
And on the opposite aspect, numerous acclaimed performers have been neglected regardless of their collection touchdown a number of nominations. Monsters actor Nicholas Alexander Chavez wasn’t nominated regardless of nods for his co-stars Cooper Koch and Javier Bardem and the present itself. And regardless of Solely Murders within the Constructing‘s 4 nominations, Meryl Streep wasn’t nominated for her work this season. And although The Diplomat scored three nods, together with for stars Keri Russell and Allison Janney and the collection itself, Rufus Sewell was neglected of this morning’s nominations.
In the meantime acclaimed collection that did not land a single nomination this yr embrace Dangerous Sisters, the Maya Rudolph starrer Loot, Palm Royale (no aggressive nod for Carol Burnett Award namesake Burnett), A Very Royal Scandal and the ultimate season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Different TV surprises included a greatest drama actor nod for Billy Bob Thornton for his function in Landman, significantly with no nods for what was introduced as the ultimate season of Yellowstone (a potential sixth season is in talks) regardless of star Kevin Costner’s Golden Globes win three years in the past; and early nods for Jamie Foxx‘s upcoming particular and Squid Recreation season two.