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Walter Salles-directed I’m Still Here caps weeks of packed screenings after a Best Actress Golden Globe win by star Fernanda Torres with a theatrical release from Sony Pictures Classics on five screens in New York and LA. The distributor’s The Room Next Door jumps from 44 screens to over 850, the widest release of a Pedro Almodovar film.

Mubi is out with documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, A24’s Colman Domingo-starring Sing Sing is back at 500+ theaters, Bleecker Street’s Hard Truths by Mike Leigh, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, expands to 120 screens.

Torres of I’m Still Here is the daughter of Brazilian icon Fernanda Montenegro who was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Salles’ breakout film Central Station. Earlier this month, Torres dedicated her Golden Globe to her mother, saying, “She was here 25 years ago and this is like proof that art can endure through life.” Her speech was a hit,...

Sony Pictures Classics has announced that it will release its dramedy The Penguin Lessons, starring Academy Award nominees Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), in theaters nationwide on March 28.

The film is set to open against Focus Features’ Sundance entry The Ballad of Wallis Island, starring Carey Mulligan; Universal’s horror thriller The Woman in the Yard, A24’s Death of a Unicorn, starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd; and Amazon MGM’s Jason Statham action thriller A Working Man, among other titles.

Based on Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name, The Penguin Lessons is inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom (Coogan) discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

After the majority of nominations for precursors have been announced, the frontrunner for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar happens to be one of the scripts that was ineligible for a WGA Award nomination.

Though people are still hesitant to say “Conclave” will win Best Picture, the consensus after the film’s Best Screenplay win at the Golden Globes (and Peter Straughan’s speech), is that his adaptation of the 2016 Robert Harris novel is the contender to beat.

But even on the adaptation side of things, directors...

The Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint. There are dozens of pit stops along the way and trophies to be given out before the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, March 2. Keep track of precursor wins here with our scorecard. This includes honors from major film festivals, critics groups, guilds, and televised shows of the 2024-25 Oscar season. Wins are listed in order of announcement and in accordance with candidates’ FYC campaigns.

Updated: Thursday, Jan. 16 with Pittsburgh Film Critics Association, Women Film Critics Circle, and Chicago Indie Critics winners.

Since her victory at the Golden Globes, Demi Moore has earned eight Best Actress prizes, including five consecutively, most recently from the Cic. The haul has brought her precursor win total to 14, passing Marianne Jean-Baptiste for second place for the season thus far (Mikey Madison leads Best Actress contenders with 26 wins). Did Moore’s Globe victory for The Substance and moving speech give her a boost?...

Anora, A Complete Unknown, Challengers, Hit Man, and Wicked are among the 2025 Writers Guild of America Awards nominees.

In Best Original Screenplay, Anora and Challengers are up against A Real Pain, Civil War, and My Old Ass. The Best Adapted Screenplay lineup features A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys, and Wicked.

The nominations were announced Wednesday, a week after the guild postponed its scheduled Jan. 9 announcement due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

As previously reported, dozens of scripts — including several top Oscar hopefuls — were ineligible for consideration this year. A screenplay is ineligible if it’s produced outside of the WGA’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member.

The ineligible adapted scripts were Golden Globe champ Conclave (by Peter Straughan), Emilia Pérez (by Jacques Audiard), I’m Still Here (by Walter Salles), Inside Out 2 (by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein with a...

The 2025 BAFTA nominations had its share of snubs and surprises, some less so than others (Denzel Washington missing again is just par for the course now). The final televised precursor — and an industry one to boot — made the acting categories even messier while ostensibly taking other contenders out of the running. Here’s where we’re at with all four races post-bafta nominations.

Best Actor

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, SAG and BAFTA nominations: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and SAG nominations: Daniel Craig (Queer)

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and BAFTA nominations: Hugh Grant (Heretic)

Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations: Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)

Assuming the top four are in — as many have all season, and the quartet has not missed a beat — that leaves one spot up for grabs. Craig has occupied that spot in the odds all season long,...

Plot: Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Review: The films of prolific director Pedro Almodovar are something of an acquired taste. The Spanish filmmaker is known for imbuing his female-centric stories with melodramatic dialogue and a sense of humor that is as bold as the visuals on screen. For his first feature-length project performed entirely in English, Almodovar cast two of the most talented actors working today, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, to portray friends reunited after years apart under very difficult circumstances. Leaning heavily into his signature melodrama, Almodovar guides the viewer through a beautifully shot tale of...

Tilda Swinton is an Oscar-winning actress who has been a favorite of both the art house crowd and the multiplexes, consistently taking on challenging roles in both indie fare and box office hits. Let’s take a look back at 19 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1960 in London, England, Swinton got her start working with experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman, making her movie debut in the director’s “Caravaggio” (1986). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in his film “Edward II” (1991), kicking off a decades-long romance between the actress and awards groups. She also showed her willingness to push herself in offbeat projects with daring auteurs, an edict that would lead to collaborations with Luca Guadanigno, Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon Ho, Sally Potter, Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers.

She took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Michael Clayton” (2007), for which she also won the BAFTA and reaped Golden Globe,...

Legendary filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s English language debut film, The Room Next Door, is intriguing and thought-provoking, to say the least. The colorful visuals contrast the profound subject matter that the film addresses. Death, of course, comes with a sense of melancholy, and one does not usually imagine a pop of colors when visualizing death or the last day of one’s existence in the world. But in Almodovar’s world, death is almost a tragic relief that his subject yearns for. The Room Next Door is centered around Martha (Tilda Swinton) and Ingrid (Julianne Moore), two friends who had not been in contact for quite some time, but in a way, death brought them together. They revisited fond memories, until one day, Martha decided it was time she ended her life. Can Ingrid support her friend’s decision? How far was she willing to go for friendship?

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One week after her Golden Globes triumph for I’m Still Here, Fernanda Torres is now expected to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, according to Gold Derby‘s 2025 Oscars predictions. The Brazilian actress, whose mother, Fernanda Montenegro, earned a Best Actress Oscar bid of her own for Central Station (1998), has climbed into our top five for the first time this awards season. I’m Still Here is a political thriller directed by Walter Salles that serves as Brazil’s entry in the Best International Feature contest.

More newcomers expected to receive Oscar nominations since the last update include Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown) in Best Supporting Actor, A Complete Unknown in Best Adapted Screenplay, Better Man in Best Visual Effects, and Kneecap in Best International Film.

Below, see a snapshot in time of our odds for the 97th Academy Awards in all 23 categories, updated on Jan. 13, 2025. See how the rankings...

With “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” (Lionsgate), Gerard Butler displayed his bona fides as one of the most reliable draws for action releases. Opening at #1 with $15.5 million, it came in a little ahead of projections and led #2 “Mufasa: The Lion King” (Disney).

A routine sequel exceeding expectations is good news early in the year. It slightly improved on the original’s January 2018 opening (at perhaps 20 percent lower ticket prices). The first one had enough word of mouth to triple its first weekend and gross $45 million; the $40 million sequel has a chance to repeat that.

That said, the 2018 film was #3 for its weekend. Last year, this weekend had two debuts — “Mean Girls” and “The Beekeeper” — both of which grossed more than “Pantera.”

The calendar is a significant factor. In many years, including 2023, the second weekend in January is ahead of the Martin Luther King Birthday, a four-day holiday that encourages the first wave of major releases.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson for Wbgr-fm on January 9th, 2025, reviewing “The Room Next Door” adapted and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. In select theaters since January 10th, See local listings.

Two near-retirement friends, Martha (Tilda Swinton) and Ingrid (Julianne Moore), were once besties in their early career as reporters but have drifted since Ingrid became a novelist and Martha a war correspondent. Ingrid learns that Martha is battling cancer, and when she goes to her Ingrid eventually finds out that the cancer has spread and Martha wants to euthanize her life. The plan is for Ingrid to stay with her in a country home as Martha decides when the proper time is to end her life will be, with her friend helping to facilitate the decision.

“The Room Next Door” is in select theaters on January 10th, see local listings. Featuring Tilda Switon,...

When Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for the superb political drama “I’m Still Here,” the event became like a holiday in her home country, Brazil. President Lula tweeted congratulations. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo da Costa Paes, offered to welcome Torres home on a firetruck from the airport. The long-working actress and writer, and daughter of Brazilian film royalty Fernanda Montenegro, could become only the second Brazilian performer Oscar-nominated for acting, after her mother received a nod in 1999 for “Central Station,” another film from “I’m Still Here” director Walter Salles.

When IndieWire spoke with Torres just two days after her unexpected Globes coup over higher-profile actors like Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Angelina Jolie (“Maria”), Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”), Pamela Anderson (“The Last Showgirl”), and Kate Winslet (“Lee”), she was looking at a week of Q&As in Los Angeles and...

Even though we may have moved on from 2024, it's still worthwhile to look back at the many excellent films from last year. Yet another new video countdown has debuted - this one is created by a young film critic named Will Bjarnar. This video featuring his 25 Best Films of 2024 is inspired by David Ehrlich's usual Top 25 Countdown (which will be out next week) and follows the same kind of editing. Bjarnar counts down his favorites from 2024, featuring tons of our own favorites as well. I'm so glad to see Furiosa, Hit Man, Bird, The Room Next Door, Close Your Eyes, and Challengers showing up on best of the year lists. These are some of the best of last year along with all the usual: Nickel Boys, Anora, The Brutalist, No Other Land, and Dune: Part Two. We've also featured a few other great 2024 video countdowns: Clementine's 2024 in Film,...

Tilda Swinton, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a performer — she disavows the label “actress” — unlike any other.

Swinton has been described by The Guardian as “one of the most gifted and fearless actors of her generation”; by The New Yorker as “the avant-garde’s Garbo, a manifestation of ideas in the flesh”; by Roger Ebert as “a fearless actress who takes big risks in her films”; by the Sydney Morning Herald as someone who “plays more wildly adventurous characters than just about anyone in the movies”; and by the New York Times as “not only a uniquely exciting performer, but also one of the great living theorists of performance,” who delivers “daring, shape-shifting acting.”

The winner of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a European Film Award, she is also a recipient of the Berlin Film Festival’s best actress prize,...

With a new year comes a new slate of movies for cinephiles to keep an eye out for. From awards season-hopeful films expanding their theater counts to new genre flare hoping to kick off January with some box office success stories, check out what is coming to theaters this coming weekend.

After just a few new releases started off the month, this weekend offers up both “Wolf Man” and “One of Them Days,” expanded releases of “I’m Still Here” and “September 5” and the re-release of “Sing Sing,” which previously opened last summer.

Following the success of “The Invisible Man” back in 2020, Leigh Whannell returns to the horror directing chair with “Wolf Man,” a new take on the 1941 original monster movie. This new adaptation follows a family who live in a remote farmhouse. After getting attacked by an unknown animal, the father slowly transforms into the terrifying Wolf Man. The cast includes Julia Garner,...

Some friendships are precious and can stand the test of time. In director Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and the circumstances of life separated them. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

We enjoyed speaking with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore about their roles and how real life informed their performances. The Room Next Door’s story goes to intimate and powerful places, asking audiences to contemplate death and how they’ll meet it. Who will hold your hand when the lights dim? What will you say before your last breath?

Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, The Room Next Door is a...

Adrien Brody and Marianne Jean-Baptiste were among the big winners at the 2025 New York Film Critics Circle Awards!

Adrien won Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist while Marianne won Best Actress for her role in Hard Truths at the awards event on Wednesday evening (January 8) held at Tao Downtown in New York City.

A Real Pain‘s Kieran Culkin ended up winning Best Supporting Actor and Between the Temples‘ Carol Kane won Best Supporting Actress.

Head inside to check out the full list of winners…

Adrien‘s girlfriend Georgina Chapman was in attendance at the event along with his The Brutalist co-star Guy Pearce, director Brady Corbet and his wife Mona Fastvold, who co-wrote the screenplay together.

Other celebs at the event included Anora stars Mikey Madison and Karren Karagulian along with director Sean Baker as well as Claire Danes, The Room Next Door actor John Tuturro and his son Diego,...

We should have a handle on the Academy Awards race now, right? The new year is upon us, the Golden Globes have already happened, the critics groups have chimed in and Oscar voting begins on Wednesday and runs through Sunday evening, ending sometime in the middle of the Critics Choice Awards.

But in an awards season that was supposed to be the one that got back to normal – no pandemic, no strikes! – plenty of things are still unsettled. So here are a few things worth keeping in mind about this season as it marches toward the Jan. 17 announcement of Oscar nominations and, eventually, the Academy Awards on March 2.

Karla Sofia Gascon and Demi Moore at the Golden Globe Awards (Getty Images) Yes, the Golden Globes can have an effect … of sorts

It’s silly to proclaim films Oscar frontrunners on the basis of Globes wins. The voting bodies are dramatically...

Sunday’s Golden Globes sent shockwaves through Hollywood, as presumed Oscar favorites like Anora and The Wild Robot were shut out, while underdog performers like Demi Moore (The Substance), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here), and Sebastian Stan (A Different Man) all claimed statuettes.

Now that the dust has settled, The Brutalist, Brady Corbet‘s period drama about the American dream, has jumped into the No. 1 spot in Gold Derby’s 2025 Oscars predictions for Best Picture, replacing Anora, Sean Baker‘s manic comedy about a Brooklyn sex worker.

Newcomers expected to receive a nomination since the last update: A Complete Unknown in Best Picture, Margaret Qualley (The Substance) in Best Supporting Actress, Conclave in Best Cinematography, and Nosferatu in Best Makeup & Hairstyling.

Below, see a snapshot in time of our odds for the 97th Academy Awards in all 23 categories, updated on Jan. 6, 2025. See how the rankings have changed over time by...

Wow! The first big award show of the year has come and gone just like that. On Jan. 5, the 82nd Golden Globe Awards aired live on CBS, and this year’s ceremony was definitely one for the books. Stand-up comedian Nikki Glaser took over hosting duties from last year's Jo Koy, and she had the audience laughing nonstop.

Actors, directors, writers, producers, and others who had been nominated in various categories arrived at the award ceremony dressed to impress, eager to see if they would take home any wins. Now that the glamorous occasion has concluded and all of the 2025 Golden Globe winners have been announced, we thought we would round up the full list of the amazing individuals and projects that claimed an award this year. Check out our list below!

Best Motion Picture, DramaNominees: The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Nickel Boys and September 5Winner: The BrutalistBest Motion Picture,...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is back tonight, ending its holiday hiatus. Fans will be even happier to know the show has big things planned for the week.

Stephen Colbert signed off just before Christmas. He had spent the final few days of 2024 mocking "President" Elon Musk and still trying to wrap his head around some of President-elect Donald Trump's administration picks.

A refreshed and recharged Colbert opens up the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight for a brand-new episode. It comes on January 6, giving the late-night TV host a chance to acknowledge the anniversary of the 2021 insurrection.

To do that, Colbert welcomes former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger to the show. Kinzinger was a member of the January 6 committee in the House. Expect the two to discuss what's happened (or hasn't) since that infamous day, the incoming Trump administration, and more.

Then, old Late Show friend Jon Batiste is back in the building.

Awards season has kicked off with a bang for 2025 with the arrival of the winners for the year’s Golden Globe Awards.

Hollywood congregated in force at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to see the biggest winners on the film stage, including ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Perez’. ‘The Brutalist’ won for best film (drama), best actor (drama), and best director. In contrast, Emilia Perez won Best Film (Comedy/Musical), Best Non-English Film, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Song.

Here’s the full list of winners and nominees:

Also in news – BAFTA announces longlist of nominees for 2025

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner: “The Brutalist” (A24)

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures)

“Conclave” (Focus Features)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

“September 5” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Winner: “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“Anora” (Neon)

“Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)

“A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures...

The red carpet has been rolled out, the suits and gowns have been set free, and the statuettes have been shined, which can only mean one thing: Awards season is back back back! Last night, at a ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, it was the 2025 Golden Globes' turn to kick off the Hollywood festivities, offering us our first real sense of the top dogs and dark horses as the BAFTAs and Oscars inch ever nearer. And so far, Jacques Audiard's trans mobster musical Emilia Pérez and Brady Corbet's monumental epic The Brutalist are leading the pack, with the two movies picking up four and three gongs respectively on a night in which major contenders Anora, Conclave, and Wicked were largely relegated to the sidelines.

Among the awards Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist took home were Best Comedy or Musical, Best Non-English Language Film, Best Original Song,...

The 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, held on January 5, 2025, at The Beverly Hilton, marked an electrifying start to the awards season. Hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the ceremony celebrated an array of stellar performances and groundbreaking projects across film and television. Glaser, known for her sharp wit, kept the evening lighthearted and inclusive, ensuring the focus remained on the honorees.

The French musical-comedy Emilia Pérez emerged as the evening’s biggest winner, sweeping four categories, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Director for Jacques Audiard. Meanwhile, the epic historical drama series Shōgun dominated television, claiming awards for Best Television Series – Drama and individual acting accolades for Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada.

Demi Moore secured her first Golden Globe win for her captivating performance in The Substance, while Adrien Brody took home Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for The Brutalist. Other notable victories included Flow,...

The 82nd Golden Globes have come to an end, and we have your complete list of this year’s big winners!

It was a night to remember, as host Nikki Glaser honored (and gently roasted) Hollywood’s best and brightest.

Here’s a complete list of the stars who took home the night’s top prizes:

Irish actor Colin Farrell poses with the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television award for “The Penguin” in the press room during the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Robyn Beck/Afp via Getty Images) Best Actress in a Limited Series

Cate Blanchett – Disclaimer

Cristin Milioti – The Penguin

Sofía Vergara – Griselda

Naomi Watts – Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

Kate Winslet – The Regime

Winner: Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country...

The BAFTA 2025 longlist is out, and it’s already stirring up some serious buzz. The longlists featuring a whopping 25 categories have set the stage for an exciting awards season.

With a lineup packed with fresh faces and daring films, it’s anyone’s game. But you know what’s most interesting? The usual mix of expected frontrunners, rising stars, and of course, those controversial omissions that have us all scratching our heads.

Angeline Jolie in Maria, Paul Mescal in Gladiator II, and Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl in BAFTA 2025 snubs

When talking about snubs, they’re BAFTA trademarks at this point, aren’t they? Every year, there are those films and performances that should have made it but somehow didn’t. It’s almost like a rite of passage in the film industry, being so close, but just out of reach.

And let’s face it, nothing gets fans...

“I’m Still Here” star Fernanda Torres won her first Golden Globe, and cemented her place in the awards race, after scoring the statue for best actress in a motion picture, drama.

Torres, 59, pulled off a major upset in cinching her victory and appeared to be stunned to hear her named called by presenter Viola Davis. She was nominated against Pamela Anderson (“The Last Showgirl”), Angelina Jolie (“Maria”), Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”) and Kate Winslet (“Lee”) and was not expected to prevail against all those A-listers and icons. In the political drama, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a grieving mother of five who is coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, former leftist politician Rubens Paiva, during Brazil’s military dictatorship.

“My god, I didn’t prepare anything,” Torres admitted from the stage at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. “This is such an amazing year for female performances.

Fernanda Torres has made history at the Golden Globes!

The 59-year-old actress won the award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (January 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Fernanda took home the prize for her work in the movie I’m Still Here, winning over Maria‘s Angelina Jolie, Babygirl‘s Nicole Kidman, The Room Next Door‘s Tilda Swinton, The Last Showgirl‘s Pamela Anderson, and Lee‘s Kate Winslet.

She just became the first Brazilian actress to ever win in the category!

Fernanda was the second Brazilian actress to land a Best Actress – Drama nomination at the Golden Globes, with the first being her mother Fernanda Montenegro for the movie Central Station back in 1999.

Keep reading to find out more…

“I didn’t prepare anything because I was glad already,” Fernanda said while accepting the award.

Fernanda Torres is going in the Golden Globes history books. The I’m Still Here star won the Best Drama Actress Golden Globe on Sunday, becoming the first Brazilian to win the prize.

Torres is only the second Brazilian to be nominated in the category, following her mother Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated 26 years ago for Central Station; she lost to Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth. Torres dedicated her award to her mother, adding that her win is proof that “art can endure in life.”

The actress is also the fourth performer to win the category for a non-English language performance after Anouk Aimée (A Man and a Woman), Liv Ullman (The Emigrants), and Isabelle Huppert (Elle). I’m Still Here, Brazil’s international feature submission at the Oscars, is in Portuguese.

Torres was in third place in the odds behind Angelina Jolie (Maria) and Nicole Kidman (Babygirl). The category was unusually...

“Of course I want to dedicated this to my mother. You have no idea. She was here 25 year ago and this is like a proof that art can endure through life,” said Brazilian’s Fernanda Torres, accepting her Golden Globe for Best Female Actor in A Motion Picture Drama for Walter Salles I’m Still Here in a competitive filed that included Nicole Kidman and Angeline Jolie.

Torres, one of Brazil’s best-known actors is the daughter of Fernanda Montenegro, an icon of Brazilian cinema, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for Salles’ breakthrough feature Central Station. She did not win but the took best international feature. The elder Fernanda appears in I’m Still Here as an older version of Torres’ character.

“Thank you Walter Salles, my partner, my friend. What a story,” Torres said.

Related: Emilia Pérez’ & ‘The Brutalist’ Take Top Film Prizes At Golden Globes: Full Winners...

The 82nd Golden Globes ceremony took place at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 5), whenThe Brutalist andEmilia Pérez won the top film awards.

All 2025 Golden Globes winners appear below in bold:

Film

Best picture - drama

The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Nickel Boys September 5

Best picture - musical or comedy

Anora Challengers Emilia Pérez A Real Pain The Substance Wicked

Best director

Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez Sean Baker - Anora Edward Berger - Conclave Brady Corbet - The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat - The Substance Payal Kapadia - All We Imagine as Light

Best screenplay...

The 2025 Golden Globes shook things up on Sunday night.

The ceremony, hosted by roaster extraordinaire Nikki Glaser (nimbly righting the ship after last year’s Jo Koy-helmed debacle), featured showdowns of epic proportions with heavyweights like The Brutalist and Conclave competing in dramatic film categories, while Emilia Pérez, Anora, and Wicked squared off in the musical/comedy slate.

When the dust settled, Emilia Pérez, which came into the evening with a record 10 nominations, led the way among films with four awards: Best Comedy/Musical, best non-English Film, supporting actress Zoe Saldaña, and Best Song (“El Mal”). The Brutalist tallied three awards: Best Drama, director Brady Corbet, and lead actor Adrien Brody. As expected, Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) received the supporting actor trophy, and Wicked won for cinematic and box-office achievement.

But without a clear Oppenheimer-esque favorite, things got interesting. Demi Moore brought down the house after her surprise...

I’m Still Here star Fernanda Torres dedicated her Golden Globes best actress in a drama win to her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1999 for Central Station.

Montenegro was the first Brazilian actress to be nominated 25 years ago, and now her daughter is the second, Torres told Entertainment Tonight ahead of the show.

“I didn’t prepare anything because I was glad already,” Torres said when she took the stage. “And this is such an amazing year for female performances, so many actresses here that I admire so much… I want to dedicate it to my mother. She was here 25 years ago. And this is like a proof that art can endure through life, even in difficult moments like this amazing story. … There’s something that is happening now in the world with so much fear. And this is a film that helped us to think how to survive in tough times like this.

There were so many shocking surprise wins at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and we have the full winners list right here!

The awards show honored the best in film and television on Sunday (January 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Shogun was the big winner in the television categories, taking home all four awards it was nominated for this year.

The Brutalist and Emilia Perez were among the big winners in the movie categories!

Make sure to check out our Best Dressed list and see a roundup of every single celebrity who stepped out on the red carpet.

Head inside to check out the full winners list from the Golden Globes…

Keep scrolling to see the full winners list from the Golden Globes…

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Anora

Challengers

Emilia Pérez – Winner

A Real Pain

The Substance

Wicked

Best Motion Picture, Drama

The Brutalist – Winner...

“Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Shōgun” were the big winners at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, jump-starting a busy and competitive awards season just five days into the new year.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” the Spanish-language musical from France that’s set in Mexico, won four awards from its Globes-leading 10 nominations, including best musical-comedy film, best song, best international film, and best supporting actress for an emotional Zoe Saldaña.

“The Brutalist,” a three-and-a-half hour epic about an architect in 1950s Pennsylvania, won best drama, best actor for Adrien Brody and best director for former actor Brady Corbet. In a surprise win, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres took home best actress in a drama for Walter Sallas’ “I’m Still Here” 26 years after her mother Fernanda Montenegro won the same award for Sallas’ “Central Station.” (Montenegro also has a cameo in the film.)

Kieran Culkin scooped up the award for best...

Awards season has officially begun! Tonight, the biggest names in Hollywood gathered for the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. Comedian Nikki Glaser was tapped to serve as host.

Shows and movies, including Emilia Pérez, Wicked, The Bear, and Shōgun, are among the major titles competing for multiple awards. This year also proved to be a big one for women in pop, with Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Miley Cyrus all receiving nods for acting and music, respectively. Both Grande and Gomez earned their first Golden Globes nominations for film appearances. The two...

It’s Hollywood’s biggest… party? That’s right, they're ba-a-ck. Your good-time buddies over at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are ready to party even though they've cleaned up their act. Now a for-profit organization, the HFPA emerges from its reputation as a Hollywood “cartel” known for accepting bribes in exchange for award statuettes,...

A stronger Christmas continues to provide major dividends as four major family titles and three unusually strong specialized releases got 2025 off to an improved start. “Mufasa: The Lion King” (Disney), #2 last weekend, took #1 for the first time in its three-week run, ahead of “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount). “Nosferatu” (Focus), #3 overall, is tops among the more adult-appeal titles, and has a real chance to hit $100 million in U.S./Canada totals.

The weekend total of $106 million is 21 percent better than the first 2024 weekend, made even more remarkable with no new wide release. Last year, “Nightswim” opened to just under $12 million. Though no single January 2025 release looks like a breakout (Universal’s “Wolf Man” on January 17 looks best), the month could start 2025 at 15 percent or more ahead last year.

Holdovers were strong, particularly compared to a holiday weekend. “Mufasa,” only $200,000 behind “Sonic” last week, held better with a 35 percent drop compared to 43 percent.

Update Jan. 5, 2025, at 11:15 a.m. Pt: There’s been a last-minute shift in the Best Song category, with Emilia Pérez (“El Mal”) taking the No. 1 position from The Wild Robot (“Kiss the Sky”). What that means: the Netflix musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender transition surgery is now expected to win three trophies overall, including supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña and non-English film. That would tie Emilia Pérez with Anora, though the film would still be one behind The Brutalist, which is predicted to lead with four Golden Globes.

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The final odds are in for Hollywood’s biggest party of the year.

The Brutalist, the period piece about a Holocaust survivor who tries to achieve the American dream, is predicted to lead the Golden Globes with four victories: drama film, drama actor for Adrien Brody, director for Brady Corbet,...

Awards season is officially ready to launch. On Sunday night, the Golden Globes will kick off the race to the 2025 Oscars with the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony. The star-studded event will air live on CBS linear television and stream live on Paramount+ for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers.

The Golden Globes, routinely referred to as “Hollywood’s party of the year” (so much so that the group has trademarked that phrase), are the largest awards event in the world dedicated to honoring the year’s top projects in film and television. The Golden Globe Awards also kick off the televised portion of awards season, getting out in front of other ceremonies like the Critics Choice Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Oscars.

Here’s everything about the 2025 Golden Globes, from this year’s nominations to the show date and time.

When are the Golden Globes?

The 2025 Golden Globes occur on Sunday,...

“Nickel Boys,” the Colson Whitehead adaptation from director RaMell Ross, won best film from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics on Saturday. Jomo Fray’s cinematography was also honored by the organization.

The drama of two young men incarcerated at an inhumane school for boys in Florida, filmed almost entirely in first person, comfortably won the top award over runners-up “Anora” and “All We Imagine as Light.”

“All We Imagine as Light” picked up the best director prize for Payal Kapadia, who emerged victorious over RaMell Ross and “Anora” filmmaker Sean Baker, and also won the prize for best film not in the English language.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste took the best actress prize with a commanding ballot lead over her competition. The Brit won for her role as an irascible Londoner in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” completing her trifecta of critics awards (after victories from New York and Los...

We’re days away from the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and the show will mark the official beginning of awards season this year!

The annual event honors the best in film and television, so you can expect your favorite stars from both mediums to be in attendance.

This year, Emilia Perez received the most film award nominations with 10 total, while The Bear leads the TV nominations with 5.

Nikki Glaser is hosting the show, which airs live on CBS and streams on Paramount+ in the U.S. as well. Make sure to tune in on Sunday (January 5) at 8/7c!

So, who do we think will win?

Keep reading to find out more…

Keep scrolling to see our winner predictions in every category…

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Anora

Challengers

Emilia Pérez

A Real Pain

The Substance

Wicked – Predicted Winner

Best Motion Picture, Drama

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave – Predicted Winner...

And so it begins.

Sunday’s 82nd Golden Globe Awards starts the engine for the inexorable drive to Oscars, and providing a reality check for the would-be frontrunners and dark horses, alike. Leading the way in the movie categories is the intrepid Spanish-language gangster musical Emilia Pérez with 10 nominations, the most-nominated comedy/musical film in Globes history. Several other films are coming in with high hopes: The Brutalist has seven bids, Conclave has six, Anora has five, and Wicked and A Real Pain have four apiece.

Here are our expert picks for who and what should win and could win — as well as a forecast of who actually will win.

Best Film Drama

• The Brutalist

• A Complete Unknown

• Conclave

• Dune: Part Two

• Nickel Boys

• September 5

Who should win: The Brutalist

Who could win: Conclave

Who will win: The Brutalist

Brady Corbet’s sweeping epic is a towering cinematic achievement that...

Both Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”) will be in attendance at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night as they compete for the Golden Globe award for best actress (drama). There’s a chance they’ll both leave empty-handed, with Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), Kate Winslet (“Lee”) and Pamela Anderson (“The Last Showgirl”) also in contention for the honor amid a highly competitive year for lead actress.

But one awards show where neither Jolie and Swinton will be get recognition is the BAFTAs, with both of their acclaimed dramas failing to land a single spot on the longlists following the first round of voting.

Announced Friday, the longlists have put “Emilia Perez” and “Conclave” out in front, with 15 and 14 slots respectively, followed by a tight pack that includes “The Substance,” “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Wicked” and “Anora.”

The...

It was, as Tilda Swinton would say — gazing across the table one Saturday afternoon in November at the Soho House’s Luckman Club in West Hollywood — a room of “scorching glamour.” Amid the heat of all that charisma, there were three cute canines sniffing around: Zendaya’s mini black schnauzer, Noon; Demi Moore’s micro chihuahua, Pilaf; and Mikey Madison’s chihuahua puppy, Jam. The occasion for the gathering of Oscar frontrunners and the dogs who love them was THR’s annual Actress Roundtable, which this year convened Angelina Jolie (Maria), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Madison (Anora), Moore (The Substance), Swinton (The Room Next Door) and Zendaya (Dune: Part Two and Challengers) for a conversation on surviving and thriving in modern Hollywood. “A lot of women in the past didn’t have this table,” Jolie pointed out of the sometimes lonely life of being a woman in the arts. “They...

“It’s a miracle,” says Fernanda Torres, the star of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here when congratulated on her Golden Globe nomination for the role.

The 59-year-old Brazilian actress seems the odd one out among the boldface names in the best actress, drama category — including Angelina Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Tilda Swinton for The Room Next Door, Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl and Kate Winslet for Lee — but few who have seen the film would challenge her nomination.

In I’m Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a mother of five and wife to former Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva. When Rubens is “disappeared” by the Brazilian regime, during the country’s military dictatorship — which ran from 1964 to 1985 — Paiva reinvents herself as a human rights lawyer and activist, fighting for justice for herself and families like hers.

Adapted by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega from the autobiographical novel...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

No matter what 2025 brings, 2024 in cinema felt like a year of unprecedented freedom and resistance in global and domestic affairs. In many ways, the anxieties expressed in 2024 reminded me of 1999. Culture can be a canary in the coal mine.

The year’s best and most essential films chose to fight back and comment on the “machine.” This year’s boldest films included sprawling epics, essential documentaries, personal stories, and a surprising number of unhinged works of fantasy. Call it the year of Yolo (full disclosure – one of the films I missed this year was Jia Ling’s Yolo), where on one end, films like Love Lies Bleeding, Aggro Dr1ft, Rumours, Megalopolis, Longlegs, Anora, Strange Darling, Armand, The Beast, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, Kinds of Kindness, The End,...

The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 25 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with two very different thrillers leading the pack of longlisted features.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language music-thriller that was picked up by Netflix in Cannes, has emerged ahead of the race with slots in 15 categories, including best film, director, leading actress and three in the supporting actress list. Meanwhile “Conclave,” Focus Features’ Papal mystery-thriller from Edward Berger set within the Vatican, has 14, including best film, director and leading actor for Ralph Fiennes.

Further down, a tight pack of films includes “The Substance,” “The Brutalist” and “A Complete Unknown” on 11 lists, “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two” on 10 and “Anora” and “Gladiator 2” on nine. All, with the exception of “Gladiator 2,” are on the best film longlist. Ridley Scott’s epic return to the coliseum also missed out...

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As though to provide a measure of solace in a year when the world news could hardly have been more depressing, 2024 has provided far more cinema of quality than has been seen for a very long time. I can come up with no less than twenty-five titles that count as exceptional works, at least half of which are close to perfection. Even so, that does not mean that 2024 has been a year without worries about where cinema is going. The great films are there but how readily can they be seen? This is a time when the range of what is on offer at mainstream cinemas fails to satisfy as many tastes as one would wish, when many films play mainly or exclusively on platforms too numerous for subscribers to embrace all of them and when the number of releases is so high that,...