Golden Globes 2025 – stay: Hollywood prepares for first ceremony of awards season

Last May, Nikki Glaser tackled the greatest quarterback in the history of American football and made herself a star in the process. Even comedy greats were impressed by Glaser’s roast of Tom Brady.

“No one is gonna do a better roast set than that,” Conan O’Brien told her, adding that all future roasts will be measured against it. “Where is it on the Nikki Glaser scale? ‘It’s a 6.2.’ That’s pretty good, but it’s not her 10.”

Where will her Golden Globes set measure on the Glaser scale? Read on for more:

Exclusive: The stand-up comedian and actress tells The Independent that she’s excited to deliver her jokes “in front of the crowd they were meant for”

The contents of the 2025 Golden Globes gift bag has been revealed. This year, the famously opulent gift bag that’s given to nominees has doubled in value, boasting $1 million-worth of gifts.

Here’s what’s inside:

Five-time Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais has revealed how he’d kick off his monologue if he had Nikki Glaser’s job this year, writing on social media:

“Hello, and welcome to the 82nd Golden Globe awards. What a year it’s been. Hundreds of entertainers jumped at the chance to go to The Vatican to meet The Pope. Many from Hollywood. Obviously they weren’t content with only being part of the second biggest paedo ring in the world…”

Read more of Gervais’s non-PC jokes here:

During an episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna on Monday (December 9), the two TV hosts discussed the Golden Globes nominations, which were announced earlier that morning. Kotb prefaced that both she and her colleague were “angry” about the topic, before noting that it was on their “jangily list.”

“Glaser is set to continue in that no-holds-barred lineage. Last month, she revealed she’d approached Gervais for advice about how to nail the gig, telling CBS: “His advice was just: ‘Be yourself. You’re not one of them. Don’t try to walk out acting like you’re an A-lister, just because you’re invited.’”

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Films in contention for trophies at the forthcoming ceremony include Jon M. Chu’s hit musical Wicked, Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora and Brady Corbet’s epic drama The Brutalist, which was hailed a “masterpiece” after its Venice Film Festival premiere. The latter received seven nominations.

Edward Berger’s religious drama Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, has also received several nominations, as has Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which stars nominees Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton. But it was French director Jacques Audiard’s divisive musical drama Emilia Pérez that led the pack, with 10 nominations.

Meanwhile, in the TV categories, The Penguin, Baby Reindeer, Slow Horses and Shōgun have all received recognition — but The Bear was the most nominated series, garnering five.

Find the full list of nominees here.