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Adrian Horton
Wanda Sykes is the first celeb I’ve seen on the red carpet tonight with a “Be Good” pin, which some are wearing in honor of Renee Nicole Good, the unarmed woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, sparking national outrage. Others are wearing “ICE OUT” pins as part of an ACLU-endorsed protest of the Trump administration’s persecution of undocumented migrants and larger $100m recruitment campaign aimed at expanding ICE presence in communities across the country.
“We need to speak up and shut this rogue government down,” Sykes told Variety on the red carpet. “It’s awful what they are doing to people.”
Wanda Sykes is wearing a “Be Good” pin at the #GoldenGlobes to honor Renee Good after she was killed by an ICE officer:
“We need to speak up and shut this rogue government down. It’s awful what they are doing to people.”
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Morwenna Ferrier
A nice bit of era-dressing here in Sinners’ star Miles Caton’s chestnut pinstripe suit by Amiri. I’d argue it beats Timothée Chalamet’s Givenchy version at the Critics Choice. Begone the penguin suit – enter the age of the pinstripe!
Morwenna Ferrier
The prestige clothes are raining down like the sleet above us (here in London, anyway) but I’ve yet to see better than Elle Fanning’s sparkly embroidered Gucci gown. A very ye-olde-silver screen glamourpuss right there. Just watch the pooling hem on those steps.
Benjamin Lee
In case you need reminding of just how much Nikki Glaser nailed it last year, here’s her opening monologue:
Morwenna Ferrier
Ayo Edebiri – nominated for her performance in that classic comedy, The Bear – is always a good place to start. I suspect this black velvet panelled off the shoulder gown is new Chanel (under Matthieu Blazy) given she’s an ambassador of the brand. It’s pushing classicism forward but the stylised bob and Hollywood finger hold gives the whole thing a refined approach.
Morwenna Ferrier
Hello from the Guardian’s fashion desk. I’ll be tracking the gowns and jackets on the red carpet tonight.
Clothes-wise, this is especially exciting because we have some newbies and some comebacks. This is the first Golden Globes that Jessie Buckley has attended. Will she wear Dior? Will she wear her Macron-coded polo neck? Or will she wear colour? It’s also the first Globes that Sydney Sweeney has attended, too. I’ll leave that there! Also One Battle After Another star Chase Infiniti who is making her debut has been having some fun with Louis Vuitton and 3D-printed Iris van Herpen over the last few months. Welcome back Gwyneth Paltrow (we hope!).
Designer-wise, we can always expect a lot of Armani. Probably a healthy dose of new Dior, too. A smattering of Louis Vuitton and Thom Browne should finish things off. This is, after all, the great fashion-film industrial complex! Still, in the wake of thematic red carpet dressing (think Barbie, think Wicked) will the chromatic marketing of Marty Supreme’s orange ping-pong balls outdo them all? It’s likely.
The greatest honour tonight is of course taking home an award. But given that stylists have supplanted editors as the most powerful arbiters of taste, it would be remiss (and dull) to ignore the clothes wouldn’t it?
Benjamin Lee
The Globes has tended to allow funnier presenter bits than the Oscars in previous years, especially when it was back on NBC which tended to mean more Saturday Night Live cast members, either former or current.
Taking a look at this year’s list of presenters, we can safely expect something pretty straightforward from stars such as Diane Lane, Dakota Fanning, Pamela Anderson, Orlando Bloom, Julia Roberts, Ana de Armas and Colman Domingo. But let’s hold out hope that something worth a rewatch might come from names like Wanda Sykes, Will Arnett, Regina Hall, Kathryn Hahn and Keegan-Michael Key.
Once again, nothing will ever top this, mind:
Benjamin Lee
Ever since the heyday of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Globes haven’t quite managed to nail the right host and in turn the right tone. We had the uncomfortable with Jerrod Carmichael, the toothless with Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh and the heinous with Jo Koy. Even when Tina and Amy returned for the Covid-cursed 2021 ceremony, they weren’t as funny as they once were.
Last year’s host Nikki Glaser bringing a considerable number of laughs was no shock to those who were already fans (her 2024 special Someday You’ll Die is one of the funniest standup sets I have seen in the past few years) but just how well she did was still a genuine surprise. She received instant praise for her cleverly modulated routine which delivered just the right about of sour to go with the sweet.
She was hired to return almost straight away and in recent press has claimed she will ridicule anyone except Julia Roberts and in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, had this to say about why it’s a tough gig at this time:
I don’t usually have these ‘woe is me!’ pity sessions, but lately … And people always remind me that hosting an awards show is the hardest gig. I say, ‘No, it’s actually so fun!’ What’s hard is that people don’t watch things anymore. Even Marty Supreme, do people not even know that’s about ping-pong? People don’t know what the hell Jay Kelly is. They know George Clooney. So, you end up making a lot of jokes about the advertisements and the endorsements these people do. People might not know Kevin Hart’s special, but they know he’s popping up talking about DraftKings.
We’re back!
Adrian Horton
It’s that time of year again – the Golden Globes, with its free-flowing champagne and head-scratching categorizations (Marty Supreme, a comedy?) – are back. At least we got a full week into January this year to catch our breath before awards season begins in earnest. Already we’re in desperate need of some levity this January – and that the Globes, traditionally the Oscars’ tipsier, sillier and at times wayward cousin, can provide.
Even in its (more diverse, less corrupt) rebound era, the Globes can throw some curveballs. But on the film side at least, One Battle After Another enters the night as the heavy favorite, with a leading nine nominations (and a nod from virtually every critics’ association, as well). Because this is the Globes, Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture epic won’t go up against one of its main Oscar rival, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, as the latter is classified as a drama alongside heavily nominated films like Sentimental Value and Hamnet. The TV side, meanwhile, is virtually a repeat of September’s Emmys, with HBO Max’s The Pitt, Apple TV+’s The Studio and Netflix’s Adolescence expected to clean up in drama, comedy and limited series.
This is the third year of the new and improved Golden Globes (post reform of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association), which began to hit their stride last year with host Nikki Glaser. With Glaser at the helm again and the room once again packed with A-listers, there’s sure to be at least a few memorable moments … Stick with us for the highlights!
