Awards season is upon us once again, with this Sunday’s 82nd Golden Globe Awards kicking off the televised awards race that will consume Hollywood through the Academy Awards in March.
Here’s what you need to know about the star-studded bash, which touts itself as Hollywood’s party of the year:
What time is the show? Where and how to watch
The 82nd Golden Globes will air live on Sunday at 5 p.m. Pacific time on CBS and will be streamed live and on-demand on the network’s streaming platform Paramount+ in the U.S. for subscribers to Paramount+ With Showtime. Paramount+ Essential subscribers can watch it on-demand the next day.
The 2025 edition of the show, taking place at its usual haunt, the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, will be the second ceremony for the organization since it came under new ownership in 2023 after a temporary fall from grace in 2021. That’s when a Times investigation uncovered a significant lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s membership and highlighted troubling ethics and financial misconduct. The report and the subsequent reorganization cast a pall on the show, evaporating its famous party atmosphere. The Globes’ original organizing body later was dissolved and converted into a for-profit enterprise.
Who’s nominated?
Édgar Ramírez, left, Zoe Saldaña, Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz star in the film “Emilia Pérez.”
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(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
The Globes, which recognize a selection of projects across film, television and music (from movies), announced this year’s nominees in early December, with the Spanish-language film “Emilia Pérez” and FX’s chef-led series “The Bear” topping the nominees for movie and TV, respectively.
The Mexico-set “Emilia Pérez,” which stars Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz, scored 10 nominations. It was followed by “The Brutalist,” a drama starring Adrien Brody about a Hungarian emigré architect in America, with seven nods. The film category is divided between drama and musical/comedy. TV is separated into three categories: drama, comedy, and series, anthology series or TV movie.
EGOT winner Viola Davis has been named the recipient of the Golden Globes’ 2025 Cecil B. DeMille Award, a career honor that will be presented during a gala dinner at the Beverly Hilton on Friday. “Cheers” alum and three-time Golden Globe winner Ted Danson will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award, recognizing his “outstanding contributions to television on or off screen.”
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The major nominees are:
Motion picture, drama
“The Brutalist” “A Complete Unknown” “Conclave” “Dune: Part Two” “Nickel Boys” “September 5”
Motion picture, musical or comedy
“Anora” “Challengers” “Emilia Pérez” “A Real Pain” “The Substance” “Wicked”
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Television series, drama
“The Day of the Jackal” “The Diplomat” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” “Shōgun” “Slow Horses” “Squid Game”
Television series, musical or comedy
“Abbott Elementary” “The Bear” “The Gentlemen” “Hacks” “Nobody Wants This” “Only Murders in the Building”
Television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
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“Baby Reindeer” “Disclaimer” “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” “The Penguin” “Ripley” “True Detective: Night Country”
Who’s hosting?
Comedian Nikki Glaser will emcee Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony.
(Jennifer Rose Clasen)
Nikki Glaser is making history as the first woman to host the Golden Globes on her own. Fellow comics Jo Koy, Ricky Gervais and Jerrod Carmichael have hosted in recent years, as well as the duo of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. The self-deprecating Glaser won over audiences with her brand of comedy during last year’s live “Roast of Tom Brady.”
In a recent interview with The Times, Glaser said she learned a lot from the roast about how to approach big events like the Globes.
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“I now know I can show up, and given the right amount of time leading up to it, kill it the way I did before,” she said, noting that she’s approaching the ceremony the same way she did the roast: by watching everything.
“I’m consuming and trying to find what my opinions are about these people and these projects. I’m really just trying to immerse myself in that world. I’m trying to do a lot of visualization of what it’s gonna be like to walk out there too. Who am I gonna see? Thinking about what the tone I want to hit is and thinking about overall goals of the evening,” she said.
Her goal: to walk off the stage after the monologue and then feel like the rest of the show is “a cakewalk.”
“I’m gonna make headlines for the right reasons of maybe saying some shocking things, but not upsetting anyone,” she said. “You know, I’m not going to have to avoid anyone at the afterparty. The most successful thing I can do is just say the things I want to say. Speak some truth, possibly get some groans, claps, and ‘Whoa, she went there.’ I’m not up there to call anyone out or make some audacious political statement. I just want to have a good set.”
Who’s going to be there?
Aside from the majority of this year’s crop of nominees, additional celebrities will be on hand, including past winners and those trying to promote their latest projects. Here’s who has been announced to present at the ceremony:
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Andrew Garfield
Anthony Mackie
Anthony Ramos
Anya Taylor-Joy
Ariana DeBose
Aubrey Plaza
Auliʻi Cravalho
Awkwafina
Brandi Carlile
Catherine O’Hara
Colin Farrell
Colman Domingo
Demi Moore
Dwayne Johnson
Édgar Ramírez
Elton John
Gal Gadot
Glenn Close
Jeff Goldblum
Jennifer Coolidge
Kaley Cuoco
Kate Hudson
Kathy Bates
Ke Huy Quan
Kerry Washington
Margaret Qualley
Melissa McCarthy
Michael Keaton
Michelle Yeoh
Miles Teller
Mindy Kaling
Morris Chestnut
Nate Bargatze
Nicolas Cage
Rachel Brosnahan
Rob McElhenney
Salma Hayek Pinault
Sarah Paulson
Seth Rogen
Sharon Stone
Vin Diesel
Viola Davis
Zoë Kravitz
Times staff writer Tracy Brown contributed to this report.
Forget the “video game movie” curse;The Mortuary Assistantis a bone-chilling triumph that stands entirely on its own two feet. Starring Willa Holland (Arrow) as Rebecca Owens, the film follows a newly certified mortician whose “overtime shift” quickly devolves into a grueling battle for her soul.
What Makes It Work
The film expertly balances the stomach-churning procedural work of embalming with a spiraling demonic nightmare. Alongside a mysterious mentor played by Paul Sparks (Boardwalk Empire), Rebecca is forced to confront both ancient evils and her own buried traumas. And boy, does she have a lot of them.
Thanks to a full-scale, practical River Fields Mortuary set, the film drips with realism, like you can almost smell the rot and bloat of the bodies through the screen.
The skin effects are hauntingly accurate. The way the flesh moves during surgical scenes is so visceral. I’ve seen a lot of flesh wounds in horror films and in real life, and the bodies, skin, and organs. The Mortuary Assistant (especially in the opening scene) looks so real that I skipped supper after watching it. And that’s saying something. Your girl likes to eat.
Co-written by the game’s creator, Brian Clarke, the movie dives deeper into the demonic mythology. Whether you’ve seen every ending or don’t know a scalpel from a trocar, the story is perfectly self-contained. If you’ve never played the game, or played it a hundred times, the film works equally well, which is hard to do when it comes to game adaptations.
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Nailed It
This film does a lot of things right, but the isolation of the night shift is suffocating. Between the darkness of the hallways and the “residents” that refuse to stay still, the film delivers a relentlessly immersive experience. And thankfully, although this movie is filled with dark rooms and shadows, it’s easy to see every little thing. Don’t you hate it when a movie is so dark that you can’t see what’s happening? It’s one of my pet peeves.
The oh-so-awesome Jeremiah Kipp directs the film and has made something absolutely nightmare-inducing. Kipp recently joined us for an interview, took us inside the film, discussed its details and the game’s lore, and so much more. I urge you to check out our interview. He’s awesome!
The Verdict
This isn’t just a cash-grab; it’s a high-effort adaptation that respects the source material while elevating the horror genre. With incredible special effects and a powerhouse cast, it’s the kind of movie that will make you rethink working late ever again. Dropping on Friday the 13th, this is a must-watch for horror fans. It’s grisly, intelligent, and genuinely terrifying.
A former executive at Live Nation, the world’s largest live entertainment company, is suing the company, alleging that he was wrongfully terminated after he raised concerns about alleged financial misconduct and improper accounting practices.
Nicholas Rumanes alleges he was “fraudulently induced” in 2022 to leave a lucrative position as head of strategic development at a real estate investment trust to create a new role as executive vice president of development and business practice at Beverly Hills-based Live Nation.
In his new position, Rumanes said, he raised “serious and legitimate alarm” over the the company’s business practices.
As a result, he says, he was “unlawfully terminated,” according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
“Rumanes was, simply put, promised one job and forced to accept another. And then he was cut loose for insisting on doing that lesser job with integrity and honesty,” according to the lawsuit.
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He is seeking $35 million in damages.
Representatives for Live Nation were not immediately available for comment.
The lawsuit comes a week after a federal jury in Manhattan found that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had operated a monopoly over major concert venues, controlling 86% of the concert market.
Rumanes’ lawsuit describes a “culture of deception” at Live Nation, saying its “basic business model was to misstate and exaggerate financial figures in efforts to solicit and secure business.”
Such practices “spanned a wide spectrum of projects in what appeared to be a company-wide pattern of financial misrepresentation and misleading disclosures,” the lawsuit states.
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Rumanes says he received materials and documents that showed that the company inflated projected revenues across multiple venue development projects.
Additionally, Rumanes contends that the company violated a federal law that requires independent financial auditing and transparency and instead ran Live Nation “through a centralized, opaque structure” that enables it to “bypass oversight and internal checks and balances.”
In 2010, as a condition of the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger, the newly formed company agreed to a consent decree with the government that prohibited the firm from threatening venues to use Ticketmaster. In 2019 the Justice Department found that the company had repeatedly breached the agreement, and it extended the decree.
Rumanes contends that he brought his concerns to the attention of the company’s management, but his warnings were “repeatedly ignored.”
At the centre of Madhuvidhu directed by Vishnu Aravind is a house where only men reside, three generations of them living in harmony. Unlike the Anjooran household in Godfather, this is not a house where entry is banned to women, but just that women don’t choose to come here. For Amrithraj alias Ammu (Sharafudheen), the protagonist, 28 marriage proposals have already fallen through although he was not lacking in interest.
When a not-so-cordial first meeting with Sneha (Kalyani Panicker) inevitably turns into mutual attraction, things appear about to change. But some unexpected hiccups are waiting for them, their different religions being one of them. Writers Jai Vishnu and Bipin Mohan do not seem to have any major ambitions with Madhuvidhu, but they seem rather content to aim for the middle space of a feel-good entertainer. Only that they end up hitting further lower.
