The stars of film and TV gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday for the 83rd Golden Globes ceremony, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Netflix miniseries Adolescence emerged as the big winners on the night, earning four Globes apiece.
One Battle After Another won Best Film (Comedy or Musical), Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, Best Director and Best Screenplay, both for Anderson, who has become only the second filmmaker after Oliver Stone to collect Best Director, Screenplay and Film (as a producer) at the Globes.
Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern countercultural novel “Vineland”, Anderson’s tenth feature centers around a dishevelled revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is forced out of retirement when a former enemy (Sean Penn) threatens his daughter (Chase Infiniti) in a bid to revive an old grudge. Euronews Culture ranked it our Number 1 Movie of 2025 and it is the clear front-runner this awards season.
In one of the evening’s best speeches, singer and actress Teyana Taylor sent a message to “my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight”.
“Our light does not need permission to shine,” she told them. “We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space.”
While many were betting on Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller Sinners to take Best Film in the Drama section, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, a speculative drama about William and Agnes Shakespeare based on Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel, pulled off an upset by winning the Best Film (Drama). Its star, Jessie Buckley, also won Best Actress in a Drama.
At the Oscars, Buckley will have to compete against Rose Byrne, who was rewarded for her lead performance in Mary Bronstein’s punishing parental drama If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
Sinners – another one of our 2025 favourites – did end up winning Best Score and the Cinematic and Box-office Achievement award, beating the likes of Avatar: Fire and Ash, F1, Weapons and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Other big winners of the evening include Timothée Chalamet, who nabbed his first Golden Globe for Marty Supreme, beating George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio. The 30-year-old is poised to win his first Oscar for his role in Josh Safdie’s first solo outing behind the camera. Loosely inspired by the life and career of US ping-pong player Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme is a coming-of-age film about scheming and whatever-it-takes determination in the face of adversity.
“My dad instilled in me a spirit of gratitude growing up: Always be grateful for what you have,” said Chalamet. “It’s allowed me to leave this ceremony in the past empty handed, my head held high, grateful just to be here. I’d be lying if I didn’t say those moments didn’t make this moment that much sweeter.”
Elsewhere, Brazilian actor Wagner Moura was the surprise winner in the Drama category for his role in the political thriller The Secret Agent, becoming the first Brazilian to win the award. His win follows Fernanda Torres’ success last year for I’m Still Here.
“This is a film about memory – or the lack of memory – and generational trauma,” Moura said. “I think that if trauma can be passed along generations, values can too. So this is to the ones that are sticking with their values in difficult moments.”
The Secret Agent also won Best Film (Non-English language), beating favourite Sentimental Value.
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, 74, did win Best Supporting Actor for Sentimental Value. He joked that he hadn’t prepared a speech “because I thought that I was too old”, before making an impassioned plea for people to see films like his on the big screen.
“Cinema should be seen in cinemas,” he said to cheers from the audience. (EuroNews)
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