The Top 5 Moments From the 2025 Golden Globe Awards

Before or around the same time news broke that she’d just gotten engaged to Tom Holland, Zendaya, looking fabulous as always, showed off her engagement ring. It was a moment of joy and pristine style meshed with some absolutely perfect timing. Unfortunately, though, she didn’t take home any trophies for the clearly under-appreciated Challengers. Watch her flaunt her new ring for yourself below.

4. Colin Farrell Wins Golden Globe for The Penguin

Anyone who watched The Penguin knew they were taking in some dope shit, with the primary conduit being the one and only Colin Farrell. With a mix of twitchy facial expressions, the engrossing charisma of an actual mob boss, and a little help from the show’s makeup team, Farrell helped make The Penguin one of the best new TV series of the whole year, and he won an award for it yesterday.

Last night, his turn as The Penguin’s titular character won him the Golden Globe for Best Acting in a Limited Series. “I guess it’s prosthetics from here on out,” he told the crowd before giving props to the makeup team and everyone else on the cast.

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3. Zoe Saldaña Wins First Golden Globe

Believe it or not, Zoe Saldaña had never won a Golden Globe award before last night. At the awards show, she took home the trophy for Wins Best Supporting Female Actor (for Emilia Pérez). Her teary eyed acceptance speech was just as powerful as her turn as lawyer Rita Mora Castro.

“I’m filled with adrenaline, but my heart is full of gratitude,” she told the audience. “I love you — you guys are everything.”Watch her whole speech below:

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2. Viola Davis’ Cecil Demille Award Acceptance Speech

Pro tip: listen to a Viola Davis acceptance speech any time you can. Through the years, she’s managed to deliver some of the most poignant and emotionally transparent moments through her acceptance speeches, and this one was no different. After receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was presented by the great Meryl Streep, Davis turned in yet another lucid reflection on her career journey.

“Little Viola is squealing,” Davis said in the closing of her speech. “She’s standing behind me now and she’s pulling on my dress. And she’s wearing the same red rubber boots that she wore rain or shine because they made her feel ‘purty’ … And what she’s whispering is, ‘I told you I was a magician.'”

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1. Nikki Glaser’s Stellar Opening Monologue

For this one, Nikki Glaser took a break from roasting people to serve up some jokes that ranged from visceral humor to more incisive social commentary. There were nods to Hollywood’s predatory nature, but there was also an amazing collaboration joke with Adam Sandler. There were countless celebrity name-drops. There was just a lot, and Nikki threaded it all with preternatural ease and impeccable timing.

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