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The 2025 Golden Globes the initial major awards ceremony of the year celebrated achievements across film and television. The ceremony broadcasted live from CBS television stations on Sunday evening was also available for live streaming across Paramount+. Entertainment Tonight and Variety presented a digital pre-show featuring Rachel Smith and Marc Malkin respectively which increased the audience engagement.
The film "The Brutalist" won Best Drama Film at the Golden Globes Awards along with multiple acting and directing awards. "Emilia Pérez" took home Best Motion Picture within the musical or comedy classification demonstrating different winning aspects at this year's ceremony. Two Golden Globe winning artists were honored with special accolades including Viola Davis receiving the Cecil B DeMille Award and Ted Danson earning the Carol Burnett Award for their lifetime achievements.
Comedian Nikki Glaser a known name within entertainment world became first woman to solo host the Golden Globe Awards event in its 82 year history. Glaser hosted after her performance during Comedy Central's The Roast of Tom Brady. Former Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais provided Glaser words of advice to be herself for her role as a lead personality in this live show with high public viewership. Glaser's rise shows a big moment within a traditionally dominated format from men and an interesting mix from standup comedy and awards ceremonies.
Nine Inch Nails members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross earned Best Original Score during the 2025 Golden Globes for their work with Challengers which included previous Yuck front man Daniel Blumberg plus Hans Zimmer and Volker Bertelmann within the nominations. This award stands as the sixth Golden Globes nomination and third victory for the long time musical collaboration with past awards including The Social Network and Soul . Elton John and Brandi Carlile co-presented this particular award with John celebrating when Reznor and Ross received this award. Atticus Ross made his acceptance speech showing appreciation for Trent Reznor his friend and partner also thanking the director Luca Guadagnino with Ross claiming “ music never felt safe but always right ” when crafting music for “Challengers”.
The musical duo of Camille and Clément Ducol won the award for Best Original Song for “El Mal” in Emilia Pérez beating out the nominees Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross with their work in Challengers with the track “Compress/Repress”. Other contenders included Miley Cyrus and Lykke Li for “Beautiful That Way” and Maren Morris who sang “Kiss the Sky” also Robbie Williams and Freddy Wexler for song “Forbidden Road” respectively which was in movie title “Better Man”. This showed diversity among different talent during that awards night.
Ludwig Göransson previously won the 2024 Golden Globe for Best Original Score from his work in “Oppenheimer” while Billie Eilish with Finneas took home Best Original Song award during 2024 ceremonies for their piece "What Was I Made For" for Barbie highlighting the different music professionals receiving top marks in previous awards seasons. The creative team for Pitchfork which wrote about the event has a working relationship for affiliate partnerships.
The movie “Challengers” had only one award out of its four nominations when Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the award for the Best Original Score showcasing their talent and musical skill within “Challengers”. The winning team stated during the speech that music "never felt safe but always felt right" providing greater detail about the experience working on the movie. Luca Guadagnino who directed the film also was given recognition for creative direction with movie which has a soundtrack inspired by hard-hitting techno. The soundtrack “Challengers” won against “Dune Part 2” by Hans Zimmer and movies such as “Conclave” and “The Wild Robot” along with “Emilia Perez”. "Challengers" lost for best musical/ comedy picture with “Emilia Pérez” taking the grand prize.
Demi Moore won Best Actress over Zendaya in the musical or comedy category during that night. The nominated score song "Compress / Repress" of “Challengers” lost out against "El Mal" from Emilia Pérez for best original song. The red carpet brought in a lot of attention from Zendaya as she presented in Louis Vuitton dress with Bvlgari diamonds attracting media attention for her bold dress style. Zendaya’s past fashion styles from 2024 and even that nights dress reinvigorated the term tennis core with specific and well crafted fashion.
Reznor and Ross from Nine Inch Nails won for Best Original Score at 2025 Golden Globes on January 5 eliciting large celebrations with their win also bringing big reactions. Elton John lifted both hands with excitement after Reznor and Ross won their award. Atticus Ross made his acceptance speech expressing respect for Trent Reznor’s talent before speaking on Challengers film's style stating "music never felt like a safe choice but always right" he concluded after speaking about their creative choices. Ross added praise to the family who are essential and important during the difficult projects while sharing gratitude. Reznor and Ross won their third Golden Globe after awards including The Social Network from 2011 also in Soul in 2021 working with Jon Batiste who helped in creative and music elements. Dick Clark Productions managed this years award show being owned by Penske Media Corporation and this particular fact was featured by Billboard's publications.
Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross recognized as the Nine Inch Nails members display a style which is very unique. They collaborated on the new video game called Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet made by Naughty Dog right after they received the Golden Globe for music in Zendaya’s romance-sports movie “Challengers”. Reznor and Ross won two Academy Awards during their creative process from "The Social Network" plus the project for “Soul”. Reznor and Ross style fits perfectly for projects needing innovative and technical compositions within art and entertainment space.
Challengers soundtrack displays intense on-court action set to an industrial synth sounds with a perfect timing to the slow-motion effects within the film project. Sammy the Editor of Push Square a PlayStation expert wrote about Reznor and Ross's award at Golden Globes. The Push Square also has a collaboration agreement with IGN Entertainment. “Wanted” movie fans also remember the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack during those iconic movie scenes highlighting a consistency with film scores plus creative song design which are hallmarks to their music style. Many believe "Intergalactic" will also have music on par with past successful project which the audience will enjoy as game players get the project in coming years with anticipated reveals.
Multiple commenters on various online communities acknowledged the duo being the "top of their game" regarding composition styles that go beyond music into various projects. Naughty Dog developer was celebrated when actress Tati Gabrielle stated it was a privilege to be working with video game god Neil Druckmann highlighting the high level talent working on these up coming projects. Many speculate a potential decline for PlayStation which they voice online due to perceived "modern politics" which created a dislike to the trailer which removed the comments.