Award season is finally here! Last month, the Golden Globes announced the full list of nominees for the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards. The highly anticipated event took place on 6th January 2025 (Malaysian time) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Previously, we listed all the first-time nominees, and most of them were competing in the same category. It was anyone’s guess who might walk away with an award by the end of the night, but the results are finally out. Here are the stars who won their first-ever Golden Globe Award:
1. Demi Moore
- Category: Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy
- Film: “The Substance”
- Fellow Nominees: Amy Adams (Nightbitch), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora), Zendaya (Challengers)
- Acceptance speech: “I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor, and I’m just so humbled and so grateful”
2. Zoe Saldana
- Category: Best Supporting Female Actor – Motion Picture
- Film: “Emilia Pérez”
- Fellow Nominees: Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
- Acceptance speech: “I know I don’t have much time, and I have dyslexia, so I tend to forget when I’m really anxious, and I’m filled with adrenaline, but my heart is full of gratitude. Thank you so much to the Golden Globes for celebrating our film, and honoring the women of Emilia Perez. Thank you so much. Oh, my god!”
3. Sebastian Stan
- Category: Best Male Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- Film: “A Different Man”
- Fellow Nominees: Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), Hugh Grant (Heretic), Gabriel LaBelle (Saturday Night), Jesse Plemons (Kinds of Kindness), Glen Powell (Hit Man)
- Acceptance speech: “Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end. We have to normalise it and continue to expose ourselves and our children to it. [We should] encourage acceptance. This is for my mom, who left Romania in search of a better life and gave me everything, and for my stepfather, Tony, who took on a single mom and a grown-up kid. Thank you for being a real man.”
4. Hiroyuki Sanada
- Category: Best Television Male Actor – Drama Series
- Series: “Shogun”
- Fellow Nominees: Donald Glover (Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Jake Gyllenhaal (Presumed Innocent), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Eddie Redmayne (The Day of the Jackal), Billy Bob Thornton (Landman)
- Acceptance speech: “For the young actors and creators in the world, please be yourself, believe in yourself and never give up. Good luck!”
5. Anna Sawai
- Category: Best Television Female Actor – Drama Series
- Series: “Shogun”
- Fellow Nominees: Kathy Bates (Matlock), Emma D’Arcy (House of the Dragon), Maya Erskine (Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Keira Knightley (Black Doves), Keri Russell (The Diplomat)
- Acceptance speech: “I have so many people to thank, but I’m going to keep it short. Thank you to our incredible writers. Without a good script, it’s impossible to give a performance to our fullest potential. Thank you, everyone else. I’m going to thank you later”
6. Tadanobu Asano
- Category: Best Supporting Male Actor – Drama Series
- Series: “Shogun”
- Fellow Nominees: Javier Bardem (Monsters), Harrison Ford (Shrinking), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Diego Luna (La Máquina), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear)
- Acceptance speech: “Wow, this is a very big present for me! Thank you Shōgun team! Thank you, everybody! I’m very happy! Thank you!”
7. Adrien Brody
- Category: Best Male Actor – Motion Picture – Drama
- Film: “The Brutalist”
- Fellow Nominees: Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)
- Acceptance speech: “Thank you to everyone in this room. Golden Globes voters, for this honour, I am deeply humbled by this. I have much to say. I’m going to try and be brief. Thank you for giving me wings. Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of building this triumph and monument to humanity and the arts”.
8. Jessica Gunning
- Category: Best Supporting Female Actor – Drama Series
- Series: “Baby Reindeer”
- Fellow Nominees: Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear), Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Dakota Fanning (Ripley), Allison Janney (The Diplomat), Kali Reis (True Detective)
- Acceptance speech: “This is an absolute honour. I cannot believe any of this is happening to me. I just want to say ‘thank you’ to everyone who let me come on this journey.”
9. Fernanda Torres
- Category: Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Drama
- Film: “I’m Still Here”
- Fellow Nominees: Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door), Kate Winslet (Lee)
- Acceptance speech: “My god, I didn’t prepare anything because I was late already. And this is such an amazing year for female performances. There are so many actresses here who I admire so much”.
