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The 2025 Golden Globes Were High on Drama but Low on Politics
The 2025 Golden Globes alluded to politics without explicitly mentioning Trump, which was a sharp break with how awards shows treated his first term.
And her allusion to challenging times — like Adrien Brody’s discussion of his parents’ experiences as immigrants after he won best actor in a drama for “The Brutalist” — drew on the themes of the film in question and placed them into a context. Demi Moore’s speech, likely the best of the night, addressed the ways in which she had felt marginalized as a performer and the boxes the industry places women in (not coincidentally, a key theme of the film for which she won, “The Substance”). And director Brady Corbet closed his acceptance speech for best picture by encouraging studios to give final cut to filmmakers — an issue of movie-industry politics, to be sure, but perhaps not the takeaway one might have expected from the maker of this film.
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