Golden Globes 2025: The snubs, surprises and successes from the ...

Can you smell the acceptance speeches in the air? It's awards season! Those wonderful few months where Hollywood rallies together to fight over some gold statues… I mean, to celebrate the best in film and TV of the year that was.

The first major ceremony off the blocks is the Golden Globes, which awards both film and TV, giving us a potential glimpse at what 2025's Oscars might look like.

We'll find out who the big winners are on January 6 next year, but in the meantime, let's dive into the "hell yeahs", "heck nos" and total "woahs" of this year's nominations.

Success: The Substance slays as a comedy/musical

Awards season has never been kind to horror films (The Shining didn't get ONE Oscar nomination) and there is no horror category, which is how Coralie Fargeat's ultra-violent and deeply disturbing allegory on how our society treats women as disposable objects ended up in the Best Comedy/Musical category.

The only laughs in The Substance are ones of exasperated horror. (Supplied: Madman)

The Substance actually picked up five nominations (more than Wicked!), including very deserved acting nods for leads Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, as well as a directing nom for Fargeat.

The Substance isn't the only horror film fighting for its life in the comedy/musical category: Hugh Grant slipped into Best Actor — Comedy/Musical with his performance of a creepy retro Redditor in A24 horror Heretic.

Snub: And nothing for Jon M Chu, bye

Poor Jon M Chu. The Wicked director brought a whole fantastical world to life and it wasn't enough to squeeze into the, admittedly stacked, Best Director shortlist.

While the film attracted a Best Picture — Comedy/Musical nomination and nods for its two stars, it fell short of its predicted sweep. Heck, it didn't even get a look in for the largely farcical Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category, despite cinemas still being drenched in pink and green.

The Golden Globe voters did not hold space for Wicked director Jon M Chu. (Supplied: Universal)

Dune: 2 director Denis Villeneuve also missed out on Best Director, despite being a frontrunner. But I would be lying if I didn't say it was a thrill to see Coralie Fargeat and All We Imagine as Light's Payal Kapadia secure recognition in the historically male-dominated category.

Surprise: Sebastian Stan is seeing double

Former Gossip Girl star (it's true, look it up) Sebastian Stan has been a busy bee this year, juggling two very different films — A Different Man and The Apprentice.

In one he plays an actor with neurofibromatosis who sets out to fix his condition with surreal consequences, and in the other, he's 1970s Donald Trump. The man has range and the Golden Globe voters agree, throwing him a Best Actor nod in both the Drama and Comedy/Musical categories for both films.

It's an incredible turnaround for Stan who, just weeks ago, was lamenting that nobody wanted to pair with him on Variety's Actors on Actors.

Success: Film and TV that hasn't come out yet

Granted, Australia tends to get stuff a little late, but here is a list of Golden Globe nominees that are yet to be released worldwide.

A Complete UnknownConclaveNickel BoysSeptember 5The BrutalistI'm Still HereBabygirlThe Last ShowgirlThe Room Next DoorQueerSquid Game

Congrats to all these nominees and their pre-release PR.

Snub: Screw you, Deadpool

Sometimes snubs make you sad because a great piece of work has gone unrecognised, but Deadpool & Wolverine getting totally blanked despite predictions saying otherwise is a cause for celebration.

Deadpool Vs Wolverine made $US1.3 billion worldwide and didn't even make it into the Cinematic and box office achievement catagory. (Supplied: Disney)

As a fan of the first two films, the third in the series was the cinematic equivalent of a bad Peter Griffin impression and everyone involved should have a good, long think about why they got into film in the first place.

Surprise: No room in TV for movie stars

Big movie stars love to slum it in TV town, and it often delivers a tasty little reward come awards season — but not this year.

Robert Downey Jr., who garnered an Emmy nod for his work on The Sympathizer, missed out on a nomination. So did Meryl Streep, whose continued guest spot on Only Murders In The Building snagged her a nom last year.

Won't somebody think of the movie stars?

Success: Move over, hot priest, there's a hot rabbi in town

Netflix's Nobody Wants This is the rom-com that brought together Adam Brody's way-too-perfect hot rabbi and Kristen Bell's impossibly wrinkle-free shiksa podcaster and made an unexpected televisual hit.

You can feel Bell and Brody's chemistry through the screen. (Netflix)

Both Brody and Bell were nominated for acting in TV categories and, even if they lose out at the Globes, their breakthrough puts them in very good stead for next year's Emmys (as long as everyone doesn't forget about it by September).

Snub: I would die for June Squibb

Putting aside that 95-year-old Oscar nominee June Squibb deserves anything and everything, her starring turn as a geriatric Liam Neeson in Thelma was a tour-de-force.

Not only did she pull off the doting grandmother, the hard-ass assassin and a tearful rumination on the limitations of aging — she also did her own stunts! What I'm saying is grab all the most important people in your life and watch Thelma these holidays, you won't regret it.

Surprise: Oh Hans, you've done it again!

Dune-heads would have been a little disappointed this morning, with the sandy flick only grabbing two GG noms: one for Best Picture — Drama and one for film music supreme leader Hans Zimmer's excellent score.

This is despite the Dune: Part 2 soundtrack being ruled ineligible for the Oscars because it borrowed too much from the first film's score.

And to that I say, Yaaaa Hyyyyyaaaaa Chouhadaaaaaaaaa.