The 2025 Golden Globe Awards on CBS on Sunday (Jan. 5) averaged 10.1 million viewers, based on VideoAmp overnight data, despite strong competition on NBC – an NFL game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions. The Golden Globes, hosted for the first time by Nikki Glaser, were held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The live-streaming audience was up 9% from last year on Paramount+ and the CBS App, according to CBS.
The 2025 Golden Globes was the most social Golden Globes show ever, up +124% year-over-year according to Social Content Ratings and Quid Monitor. The program drove 40 million social interactions on show night.
This was the show’s second year on CBS, with streaming on Paramount+. The show aired on NBC for all but two years from 1996 to 2023. The show didn’t air in 2008 due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America or in 2022, when the organization was regrouping following heavy criticism of its voting body and ethics.
Emilia Pérez was the biggest winner on the film side, with four awards: best motion picture, musical or comedy; best motion picture – non-English language; best original song – motion picture for “El Mal” (co-written by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard); and best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture for Zoe Saldaña.
Shōgun was the biggest winner on the TV side, with four awards: best television series – drama, plus acting awards for Anna Sawai, Hiroyuki Sanada and Tadanobu Asano.
Anora was the night’s biggest shutout on the film side; it went 0-5 for the night. Only Murders in the Building was the biggest shutout on the TV side; it went 0-4 for the night.
Wicked won the Golden Globe for cinematic and box office achievement.
All of the winners were present to receive their awards except Jeremy Allen White, the star of The Bear, who won for best performance by a male actor in a television series – musical or comedy.
At a ceremony on Friday, EGOT recipient Viola Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, a career honor for film work. Ted Danson won the Carol Burnett Award, the equivalent award for work in television. The awards were briefly mentioned on the telecast, but were not given the extended airtime they were afforded in the past.
Multi-Emmy-winning producing duo Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment served as executive producers and showrunners for the 82nd Golden Globes.
The Golden Globes are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.
