The variety of individuals tuning in to look at the Golden Globe Awards shrank this yr, organisers introduced on Wednesday, as Hollywood’s gala evenings proceed to wrestle with declining viewership.
Round 8.7 million individuals in the US watched the star-studded ceremony wherein Paul Thomas Anderson’s conspiracy epic “One Battle After One other” dominated the prizes.
That determine is down from the 9.3 million who tuned in final yr, in accordance with numbers from the Nielsen Institute, and is round half the scale of the audiences simply earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hollywood’s greatest celebration
The Globes, lengthy billed as Hollywood’s greatest celebration, and the raucous forerunner to the awards season finale Oscars, have been beset by scandal and accusations of racism that led to the Globes not even being aired in 2022.
The gala was in the end dropped by long-time broadcaster NBC, however relaunched with CBS in 2024 underneath new possession, and has undergone important reforms geared toward stamping out perceptions of corruption and racism.
Sunday evening’s bash noticed Hollywood’s greatest and brightest out in power for a night fronted by comic Nikki Glaser, whose acerbic opening monologue was watched almost 14 million occasions on social media over the primary 36 hours, organisers stated.
Amongst her zingers was a jab on the US Division of Justice, which she stated needs to be in line for the Greatest Enhancing Award for its dealing with of the closely redacted recordsdata on President Donald Trump’s one-time buddy, intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Greatest drama movie
In addition to important victories for “One Battle After One other,” key winners on the night included William Shakespeare household tragedy “Hamnet,” which gained greatest drama movie and a greatest feminine actor prize for Jessie Buckley as a distraught mom.
Timothee Chalamet and Brazilian Wagner Moura added to their awards season momentum with prizes for “Marty Supreme” and “The Secret Agent,” respectively.
The Golden Globes are seen as a number one indicator of success within the Oscars, which happen in Hollywood this yr on March 15.
By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse
