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This special edition of Keeping Scores focuses on feminist victories and milestones at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, the unofficial kickoff to awards season. From a poignant monologue solo-hosted by Nikki Glazer against sexism in Hollywood to historic victories by women like Demi Moore, Carla Sofia Gascón, and Fernanda Torres, the event showcases diverse and older female talent. It marked a remarkable change in the way it praised the
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“This will be a very memorable night, but maybe not as much as you think. Five years from now, when you’re watching old clips of the show on YouTube, you’ll see a shot of the crowd. I predict that someone will be in one and they’ll say, “Oh my god, that was before we got that guy.” . ”It could be a woman. I’m 100% sure it’s a man, but it could also be a woman. That won’t happen. Absolutely not. It’s like an award for best director. ”
– Comedian Nikki Glazer opened the 2025 Golden Globes with a monologue addressing Hollywood’s ongoing sex offender problem.
“A bear, a penguin, a baby reindeer. These aren’t just what’s in the freezer at RFK. These are the TV shows nominated tonight.”
– Glaser discusses the strange personal history of RFK Jr., President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
“When a woman over 50 stars in a lead role, it’s called a comeback. If you’re a man over 50 in a lead role, congratulations, you’re about to play Sidney Sweeney’s boyfriend. It will be.”
– Glaser talks about Hollywood’s pressure on women to stay eternally young.
“There’s one thing I want in this world, and that’s that one day we wake up and are seen as just human beings, with our virtues and flaws. I keep saying the same thing. Trans Gender, LGBTQ, hetero, female, male, young or old doesn’t change our ignorance or intelligence.The only thing we can do is think for ourselves and try to be better people. It’s about trying to understand people better.”
– Carla Sofia Gascón, the lead actor in “Emilia Perez,” which won the Best Musical award, in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
“Let me leave you with one thing: What this movie is telling us is that we’re not smart enough, beautiful enough, thin enough, successful enough, or fundamentally good enough. A woman once told me, “Know that you’ll never be enough, but you’ll know your worth if you put down a measuring stick.”
— Demi Moore, in her acceptance speech for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy, or Musical for “Substance.”
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+ Nikki Glazer made history as the first woman to host the Golden Globe Awards solo. Her hosting role follows the downturn at last year’s Golden Globes, where host Jo Koy delivered a sexist and racist monologue that included a reference to Barbie doll’s “big boobs.” It was a breath of fresh air. As host, Glazer’s tongue-in-cheek commentary about the sexism that permeates the industry makes her a meaningful symbol of the hard work of all the women nominated this year.
+ Demi Moore won Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for her role in Substance. This body horror film considers the pressure women are under from society to stay young forever.
+ Leading actor Carla Sofia Gascón dedicated Emilia Perez’s Best Film, Best Comedy, Best Musical award to the trans community. Gascón is the first openly transgender person to be nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy category. When accepting Emilia Perez’s award for Best Musical, she said: “Light always wins over darkness. You can put us in jail, you can beat us, but you can never take away our soul, our resistance, our identity. I want to say to you, your voice I want to stand up and say I won, I am who I am and not who you want me to be.”
+ Zoe Saldaña won Best Supporting Female Actor for Emilia Perez, the most awarded film of the night. “I know[the Golden Globes]are a competition,” she said in her speech, “but all I witnessed was us showing up for each other and celebrating each other.” And that’s a really beautiful thing.”
+ Fernanda Torres won Best Female Actor in a Drama for her role in I’m Still Here. In her speech, she thanked her mother and acknowledged that this year was “a great year for women’s performance.”
+ “Wicked” won Best Film and Best Box Office, beating out other films such as “Gladiator II,” which did not have a strong focus on women.
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+ At this year’s Golden Globe Awards, there was a noticeable change in the recognition of older female actors, with Demi Moore (62), Jodie Foster (62), Fernanda Torres (59), Zoe Saldaña (46) ) were among the award winners.
+ Ali Wong wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance in a Stand-Up Comedy for the second time in history for her performance in the Netflix special Single Lady, a major achievement for female comedians. Ta. The comedy world remains dominated by men, with only 11.3% of stand-up comedians in the U.S. being women and 88.7% being men. Host Nikki Glazer was the other female nominee in the Someday You’ll Die category, while the other three nominees, Jamie Foxx, Seth Meyers and Ramy Youssef, are all men. Ta.
+ Fernanda Torres is the first Brazilian female actor to win Best Actress in a Drama.
