After a well-received program in which “Emilia Perez” and “The Brutalist” won major awards, producers announced Monday that the Golden Globes attracted over 10 million TV viewers, a little rise over the previous year.
As Hollywood attempts to recover from the effects of strikes and the pandemic, and the Globes themselves recover from their own scandal and controversy, Sunday’s gala’s ratings increase solidifies a modest upward trend for award events in recent years.
The averaged figure of 10.1 million viewers marks a seven-percent increase from 2024’s gala — and a significant recovery from barely six million a year earlier.
The Globes, a Hollywood film and television awards show that once ranked second only to the Oscars, has been in crisis — and even nearly ceased to exist — in recent years.
Outrage at the lack of diversity and unethical behavior of the group of journalists who had previously organized the awards caused former broadcaster NBC to cancel the Globes in 2022, so the event never even aired.
Last year, when the Globes were relaunched under new private ownership, A-list celebrities made a comeback to the glamorous Beverly Hills ballroom for the gala, and the show was switched to CBS and put back in its Sunday night location.
At this year’s first major Hollywood awards event, the epic immigrant drama “The Brutalist” and the weird narco-musical “Emilia Perez” were the top victors. The medals were distributed liberally among a global crop of films.
French director Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set “Emilia Perez” took four prizes, including best comedy or musical film, while “The Brutalist” was named best drama and also picked up best actor for Adrien Brody, who plays a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.
Demi Moore won large with “The Substance,” Sebastian Stan won with “A Different Man,” and Fernanda Torres of Brazil won the biggest upset of the evening with “I’m Still Here.”
Nikki Glaser, a comedian, presented the event and opened with a well-received, sarcastic monologue.
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