Timothée Chalamet has waged a wildly amusing, chaotic and often baffling red carpet campaign for Marty Supreme. So who would expected our champion provocateur of the red carpet to sidestep an opportunity to go full Tango tonight? His black non-tux suit is reliable, dependable and dull. Whither the colour? Whither Kylie!

In case you need a reminder, here’s the full list of nominations:

One person not thrilled about the new best podcast category this year? Hans Zimmer, the legendary film composer, whose category tonight – best original score – has been axed from the telecast.

“It feels a little bit ignorant,” Zimmer told Deadline on the red carpet ahead of the show, which has added on-air categories such as the aforementioned best podcast, best stand-up comedian and the dubious “cinematic or box office achievement” in recent years, while relegating others to in-person only.

“We are the psychological underbelly of the whole thing,” Zimmer added in defense of film composers. “The composer has such an important role in making films by the time we come to the music, the director has been through war. Our first job is to remind him why he did this film in the first place.”

Predicting the Globes is never easy although it has become a little easier in the last few years. The belated update to its questionable group of voters has meant that winners have become less comically leftfield and more critically minded. Less Nocturnal Animals, more The Brutalist.

With that in mind, here’s how I think it might go down tonight with the major film awards:

It’s been a relatively sober night for menswear.

But with wearing a watch now a foregone conclusion, we are well into the era of the dumb accessory. Enter the glasses on the red carpet. Obviously this is fashion and, like watches and jewellery and brooches and funny little bags, sunglasses are a priceless marketing opportunity for any fashion brand. Could it be that there is an anxiety around overdressing in the age of the performative male for which glasses are the perfect foil – or is everyone just really tired?

As my colleague Benjamin Lee mentioned in his film award predictions for the evening, Timotheé Chalamet is the clear favorite to win best actor in a musical or comedy tonight, though it feels spiritually wrong to call Marty Supreme a comedy. The 30-year-old actor has a groundswell of momentum behind him, a year after losing best dramatic actor (for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown) to Adrien Brody (for the Brutalist).

A large part of that momentum has been of his own unconventional making, with a guerrilla, very meta, often very fun marketing campaign that has seen him paint the world Marty Supreme orange – and upend the expectations and possibilities of the movie press tour in the process. It already paid off last week with a Critics Choice Award, and I’d be shocked if it didn’t charm the Golden Globes voting bloc, as well.

The most nominated film of the night is Paul Thomas Anderson’s genre-defying epic One Battle After Another, leading with nine. The Globes haven’t always been team PTA – There Will Be Blood, Magnolia and Phantom Thread scored just two nods a piece – but this one feels perfectly timed to a smarter, fresher group of voters.

It also helps that it’s led by Leonardo DiCaprio, a favourite at the Globes with three wins and another 12 nominations. He’s up for best actor in a musical or comedy tonight and even though he may end up losing to hot favourite Timothée Chalamet, it’s hard to see the film not winning some other major awards, including best picture, director and maybe at least one supporting actor.

Here’s why it was named the Guardian’s best film of 2025:

It’s also set to be a rather big night for Netflix breakout Adolescence, the show everyone was talking about last year. It already scored at the Emmys in September with six wins and tonight it’s been nominated for five awards, including for actors Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper.

The limited drama series, which the Guardian named the best TV show of 2025, faces competition from Dying for Sex and Black Mirror in the category of best limited series.

Here’s a reminder of why it’s worth the win:

The Dior girlies have arrived. Skewing ever so slightly to type, Frankenstein’s Mia Goth and Die My Love’s Jennifer Lawrence have gone yin and yang with Mia’s black halter neck gown and Jennifer’s sheer (naked?) floral embroidered number with matching curtain-sized shawl so generous it could serve as an arm rest. A lot of shawls and scarves this evening.

Worth noting that the naked dress is making a chilling creep back onto the red carpet (see also Jennifer Lopez) just in time for the Met Gala’s theme, Costume Art, whose connection between the dressed body and art will probably result in a lot of skin …

Will the first season of Apple’s in-joke industry comedy The Studio dominate the comedy awards tonight? After a record-breaking Emmys sweep, it’s looking rather likely with potential wins in the comedy series category as well as for stars Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara.

Here’s what makes it such a contender:

With film categories split between drama and comedy/musical, it can be hard to turn the results into concrete Oscar predictions. The Globes also deviate, sometimes rather dramatically so. In the past few years, big winners who have not gone onto Academy award success include Demi Moore, Lily Gladstone, Angela Bassett, Andra Day and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

But this year it feels like the narratives of certain actors will be crystallised with a Globe win, one of whom being Ireland’s Jessie Buckley. Ever since largely fictionalised Shakespeare drama Hamnet premiered at the fall festivals, she has been named as a frontrunner and after a win last week at the Critics Choice awards, it feels like the road is clearing up for her.

Here’s everything you need to know about the actor could become the first Irish woman to ever win the best actress Oscar:

After last year saw Fernanda Torres, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sebastian Stan, Ali Wong and Tadanobu Asano achieve record-breaking wins, here’s who and what might make history tonight:

• Wagner Moura could become the first Brazilian actor to win best actor in a drama

• Ryan Coogler could become the first Black winner of best director or best screenplay

• One Battle After Another could become the most awarded film of all time if it beats La La Land’s seven-win record

• Lee Byung-hun could become the first Asian winner of best actor in a comedy or musical

• Chloé Zhao could become the first woman to win best director twice or the first Chinese winner of best screenplay

• Steve Martin, at the age of 80 could become the oldest male actor to win an award

• Owen Cooper could become the youngest winner of the supporting actor in television award

• Jessie Buckley could become the first Irish winner of best actress in a drama

• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas could become the first Norwegian winner of best supporting actress

• Jafar Panahi could become the first Iranian winner of best director

See colour, will post.

The thing about the late winter red carpets is that they are a dry run for spring summer catwalk looks – and for the most part, the Globes is the first time we’ve seen them on a real person. Creator of Sorry, Baby Eva Victor’s red Loewe gown is a case in point, as it seems to have been styled differently to how it was shown on the catwalk. The result is almost casual. Somehow you couldn’t get away with that at the Oscars.

Slickness is positively coursing through the red carpet tonight! Just look at Emily Blunt’s white half-shoulder-cape split gown custom made by Louis Vuitton which is giving main character energy – a nod to Kim Basinger’s self-designed 1990 Oscars clanger of a dress? Absolutely.

While a very deserving Rose Byrne is tipped to win for best actress in a musical or comedy for her pretty staggering performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her partner Bobby Cannavale will not be attending.

His reason is … not what you might expect but ultimately not as bad as it initially sounds? Byrne appeared on Fallon this week to say he’ll be exchanging a glitzy LA awards ceremony for a reptile expo in New Jersey. Apparently the family (the pair have two kids) are trying to adopt a bearded dragon, a reptile native to her homeland of Australia.

“This expo is the place where everyone goes, and it’s the place to go, and it was on the same day,” she said. “And it would just be such a parent fail so we’re doing it. I’m on board for the dragon, it’s going to be great. … He’s doing God’s work.”

One of last year’s funniest Nikki Glaser bits was a bit that satirised how bits often work at the Globes. Like many, I winced a little when she started with a musical number poking fun at both Wicked and Conclave but then …

Last year, I witnessed something I never thought I’d see: Leonardo Dicaprio on a podcast. And not only that, but a podcast hosted by two NFL players, Jason and Travis Kelce, who managed to also schedule significant time with such rarefied stars as George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon (and, of course, Taylor Swift).

In recognition of the A-listification of podcasts, and the medium’s indisputable takeover of the movie promotional circuit, this year the Golden Globes introduced the new category of best podcast. And the nominees are: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess (hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes) and NPR’s Up First.

As much as I love and support public radio, I see beloved former Globes host and charmingly low-key podcaster Poehler getting the inaugural win here. And I have to say: it somehow feels very wrong and yet very right for the Globes to nominate Call Her Daddy, the former Barstool Sports sex podcast turned celebrity softball game, alongside an acclaimed NPR news program. Better luck next year, Kelce brothers!

Tonight’s customary side-boob comes from Teyana Taylor of One Battle After Another, whose custom Schiaparelli black gown comes with a metallic bow (the metal-wear is always a giveaway) dangling over a flash of bottom.

The red carpet so far? Long hems, black and bejewelled gowns and sharp silhouettes that evoke old Hollywood – for the women, turns out it’s bomb-proof if you stick to a formula.

Mark Ruffalo is also among those wearing a “Be Good” pin tonight, in honor of Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, and Keith Porter, who was shot by an off-duty ICE officer in LA the week prior.

“We need every part of civil society, society to speak up,” Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party, one of the organizers for the anti-ICE pins, told the Associated Press. “We need our artists. We need our entertainers. We need the folks who reflect society.”

Word on the carpet is that peace signs are the new finger hold. Here’s Aimee Lou Wood of White Lotus giving sheer visual drama in Vivienne Westwood.

It’s not an awards ceremony without a pregnancy reveal is it? Wunmi Mosaku, the British Nigerian star of Sinners is wearing a canary yellow bespoke gown and sheer veil by Matthew Reisman, and the colour is steeped in meaning. “In Yoruba, we say Iya ni Wúrà which means ‘mother is golden’”, she wrote in Vogue. Top tier stuff. More colour please.

Wanda Sykes is the first celeb I’ve seen on the red carpet tonight with a “Be Good” pin, which some are wearing in honor of Renee Good, the unarmed woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, sparking national outrage. Others are wearing “ICE OUT” pins as part of an ACLU-endorsed protest of the Trump administration’s persecution of undocumented immigrants and larger $100m recruitment campaign aimed at expanding ICE presence in communities across the country.

“We need to speak up and shut this rogue government down,” Sykes told Variety on the red carpet. “It’s awful what they are doing to people.”

A nice bit of era-dressing here in Sinners’ star Miles Caton’s chestnut pinstripe suit by Amiri. I’d argue it beats Timothée Chalamet’s Givenchy version at the Critics Choice. Begone the penguin suit – enter the age of the pinstripe!

The prestige clothes are raining down like the sleet above us (here in London, anyway) but I’ve yet to see better than Elle Fanning’s sparkly embroidered Gucci gown. A very ye-olde-silver screen glamourpuss right there. Just watch the pooling hem on those steps.

In case you need reminding of just how much Nikki Glaser nailed it last year, here’s her opening monologue:

Ayo Edebiri – nominated for her performance in that classic comedy, The Bear – is always a good place to start. I suspect this black velvet panelled off the shoulder gown is new Chanel (under Matthieu Blazy) given she’s an ambassador of the brand. It’s pushing classicism forward but the stylised bob and Hollywood finger hold gives the whole thing a refined approach.

Hello from the Guardian’s fashion desk. I’ll be tracking the gowns and jackets on the red carpet tonight.

Clothes-wise, this is especially exciting because we have some newbies and some comebacks. This is the first Golden Globes that Jessie Buckley has attended. Will she wear Dior? Will she wear her Macron-coded polo neck? Or will she wear colour? It’s also the first Globes that Sydney Sweeney has attended, too. I’ll leave that there! Also One Battle After Another star Chase Infiniti who is making her debut has been having some fun with Louis Vuitton and 3D-printed Iris van Herpen over the last few months. Welcome back Gwyneth Paltrow (we hope!).

Designer-wise, we can always expect a lot of Armani. Probably a healthy dose of new Dior, too. A smattering of Louis Vuitton and Thom Browne should finish things off. This is, after all, the great fashion-film industrial complex! Still, in the wake of thematic red carpet dressing (think Barbie, think Wicked) will the chromatic marketing of Marty Supreme’s orange ping-pong balls outdo them all? It’s likely.

The greatest honour tonight is of course taking home an award. But given that stylists have supplanted editors as the most powerful arbiters of taste, it would be remiss (and dull) to ignore the clothes wouldn’t it?

The Globes has tended to allow funnier presenter bits than the Oscars in previous years, especially when it was back on NBC which tended to mean more Saturday Night Live cast members, either former or current.

Taking a look at this year’s list of presenters, we can safely expect something pretty straightforward from stars such as Diane Lane, Dakota Fanning, Pamela Anderson, Orlando Bloom, Julia Roberts, Ana de Armas and Colman Domingo. But let’s hold out hope that something worth a rewatch might come from names like Wanda Sykes, Will Arnett, Regina Hall, Kathryn Hahn and Keegan-Michael Key.

Once again, nothing will ever top this, mind:

Ever since the heyday of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Globes haven’t quite managed to nail the right host and in turn the right tone. We had the uncomfortable with Jerrod Carmichael, the toothless with Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh and the heinous with Jo Koy. Even when Tina and Amy returned for the Covid-cursed 2021 ceremony, they weren’t as funny as they once were.

Last year’s host Nikki Glaser bringing a considerable number of laughs was no shock to those who were already fans (her 2024 special Someday You’ll Die is one of the funniest standup sets I have seen in the past few years) but just how well she did was still a genuine surprise. She received instant praise for her cleverly modulated routine which delivered just the right about of sour to go with the sweet.

She was hired to return almost straight away and in recent press has claimed she will ridicule anyone except Julia Roberts and in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, had this to say about why it’s a tough gig at this time:

I don’t usually have these ‘woe is me!’ pity sessions, but lately … And people always remind me that hosting an awards show is the hardest gig. I say, ‘No, it’s actually so fun!’ What’s hard is that people don’t watch things anymore. Even Marty Supreme, do people not even know that’s about ping-pong? People don’t know what the hell Jay Kelly is. They know George Clooney. So, you end up making a lot of jokes about the advertisements and the endorsements these people do. People might not know Kevin Hart’s special, but they know he’s popping up talking about DraftKings.