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2025 Golden Globes: Demi Moore Details Pitfalls of Aging in Hollywood
Demi Moore is all substance at the 2025 Golden Globes.
The actress delivered a moving monologue as she accepted the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy for her performance in the body horror film The Substance, revealing she once thought her career in Hollywood had already peaked.
“Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress, and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have,” Demi told the audience at the Beverly Hilton Jan. 5 as she held her award. “That I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that couldn’t be acknowledged. And I bought in, and I believed that.”
She went shared that the moniker slowly “corroded” her outlook on her career, leading her to wonder if she had “done what I was supposed to do.”
“As I was at a low point,” she continued, “I had this magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me, ‘You’re not done.’”
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The first-time Golden Globe winner—who shares daughters Rumer Willis, 36, Scout Willis, 33, and Tallulah Willis, 30, with ex Bruce Willis—used her experience to encourage others not to discount their own paths.
“In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough, or pretty enough, or skinny enough, or successful enough, or basically just not enough,” she went on, “I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.’”
Demi said in conclusion, “I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong.”
Keep reading to see who else won big at the 2025 Golden Globes.
Best Motion Picture—Drama
WINNER: The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5
Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy
Anora
Challengers
WINNER: Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked
Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
WINNER: Demi Moore, The Substance
Zendaya, Challengers
Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Drama
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
WINNER: Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Kate Winslet, Lee
Best Actor in a Motion Picture—Drama
WINNER: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best Supporting Actress—Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Dakota Fanning, Ripley
WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country
Best Actress in a Television Series—Drama
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley, Black Doves
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
WINNER: Anna Sawai, Shogun
Best Supporting Actress—Motion Picture
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
WINNER: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
The Gentlemen
WINNER: Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building
Best Miniseries or Motion Picture—Television
WINNER: Baby Reindeer
Disclaimer
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective
Best Television Series—Drama
The Day of the Jackal
The Diplomat
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
WINNER: Shogun
Slow Horses
Squid Game
Best Supporting Actor—Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
WINNER: Tadanobu Asano, Shogun
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford, Shrinking
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses
Diego Luna, La Máquina
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture—Television
WINNER: Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline, Disclaimer
Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott, Ripley
Best Actor in a Television Series—Drama
Donald Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal
WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shogun
Billy Bob Thornton, Landman
Best Supporting Actor—Motion Picture
Yura Borisov, Anora
WINNER: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Best Actor in a Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell, Hit Man
WINNER: Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Best Actress in a Television Series—Musical or Comedy
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
WINNER: Jean Smart, Hacks
Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture—Television
Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
WINNER: Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Sofía Vergara, Griselda
Naomi Watts, Feud Capote vs. the Swans
Kate Winslet, The Regime
Best Actor in a Television Series—Musical or Comedy
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin, Only Murders in The Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in The Building
WINNER: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Best Motion Picture—Animated
WINNER: Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best Original Song—Motion Picture
“Beautiful That Way,” The Last Showgirl
“Compress/Repress,” Challengers
WINNER: “El Mal,“ Emilia Pérez
“Forbidden Road,” Better Man
“Kiss the Sky,” The Wild Robot
“Mi Camino,” Emilia Pérez
Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement—Motion Picture
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator 2
Inside Out 2
Twisters
WINNER: Wicked
The Wild Robot
Head to E! Online’s 2025 Golden Globes page for a full recap of the night’s jaw-dropping fashions, all the winners and every must-see moment from the awards.