2025 Golden Globe Awards: All the Records That Could Be Broken
Ahead of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, VegasInsider has collected a list of 30+ records that could be broken during the 2025 awards ceremony. Since you have covered Golden Globes, I thought you might find our latest data useful.
To see all of the 30+ records that could be broken divided by categories in detail, have a look below.
OVERALL RECORDS
“Emilia Pérez” could tie or break the record of “La La Land” for the most wins by a single film during one Golden Globes ceremony - “La La Land” won 7 awards and “Emilia Pérez” is nominated for 10 Golden Globes in 2025, making it the second most-nominated movie of all time - having said that, in two categories, “Emilia Pérez” received double nominations, so unless a rare occurrence of a winning tie happens, it could potentially win up to 8 awards; “The Brutalist”, which was nominated for 7 awards could also tie the record of “La La Land”
Nicole Kidman (nominated for “Babygirl”) or Kate Winslet (nominated for “Lee” & “The Regime”) could join a rare group of 5 actors who have won 6 or more Golden Globes for acting (Meryl Streep - 8 wins & Alan Alda, Angela Lansbury, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson - 6 wins) - Kidman has won 5 Golden Globes for acting (“Being The Ricardos”, “Big Little Lies”, “The Hours”, “Moulin Rouge”, “To Die For”) and Winslet has won 5 Golden Globes for acting (“The Reader”, “Revolutionary Road”, “Mildred Pierce”, “Steve Jobs”, “Mare of Easttown”) and both of them could potentially win their 6th (and in a very rare instance of a double win for Winslet a 7th) acting trophy at the 2025 ceremony (*as a side note, Kidman’s total of Golden Globes won is actually 6 since she also won as a producer of “Big Little Lies”)
Kate Winslet (nominated for “Lee” & “The Regime”) could become the first person to ever win 2 Golden Globes for acting in one night for a different performance on two occasions - she first managed to achieve this feat in 2010 when she won for both “Revolutionary Road” & “The Reader” and she could become the first person to repeat this if she wins for both “Lee” & “The Regime”; by winning both awards and bringing her total to 7 acting Golden Globes wins, Winslet would become the second most awarded actor in the history of the Golden Globes (after Meryl Streep)
Selena Gomez (nominated for “Emilia Pérez” & “Only Murders In The Building”) or Sebastian Stan (nominated for “The Apprentice” & “A Different Man”) could join a rare group of 4 actors who managed to win 2 Golden Globes for acting for a different performance in one night (Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver & Joan Plowright); by winning both awards,
Sebastian Stan would also become the first male actor to ever win two Golden Globes for acting for two different performances in one night and he would also become the first actor to ever win two Golden Globes in one night for leading performances in different films - he is nominated in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama category for “The Apprentice” and also in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy category for “A Different Man”
Ted Danson could become the first person to ever win the honorary Carol Burnett Award as well as a competitive Golden Globe in one evening - he is this year’s recipient of the Carol Burnett award and he is also nominated in the Best Actor in a TV Series - Musical or Comedy category for “A Man on the Inside”
FILM CATEGORIES
BEST ACTRESS - DRAMA
Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”) could tie the record of Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda & Ingrid Bergman and become the most awarded actress in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama category - Kidman won 2 times in the past (for “Being the Ricardos” & “The Hours”) and she could win her third Golden Globe in this category for “Babygirl”
Fernanda Torres (nominated for “I’m Still Here”) could become the first Brazilian actress to ever win in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama category
BEST ACTRESS - COMEDY / MUSICAL
Amy Adams (nominated for “Nightbitch”) could tie the record of Julie Andrews & Rosalind Russell and become the most awarded actress in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy category - Adams won two times in the past (for “Big Eyes” & “American Hustle”) and a win in 2025 for “Nightbitch” would be her 3rd victory in the category
Cynthia Erivo (nominated for “Wicked”) or Zendaya (nominated for “Challengers”) could become only the second black actress to ever win in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy category, following Angela Basset’s win in 1994 for “What’s Love Got to Do with It” (and Erivo would also be the first one to do so in 30 years)
Karla Sofía Gascón (nominated for “Emilia Pérez”) could become the first transgender actress to ever win the Golden Globe in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy category, in any film lead acting category and she could become only the second transgender actress to ever win for an acting performance following Michaela Jaé Rodriguez who won in a TV acting category in 2022
Karla Sofía Gascón could also become the first Spanish actress to win in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy category
BEST ACTOR
Hugh Grant could become only the 10th actor to ever win 2+ times in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy category - he first won in 1995 for “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and he is nominated again this year for “Heretic”
Sebastian Stan could become the first Romanian actor win in either of the categories he is nominated in (Stan is Romanian-American and he was born in Constanta, Romania) - he is nominated in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama category for “The Apprentice” and also in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy category for “A Different Man”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Denzel Washington (nominated for “Gladiator II”) or Edward Norton (nominated for “A Complete Unknown”) could join a 6-way tie of actors who hold the record for the most wins in the Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture category (two wins) - Washington won the first time in 1990 for “Glory” and Norton won his first award in this category for “Primal Fear” in 1997
Yura Borisov (nominated for “Anora”) could become the first Russian actor to win in the Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture category
BEST DIRECTOR
Payal Kapadia (nominated for “All We Imagine as Light”) could become the first Indian to ever win the Golden Globe for Best Director
BEST SCREENPLAY
Mona Fastvold (nominated for “The Brutalist”) could become the first Norwegian to win in the Best Screenplay category at the Golden Globes
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Pixar Animation Studios could extend their record as the most awarded animation studio in the Best Animated Feature Film category at the Golden Globes if they win their 10th Golden Globe for Inside Out 2; additionally, by winning, Inside Out 2 would become the first animated feature to win for its second installment following a victory of the first film (the first “Inside Out” won the award in 2016 and while some continuations managed to win the award (“Toy Story 3” or “How To Train Your Dragon 2”), its first installments had not won the award which would make Inside Out the first franchise to achieve this
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Hans Zimmer (nominated for “Dune: Part Two”) could tie the record for the most wins in the Best Original Score category which is currently held jointly by John Williams, Maurice Jarre & Dimitri Tiomkin with 4 wins - Zimmer won 3 times in the past, so a win in 2025 would be his 5th
TV CATEGORIES
BEST ACTRESS - MINISERIES/TV FILM
Kate Winslet (nominated for “The Regime”) could break out of her tie with Helen Mirren, Judy Davis & Ann-Margret and become the sole holder of the record for the most wins in the Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film category - as of now, the four of them are tied for the first place with 2 wins each and a win in 2025 could be Winslet’s 3rd win in the category (Winslet won in the past for “Mildred Pierce” and “Mare of Easttown”)
Sofía Vergara (nominated for “Griselda”) could become the first Colombian actress to ever win in the Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film category
BEST ACTRESS - COMEDY SERIES
Quinta Brunson (nominated for “Abbott Elementary) or Ayo Edebiri (nominated for “The Bear”) both have a chance to become the first black actress to ever win twice in the Best Actress in Television Series - Comedy category
BEST ACTOR - DRAMA SERIES
Hiroyuki Sanada (nominated for “Shōgun”) could become the first Asian actor (and the first Japanese actor) to ever win in the Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama category
Billy Bob Thorton (nominated for “Landman”) could join 5 other actors who hold the record for the most wins (2) in the Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama category - Thornton won for the first time in the category for “Goliath” in 2017
Donald Glover (nominated for “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”) could become only the second black actor to ever win in the Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama category, following Sterling K. Brown who won in 2018
BEST ACTOR - COMEDY SERIES
Jeremy Allen White (nominated for “The Bear”) could join Michael J. Fox and Alan Alda and achieve a rare feat of winning in the Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy in three consecutive years, following his wins in 2023 and 2024 (*Alda actually achieved this for 4 years in a row, winning for M*A*S*H between 1980-1983)
BEST ACTOR - MINISERIES / TV FILM
Ewan McGregor (nominated for “A Gentleman in Moscow”) could join Al Pacino, James Garner & Robert Duvall and tie their record as the actors with the most wins (2) in the Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Film - McGregor won his first Golden Globe in this category in 2018 for “Fargo”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - SERIES / MINISERIES / TV FILM
Tadanobu Asano (nominated for “Shōgun”) could become the first Japanese actor to ever win in the Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film category (and only the second Asian actor to ever do so)
Javier Bardem (nominated for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”) could become the first Spanish actor to ever win in the Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film category
Diego Luna (nominated for “La Máquina”) could become the first Mexican actor to ever win in the Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film category
Jack Lowden (nominated for “Slow Horses”) could become the first Scottish actor to ever win in the Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film category