The variety of folks tuning in to observe the Golden Globe Awards shrank this yr, organizers introduced Wednesday, as Hollywood’s gala evenings proceed to battle with declining viewership.
Round 8.7 million folks in the USA watched the star-studded ceremony by which Paul Thomas Anderson’s conspiracy epic “One Battle After One other” dominated the prizes.
That determine is down from the 9.3 million who tuned in final yr, in keeping with numbers from the Nielsen Institute, and is round half the scale of the audiences simply earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Globes, lengthy billed as Hollywood’s largest social gathering, and the raucous forerunner to the awards season finale Oscars, had been beset by scandal and accusations of racism that led to the Globes not even being aired in 2022.
The gala was finally dropped by long-time broadcaster NBC, however relaunched with CBS in 2024 beneath new possession, and has undergone important reforms aimed toward stamping out perceptions of corruption and racism.
Sunday evening’s bash noticed Hollywood’s finest and brightest out in power for a night fronted by comic Nikki Glaser, whose acerbic opening monologue was watched almost 14 million instances on social media over the primary 36 hours, organizers mentioned.
Amongst her zingers was a jab on the US Division of Justice, which she mentioned needs to be in line for the Finest Enhancing Award for its dealing with of the closely redacted information on President Donald Trump’s one-time good friend, intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In addition to important victories for “One Battle After One other,” key winners on the night included William Shakespeare household tragedy “Hamnet,” which received finest drama movie and a finest feminine actor prize for Jessie Buckley as a distraught mom.
Timothee Chalamet and Brazilian Wagner Moura added to their awards season momentum with prizes for “Marty Supreme” and “The Secret Agent,” respectively.
The Golden Globes are seen as a number one indicator of success within the Oscars, which occur in Hollywood this yr on March 15.
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