The 2025 Golden Globes Were High on Drama But Low on Politics
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Once again, the Golden Globes opened televised awards season in the run-up to a Donald Trump presidency.
But this time, things looked a little different. At the 2017 ceremony, for instance, Meryl Streep used her Cecil B. DeMille lifetime-achievement awards speech to decry the incoming President.
A year later, following reporting around sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry, including and especially by Harvey Weinstein, the ceremony was half a rally to plan new ways of talking about power in Hollywood and half a funeral for the old ways; at least that’s how it looked at home, with every female nominee dressed in black.
None of the problems discussed onstage by Meryl Streep or by Oprah Winfrey in 2018 or any number of others have gone away, exactly. (Quite the opposite: The president that the #Resistance movement has spent eight years battling won the popular vote last year.) But, with a grin-and-bear-it sense of chagrin, the Golden Globes this year suggested a bit of what this awards season and the next few might look like, with political gestures either absent or muted.
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