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The audience for the Golden Globes continued to rebound this year, with more than 10 million viewers, their organizers announced on Monday. The ceremony crowned “Emilia Perez” by Jacques Audiard and “The Brutalist” on Sunday.
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January 7, 2025 – 06:56
(Keystone-ATS) Weighed down by the Covid-19 pandemic, then by a scandal in 2021 revealing the racism and corruption of their members, these awards have been profoundly reformed and are on an upward slope. With 10.1 million viewers, the 82nd Golden Globes ceremony saw its audience increase by 7% compared to the 2024 edition.
These preliminary data revealed Monday by the CBS channel confirm the gradual rebound in audiences, after the historic low of 6.3 million viewers in 2023.
Long seen as an essential springboard to the Oscars and Hollywood’s favorite evening, the Golden Globes almost disappeared due to scandals. The ceremony was boycotted and deprived of television broadcast in 2022.
Bought the same year by a billionaire, who deeply diversified their jury, the Globes were relaunched on the CBS channel in 2023, rather than NBC.
Nikki Glaser
Their new version seems to be settling into the American audiovisual landscape: among the big stars nominated on Sunday evening, there was no notable absentee, a sign that the ceremony is regaining its former glory.
The evening crowned two big winners. “Emilia Perez,” Jacques Audiard’s musical odyssey about a Mexican drug dealer’s gender transition, won four awards, including best comedy and “The Brutalist,” a long portrait of a surviving architect from the Holocaust, which is trying to rebuild its life in the United States, won three awards, including best dramatic film.
The ceremony was also distinguished by the diversity of its prize list, with a statuette for the Brazilian Fernanda Torres (“I’m still here”) and the first major award in the career of Demi Moore, for her role as a former drug addict. to a youth serum in the French film “The Substance”.
The first woman to present the Golden Globes solo, comedian Nikki Glaser succeeded in her bet, flooding the ceremony with well-felt jokes. To the point that the American press is already raising the possibility that it will take place again in the next edition.
However, the Globes audience remains well below its pre-pandemic levels. In 2020, more than 18 million viewers watched the show.
