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Demi Moore gave viewers a moment to remember at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.
Moore, 62, won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Sunday, January 5, awards show, which took place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
“I really wasn’t expecting that. I’m just in shock right now,” Moore gushed during her acceptance speech. “I’ve been doing this a long time, like, over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor. And I’m just so humbled and so grateful. 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. … I bought in and I believed that. And that corroded me over time to the point where, a few years ago, I thought that maybe that was it. That I’d done what I was supposed to do.”
She added, “I was at kind of a low point, [and] 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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Five other nominees rounded out the category: Amy Adams for Nightbitch, Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, Karla Sofia Gascón for Emilia Perez, Mikey Madison for Anora and Zendaya for Challengers.
Prior to the ceremony, Adams, 50, and Zendaya, 28, were already Golden Globe winners. Adams previously took home Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in 2014 for American Hustle and in 2015 for Big Eyes. She has also received seven additional nominations for her roles in Enchanted, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, Arrival, Vice and Sharp Objects. Zendayafor her part, earned Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama for Euphoria in 2023.
Erivo, 37, and Moore, 62, both had three previous Golden Globe nods before the 2025 awards show. Erivo landed hers for her work in Harriet and Genius: Arethawhile Moore received prior nominations for Ghost and If These Walls Could Talk.
As for Gascón, 52, and Madison, 25, this year marked the first time they were recognized by the Golden Globes.
After the nominations were announced in December 2024, Madison said in a statement that she was “deeply humbled, honored and absolutely overjoyed” by the news, calling it a “dream come true.”
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Gascón, meanwhile, noted, “This has been an overwhelming morning. Tears filled my eyes when I heard the news.” She went on to thank “all of you who support me and live with my successes as if they were yours,” adding, “This nomination gives me hope for humanity.”
Moore, for her part, told Variety that she was excited to be included in the awards season conversation after decades in the industry.
“I don’t want to make it mean too much,” she explained. “But I have to remember: don’t make it mean too little. Because then you miss the moment of the joy and really the beauty of all the hard work that’s gone in to get to this point.”
