At the 2025 Golden Globes, Demi Moore broke down in tears as she accepted the award for best actress in a comedy or musical.
“Whoa. I honestly didn’t anticipate that. Right now, I’m just in shock. On January 5, she addressed the audience at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, “I’ve been doing this for a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor.” “I feel extremely thankful and humbled.
Thirty years ago, Moore, 62, who won for the body-horror spoof The Substance, claimed in her speech that she was fired as a “popcorn actress” by a producer.
“I implied at the time that I was not permitted to have this, that I might make profitable and successful films but that I would not be recognised for them. And I bought in, and I thought that, and that eroded me over time, until a few years ago I decided that perhaps this was it, perhaps I was whole, perhaps I had fulfilled my destiny,” she added.
“And as I was at kind of a low point, 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 that you’re not done,” she said.
“I’ll just leave you with one thing that I believe this movie is teaching you, and that is in those times when we feel like we’re not smart enough, attractive enough, successful enough, or just plain not enough,” she continued.
“A woman once told me, ‘You will never be enough, but if you just put down the measuring stick, you can know the value of your worth.'” I therefore celebrate this today as a symbol of my completeness, the love that motivates me, and the blessing of being able to do what I love while being reassured that I do belong. Moore said, “Thank you so much,” and then he left the stage.
Moore has received three Golden Globe nominations, although this is her first in a long time. She was recently honoured at the awards for the 1990 film Ghost and the 1996 television film If These Walls Could Talk. Moore plays a successful actress who tries to stop the ageing process in this horror satire directed by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. The film received nominated for best motion picture musical or comedy, supporting performance, directing, and writing.
Emilia Pérez and the Hulu comedy The Bear received the most nominations at the 82nd annual Golden Globes, which were revealed on December 9 prior to their Nikki Glaser-hosted presentation that aired on CBS and Paramount+.
This year, Moore faced some other notable actresses.
For Nightbitch, the writer-director Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the same-titled Rachel Yoder novel, Adams, 50, was awarded the only Golden Globe nomination. Adams, a six-time Oscar candidate and now a ten-time Globe nominee (he won for American Hustle in 2014 and Big Eyes in 2015), plays Mother, a new stay-at-home mum who grows more and more certain that she is becoming a dog.
