Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet and Cynthia Erivo arrive early for Golden Globes

Australian actress Cate Blanchett, British actresses Kate Winslet and Cynthia Erivo, James Bond actor Daniel Craig, and Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd have led the early arrivals at the 2025 Golden Globes.

The Oscar winner, who is nominated for best performance by a female actress in a limited series or TV movie for Disclaimer, arrived on the red carpet in a gold sparkly outfit for the 82nd Golden Globes, which is being held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Blanchett, who plays a famous documentary maker and journalist in the thriller series who is forced to confront her past, is up against Winslet – who came in a white suit – for playing a dictator in The Regime.

Jodie Foster for crime series True Detective: Night Country, and Sofia Vergara for playing a drug dealer in Griselda are also among those in the same category.

Winslet, who will also compete with other Hollywood actresses in the lead actress motion picture drama category for her turn as model turned war correspondent Elizabeth Miller in Lee, told Variety magazine that it is “amazing year for women” which she is “so happy to be a part of”.

She also said: “I have to say its extraordinary because since Covid I think we all got out of the habit of being on the carpet and being on show, definitely (there is) a different level of nerves kicking in.”

Winslet will face Angelina Jolie as late opera star Maria Callas in the self-titled biopic, Maria, Nicole Kidman in erotic thriller Babygirl and Tilda Swinton for friendship tale The Room Next Door, in the movie actress category.

Leading the nominations this year is operatic musical Emilia Perez, about a Mexican drug lord who changes gender.

Also on the red carpet was American actress Amy Adams, who wore a simple red dress, as she was nominated for best actress in a motion picture musical or comedy.

She features on the list alongside British actress and singer, Erivo, who wore a patterned black and white dress and is up for the same prize alongside Zendaya for romantic sports film Challengers, Karla Sofia Gascon for Emilia Perez, Demi Moore for The Substance, and Mikey Madison for Anora – a film about a young sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch.

Wicked, which explores the friendship between Glinda and Elphaba before they become estranged in the classic stories by L Frank Baum, was shortlisted for best picture musical or comedy alongside Emilia Perez, Challengers, Anora, The Substance and comedy drama A Real Pain.

The musical also received a nod in the cinematic and box office achievement category with hit films including Gladiator II, Deadpool & Wolverine, Twisters, Inside Out 2 and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Scottish comedian Gadd arrived wearing a simple all-black suit for the awards ceremony as he is is up for best TV limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television, alongside Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story about the 1989 murder case which has since returned to court.

Adrien Brody, who wore a big sparkly brooch on the red carpet, and Craig in a simple dark suit, will go up against each other or best male actor in a motion picture drama.

Craig is nominated for Luca Guadagnino’s romance Queer – where he plays an American living in 1950s Mexico who falls in love with a young student – while Brody had been given a nod for playing a Hungarian architect attempting to build a life in the US after the Second World War in The Brutalist.

The 82nd Golden Globes is presented by comedian and actress Nikki Glaser – the first woman to solo host the ceremony – who wore a dark gold dress.