Audience for Golden Globe Awards telecast drops 7% from last year

The Sunday telecast of the 83rd Golden Globe Awards connected CBS suffered a ratings setback with an assemblage diminution of 7% compared with past year’s show.

Nielsen information showed the unrecorded event, hosted by comic Nikki Glaser astatine the Beverly Hilton, averaged 8.66 cardinal viewers. The large winners of the nighttime included “One Battle After Another” and “Hamnet” connected the diagnostic movie side. Medical play “The Pitt” and drama bid “Hacks,” some from HBO Max, were the large TV winners.

The data, which see livestreaming, people the 2nd consecutive assemblage diminution for the Golden Globe Awards, which scored 9.2 cardinal viewers successful 2025. That variation dropped somewhat from its bounce-back twelvemonth of 2024, erstwhile the programme delivered 9.4 cardinal viewers — a 50% assistance implicit its last twelvemonth connected NBC.

Like each awards shows, the Golden Globes nary longer present the benignant of ratings that erstwhile made it 1 of the most-watched programs of the year. The amusement has suffered from the changing habits of viewers, galore of whom person turned to societal media for trophy-show clips.

The Golden Globe Awards besides had to travel backmost from a ungraded implicit the deficiency of diverseness successful the rank of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which operated the lawsuit for decades. A Los Angeles Times probe brought attraction and raised concerns astir its morals and fiscal practices successful 2021.

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards whitethorn person been wounded by immoderate accumulation elements that did not spell implicit good based connected the harsh effect from viewers posting connected societal media.

Marc Malkin, elder civilization and events exertion for Variety, was paired with “Entertainment Tonight” co-host Kevin Frazier to supply moving chatter off-camera during the agelong and winding travel to the signifier for winners seated successful the crowded edifice ballroom. They were not good received.

“Do you deliberation Golden Globes commentators Marc Malkin and Kevin Frazier are going to spell location contiguous utterly haunted for the remainder of their days implicit the mind-numbing inanities they uttered each night?” wrote movie professional Dustin Putman.

A station from different spectator compared Malkin’s commentary to “your ma talking astir who she conscionable ran into astatine the supermarket.”

Viewers were besides enactment disconnected by on-screen graphics featuring information from the prediction marketplace app Polymarket showing the triumph probability of the nominees up of their categories. “Just propulsion maine successful beforehand of a autobus astatine this point,” sports podcaster Bobby Wagner wrote connected X.

The Golden Globe Awards presented the information arsenic portion of a concern woody with Polymarket, which gives users the accidental to stake connected the outcomes of events successful sports, culture, authorities and different areas. The woody included an advertizing bargain connected the broadcast.