Preserving observe of which seasons of TV are eligible for awards consideration is difficult when every ceremony has totally different guidelines. The distinction between the air dates and eligibility home windows of the Golden Globes and Emmy Awards are notably complicated, as they’re sometimes the primary and final TV awards reveals of every season however their eligibility home windows tremendously differ.
With the 2025 Golden Globe Awards nominations set to be introduced on Monday, December 9 (with the ceremony going down on Sunday, January 5, 2025), we’re breaking down its eligibility guidelines and the way its lineup of nominees can be totally different from the latest 2024 and subsequent 12 months’s 2025 Emmys. (For reference, see the total 2025 Golden Globes timetable right here, Awards Guidelines and Classes right here, and Marketing campaign Pointers right here.)
What’s the 2025 Golden Globes eligibility window?
Mercifully, the Globes have a quite simple calendar. To be thought of, a TV present (or made-for-TV film and choose dwell occasions) needed to have first aired throughout primetime hours on TV (or been made accessible on demand) sooner or later within the calendar 12 months of 2024. Primetime hours, as outlined by the Golden Globes’ guidelines, are 8-11:00 p.m. Monday by Saturday and 7-11:00 p.m. Sunday. The precise 82nd Golden Globe Awards “qualifying 12 months” is January 1 by December 31, 2024.
TV reveals in hopes of nominations this 12 months are required to have made their reveals accessible upfront to all Golden Globe voters on the Golden Globes Screening Platform both earlier than they premiere, on the time of the preliminary broadcast, or by November 4, 2024 on the newest. That implies that reveals which have but to premiere for the lots by the point of the December 9 nominations, like Squid Sport Season 2 (premiering in full on December 26), might be nominated this 12 months.
The Critics Selection Awards nominations eligibility interval can also be the calendar 12 months.
Which seasons of TV are eligible for 2025 Golden Globes?
It’s odd to consider the Golden Globes because the “begin” of TV awards season and the Emmys because the “finish” when the identical season of Shōgun simply rewarded on the 2024 Emmys is up for Globes nominations on December 9. The Bear Season 2, nevertheless, was the one profitable Emmys in September 2024, however Season 3 is what’s being thought of for Globes this 12 months. That’s as a result of the Emmys eligibility window for the September 15, 2024 ceremony was June 1, 2023 – Could 31, 2024. Shōgun aired from February 27 to April 23, 2024, placing it into Emmys 2024 however Globes 2025 eligibility.
Reveals needed to have aired no less than six episodes by Could 31 to be eligible for 2024 Emmys, which is why Interview With the Vampire Season 2 (which premiered on Could 12) missed the cutoff however is eligible for Globes noms on Monday. It will likely be eligible for Emmy consideration on the 2025 ceremony (the Emmys historically happen within the fall). Home of the Dragon Season 2, with its June-August 2024 air dates, is in the identical boat.
Per the foundations, “The eligibility of tv applications doesn’t rely on the language(s) utilized in this system. Non-English-language tv applications launched in the US are eligible in the event that they meet the opposite qualifying standards.” Animated applications can be thought of for the foremost classes (Finest Collection – Drama, Finest Collection – Musical or Comedy, and so forth.) so long as they meet the opposite qualifying class standards. Actuality and different solely or primarily non-scripted programming are usually not eligible for any TV award class. Selection reveals or different applications composed of musical acts, sketches, and different expertise performances are solely eligible within the Finest Efficiency in Stand-Up Comedy on Tv class.
It’s fairly easy to recollect: TV reveals are eligible for Golden Globes nominations within the related classes as long as they aired throughout primetime hours from January 1-December 31, 2024.
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What are the Golden Globes TV classes?
They’re as follows:
- Finest Tv Collection – Drama
- Finest Tv Collection – Musical or Comedy
- Finest Tv Restricted Collection, Anthology Collection, or Movement Image Made for Tv
- Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Tv Collection – Drama
- Finest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Tv Collection – Drama
- Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Tv Collection – Musical or Comedy
- Finest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Tv Collection – Musical or Comedy
- Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Restricted Collection, Anthology Collection, or a Movement Image Made for Tv
- Finest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Restricted Collection, Anthology Collection, or a Movement Image Made for Tv
- Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Supporting Function on Tv
- Finest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Supporting Function on Tv
- Finest Efficiency in Stand-Up Comedy on Tv
How do Golden Globes submissions work?
TV reveals wouldn’t have to formally submit themselves in an effort to be thought of for nominations. The Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation (HFPA), the physique that determines the winners, provides qualifying content material to its eligibility checklist if not. The choice to submit for consideration is at all times accessible to studios, networks, and streamers, offered that they submit for consideration by the listed deadline. The submission utility for the 2025 Golden Globes opened on August 1, 2024, and closed on November 4, 2024.
What number of TV episodes must be out to be thought of for Golden Globes?
There’s at all times the chance that some reveals will solely air a few episodes within the calendar 12 months. The Globes base eligibility on minutes aired through the calendar 12 months. For recurring Drama, Musical or Comedy collection, no less than 150 program minutes (about 2.5 hours) will need to have aired through the calendar 12 months to be eligible. Every episode should be a minimal of 20 program minutes. The identical applies to restricted and anthology collection. Mainly, two episodes or extra will need to have come out this 12 months for a present to be eligible for Globes nominations on the 2025 ceremony.
If a restricted collection is nominated on the 2025 Globes however is later renewed for an additional season, that new season can be “labeled as a collection or once more as a restricted collection in that later season relying on the diploma of continuity in theme, storyline, predominant characters, and manufacturing supervision from the unique restricted collection to the later 12 months of the collection,” the foundations state. Whereas Shōgun was initially billed as a restricted collection, its Season 2 renewal by FX simply earlier than the 2024 Emmys consideration deadline meant that it’s now a recurring collection. It should almost certainly be nominated within the Drama Collection classes through the December 9 nominations.
What are the Golden Globes guidelines for the efficiency classes?
Who’s thought of a lead and who’s thought of supporting actor is a typical query amongst followers. Right here’s how the Golden Globes outline a lead and supporting actors.
Lead actor: “Lead forged members in a tv collection, restricted collection, anthology collection, or movement image made for tv should be the central characters who seem in a considerable portion of the eligible tv program and who drive the narrative of this system.”
Supporting actor: “Supporting forged members in a tv collection, restricted collection, anthology collection, or movement image made for tv should seem in a minimal of 5 % of complete program time for all episodes first aired through the qualifying 12 months.”
The foundations notice that “actors in ensemble casts with comparable roles in a tv collection ought to be labeled as both all lead or all supporting actors.”
That is the place the submission guidelines come again into play. As acknowledged above, reveals are usually not required to submit in any class in an effort to be thought of for nominations in stated classes. If the present matches the class and eligibility standards, they will obtain votes. What submitting seemingly does do for reveals and actors, nevertheless, is inform the HFPA voters the classes for which they’d prefer to be thought of, like lead vs. supporting actor.
The tv nomination ballots had been offered to all voters by November 18. The TV voting deadline was November 25 at 8/7c. The film nominations ballots had been despatched on November 26, with the voting deadline being December 4 at 8/7c. After the nominations are introduced on December 9, the ultimate ballots can be despatched out on December 13. The ultimate voting deadline is January 1 at 8/7c. The winners can be introduced on the January 5 ceremony, hosted by Nikki Glaser.
2025 Golden Globe Awards, Sunday, January 5, 8/7c, CBS