Sebastian Stan is officially a 2025 Golden Globe Awards winner.
Accepting the award for best performance by a leading actor in a musical or comedy film for A Different Man, Stan, 42, thanked his supporters onstage at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday, Jan. 5.
Calling his movie “not an easy” one to make, Stan said after accepting the trophy from presenters Andrew Garfield and Kerry Washington, “Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now.”
“We have to normalize it and continue to expose ourselves to it and our children encourage acceptance. One way we can do that is by continuing to champion stories that are inclusive,” the actor continued, in part.
He also later shouted out his girlfriend, Annabelle Wallis: “Annabelle, I love you.”
Stan concluded his speech by saying, “This is for my mom, who left Romania in search of a better life, gave me everything, and for my stepfather, Tony, who took on a single mom and a grown-up kid. Thank you for being a real man.”
Also nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain, Hugh Grant for Heretic, Gabriel LaBelle for Saturday Night, Jesse Plemons for Kinds of Kindness and Glen Powell for Hit Man.
Eisenberg, 41, wrote, directed and starred in A Real Pain, costarring Kieran Culkin, who won for supporting actor earlier in the evening.
The comedy-drama follows two estranged cousins on a trip through Poland to get in touch with their Jewish roots. Eisenberg’s screenplay also notched nominations from the Golden Globes, Film Independent Spirit Awards and Critics Choice Awards.
Critics Choice nominee Grant, 64, plays a villainous religion scholar in Heretic, from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
The A24 horror film officially makes the British star a seven-time Globe nominee; he won on his first go-round back in 1995 for his breakout role in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Grant also appeared in this year’s mini-series The Regime and movie Unfrosted.
LaBelle, 22, led Saturday Night, a recreation of the hours leading up to Saturday Night Live’s premiere episode in 1975, as the sketch show’s creator Lorne Michaels.
Although this marks the Canadian actor’s first Globe recognition, he’s no stranger to the awards circuit following his breakout performance in 2022’s The Fabelmans.
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Representing the only Golden Globe nod for Kinds of Kindness was Plemons, 36, earning his first. The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed comedy, starring an ensemble that included Emma Stone and Hong Chau, featured Plemons in a variety of oddball roles. The Emmy and Oscar nominee also appeared in this year’s Kirsten Dunst-led drama Civil War.
Powell, 36, had a significant 2024 between Hit Man and Twisters. Capping off the year with his first Globe nomination, the actor also joined director Richard Linklater in co-writing Hit Man, a retelling of a real-life fake hit man in New Orleans catching would-be criminals.
Golden Globe nominators can’t get enough of Stan, who followed up his 2023 recognition for playing Tommy Lee in mini-series Pam & Tommy with dual leading actor nods this year: for playing both an actor undergoing transformation in A Different Man and a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
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