5 Oscar takeaways from the latest Golden Globe and Critics' Choice nominations

This week, the 2025 Oscar race began to take more shape as the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations were unveiled to the public.

As we tallied our latest set of Academy Award nomination guesses on Wednesday, it’s time to go more in-depth on the two big sets of nominees this week from the Globes and the critics.

While the Oscars always do their own thing, we can learn right now from these two voting bodies how certain stocks are rising and falling among the contenders. We may finally have a Best Picture frontrunner, too.

Let’s dig into these nominations and what we can learn from them.