(NCS, KYMA) – 2025 introduced leisure information from the large and small screens to the live performance stage, and from the company boardroom to stars in the courtroom.
The 12 months started with a coronation and an issue.
Demi Moore drew a standing ovation on the Golden Globes, as “The Substance” star gained her first-ever main appearing award.
“Emilia Perez” gained 4 Golden Globes and would go on to win two Oscars, together with Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldana, however in between, star Karla Sofía Gascón, the primary overtly transgender actress nominated for an Oscar in an appearing class, drew controversy for previous social media posts criticizing Muslim tradition and George Floyd.
Oscar night time belonged to “Anora,” which took house 5 trophies, together with Best Picture. The movie’s author and director Sean Baker grew to become simply the second individual to win 4 Oscars in one night time, with the primary being Walt Disney.
Taylor Swift’s massively profitable “Eras Tour” wrapped up at the end of 2024, however she had loads extra for her followers in 2025. She dropped “The Life of a Showgirl,” written whereas on the tour, and Travis Kelce dropped to one knee as her football player boyfriend proposed.
The now-engaged performer ended the 12 months setting Billboard records with “Showgirl,” and releasing a live performance movie and a docuseries about “The Eras Tour.”
Beyonce had a memorable 12 months in addition to Billboard says her “Cowboy Carter” Tour was the shortest tour ever to gross greater than $400 million, and the highest-grossing nation music live performance tour ever.
She additionally grew to become the primary Black girl to win the Grammy for Best Country Album, and he or she lastly gained the Album of the Year Grammy.
The largest film of 2025 did not come from Hollywood because the animated journey “Ne Zha 2” made greater than $1.9 billion, practically all of that in china.
In Hollywood, mega-buck mergers and acquisitions additional modified the showbiz panorama as Skydance Media took over Paramount Global in an $8 billion deal and Amazon MGM Studios took inventive management of the “James Bond” franchise.
In addition, after two years, Disney accomplished a $9 billion deal to purchase out NBCUniversal’s stake in Hulu, and in December, Netflix announced a deal to amass Warner Bros., together with HBO and HBO Max, adopted by a hostile bid by Paramount Skydance for all of Warner Bros. Discovery.
“Saturday Night Live” (SNL) marked half-a-century of late-night laughs, with 16-time “SNL” host Steve Martin delivering the monologue.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban split after just under 20 years of marriage. The Oscar-winning actress filed for divorce from the Grammy-winning nation singer in September. They married in 2006 and have two teenage daughters.
2024’s “It Ends With Us” led to dueling lawsuits in 2025. In January, Justin Baldoni, the movie’s director and co-star, sued star Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds after Lively filed a civil rights complaint, accusing Baldoni of sexually harassing her throughout filming, after which retaliating towards her when she spoke up.
Baldoni denied the accusations, and claimed the couple had hijacked the movie and tried to “destroy” him and his profession.
In June, a choose dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit, and Lively’s lawsuit is scheduled for trial in May 2026.
Hollywood was shocked, in addition to saddened, by a number of movie star deaths this 12 months.
Writer, director, actor, and activist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed at their Los Angeles home. Police arrested their son Nick Reiner. Rob Reiner was 78.
Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowned while swimming in Costa Rica. He was 54.
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg died at age 39, reportedly of problems from diabetes mellitus, and Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead in their New Mexico home. He was 95.
Others we misplaced in 2025 included singers Ozzy Osbourne and Brian Wilson, actresses Diane Keaton, Loni Anderson, June Lockhart, and Diane Ladd, actors Val Kilmer and George Wendt, director David Lynch, and actor, Oscar-winning director, and environmentalist Robert Redford.