Golden Globes’ Best Original Score Award Cut From CBS Telecast

The presentation of the award for Best Original Score at the Golden Globes will not be seen by viewers tuning into the show Sunday night.

Deadline understands that the award will be presented in the room at the Beverly Hilton but that it will be cut from the telecast airing on CBS and streaming live on Paramount+ as a result of time constraints.

This year’s score nominees are Hans Zimmer for Apple’s F1: The Movie, Alexandre Desplat for Netflix’s Frankenstein, Max Richter for Focus Features’ Hamnet, Johnny Greenwood for Warner Bros’ One Battle After Another, Ludwig Göransson for Warner Bros’ Sinners and Kangding Ray for Neon’s Sirāt.

The nominees are being notified of the changes this afternoon.

Today’s news comes after the Golden Globes added a number of categories since an ownership change in June 2023. The awards are now owned by Penske Media Eldridge, which is a joint venture between Deadline owner Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge Industries, and produced by PMC-owned Dick Clark Productions.

In 2024, the Globes added two awards, for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Stand-Up Comedian on Television. This year, it added a Best Podcast Award, which will see Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Smartless, The Mel Robbins Podcast and Up First competing.

It brings the total number of Globes categories to 28.

The winner of Best Original Score will be announced during the show, but instead of being seen on CBS’ linear broadcast, it will be publicly revealed online. A clip of the win will be captured and shared digitally, including with media, and be distributed across all Globes platforms including X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Threads as well as the the Golden Globes website.

The Globes team said the Best Score category remains a “cornerstone” of the awards and it remains a “craft that it deeply values.”

“We place tremendous value on this craft and the artists who practice it; their work is essential to the creative excellence we honor at the Golden Globes,” a spokesperson said. “We greatly appreciate the composers whose work elevates every project we honor and are grateful for the creativity, skill, and impact this community brings to our industry.”

Last year, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Best Score award for Challengers.