Demi Moore Stunned As She Wins Her First Acting Award 45 Years Into Her Career

The 2025 Golden Globe Awards aired on CBS on Sunday night, where Demi Moore took home the award for Best Actress in a musical or comedy for her work in The Substance.

When Moore accepted the award, she admitted that she was “in shock.” She explained that this was the first time she’d won an award for acting after decades in the business.

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Moore Wins Golden Globe

“Oh wow. I really wasn’t expecting that. I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor,” gushed Moore, 62. “I’m just so humbled and so grateful.”

Moore went on to explain that thirty years ago, a producer dismissed her as a “popcorn actress.”

“At that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged,” she said. “And I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do.”

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Moore Scores The Substance

Just when Moore thought her days in Hollywood were over, she received the script for The Substance.

“And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me that you’re not done,” she recalled. “I’ll just leave you with one thing that I think this movie is imparting is in those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough, or basically just not enough.”

“I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick,'” Moore concluded. “And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong. Thank you so much.”

Check out Moore’s full speech in the video below.

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Moore’s Awards History

This was Moore’s third Golden Globe nomination, and her first in decades. She was first nominated for Best Actress in a musical or comedy for 1990’s Ghost. Moore was then nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for the 1996 TV movie If These Walls Could Talk.

The Substance is a body horror film. In it, Moore plays an actress who goes to drastic measures to reverse the aging process. In winning the Golden Globe for this movie, Moore beat out Amy Adams for Nightbitch, Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez, Mikey Madison for Anora and Zendaya for Challengers.

Moore is considered to be a frontrunner at the Oscars. Indeed, she’ll find out in two weeks time if she’s nominated. Regardless of what happens now, we’re glad that Moore finally received an award for acting after decades of incredible performances!