Hiroyuki Sanada Urges Young Actors to 'Never Give Up' After Win at 2025 Golden Globes for Role inShōgun

Mar. 15, 2025

Hiroyuki Sanada.Photo:CBS

CBS

Hiroyuki Sanadaearned another trophy for the case at the2025 Golden Globeson Sunday, Jan. 5.

“I’d love to say thank you for everyone who’s been in my life. All of you have brought me here,” Sanada said after his win.

He also gave advice to “young actors and creators in the world,” telling them, “please be yourself, believe in yourself, and never give up. Good luck.”

Hiroyuki Sanada in ‘Shōgun’.Katie Yu /FX / Courtesy of FX via Everett Collection

Katie Yu /FX / Courtesy of FX via Everett Collection

The FX series released in February 2024 to critical acclaim, and had an impressive run during last year’s awards season. At the2024 Emmy Awards, it led the drama category with awhopping 25 nominations, and Sanada took home the prize for best actor in a drama,making history as the first Japanese actor to do so.

It was a diverse nominee pool, with just one first-time nominee — Sanada — alongside an impressive slate of Globes vets. Glover, Oldman and Thornton have all won a Globe before. Gyllenhaal and Redmayne are multi-time nominees.

Donald Glover as John Smith and Maya Erskine as Jane Smith in Amazon Studios' series ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ (2024).Amazon Studios

Amazon Studios

The show alsotook home the win for best television series — musical or comedythat year, a win that Glover, 41, called “incredible” in his acceptance speech.

“I really just want to thank … Atlanta, and all the black folks in Atlanta. For real, just for being alive and being amazing people," he said in his speech. “We didn’t think anybody was going to like this show.”

InPresumed Innocent— a new adaptation of Scott Turrow’s 1987 novel — Gyllenhaal, 44, played disgraced Chicago prosecutor Rusty Sabich as he was put on trial for the murder of his mistress and colleague Carolyn (Renate Reinsve).The role was an “interesting challenge,” he told PEOPLE, as he described the plot as a “really, really complex situation.”

“I think that’s what drew [showrunner David Kelly] to it. It also drew me to it — of all the questions that come,” he said. “But I think one of the other things that really drew me to it was the question of the family. That in this story you really explore that whole world, and how everybody gets embroiled and enmeshed in it.”

This nomination marks the fourth for Oldman, 66, who was also nominated in this category for this role last year. His other two nominations came in 2021 and 2018, for his roles inMankandDarkest Hour. He won in 2018 for the latter.

InSlow Horses— which also earned a nod for best television series - drama — Oldman plays MI-6 spymaster Jackson Lamb as he oversees a group of disgraced intelligence agents.

He has described the role as James Bond-adjacent, except that it tells the story of the iconic British secret agent and includes the less glamorous side of his life. “We give you James Bond, but warts and all, with dirty laundry and stale toast,” he told theL.A. Timesfollowing season 4’s premiere in August.

Eddie Redmayne as the Jackal in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

Redmayne, 42, earned his first-ever Golden Globe nomination for a television role with the smash hit Peacock series, a modern retelling of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel. The series itself also earned a nom for best television series - drama.

Redmayne told PEOPLE that he battled some serious nerves taking on the role, ashe described himself as “the biggest f—ing fan of the original movie,” so he really didn’t want to “butcher it.”

The show’s success — it was renewed for a season 2 already — has been a relief for him, and the nominations are a cherry on top.

Calling the nominations “deeply unexpected, but so thrilling,” Redmayne said, “The whole process of acting and producing, this has been my life all-consuming for a year and a half. So the fact that it has been recognized, the fact that audiences seem to be engaging with it, particularly when it came out only recently… It’s lovely that people connected.”

Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris in ‘Landman’.Emerson Miller/Paramount+

Emerson Miller/Paramount+

Thornton, 69, leads the category with the most previous nominations. Being recognized for his lead role in Taylor Sheridan’sLandmanmarks his seventh Golden Globe nomination.

He’s won previously in 2017 and 2015, forGoliathandFargo, respectively. His speech in 2017 was particularly heartfelt as hededicated the award to a 23-year-old manwho had worked on the series and died the year before. “Luke made me want to come to work,” Thornton said. “He was the guy who when I got there, I knew that his face was such a joyous face — he was so happy just to be there and have that job and be around the business he wanted to be around.”

The actor has said he’s hopeful that his nomination this year forLandman, which explores the modern-day oil boom in West Texas, will help the Paramount series' chances of getting renewed for season 2.

“The show has done very well, so it just stands to reason that they would do another one,” he toldThe Hollywood Reporterafter learning of his nomination. “But especially when you get a nomination for something — that draws attention to your show, so I think that helps. I don’t see why they wouldn’t.”

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