Demi Moore Wins First Golden Globe at 62: "Put Down the Measuring Stick"

Demi Moore has won her first Golden Globe—and the honor is long overdue. At the 2025 awards ceremony on January 5, she took home the trophy for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture for her performance as Elizabeth Sparkle in The Substance.

In her acceptance speech, Moore explained that she was "in shock." Despite her 45-year career, she said, "This is the first time I've ever won anything as an actor." She then revealed that thirty years ago, when she was best known for films like Ghost and Striptease, a producer had dismissed her as a "popcorn actress." And so, she convinced herself that she would never do more than make movies that "made a lot of money."

But since then, Moore has learned to be her own champion thanks to The Substance. In the body horror film, Moore plays an aging actress who takes a black market drug to become the best version of herself—only to find that the best version of herself is Margaret Qualley—and she wants to take over her life.

While The Substance teaches its viewers about the importance of self-acceptance in an increasingly shallow world, working on the film taught Moore the same thing.

"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,'" she said in her acceptance speech. "And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and the love that is driving me and the gift of doing something I love—and being reminded that I do belong."

Moore dressed on theme for her big awards win, wearing a champagne-colored strapless structural gown by Armani Privé and leaving her hair down in soft waves.

Moore's long overdue win is proof that the Demi Renaissance has well and truly arrived. And here's to many more trophies.

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