This Year’s Golden Globe-Nominated Movies Inspired a Lot of Memes. Here Are Some of the Best

The last year was a great one for going to the movies; every single time I went out to see Anora, Nightbitch, Babygirl, or any other of the weird-woman-heavy films I enjoyed to varying degrees in 2024, the theater was packed. It’s no wonder, then, that the movie-meme game is stronger than ever this awards season.

A movie doesn’t have to be critically acclaimed to make it good meme fodder, of course, but given that the 2025 Golden Globes are only a few days away, it feels appropriate to organize our appreciation of 2024’s best movie memes around the upcoming award show. Below, find a roundup of the best memes and tweets about some of this year’s Golden Globe-nominated movies.

Babygirl

Nicole Kidman getting thoroughly roasted by her gay daughter before being further humiliated (kinkily, I might add) by an office whippersnapper? A valuable addition to the growing May/December canon that’s led to some truly inspired meme treatments:

Challengers

It’s a true testament to how utterly beserk (and deeply hot) Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers was that in January 2025, some eight months after the movie’s theatrical release, people still can’t stop talking (and memeing) about it.

A Complete Unknown

Buoyed by a delightfully chaotic Timmy Chimmy press tour, James Mangold’s lauded Bob Dylan biopic inspired some appropriately deranged tweets:

Conclave

The movie with the vaping priests? Uh, yeah, memes were made, like this one that improbably imagines the Edward Berger-directed papal drama as a Fiddler on the Roof-style musical:

Or the ones comparing its theatrics to a reality competition series:

And then there were the fan edits:

Dune: Part Two

From the sandworms to Javier Bardem’s scene-stealing turn and Rebecca Ferguson, just, period, Denis Villeneuve’s epic latest had the spice:

Nosferatu

I cannot see this movie because I am too much of a coward for even light horror (including when it stars Lily-Rose Depp in what sounds, by all accounts, like a great performance), but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the plentiful Nosferatu reactions:

The Substance

I broke my no-horror-movies rule for Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in this one, and while I won’t say I regret it, I am still having very visceral nightmares. At least the memes help:

Wicked

I mean, how do you even narrow this meme-rich, fantastical juggernaut down to a single choice? “Holding space” is an obvious frontrunner for the movie’s best meme:

…but personally, I’m partial to all the tweets that center Galinda’s potential queerness.