Total collapse in Hollywood: Guillermo del Toro’s “FRANKENSTEIN” crashes into the awards season with 5 Golden Globe nominations, leaving the entire industry stunned. A film that was once dismissed as “Too Dark” and “Too Monstrous” for the Major Awards has now emerged as an Immortal Laboratory Creature, crushing five major nominations: Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. Hollywood went into instant chaos. Prediction lists had a collapse. Critics rushed to rewrite their takes as if they had just witnessed something they weren’t ready to admit. But what really bothered everyone was the secret reaction of the Golden Globes committee, something they tried to hide but accidentally exposed in a 17-second audio leak…

December 8, 2025 arrived in Hollywood like any other day: PR professionals resumed their weekend celebrations, calculations were made on laptops, and a wave of optimism swept through about a moment “seeing something like this for the first time in a long time.” foundation.

Guillermo del Toro’s *Frankenstein* – Netflix’s giant Goth – has been described as “demasiado grotesco para los votantes de los Globos” and “un Experimento de Terror de nicho” – se había abierto camino hacia quinco major nominations in los Globos de Oro, provoking a reaction of silent, frenzied revisionism and absolute panic.

Best Original Band. Best Actor. Best Actor of the Reparto. There is only one regression; there is a revival of the kind that the master Victor Frankenstein desired. Predicted lists from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter exploded overnight.

The critics whom Habían criticized as “too lenient” in the initial revisions were preparing to publish “reassessments” of social norms, as if the rewriting of history could not be rectified under their supervision.

The Moment The green light was given, and things unfolded rather slowly: a 17-second audio recording from the Golden Globe committee meeting revealed a secretive, rough, and revealing reaction, resulting in the loss of all the edited footage from the original images.

To understand the crisis, let’s go back to the tenth installment of *Frankenstein*. Del Toro, the Mexican author of two Oscar-winning masterpieces, *The Shape of Water* and *Pinocho*, had been nurturing this intriguing project for decades.

In 2007, he named his “santo grial,” a “Milton tragedy” faithful to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel: a blend of universal monsters, along with an existential lament about creation, isolation, and the arrogance of playing the divine.

Netflix greenlit it in 2023 while Del was working on the project. Toro’s year-long contract stipulated… The cast for the new film includes: Oscar Isaac as the brilliant and famous Victor Frankenstein; Jacob Elordi as the community leader and researcher; Mia Goth as Elizabeth; and Christoph Waltz as the enigmatic Professor Waldman.

Alexandre Desplat, Del Toro’s favorite composer for *Shape of Water*, presented a score that combines orchestral rhythms with captivating percussion pieces that converge at the end of each song.

Shot in lavish black and white at Pinewood Studios and locations across Europe, this $150 million epic premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2025, and received a brief screening for a mixed review: praised for its visual poeticism and deep emotion, but also criticized as “too dark, too grotesque to be compelling.”

The film had a limited screening at EEfilms.UU. on [date]. October 17. The film generated modest box office revenue ($28 million nationally) before its worldwide Netflix release on November 7.

Streaming channels will disappear: 120 million hours of viewing in the first week, according to Nielsen figures, and counted in the *Squid Game* time slot.

Critical approval ratings stand at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Richard Brody of The New Yorker lauded it as “a great master of Del Toro, a Frankenstein for our fractured age.”

However, rumors persist: too many changes to the Globos de Oro, the famously talkative body of over 300 international journalists restructured after the 2021 scandal (no Black members, alleged soborno).

Earlier predictions are widely used in the best-case scenarios technically. The judging criteria, including visual effects and scores, were all important. Best Picture? Best Director? Comedy. “It’s excellent, but the Golden Globe voters are very flashy, but they have no problem with that,” a leading consultant told Deadline in November.

This was the live televised announcement of the nominations at the Beverly Hilton, hosted by Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall.

The drama category included: *Frankenstein* along with *Hamnet* by Chloé Zhao, *It Was Just an Accident* by Jafar Panahi, the Brazilian film *The Secret Agent*, *Sentimental Value* by Joachim Trier, and the vampire horror *Sinners* by Ryan Coogler.

Del Toro winning Best Director, along with Zhao, Paul Thomas Anderson (*Una batalla tras otra*), Panahi, Trier, and Coogler, created a huge buzz on the big screen.

Victor de Oscar Isaac was thrilled. He won the Best Actor (Drama) award alongside Joel Edgerton. (*Train Dream*), Dwayne Johnson (*The Smash Machine*), Michael B.

Jacob Elordi’s Creature, nominated for the first time, won Best Actor in the Reparto category, starring Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another), Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Sean Penn (also in One Battle), Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly), and Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value). Desplat’s soundtrack completed the five awards.

Immediate chaos ensued. David Ehrlich of IndieWire spoke, as if witnessing a series of shifts.

Prediction markets on platforms like GoldDerby shifted: *Frankenstein* increased its probability of winning Best Drama Film from 12% to 28%, surpassing *Sinners*.

Advertisers of rival films joined the fray; A barrage of emails from a top-tier agent was delivered to Puck: “How to counter Del Toro’s monstrosity? Copy that intimidation with *Hamnet*?”

Netflix, dominating with a total of 35 nominations (including massive TV shows like *Teenagers*), saw a 3% drop in unscheduled activity.

Del Toro, contacted at his Los Angeles home, issued an elegant statement: “It’s for the unfit ones, the creatures we all used to be. Shelley is very proud.”

Then a major explosion occurred. At 3:47 PM PT, an anonymous recording was leaked to r/oscarrace on Reddit: a 17-second audio clip, timestamped at 6:12 AM.

At this moment, it’s a Zoom discussion in the meeting room of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) committee.

Unbelievably, three voices (voting prefix, audio analysis by The Wrap) were captured responding to a preliminary boleta conversation that night.

Voz 1 (acento británico): “Maldita sea, *Frankenstein* acaba de arrasar en el campo del drama. ¿Cinco candados? Eso no es una lista de nominaciones; es una coronación.”

Voz 2 (English translation): “Nothing more than dominance, on Netflix, on… freaks. Voters are currently rebelling in the current generation this year.”

The archive spread like wildfire: 1.2 million downloads on Reddit before administrators withdrew; reflected on X, with the hashtag #GlobeLeak exploited with 800,000 mentions. Today, TMZ validated the metadata string in the HFPA’s email domain.

The HFPA, due to its 2021 diversity adjustment and celebrating 5 years of partnership with CBS in 2024, issued an indignant comment: “The sound was made by bad guys. Our process is transparent and merit-based.”

But those in the know will continue to hold the opposite view. “It’s true,” an anonymous source from the committee said.

Panic arose from the fact that *Frankenstein* achieved 68% in television ratings, more than *Oppenheimer* over the past year.

Films in genres like *The Criminal* and *Frankenstein* are a cambio, pero la vieja Guardia odia admitted.

HFPA Chair Helen Hoehne canceled a press parliamentary program, citing “security concerns.”

Jay Penske, Cuyo Penske Media producer of Globos, Dick Clark Productions, who had interests in the participants on CNBC: “Is there legitimacy in the five nominees?” At the same time, the surge of horror emotions, as well as fans of the genre: *Frankenstein* and *Sinners* demonstrate that you can compete with each other in a substantial way, haciendo eco de *Get Out* and *The Shape of Water*.

Elordi’s nomination first caused a similar reaction: “Desde Nate de Euphoria has the heart of Creature: maximum brillo.” Isaac, his four-titled work, is now available on Netflix Tudum.

But I thought that was the ceremony on the night of the 11th (this year with Nikki Glaser on CBS), it was *Frankenstein* that was the finale.

Del Toro’s vision, the passionate Latin American, followed by Isaac, has some strange points: ansiedades por la inteligencia artificial, identity crisis, la only creating an época sin Dios. “Nothing horrifying,”

“It’s an elegy.” Those who voted, let’s start At the beginning of the filtering process, if you take too long, the filtering process will slow down.

The Hollywood Crisis? A situational combio. However, after oil and gas, we have the authenticity of the algorithms. *Frankenstein* has no solo act; because the authentication has been canceled to get a higher signal, proving that the monster has been lost in bail.

If it’s big, you’ll have more filters, more questions and puzzles, and ultimately, greener.

Los Globos has a mystical intention. Pero Like Creature, it’s available. Long-lived. E cannot be changed.