Overview
- This year’s Golden Globes broadcast omitted a traditional memorial montage despite multiple high-profile industry deaths in 2025, including Gene Hackman and Robert Redford.
- Host Nikki Glaser closed the telecast wearing a Spinal Tap baseball cap and signed off with a cheeky “went to eleven” line.
- Coverage described her salute as landing the right blend of humor, poignancy, and polish.
- Glaser considers Rob Reiner a key influence and chose the gesture after learning the memorial segment had been cut.
- Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed in December 2025, and their youngest son, Nick Reiner, is on trial accused of murdering them.