The 2025 Golden Globes have come and gone and oh what a night it was! Maybe. I don’t actually know. I’m not usually locked in on the Golden Globes, you know? But I do enjoy a weird Hollywood story and the show’s red carpet delivered exactly that. Two of Hollywood’s biggest stars made their presence felt doubly without having to do twice the work. Winners of celebrity look-alike contests for both Glen Powell and Timothée Chalamet got a chance to attend the event. And while super fun for them, their presence should have caused zero confusion for everyone else.
Max Braunstein and Miles Mitchell each got the opportunity to walk the Golden Globes red carpet before the show for the same reason (a reason we first heard about at The Huffington Post). Last year, each emerged victorious in celebrity look-alike contests. Glen Powell’s own mother judged Braunstein the winner of her son’s look-alike contest in Austin, Texas last November. You can sort of see it. (It helps if you’re not wearing your glasses.)
Meanwhile Mitchell won a Chalamet doppelganger contest in New York City last October, an event you might have heard about since the Muad’Dib himself showed up. Mitchell beat out nearly 2,500 entrants, which makes us wonder how little his competitors looked like the Dune and A Complete Unknown star. That is no judgement on Mitchell’s looks. He’s a handsome young guy. We’re simply judging him on his Chalamet-ness, and by that measure this is a stretch.
Not that either should care. They each look enough like their celeb counterparts they got to attend the Golden Globes and hold a silly little sign. Even better is that each got a chance to take a photo with their celebrity. (Braunstein might also get a movie cameo with Powell soon.)
I don’t know what happened at at the 2025 Golden Globes. But clearly a guy who sort of looks like Glen Powell and a guy who looks like Timothée Chalamet’s third cousin were big winners after winning a look-alike contest.