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Adrian Horton, Morwenna Ferrier and Benjamin Lee

Golden Globes 2026: One Battle After Another, Hamnet and Adolescence win – as it happened

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Jessie Buckley winning her Golden Globe
Jessie Buckley accepting her award at the 83rd Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph: Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images

That's a wrap!

At this point, one could almost forget that the Golden Globes went dark for a couple years in the early 2020s – three years into its reformed era, the Globes glided along in relatively undramatic, somewhat entertaining fashion. Return host Nikki Glaser honed her signature roasting style to the right temperature – hot in the right places and toward the right targets (hi, Bari Weiss’s CBS News!), and overall warmly received in the room. We can debate tomorrow whether the time for one of her funnier bits, mocking the new podcast award, should’ve gone to more film and TV clips …

Anyway, the night was relatively light on surprises, with One Battle After Another sweeping the comedic film awards, while Hamnet and The Secret Agent split motion picture drama. The big snub of the evening, then, was Sinners, which took home just cinematic and box office achievement – considered the consolation prize, as it was last year for Wicked – as well as best original score.

On the TV side, the Golden Globes virtually copied the Emmys, with The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence expectedly cleaning up in drama, comedy and limited series – though Rhea Seehorn became a welcome new addition the awards club for Pluribus, capping a night that almost entirely celebrated new TV shows (promising!).

And with that, the stars are off to the afterparties, and we are off to bed. Thanks for sticking with us! We’ll see you back here soon.

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And this was one of tonight’s many bleeped out moments (sweariest Globes ever maybe?):

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In a year that was unusually a little short on genuinely funny presenter bits, Wanda Sykes delivered:

Sinners might have been snubbed for tonight’s major awards but here’s a reminder of why it was arguably last year’s most culturally important film:

In case you missed the actually rather brown red carpet, here’s a look back at who wore what:

Here’s a full wrap of tonight’s big winners:

WINNER: Hamnet – motion picture drama

Director Chloe Zhao appears truly stunned to have won over Sinners and The Secret Agent, among others, for best drama. She ceded the mic to producer Steven Spielberg, a producer on the film, who credited her as “the one film-maker on earth” who could bring Maggie O’Farrell’s book to life.

Zhao took a few moments to gather herself, then delivered a message she credited to star Paul Mescal: “that the most important thing about being an artist is being able to be vulnerable enough” to, among other things, “give ourselves fully to the world, even the parts of ourselves that we’re ashamed of, that we’re afraid of, that are imperfect”.

She also shouted out Sinners director Ryan Coogler, whom she met at years ago at Sundance Labs (and apparently taught him how to light a fire?) – “so many of you have become so strong and tender at the same time, and you have shared so much of yourself in your work,” she said, looking at Coogler still. “Let’s keep seeing each other, and let’s keep allowing ourselves to be seen.”

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Nikki Glaser making Michael B Jordan’s mum feel very awkward in case you missed it:

WINNER: One Battle After Another – motion picture musical or comedy

A win for best comedy caps off a big night for One Battle After Another, which took home four Golden Globes tonight and looks like the one to beat with two months until the Oscars.

Producer Sara Murphy did the talking this time, again paying tribute to late assistant director Adam Somner, “who we miss every day” as well as the entire cast – “what an embarrassment of riches and talent.” Paul Thomas Anderson looked poised to add a couple irreverent details, but got played off stage.

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Here’s a look at Jessie Buckley’s emotional speech:

WINNER: Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) – male actor in a motion picture drama

A year after Fernanda Torres became the first Brazilian performer to win a Golden Globe, Wagner Moura becomes the second, and the first male actor, for The Secret Agent, which has become a somewhat surprise belle of the ball tonight.

The Narcos star, seeming a bit overwhelmed, thanked director Kleber Mendonça Filho – “brother, you are a genius” – and saluted the Secret Agent as “a film about memory, or the lack of memory, and generational trauma”.

“I think that if trauma can be passed along generations, values can too,” he added. “So this goes to the ones who are sticking with their values in difficult moments.”

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WINNER: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) – female actor in a motion picture drama

Well, this tracks with the awards seasons so far – Jessie Buckley wins for her outright arresting turn as Agnes, wife and muse of William Shakespeare, in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet.

Already a veteran this awards season, the Irish actor thanked the cast and crew of the period drama via an extended tangent about their Polish grip, who made extra soup for everyone on set – and then, of course, shouted out fellow nominee Julia Roberts: “You are like a hero to us all,” she said. “I’d watch you any time, anywhere.”

And one brief, very earnest note: “This is a real, real honor. I love what I do, and I love being a part of this industry.”

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WINNER: The Studio – television comedy series

Also not a surprise is The Studio winning for best comedy series, continuing the awards near-sweep for the very insidery Hollywood series. Creator Seth Rogen, affable as always, shouted out the show’s crew “who usually don’t get invited to these things, but they should!”

Rogen took the time to credit some of the many, many positions on staff, from craft services to props, editors to hair and makeup – “truly without all of you, this show would not be thinkable,” he said. “We’re so excited to get started shooting the next season in … one week from today.”

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WINNER: Adolescence – limited series, anthology series or TV movie

What is the opposite of a surprise? Adolescence winning best limited series (even though co-creators Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne just confirmed tonight that they’re at work on a second season).

Still, no one can deny the impact Adolescence, which digs into toxic masculinity and the impact of unfettered social media access on children, made in just four episodes, each filmed in a single continuous take. “Some think our show is about how we should be frightened of young people,” said Thorne – but it is not. “It’s about the filth and the debris we have laid in their path.”

“Removing hate is our generation’s responsibility,” he added. “It requires thought from the top down. The possibility seems remote right now, but hope is a beautiful thing.”

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Proof that Nikki Glaser does her research:

WINNER: The Pitt – television series drama

As the Emmys go, so goes the Golden Globes (this year, at least) – The Pitt is once again best drama. Co-creator and showrunner R Scott Gemmill accepts the trophy for the breakout medical drama, which became a surprise hit in its first season.

“It takes a village to put on a show, or in my case a village idiot” he joked, flanked by star Noah Wyle and executive producer-writer John Wells. “And we have such a great village that we work with every day.”

Of course, Gemmill also thanked “the first responders and healthcare workers who are the real heroes who inspire us” and implored people to work together with “decency and humanity” – getting political, without getting too political.

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The original score win was cruelly cut from the telecast (much to the annoyance of Hans Zimmer) but here it is!

WINNER: Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus) – female actor in a drama series

I have to admit that I am late on Pluribus, for which I’ve heard nothing but rave reviews. Nevertheless, star Rhea Seehorn seems flustered, surprised by her first win. “My speech says ‘get a prescription for beta blockers’ and I did not! Sorry!” she joked, her hands shaking.

She went on to thank Vince Gilligan, who created the Apple TV+ drama for her, for “writing me the role of a lifetime” as well as a lengthy list of cast and crew. “It takes an entire village,” she gushed, “so thank you to my beautiful village.”

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This was indeed a weird choice:

WINNER: Ricky Gervais – standup comedy performance

The famously prickly British comedian isn’t in attendance this evening, so presenter Wanda Sykes takes the opportunity, in by far the best presenting bit of the evening, to use Gervais’s time for him: “He would like to thank God and the trans community,” she said with a wink, referring to Gervais’s history of transphobic comments.

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WINNER: Erin Doherty (Adolescence) — female supporting actor on television

The Golden Globes continue to follow the Emmys to a tee, as Erin Doherty wins best supporting actress for her barnstormer of an Adolescence episode, which takes place entirely in one therapy session, opposite Owen Cooper.

Doherty thanked Cooper, as well as Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters and director Philip Barantini, as “each of you lives in every breath in that scene,” and dedicated her win to therapists: “Life can be tough, mental health is everything, so thank you to therapists, and it was an honor to play one.”

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Here’s our end-of-year interview with Golden Globe winner Erin Doherty:

WINNER: The Secret Agent – non-English language motion picture

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s epic political thriller, set in 1970s Brazil, wins in an especially stacked category this year, including Sentimental Value, The Voice of Hind Rajab, It Was Just An Accident, Sirāt and No Other Choice.

Filho thanked star and best actor nominee Wagner Moura – “what an actor! And the best thing happens, a great actor and a great friend, that combination is explosive” – and dedicated the award to up-and-coming filmmakers, as “this is a very important time and in history to be making films.”

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Just to note that the two wins for KPop Demon Hunters – best original song and animated film – are the only bright spots in an otherwise disappointing night for Netflix films. Their live-action film submissions – Jay Kelly, Frankenstein and Train Dreams – are empty-handed so far. (On the TV side, of course, Adolescence is cleaning up, as expected.)

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Maybe the sharpest jab so far tonight?

WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters – animated motion picture

No surprise here – the international sensation that is KPop Demon Hunters is victorious again tonight, winning best animated film. Co-director Maggie Kang thanked “everyone who believed that a movie so deeply rooted in Korean culture could resonate with a global audience”.

“We wanted to depict female characters in the way we know women, which is really strong and bold,” she added, as collaborator Chris Applehans dedicated the film to “some shared humanity, which we could really use these days”.

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WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) – director of a motion picture

OK first, I need to know if presenter Judd Apatow’s story about Nikki Glaser once being the family’s babysitter is true. More importantly, it’s another win for Paul Thomas Anderson, who appears unstoppable tonight.

The One Battle After Another writer-director dedicated the best director award in part to Mike De Luca, now the chair of Warner Bros, whom Anderson met more than 30 years ago and has “singlehandedly has supported me and the movies I wanted to make”.

He then got emotional, remembering his assistant director Adam Somner, who died in late 2024 at the age of 57. The title assistant director “is underselling it, what he did for me, for us and for this film”, he said, recalling how Somner’s work helped make the film and “make you [the cast] all seem to enjoy it as much as you have”.

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In case you missed it earlier, here’s One Battle After Another star Teyana Taylor’s emotional speech for best supporting actress in a motion picture, which kicked off the evening:

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What the hell …

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WINNER: Sinners – cinematic and box office achievement

I’m nervous the Globes may make this dubious “box office achievement” award the consolation prize for Sinners, which is nominated for best drama tonight … still, it’s a sweet win for Ryan Coogler’s vampire period epic, which managed to accomplish the rare feat of attracting audiences to the theater en masse for an original story.

Flanked by the cast and crew, including his wife and producing partner, Zinzi, Coogler thanked the audiences “for showing up” .In the heat of production, he continued, the crew kept going by remembering that Sinners was supposed to be “a big movie” but “we didn’t know that people were going to show up, and we’re thankful that they did”.

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WINNER: Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex) – female actor in a limited series or TV movie

Michelle Williams seems to always either be nominated for or winning awards – the prolific actor isn’t in attendance tonight (presenters Melissa McCarthy and Kathryn Hahn accepted on her behalf), but gets a deserved win for her portrayal of a terminal cancer patient on a horny journey in the limited series Dying for Sex.

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WINNER: Stephen Graham (Adolescence) – male actor in a limited series or TV movie

Adolescence continues its sweep of the limited series awards this season, with Stephen Graham once again triumphing for his extraordinary performance as the father of a teen accused of murdering a fellow kid.

As at the Emmys, Graham shouted out the whole Adolescence team. “This is for all of our cast and crew, every single member of this production,” he said, before thanking his agent of 25 years (“almost as long as me missus!”), his wife, Hannah Walters (“you saved my life”), and his family. And then he charmingly ended his speech with a bow to Queen Latifah.

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WINNER: Timotheé Chalamet (Marty Supreme) – male actor in a musical or comedy

In a surprise to pretty much no one, Mr Marty Supreme wins one of the best actor awards tonight, a week after proving victorious at the Critics Choice awards.

Chalamet immediately thanked writer-director Josh Safdie, “for this role, thank you for believing in me, thank you for this portrait, for your mind, for your worldview” as well as co-star and reality TV star Kevin O’Leary – “if you would’ve told me when I was 19 years old I would be thanking Mr Wonderful from Shark Tank …” he joked.

This is another boost to Chalamet’s surging Oscars campaign, and in what’s now become standard for him, he acknowledged how his previous losses made this win “so much sweeter”. (And for those wondering, yes, he thanked “my partner” Kylie Jenner.)

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WINNER: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You) – female actor in a musical or comedy

Despite several critics’ awards already this season, Byrne seemed genuinely surprised to win tonight for her might performance in If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You, a much thornier, unsparing role than many others nominated tonight.

“We shot this movie in like 25 for like $8.50,” she said, before thanking her parents “who bought Paramount+ so they could watch the Golden Globes from Sydney” and her husband, Bobby Cannavale, who was absent this evening to attend a reptile expo with their kids in New Jersey.

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WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) – motion picture screenplay

No surprise here, as One Battle After Another continues to steamroll through awards season. This is, surprisingly, Paul Thomas Anderson’s first ever Golden Globe, one he dedicated to his many collaborators, with a special shout to Regina Hall, apparently one of the first people he showed the winning script to, and who is absent tonight owing to illness.

Writers, he added, are like “magpies – we still all the best bits and pieces of what other people said” including in this case Shayna A McHayle (aka Junglepussy), Nina Simone and Thomas Pynchon. “I share this with everyone I magpied off of, I appreciate you,” he said.

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WINNER: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners) – original score for a motion picture

As Hans Zimmer said on the red carpet, the Globes somewhat controversially left the award for best original score off the air this year, instead presenting the award during the commercial break. The nod goes to Ludwig Göransson for his work on Sinners, the first win of the night for Ryan Coogler’s original vampire-musical-horror-thriller that became one of the feel-good box office success stories last spring.

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WINNER: Golden (KPop Demon Hunters) – original song for a motion picture

Golden was inescapable last year, so the team from KPop Demon Hunters deservedly claims the trophy for best original song. It’s an emotional win for co-writer Ejae (Kim Eun-jae), who remembered her rejection from K-pop idol training as a teen.

“I was rejected and disappointed that my voice wasn’t good enough, so I leaned on songs and music to get through it,” she said through tears. “This award goes to people who’ve had doors closed on them … I can confidently say rejection is redirection.”

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She had to go there because there really was no other place to go:

WINNER: Good Hang with Amy Poehler – best podcast

What a time we live in, where Snoop Dogg shouts out the Golden Globes for including a podcast category in its telecast. Thank god the inaugural podcast award goes to Amy Poehler, easily the most charming of those nominated.

In her speech, Poehler proved once again that she never misses at award shows. “This is exactly how I pictured it, Snoop giving me the award,” she quipped. “I don’t know about award shows, but when they get it right, it makes sense.”

She did, however, seriously thank a lot of people at Spotify and the Ringer, and her collaborators on a show that strives to offer “a little more love and laughter, laughing with people and not at them”.

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Finally, a break from the awards for Glaser to do what she does best: roast things. This time, it’s podcasts, via a spin on Nicole Kidman’s truly iconic ad for AMC Theaters. “We come to our cars for podcasts,” Glaser-as-Kidman said, for that “that indescribable feeling when that episode starts to play” – and it’s an ad for Bombas socks (cursed!).

With podcasts, “we’re not just entertained, but reborn,” she continued. (Cut to Amy Poehler asking Gwyneth Paltrow what time she eats dinner.)

In sum, and in what is another successful Glaser bit tonight: “Podcasts: they’re … just what we have now.”

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WINNER: Seth Rogen (The Studio) – male actor in a comedy series

Life imitates art for The Studio creator and star Seth Rogen, who staged a Golden Globes win for his hapless character in the Apple TV+ series (and was presented the award tonight by Zoe Kravitz and Dave Franco, two actors who play druggier versions of themselves on the cameo-heavy show).

“This is so weird,” Rogen acknowledged. “We just pretended to do this, and now it’s happening!” Then, true to form, he mocked the unspoken yet obvious hierarchy in the room, acknowledging those one tier above starry floor – so close to A-list, yet so far.

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WINNER: Owen Cooper (Adolescence) – male supporting actor in a drama series

We’re mirroring the Emmys exactly so far, as Owen Cooper, the breakout child star from Netflix’s harrowing series Adolescence, takes home the award for supporting actor in a drama.

It’s been a “mad” run for the 16-year-old, which in his words “does not feel real whatsoever”. (I believe it!)

“I’m still very much an apprentice,” he sweetly added. “I’m still learning every day.”

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WINNER: Jean Smart (Hacks) – female actor in a comedy series

Another easy prediction – Jean Smart won last year for her starring role on the awards stalwart comedy Hacks, and repeats again this year. “What can I say, I’m a greedy bitch,” she joked off the top, winning many laughs.

On a more serious note, Smart, who wore one of the anti-ICE “Be Good” pins in honor of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, name-checked her “rant” on the red carpet. She kept the on-air message simple: “I think everybody in their hearts knows what the right thing to do is,” she said, “so let’s do the right thing.”

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WINNER: Noah Wyle (The Pitt) – male actor in a drama series

No surprise here! As at the Emmys, Noah Wyle wins best actor in a drama series for the beloved medical drama The Pitt.

“I’m indebted to so many people,” said Wyle, clearly prepared to address a room of peers again. And as usual, he thanked “all the healthcare workers in the world”, who inspired a series that consciously strives to be the most medically accurate on TV (an admittedly low bar, but trust me – it’s good).

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WINNER: Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) – male supporting actor in a motion picture

Another award many pundits didn’t see coming – and, apparently, neither did the 74-year-old Swedish actor, who “was not prepared for this because I thought that I was too old” to win for Sentimental Value.

Skarsgård thanked his wife (“a tough lover”), his children (who taught him what “a bad father is”, he joked), and viewers of the film – “a small Norwegian film with no money for advertising or anything that gets to be seen in the world this way”. And one final note: “Cinema should be seen in cinemas.”

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WINNER: Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another) – female supporting actor in a motion picture

Starting off the night with a bit of a surprise! Teyana Taylor, who absolutely steals the show in the first quarter of One Battle After Another but has been under-awarded so far on the campaign trail, takes home the first Golden Globe of the night.

“Wait till you see my party in the back,” she joked, pointing to her diamond-encrusted thong before breaking down into tears. She went on to thank director Paul Thomas Anderson for “your vision, your trust and your brilliance” and ended on a highly emotional note, dedicating the win to “my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight … We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space.”

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It's showtime!

The stars are seated, the tables are set, the drinks are poured – it’s time for the 83rd Golden Globes! Host Nikki Glaser took the stage at the Beverly Hilton and wasted no time taking some jabs at the inherent navel-gazing of award shows (“yes, the Golden Globes, without a doubt the most important thing that’s happening in the world right now”), the contracting business of Hollywood (“we’ll start the bidding for Warner Bros at $5”) and the A-list attendees (“by A-listers I do mean people who have been on a list that is heavily redacted”).

Most enjoyably (and daringly), she took a shot at the network host for the evening, CBS, whose news network is now run by Trump ally David Ellison, under Bari Weiss. “And the award for most edited goes to CBS News,” Glaser joked. “CBS News: America’s best place to see BS news.”

In a consistently funny speech that threaded the needle between respectful and ribbing, Glaser poked fun at many of the stars in the room tonight, including Kevin Hart (“you’re like a Steve Martin or Martin Short for people with an IQ under 50”) and Sean Penn (“Everyone in Hollywood is obsessed with looking younger, but Sean Penn is over here like, ‘what if I slowly morphed into a sexy leather handbag?’”). Everyone appeared to be laughing along, in one of the strongest starts to an awards evening in years.

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Let’s end with the standout trend of the evening: non-Brat green. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’s Rose Byrne is resplendent in custom Chanel, while Chase Sui Wonders has gone for something more emerald by Balenciaga whose shape is the golden age of Hollywood itself. As for Olandria Carthen’s extraordinary Christian Siriano gown, her look is corseted by the constraints of good taste, but it’s a winning colour.

That’s all for me from the fashion desk – good night, good luck.

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Timothée Chalamet has waged a wildly amusing, chaotic and often baffling red carpet campaign for Marty Supreme. So who would expected our champion provocateur of the red carpet to sidestep an opportunity to go full Tango tonight? His black non-tux suit is reliable, dependable and dull. Whither the colour? Whither Kylie!

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In case you need a reminder, here’s the full list of nominations:

One person not thrilled about the new best podcast category this year? Hans Zimmer, the legendary film composer, whose category tonight – best original score – has been axed from the telecast.

“It feels a little bit ignorant,” Zimmer told Deadline on the red carpet ahead of the show, which has added on-air categories such as the aforementioned best podcast, best stand-up comedian and the dubious “cinematic or box office achievement” in recent years, while relegating others to in-person only.

“We are the psychological underbelly of the whole thing,” Zimmer added in defense of film composers. “The composer has such an important role in making films by the time we come to the music, the director has been through war. Our first job is to remind him why he did this film in the first place.”

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Predicting the Globes is never easy although it has become a little easier in the last few years. The belated update to its questionable group of voters has meant that winners have become less comically leftfield and more critically minded. Less Nocturnal Animals, more The Brutalist.

With that in mind, here’s how I think it might go down tonight with the major film awards:

It’s been a relatively sober night for menswear.

But with wearing a watch now a foregone conclusion, we are well into the era of the dumb accessory. Enter the glasses on the red carpet. Obviously this is fashion and, like watches and jewellery and brooches and funny little bags, sunglasses are a priceless marketing opportunity for any fashion brand. Could it be that there is an anxiety around overdressing in the age of the performative male for which glasses are the perfect foil – or is everyone just really tired?

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As my colleague Benjamin Lee mentioned in his film award predictions for the evening, Timotheé Chalamet is the clear favorite to win best actor in a musical or comedy tonight, though it feels spiritually wrong to call Marty Supreme a comedy. The 30-year-old actor has a groundswell of momentum behind him, a year after losing best dramatic actor (for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown) to Adrien Brody (for the Brutalist).

A large part of that momentum has been of his own unconventional making, with a guerrilla, very meta, often very fun marketing campaign that has seen him paint the world Marty Supreme orange – and upend the expectations and possibilities of the movie press tour in the process. It already paid off last week with a Critics Choice Award, and I’d be shocked if it didn’t charm the Golden Globes voting bloc, as well.

The most nominated film of the night is Paul Thomas Anderson’s genre-defying epic One Battle After Another, leading with nine. The Globes haven’t always been team PTA – There Will Be Blood, Magnolia and Phantom Thread scored just two nods a piece – but this one feels perfectly timed to a smarter, fresher group of voters.

It also helps that it’s led by Leonardo DiCaprio, a favourite at the Globes with three wins and another 12 nominations. He’s up for best actor in a musical or comedy tonight and even though he may end up losing to hot favourite Timothée Chalamet, it’s hard to see the film not winning some other major awards, including best picture, director and maybe at least one supporting actor.

Here’s why it was named the Guardian’s best film of 2025:

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It’s also set to be a rather big night for Netflix breakout Adolescence, the show everyone was talking about last year. It already scored at the Emmys in September with six wins and tonight it’s been nominated for five awards, including for actors Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper.

The limited drama series, which the Guardian named the best TV show of 2025, faces competition from Dying for Sex and Black Mirror in the category of best limited series.

Here’s a reminder of why it’s worth the win:

The Dior girlies have arrived. Skewing ever so slightly to type, Frankenstein’s Mia Goth and Die My Love’s Jennifer Lawrence have gone yin and yang with Mia’s black halter neck gown and Jennifer’s sheer (naked?) floral embroidered number with matching curtain-sized shawl so generous it could serve as an arm rest. A lot of shawls and scarves this evening.

Worth noting that the naked dress is making a chilling creep back onto the red carpet (see also Jennifer Lopez) just in time for the Met Gala’s theme, Costume Art, whose connection between the dressed body and art will probably result in a lot of skin …

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Will the first season of Apple’s in-joke industry comedy The Studio dominate the comedy awards tonight? After a record-breaking Emmys sweep, it’s looking rather likely with potential wins in the comedy series category as well as for stars Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara.

Here’s what makes it such a contender:

With film categories split between drama and comedy/musical, it can be hard to turn the results into concrete Oscar predictions. The Globes also deviate, sometimes rather dramatically so. In the past few years, big winners who have not gone onto Academy award success include Demi Moore, Lily Gladstone, Angela Bassett, Andra Day and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

But this year it feels like the narratives of certain actors will be crystallised with a Globe win, one of whom being Ireland’s Jessie Buckley. Ever since largely fictionalised Shakespeare drama Hamnet premiered at the fall festivals, she has been named as a frontrunner and after a win last week at the Critics Choice awards, it feels like the road is clearing up for her.

Here’s everything you need to know about the actor could become the first Irish woman to ever win the best actress Oscar:

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After last year saw Fernanda Torres, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sebastian Stan, Ali Wong and Tadanobu Asano achieve record-breaking wins, here’s who and what might make history tonight:

  • Wagner Moura could become the first Brazilian actor to win best actor in a drama

  • Ryan Coogler could become the first Black winner of best director or best screenplay

  • One Battle After Another could become the most awarded film of all time if it beats La La Land’s seven-win record

  • Lee Byung-hun could become the first Asian winner of best actor in a comedy or musical

  • Chloé Zhao could become the first woman to win best director twice or the first Chinese winner of best screenplay

  • Steve Martin, at the age of 80 could become the oldest male actor to win an award

  • Owen Cooper could become the youngest winner of the supporting actor in television award

  • Jessie Buckley could become the first Irish winner of best actress in a drama

  • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas could become the first Norwegian winner of best supporting actress

  • Jafar Panahi could become the first Iranian winner of best director

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See colour, will post.

The thing about the late winter red carpets is that they are a dry run for spring summer catwalk looks – and for the most part, the Globes is the first time we’ve seen them on a real person. Creator of Sorry, Baby Eva Victor’s red Loewe gown is a case in point, as it seems to have been styled differently to how it was shown on the catwalk. The result is almost casual. Somehow you couldn’t get away with that at the Oscars.

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Slickness is positively coursing through the red carpet tonight! Just look at Emily Blunt’s white half-shoulder-cape split gown custom made by Louis Vuitton which is giving main character energy – a nod to Kim Basinger’s self-designed 1990 Oscars clanger of a dress? Absolutely.

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While a very deserving Rose Byrne is tipped to win for best actress in a musical or comedy for her pretty staggering performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her partner Bobby Cannavale will not be attending.

His reason is … not what you might expect but ultimately not as bad as it initially sounds? Byrne appeared on Fallon this week to say he’ll be exchanging a glitzy LA awards ceremony for a reptile expo in New Jersey. Apparently the family (the pair have two kids) are trying to adopt a bearded dragon, a reptile native to her homeland of Australia.

“This expo is the place where everyone goes, and it’s the place to go, and it was on the same day,” she said. “And it would just be such a parent fail so we’re doing it. I’m on board for the dragon, it’s going to be great. … He’s doing God’s work.”

One of last year’s funniest Nikki Glaser bits was a bit that satirised how bits often work at the Globes. Like many, I winced a little when she started with a musical number poking fun at both Wicked and Conclave but then …

Last year, I witnessed something I never thought I’d see: Leonardo Dicaprio on a podcast. And not only that, but a podcast hosted by two NFL players, Jason and Travis Kelce, who managed to also schedule significant time with such rarefied stars as George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon (and, of course, Taylor Swift).

In recognition of the A-listification of podcasts, and the medium’s indisputable takeover of the movie promotional circuit, this year the Golden Globes introduced the new category of best podcast. And the nominees are: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess (hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes) and NPR’s Up First.

As much as I love and support public radio, I see beloved former Globes host and charmingly low-key podcaster Poehler getting the inaugural win here. And I have to say: it somehow feels very wrong and yet very right for the Globes to nominate Call Her Daddy, the former Barstool Sports sex podcast turned celebrity softball game, alongside an acclaimed NPR news program. Better luck next year, Kelce brothers!

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Tonight’s customary side-boob comes from Teyana Taylor of One Battle After Another, whose custom Schiaparelli black gown comes with a metallic bow (the metal-wear is always a giveaway) dangling over a flash of bottom.

The red carpet so far? Long hems, black and bejewelled gowns and sharp silhouettes that evoke old Hollywood – for the women, turns out it’s bomb-proof if you stick to a formula.

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Mark Ruffalo is also among those wearing a “Be Good” pin tonight, in honor of Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, and Keith Porter, who was shot by an off-duty ICE officer in LA the week prior.

“We need every part of civil society, society to speak up,” Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party, one of the organizers for the anti-ICE pins, told the Associated Press. “We need our artists. We need our entertainers. We need the folks who reflect society.”

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Word on the carpet is that peace signs are the new finger hold. Here’s Aimee Lou Wood of White Lotus giving sheer visual drama in Vivienne Westwood.

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It’s not an awards ceremony without a pregnancy reveal is it? Wunmi Mosaku, the British Nigerian star of Sinners is wearing a canary yellow bespoke gown and sheer veil by Matthew Reisman, and the colour is steeped in meaning. “In Yoruba, we say Iya ni Wúrà which means ‘mother is golden’”, she wrote in Vogue. Top tier stuff. More colour please.

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Wanda Sykes is the first celeb I’ve seen on the red carpet tonight with a “Be Good” pin, which some are wearing in honor of Renee Good, the unarmed woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, sparking national outrage. Others are wearing “ICE OUT” pins as part of an ACLU-endorsed protest of the Trump administration’s persecution of undocumented immigrants and larger $100m recruitment campaign aimed at expanding ICE presence in communities across the country.

“We need to speak up and shut this rogue government down,” Sykes told Variety on the red carpet. “It’s awful what they are doing to people.”

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A nice bit of era-dressing here in Sinners’ star Miles Caton’s chestnut pinstripe suit by Amiri. I’d argue it beats Timothée Chalamet’s Givenchy version at the Critics Choice. Begone the penguin suit – enter the age of the pinstripe!

The prestige clothes are raining down like the sleet above us (here in London, anyway) but I’ve yet to see better than Elle Fanning’s sparkly embroidered Gucci gown. A very ye-olde-silver screen glamourpuss right there. Just watch the pooling hem on those steps.

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In case you need reminding of just how much Nikki Glaser nailed it last year, here’s her opening monologue:

Ayo Edebiri – nominated for her performance in that classic comedy, The Bear – is always a good place to start. I suspect this black velvet panelled off the shoulder gown is new Chanel (under Matthieu Blazy) given she’s an ambassador of the brand. It’s pushing classicism forward but the stylised bob and Hollywood finger hold gives the whole thing a refined approach.

Hello from the Guardian’s fashion desk. I’ll be tracking the gowns and jackets on the red carpet tonight.

Clothes-wise, this is especially exciting because we have some newbies and some comebacks. This is the first Golden Globes that Jessie Buckley has attended. Will she wear Dior? Will she wear her Macron-coded polo neck? Or will she wear colour? It’s also the first Globes that Sydney Sweeney has attended, too. I’ll leave that there! Also One Battle After Another star Chase Infiniti who is making her debut has been having some fun with Louis Vuitton and 3D-printed Iris van Herpen over the last few months. Welcome back Gwyneth Paltrow (we hope!).

Designer-wise, we can always expect a lot of Armani. Probably a healthy dose of new Dior, too. A smattering of Louis Vuitton and Thom Browne should finish things off. This is, after all, the great fashion-film industrial complex! Still, in the wake of thematic red carpet dressing (think Barbie, think Wicked) will the chromatic marketing of Marty Supreme’s orange ping-pong balls outdo them all? It’s likely.

The greatest honour tonight is of course taking home an award. But given that stylists have supplanted editors as the most powerful arbiters of taste, it would be remiss (and dull) to ignore the clothes wouldn’t it?

The Globes has tended to allow funnier presenter bits than the Oscars in previous years, especially when it was back on NBC which tended to mean more Saturday Night Live cast members, either former or current.

Taking a look at this year’s list of presenters, we can safely expect something pretty straightforward from stars such as Diane Lane, Dakota Fanning, Pamela Anderson, Orlando Bloom, Julia Roberts, Ana de Armas and Colman Domingo. But let’s hold out hope that something worth a rewatch might come from names like Wanda Sykes, Will Arnett, Regina Hall, Kathryn Hahn and Keegan-Michael Key.

Once again, nothing will ever top this, mind:

Ever since the heyday of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Globes haven’t quite managed to nail the right host and in turn the right tone. We had the uncomfortable with Jerrod Carmichael, the toothless with Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh and the heinous with Jo Koy. Even when Tina and Amy returned for the Covid-cursed 2021 ceremony, they weren’t as funny as they once were.

Last year’s host Nikki Glaser bringing a considerable number of laughs was no shock to those who were already fans (her 2024 special Someday You’ll Die is one of the funniest standup sets I have seen in the past few years) but just how well she did was still a genuine surprise. She received instant praise for her cleverly modulated routine which delivered just the right about of sour to go with the sweet.

She was hired to return almost straight away and in recent press has claimed she will ridicule anyone except Julia Roberts and in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, had this to say about why it’s a tough gig at this time:

I don’t usually have these ‘woe is me!’ pity sessions, but lately … And people always remind me that hosting an awards show is the hardest gig. I say, ‘No, it’s actually so fun!’ What’s hard is that people don’t watch things anymore. Even Marty Supreme, do people not even know that’s about ping-pong? People don’t know what the hell Jay Kelly is. They know George Clooney. So, you end up making a lot of jokes about the advertisements and the endorsements these people do. People might not know Kevin Hart’s special, but they know he’s popping up talking about DraftKings.

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It’s that time of year again – the Golden Globes, with its free-flowing champagne and head-scratching categorizations (Marty Supreme, a comedy?) – are back. At least we got a full week into January this year to catch our breath before awards season begins in earnest. Already we’re in desperate need of some levity this January – and that the Globes, traditionally the Oscars’ tipsier, sillier and at times wayward cousin, can provide.

Even in its (more diverse, less corrupt) rebound era, the Globes can throw some curveballs. But on the film side at least, One Battle After Another enters the night as the heavy favorite, with a leading nine nominations (and a nod from virtually every critics’ association, as well). Because this is the Globes, Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture epic won’t go up against one of its main Oscar rival, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, as the latter is classified as a drama alongside heavily nominated films like Sentimental Value and Hamnet. The TV side, meanwhile, is virtually a repeat of September’s Emmys, with HBO Max’s The Pitt, Apple TV+’s The Studio and Netflix’s Adolescence expected to clean up in drama, comedy and limited series.

This is the third year of the new and improved Golden Globes (post reform of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association), which began to hit their stride last year with host Nikki Glaser. With Glaser at the helm again and the room once again packed with A-listers, there’s sure to be at least a few memorable moments … Stick with us for the highlights!

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