Golden Globes kick off Hollywood’s 2026 awards seasonThe Associated PressAPMon, 12 January 2026 6:36AM
Hollywood’s 2026 awards season is getting under way with some of the biggest names in film and television at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards.
Comedian Nikki Glaser returns for a second year to host the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California from 8pm on Sunday (noon Monday AEDT).
Stars have begun arriving for the champagne-soaked party featuring some of the biggest names in the industry, even if the awards won’t exactly forecast the Oscars.
One Battle After Another topped the list of nominations with nine, closely followed by Sentimental Value with eight.
Wicked: For Good was snubbed for best picture and best director. Others left out include Joe Rogan (for the new podcast category), Sydney Sweeney and Gwyneth Paltrow, leaving room for plenty of surprise inclusions.
Australian Rose Byrne is the favourite in the best actress, comedy or musical category for her performance in the indie If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
Fellow Australian Jacob Elordi is up for his performances in Frankenstein and miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North while Sarah Snook could take home her third Globe for her series All Her Fault.
Joel Edgerton has also been nominated for best male actor for Train Dreams.
This year the presenters feature a mix of Hollywood A-listers like George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Queen Latifah, along with rising stars like the leads from Heated Rivalry, Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams.
For presenters, avoiding politics might be hard in the award show’s first ceremony during US President Donald Trump’s second term.
The fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Good in Minneapolis by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be on the minds of many attendees.
The night’s frontrunner, One Battle After Another, notably opens with a raid on an ICE detention facility.
While the Globes’ TV drama and comedy categories have massive overlap with the 2025 Emmys, the limited series group is full of new blood.
Recent buzzy series All Her Fault, The Beast in Me and The Girlfriend have all been nominated for best limited series and the honour of probably losing to Adolescence.
Compared to the crazy-convoluted Emmys calendar, the Golden Globes TV eligibility window is as simple as the singular soul on Pluribus.
If most of a show aired the previous year, it’s eligible. That’s it.
The big nominees are still nearly all reruns though. Everything in the best drama series category was up for best drama at September’s Emmys, including the winner The Pitt.
Pluribus is the only invader in the group, and has a good chance of getting the Globes to conform to its will. Heated Rivalry didn’t make the team.
The Golden Globes in 2026 introduced the best podcast category, and the nominees represent a mix of news and celebrity conversations all the while avoiding political controversy.
Up for the inaugural award include Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy and The Mel Robbins Podcast.
The nominations seemingly avoided controversy by passing on popular conservative-leaning podcasts from the shortlist, such as The Joe Rogan Experience, which topped all major podcast platforms in 2025, and The Megyn Kelly Show, The Tucker Carlson Show, The Ben Shapiro Show and Candace Owens’ Candace.
Also axed from the nominees: the left-leaning Pod Save America, and popular true-crime podcasts Morbid and Rotten Mango.
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