Golden Globes 2026: One Battle After Another Leads Film Nominations as The White Lotus Tops TV

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards nominations have set the tone for a volatile awards season, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leading all films with nine nods and HBO’s The White Lotus topping the television field with six.

The nominations, announced on Monday morning by Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall, arrive amid unprecedented consolidation in the industry, with Netflix pursuing an $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. and HBO, and Paramount launching a newly hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The ceremony will take place on 11 January, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S., with comedian Nikki Glaser returning as host.

Films: Satire, Vampires and International Cinema at the Fore

Thanks to the Globes’ split between drama and musical/comedy, the major contenders are spread across multiple races. One Battle After Another, a politically charged satire set in a repressive, violence-scarred society, dominates the musical or comedy categories. It is nominated for best motion picture – musical or comedy alongside Blue Moon by Richard Linklater, Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos, Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook and Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague.

On the drama side, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners emerge as key rivals. They will compete for best motion picture – drama with Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro, Hamnet by Chloe Zhao, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Across the top categories, One Battle After Another, Sinners, and Hamnet are present in the picture, acting, and screenplay races, positioning them as early-season bellwethers.

The animation lineup mixes studio franchises and more idiosyncratic fare: Arco, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle, Elio, KPop Demon Hunters, Little Amélie, the Character of Rain, and Zootopia 2. The non-English language category underlines the international reach of the Globes’ voting body, with It Was Just an Accident (France), No Other Choice (South Korea), The Secret Agent (Brazil), Sentimental Value (Norway), Sirāt (Spain) and The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia).

Star Power Behind the Camera and On Screen

One Battle After Another translates its best picture momentum into across-the-board recognition. Anderson is nominated for best director and best screenplay. At the same time, Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infiniti land in the acting races for musical or comedy, joined by supporting contenders Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor. Jonny Greenwood’s score also makes the list.

The best director field reads like a festival lineup: Anderson is joined by Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein), Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value) and Chloé Zhao (Hamnet). Acting nominees range from established awards fixtures: Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Michael B. Jordan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, to breakout names like Renate Reinsve and Eva Victor.

Television: The White Lotus, Severance and a Crowded Drama Field

In television, The White Lotus once again confirms its status as a Globes favourite. The Thailand-set third season of Mike White’s anthology leads with six nominations, including best drama series and multiple supporting recognitions for Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Aimee Lou Wood, Walton Goggins and Jason Isaacs.

Apple TV’s Severance follows closely, with a best drama series nod and acting nominations for Britt Lower and Tramell Tillman. The Diplomat, The Pitt, Pluribus and Slow Horses round out the drama category.

Comedy remains a familiar battleground: Only Murders in the Building and The Bear return alongside Abbott Elementary and Hacks, with Nobody Wants This and The Studio joining the fray. In limited and anthology series, Adolescence leads with six nominations, competing with All Her Fault, The Beast in Me, Black Mirror, Dying for Sex and The Girlfriend.

New Categories: Box Office, Podcasts and Stand-Up

The Globes continue to tweak their format to reflect a changing media landscape. For the third time, the ceremony will present an award for “cinematic and box office achievement,” designed to attract more populist titles and their stars. This year’s nominees include major commercial releases such as F1, Sinners, Weapons, Wicked: For Good, and Zootopia 2, alongside the unreleased Avatar: Fire & Ash, KPop Demon Hunters, and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

For the first time, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s successor body will also recognise podcasts, with Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang With Amy Poehler, The Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess and Up First vying for a new audio prize. In another nod to changing viewing habits, a stand-up comedy category debuts with specials from Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Silverman, Kumail Nanjiani, Kevin Hart and Brett Goldstein.

Studios, Streamers and the New Power Map

Behind the titles, the nominations sketch a shifting power map. Warner Bros. and HBO field major contenders in One Battle After Another, Sinners and The White Lotus, just as Netflix’s planned acquisition and Paramount’s rival bid place the studio at the centre of a high-stakes corporate drama. Netflix and Warner/HBO still rack up dozens of nods across film and television, but the most striking haul belongs to indie outfit NEON, which leads all film studios with 21 nominations for a slate that includes It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and No Other Choice.

As President Helen Hoehne put it when unveiling the list, the Globes are determined to remain “Hollywood’s party of the year”, even as the industry they celebrate is being rebuilt in real time.

Discover all the nominees on the Golden Globes site.