Golden Globes 2026 winners: One Battle After Another tops film night

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards unfolded on January 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, with the Globes’ familiar genre divide setting the pace of the evening. Best Motion Picture in Drama went to Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, while Best Motion Picture in Musical or Comedy was claimed by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.

That separation did more than split the headlines. It turned the night into a conversation about tone and form, placing a period drama that rewrites private grief into cultural memory beside a contemporary satire that keeps its eye on power, mythmaking, and political performance.

Four awards for Anderson and the weight of authorship

With four awards, One Battle After Another became the film title most often repeated on stage: picture (Musical or Comedy), director, screenplay, and supporting actress for Teyana Taylor.

Anderson’s double win for direction and writing signals the Globes’ particular taste for authored cinema, the kind of work where tone and structure feel inseparable from the filmmaker’s hand. Taylor’s supporting prize, meanwhile, shifts the focus from the mere “film machine” to the story’s human substance.

On the Drama side, Hamnet secured the top film award, and Jessie Buckley won Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama for anchoring the story’s domestic core.

Acting prizes and an international through-line

The acting winners sketch an awards-season map that is not only Hollywood-facing. Timothée Chalamet took Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Marty Supreme, while Rose Byrne won Best Actress in that same film category for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

In Drama, Wagner Moura won Best Actor for The Secret Agent, a title that also claimed Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language. In a year when international cinema is increasingly positioned as central rather than adjacent, that double recognition serves as both artistic validation and a strategic signal.

Completing the film performance awards, Stellan Skarsgård won Best Supporting Actor for Sentimental Value.

TV: new titles take the room, Adolescence takes the tally

Television, as so often at the Globes, was more about momentum than legacy. The Pitt won Best Drama Series and Noah Wyle took Best Actor in a Drama Series, pairing show and star in the classic Globes alignment.

On the comedy side, The Studio won Best Comedy or Musical Series, and Seth Rogen won Best Actor in that category, underscoring a self-reflexive Hollywood narrative that the Globes have historically rewarded.

Still, the most decisive TV story was Adolescence. The Netflix-backed limited series won Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie, and Stephen Graham won Best Actor in that category. The show also took both supporting performance awards in TV: Owen Cooper (supporting actor) and Erin Doherty (supporting actress). Four trophies, one title, one clear statement about formal ambition being treated as mainstream.

Rhea Seehorn won Best Actress in a Drama Series for Pluribus, while Jean Smart added another Globe with Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series for Hacks.

Music, animation, and a new category

On the craft and commercial side of the film slate, Sinners won both Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson). At the same time, KPop Demon Hunters took Best Animated Film and Best Original Song for “Golden”.

The ceremony also marked a format shift: the Golden Globes awarded Best Podcast for the first time, with Good Hang with Amy Poehler winning the inaugural prize.

A host’s second lap

Comedian Nikki Glaser returned to host for the second consecutive year, guiding a show that, in typical Globes fashion, moves quickly between the industry’s inside jokes and its attempts at self-portraiture.

Full list of winners

FILM

• Best Motion Picture, Drama: Hamnet

• Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: One Battle After Another

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture: Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

• Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

• Best Motion Picture, Animated: KPop Demon Hunters

• Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language: The Secret Agent

• Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

• Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

• Best Original Song: “Golden”, KPop Demon Hunters

• Cinematic and Box Office Achievement: Sinners

TELEVISION

• Best Television Series, Drama: The Pitt

• Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy: The Studio

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Drama: Noah Wyle, The Pitt

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series, Drama: Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television: Owen Cooper, Adolescence

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television: Erin Doherty, Adolescence

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Seth Rogen, The Studio

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Jean Smart, Hacks

• Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Adolescence

• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Stephen Graham, Adolescence

• Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex

• Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television: Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais: Mortality

• Best Podcast: Good Hang with Amy Poehler