Everything that happened at the 2026 Golden Globes

Hollywood’s party of the year is here, and with it, some of the best fashion of the year (never mind that we’re only 11 days into 2026).

Awards season kicked off with a Met Gala-inspired red carpet, complete with a dramatic staircase and a sea of black and white looks. Even Miranda Priestly would approve of Emily Blunt’s caped Louis Vuitton gown. Meanwhile, “KPop Demon Hunters” stars Ejae, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna coordinated on the carpet with bold black and white gowns by Thom Browne and Valdrin Sahiti.

Is Leonardo DiCaprio gunning for our hearts and memes? The “One Battle After Another” star certainly gave it his all Sunday at the Golden Globes.

First, there were DiCaprio’s reactions to host Nikki Glaser joking about all the things he’d managed to accomplish professionally — before his girlfriend turned 30. Vittoria Ceretti is 27, so he still has a few more years to polish that resume with, say, Oscar No. 2.

In a night full of pleasant surprises, tearful acceptance speeches and eye-roll-inducing moments, there was still a lot that audiences didn’t see on TV.

From former co-stars reuniting at the Beverly Hilton to winners answering questions from press backstage, Times reporters share highlights from Hollywood’s big night.

And it all comes around again. The least meaningful — most meaningless? — of the big Hollywood awards shows, which is to say, among the ones that are shown on broadcast television, the Golden Globes (edition 83, if you can believe it) handed out a passel of trophies Sunday night from a ballroom in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. (The event was broadcast live by CBS and streamed by Paramount+).

As the opening of “awards season,” it’s supposed to be a bellwether of the Oscars race, blah blah blah. But if the world will little note nor long remember who wins these things, except when it’s called to their attention by the words “Golden Globe winner” appearing in an article, it means something to the people who get them, and I certainly don’t mean to rain on that parade. There are no nominees undeserving of praise. This is not the age of Pia Zadora.

“One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” and “Adolescence” were among the big winners at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s black comedy notched four wins Sunday evening, including the top motion picture prize for musical or comedy. Teyana Taylor was the first victor of the evening, taking home the prize for supporting female actor for her performance as a revolutionary, while Anderson won for directing and screenplay.

At the 2026 Golden Globes, a surprise “Hamnet” win in motion picture drama set up an Oscar showdown with comedy/musical winner “One Battle After Another” — while a raft of cheap gimmicks weighed down the show. Times columnists Mary McNamara and Glenn Whipp discussed all the best and worst moments as they happened in our Globes live chat. Read their full conversation below.

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8:18 p.m. Three hours and 18 minutes by my count. Whew. —M.M.

Time for a few small beers, Mary. —G.W.

I couldn’t have done it without you, Glenn! And I’d like to thank our editor Matt Brennan and our producer the L.A. Times and my support staff, Koda and Harley, who have been piling their dog toys at my feet while wondering if I am ever going to move again. —M.M.

8:14 p.m. “Hamnet” wins for drama! Is that surprising to you, Glenn? —M.M.

Wagner Moura won the Golden Globe for lead actor in a motion picture drama on Sunday night for the political thriller “The Secret Agent,” becoming the second Brazilian to take home a Globes acting prize, after Fernanda Torres’ win last year for “I’m Still Here.”

“ ‘The Secret Agent’ is a film about memory — or the lack of memory — and generational trauma,” Moura said in his acceptance speech. “I think if trauma can be passed along generations, values can too. So this is to the ones that are sticking with their values in difficult moments.”

Back in the press room after his surprise Golden Globes win for supporting movie actor, Stellan Skarsgård kept mostly mum when asked for an update on the reported “Mamma Mia!” sequel in the works.

However, Skarsgård did assert that despite her death in the franchise’s second installment, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” (2018), Donna Sheridan’s character could always be brought back with the magic of the movies — huge news for Meryl Streep die-hards (pun intended).

Kleber Mendonça Filho, the Brazilian director of “The Secret Agent,” which took home the Golden Globe for non-English-language film, in the press room cited Brazil’s past corrupt leadership as he spoke about the political power of film.

“Cinema can be a way of expressing some grievances that we all have in terms of the society we live in,” Mendonça said.

“I would particularly address young U.S. filmmakers … there’s a lot of technology to express yourself, and I think this is a very good time to express yourself,” the director continued. “That is what I want to see from U.S. filmmakers.”

Back in the press room after her win in the newly minted podcast category, Amy Poehler teased that an upcoming “Good Hang” guest had just won an award this evening.

“That’s all I can tell you,” she said with a grin.

The “Parks and Recreation” alum added that of any person in the world, she hoped Meryl Streep listened to her podcast — or Snoop Dogg.

As Rose Byrne took the press room stage, a Globes rep offered to hand the actor her comedy actress trophy once she got situated. She politely declined, saying, “Thank you, no, it’s so heavy.”

Between breaks, the pathways from main tables to the restroom and the bar area become a fever dream holding area and a site for interesting pairs making small talk — Matthew Rhys and Adam Sandler huddled before the show. Unable to return to their seats while the show was back up, Dakota Fanning and Patricia Arquette had a talk sesh just as Jean Smart won for actress in a comedy. Mark Ruffalo, waiting to make his way back to his seat, patiently waited on the sidelines, enthusiastically applauding for each nominee male supporting actor in TV category.

But some stars spend the interludes in search of sustenance. There was a “Set It Up” reunion by the bar when Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell — along with his parents — reconnected while trying to order drinks. Powell’s mom gushed at Deutch, saying Powell told her about Deutch’s film, “Nouvelle Vague.” As Powell placed Deutch’s drink order, the actress spoke with his mom about her next project. Meanwhile, a few steps away, pals and “SmartLess” past co-hosts Jason Bateman and Will Arnett made a beeline for the sushi bar. “This is what I’m after,” Arnett said as he grabbed a serving of fried rice with tuna — quickly going back for seconds. Bateman grabbed a plate — “I had a salad at like 1 p.m.” he reasoned.

Marty Supreme has another title under his belt.

Four-time nominee Timothée Chalamet bagged his first Golden Globe Award for his critically acclaimed performance in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” which follows a plucky young New Yorker as he claws (and swindles) his way to table tennis superstardom.

Ludwig Göransson won the Golden Globe for original score for “Sinners,” beating out Alexandre Desplat for “Frankenstein,” Jonny Greenwood for “One Battle After Another,” Kangding Ray for “Sirât,” Max Richter for “Hamnet” and Hans Zimmer for “F1.”

The award was handed out off air, presumably to trim time from the telecast.

Who says Hollywood can’t take a joke?

For the second year in a row, comedian Nikki Glaser got the Golden Globes party started by ribbing everyone from the A-listers attending the ceremony to the industry at large to current events.

Amy Poehler walks the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet.

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“Good Hang With Amy Poehler” won the Golden Globes’ inaugural best podcast award, beating out “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard,” “Call Her Daddy,” “SmartLess,” “The Mel Robbins Podcast” and NPR’s “Up First.”

“I know I’m new to this game and I have great respect for this form,” Poehler said, accepting the award, saying she had respect for all her fellow nominees except NPR, which she jokingly called “just a bunch of celebs phoning it in.”

The category drew industry backlash for relying on data from Luminate, a company owned by Penske Media Corp., which co-owns the Golden Globes, leading to accusations of a cash grab. Political podcasts, both left and right, failed to make the cut in nominations, suggesting to some critics the category was designed to attract star power to the ceremony rather than reflect genuine appreciation for the medium.

In the press room, Noah Wyle spoke about how the seed for “The Pitt” was planted as he watched the American healthcare system attempt to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I called John Wells and said, ‘I know you don’t want to do “ER” again, and I don’t either, but there might be another story to tell about what’s happening,’” he said.

The Golden Globe winner added that as he filmed “The Pitt,” he realized the stark difference between the healthcare experiences of the country’s upper and lower classes. The latter, he said, “were getting some of the worst medical information given to them.”

“So whether it was medical misinformation or a boarding crisis or a nursing shortage or morale fatigue,” Wyle said, “we wanted to put the spotlight back on first responders, talk about what they’ve been going through for the last five, six years, and, you know, in doing so, hopefully also come up with some remedies that we can improve the system and better support the people that are in those jobs.”

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“Sinners” star Hailee Steinfeld didn’t have her normal plus-one on the red carpet at the 2026 Golden Globes — her husband Josh Allen, quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, was in Jacksonville, Fla., winning a playoff game earlier today — but she did show off her newest plus-one, who will be joining the couple later this year.

During the first commercial break, Emma Stone and Alicia Silverstone, along with “Bugonia” director Yorgos Lanthimos gathered at the top of the stairs inside the ballroom — making their way to the rest area before Lanthimos paused to brush something off Silverstone’s face with the help of Stone.

As the show began again, Noah Wyle and his wife, Sara Wells, were prevented from making their way back to their seats just before his category was called. They finally let him rush back to his seat, settling in just before his name was called.

One battle is in the rearview for Teyana Taylor.

The multihyphenate entertainer has secured the Golden Globe for supporting actress in a motion picture for her performance as revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills in Paul Thomas Anderson’s black comedy “One Battle After Another.”

Thirty minutes before the show, stars were trickling into the main ballroom. The actors of “Nobody Wants This” — Adam Brody (keeping his sunglasses on and holding hands with wife and fellow actor Leighton Meester), Timothy Simons and Justine Lupe — shuffled past “The Secret Agent” star Wagner Moura’s table.

Also navigating the ballroom with his sunglasses in place was Walton Goggins (“The White Lotus”), graciously greeting staff, while eager fans of “Heated Rivalry” stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams tried to get their cameras ready for a quick snap to the polite frustration of staff trying to shuttle trays with dishes catered by Nobu that featured yellowtail and a trio of nigiri and miso black cod.

As the 10-minute warning was signaled over speaker, George Clooney and Sarah Snook walked in laughing and sharing pleasantries as they made their way to their seats.

Five minutes before the show, a bottleneck at the main stairway to the ballroom included the likes of “Severance’s” Britt Lower, “Monster’s” Charlie Hunnam, “Paradise’s” Sterling K. Brown, and, just as the lights dimmed, “One Battle After Another’s” Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Kate Hudson may have starred in “Song Sung Blue,” but she sported a silver dress on the Golden Globes red carpet. She’s nominated for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture — musical or comedy.

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“The Pitt” star Noah Wyle gave wife Sara Wells a smooch on the Golden Globes red carpet. Wyle was nominated three times when he starred on “ER” in the ‘90s and tonight he’s up for best performance by a male actor in a television series — drama.

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Newlyweds Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco walked the Golden Globes red carpet together. The pair tied the knot in September. Gomez is nominated for best performance by a female actor in a television series — musical or comedy for her work in “Only Murders in the Building.”

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Jennifer Garner stops for photos on the red carpet at the Golden Globes.

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Nikki Glaser is back to host the Golden Globes for a second year and she made an entrance on the red carpet showing off the movement of her pink ballgown.

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Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, star of “The Secret Agent,” walked the Golden Globes red carpet with wife Sandra Delgado on Sunday. Moura has been generating much awards season buzz. He’s nominated for performance by a male actor in a motion picture — drama.

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“Heated Rivalry” isn’t up for any Golden Globes this year, but Hudson Williams, one of the stars of the steamy hockey romance show, made his red carpet debut.

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“Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph has arrived on the red carpet at the Golden Globes. Her show is nominated for best television series — musical or comedy.

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As “Love Island” star Olandria Carthen arrives on the red carpet at the 2026 Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton, we have to wonder what the elevator and escalator sales associate thinks of the steps on the carpet this year.

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Lisa, one of the members of K-pop mega-group Blackpink and one of the stars of “The White Lotus” Season 3, walks the red carpet at the Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton.

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Why walk down the red carpet when you can leap? Derek Hough added some flair when he walked — or leapt — the red carpet for the 2026 Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton.

“It feels like a punctuation mark that feels appropriate,” Sarah Jessica Parker tells The Times the day before receiving the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award. “Not that I should even be getting this.”

There’s that trademark self-deprecating tone she shares with Carrie Bradshaw, her most indelible character that she played for the better part of three decades, first in “Sex and the City,” which ran for six seasons on HBO in the late 1990s and early 2000s, then in the reboot “And Just Like That…,” which concluded last year after its third season.

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The work setting up the Golden Globes starts long before the stars walk the red carpet. We tagged along for the setup at the Beverly Hilton, which included a peek at where the biggest stars would be sitting.

Among those in attendance was celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa.

Less than five years ago, the Golden Globes were hanging by a thread.

In the wake of a Times investigation that exposed the group’s self-dealing and ethical lapses and a complete lack of Black representation among its membership, NBC pulled the ceremony off the air as Netflix and Amazon Studios and more than 100 publicity agencies cut ties with the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.

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We went behind the scenes as Golden Globes prep was underway at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 8.

Among those who helped roll out the red carpet for Sunday’s event were official chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Beverly Hills Mayor Dr. Sharona Nazarian, executive producer and Dick Clark Productions television executive Barry Adelman, Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser, Golden Globes showrunner and executive producer Glenn Weiss and Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne.

We caught up with Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser before she hosted the 2025 edition of the awards. Enjoy this interview with Glaser from our archives.

Comedian, actress, writer, musician, podcaster, and roast master mommy Nikki Glaser has had an eventful year. Treasured in comedy for her unfiltered takes on sex, relationships and personal insecurities, Glaser’s fearlessness has earned her a dedicated fan following. But this year has been somewhat different for several roasty reasons.

Nominations for the 83rd annual Golden Globes arrived before dawn on Monday and in a crowded awards season full of early feints and false starts, one film came away having clearly won the morning’s skirmish: “One Battle After Another.”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitious movie — about former political radicals reckoning with middle age, compromise and the ideals they once wore more proudly — showed up nearly everywhere the Globes could put it, leading the field with nine nominations. It landed nods for best motion picture (musical or comedy), director, screenplay and several actors, marking the broadest show of support for any film and giving a still-unsettled Oscar race something resembling a focal point.

Coming off of the massive box office success of “Wicked: For Good,” Cynthia Erivo is also making history.

Erivo was nominated for a Golden Globe for lead actress in a musical or comedy on Monday morning, marking her second nod. She received her first nomination just a year ago for “Wicked.”

It looks like Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew will be fighting “One Battle After Another” at this year’s Golden Globes.

The laugh-laden political thriller ruled nominations Monday with nine, while Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” followed close behind with eight. On the TV front, HBO’s “The White Lotus” led with six nominations — one more than the Netflix limited series “Adolescence.”

This year, the Golden Globes are a multi-day affair, with an inaugural “Golden Week” serving as a proverbial pregame for Hollywood’s party of the year.

Kicking off Thursday with the “Golden Eve” special honoring Helen Mirren and Sarah Jessica Parker with the Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett awards, respectively, the week of programming culminates Sunday evening with the 83rd Golden Globe Awards.