The Golden Globe nominations are here and it was a pretty solid year for movies and television

This morning, the Golden Globes nominations were unveiled. Were there big surprises? The snub of Wicked: For Good in the best picture category, for one. There was also a very gratifying nomination of Amy Madigan for her turn as the villain in Weapons. Overall, most of the nominations closely tracked awards predictions.

Also, all the popular TV shows got nominated.

As is the case every year, the Globes awards categories suffer from the insistence to categorise movies and television shows as either drama or as “musical or comedy.” (There are also always a good couple questions each year about who’s a “supporting” actor and who’s just acting.)

The Globes awards show will be held on 11 January , 2026, and will be hosted by Nikki Glaser. Here’s what you’ll see.

Blue Moon

Bugonia

Marty Supreme

No Other Choice

Nouvelle Vague

One Battle After Another

Frankenstein

Hamnet

It Was Just an Accident

The Secret Agent

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident

Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value

Chloe Zhao, Hamnet

Timothee Chalomet, Marty Supreme

George Clooney, Jay Kelly

Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice

Jesse Plemons, Bugonia

Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine

Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams

Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

Oscar Isaac, Frankenstein

Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee

Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good

Emma Stone, Bugonia

Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Eva Victor, Sorry Baby

Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

Julia Roberts, After The Hunt

Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value

Tessa Thompson, Hedda

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Paul Mescal, Hamnet

Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly

Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental Value

Emily Blunt, The Smashing Machine

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value

Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value

Amy Madigan, Weapons

Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Chloe Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell — Hamnet

Jafar Panahi — It was Just An Accident

Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt — Sentimental Value

Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another

Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme

Ryan Coogler — Sinners

Arco

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle

Elio

KPop Demon Hunters

Little Amelie or the Character of the Rain

Zootopia 2

It Was Just An Accident

No Other Choice

Sentimental Value

Sirat

The Secret Agent

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein

Hans Zimmer, F1

Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another

Kangding Ray, Sirat

Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

Max Richter, Hamnet

'Dream as One', Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen, Avatar: Fire and Ash

'Golden', Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Mark Sonnenblick, KPop Demon Hunters

'I Lied to You', Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

'No Place Like Home', Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: For Good

'The Girl in the Bubble', Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: For Good

'Train Dreams', Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner, Train Dreams

Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1

KPop Demon Hunters

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

Sinners

Weapons

Wicked: For Good

Zootopia 2

The Diplomat

Pluribus

Severance

Slow Horses

The Pitt

The White Lotus

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

Nobody Wants This

Only Murders in the Building

The Studio

Adolescence

All Her Fault

The Beast in Me

Black Mirror

Dying for Sex

The Girlfriend

Kathy Bates, Matlock

Britt Lower, Severance

Helen Mirren, MobLand

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise

Diego Luna, Andor

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Mark Ruffalo, Task

Adam Scott, Severance

Noah Wylie, The Pitt

Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building

Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

Jenna Ortega, Wednesday

Jean Smart, Hacks

Amanda Seyfried, Long Bright River

Claire Danes, The Beast in Me

Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex

Rashida Jones, Black Mirror

Robin Wright, The Girlfriend

Sarah Snook, All Her Fault

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This

Glen Powell, Chad Powers

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

Seth Rogen, The Studio

Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building

Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus

Carrie Coon, The White Lotus

Catherine O’Hara, The Studio

Erin Doherty, Adolescence

Hanna Einbinder, Hacks

Parker Posey, The White Lotus

Charlie Hunnam, Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Jacob Elordi, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Jude Law, Black Rabbit

Matthew Rhys, The Beast in Me

Paul Giamatti, Black Mirror

Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Owen Cooper, Adolescence

Billy Crudup, The Morning Show

Walton Goggins, The White Lotus

Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus

Tramell Tillman, Severance

Ashley Walters, Adolescence

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd

Call Her Daddy

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Smartless

Up First

Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?

Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life

Kevin Hart: Acting My Age

Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts

Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Sarah Silverman: Postmortem

One Battle After Another was considered by awards-watchers to be the lead contender for awards and it did just that. That film stars Leonardo DiCaprio at his most offhandedly brilliant as a hapless revolutionary bumbling into nightmarish political machinations, all while surrounded by fabulous, powerful and troubled women.

The gorgeous Joachim Trier film Sentimental Value, which received multiple nominations, tracks the relationship between a distressed, easily panicked actress and her callous film director father — plus the life of their family’s house as well. In addition to an unbelievable performance by Renate Reinsve in the lead role, the film also has Elle Fanning absolutely nailing the role of an American actress pushed to the levels of her comfort and talent.

It seems like a lifetime ago, but Sinners was released just back in April and voters remembered its cultural moment and box office success. The Ryan Coogler Jim-Crow-plus-vampires hit neatly mashed up the horrors of the supernatural with the horrors of the very human.

Hamnet and Wicked: For Good, representing polar opposites of the year in film, also had strong showings.

Parents were unsurprised by nominations for KPop Demon Hunters, the soundtrack of their lives since the mega-hit was released on Netflix just (can you believe it!) back in June.

There was a very important nomination for the very avatar of our age of apprehension: the terrifying clown-witch visage of Aunt Gladys in Weapons.

Both Severance, the eerie tribute to the awfulness of having to work, and Adolescence, the Netflix mega-smash about a teenager accused of murder, were well-recognised.

Pluribus, The Last of Us and The Pitt — all extremely stressful shows, each apocalyptic in their own way, especially about the dire state of the American health care system — performed well too.