One Battle After Another, Sinners, Adolescence: Here's who is up for 2026 Golden Globe Awards

1 combat After Another took the top in take nominations for the 2026 prosperous Globes announced Monday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif., while The White Lotus and Adolescence got lots of love in the TV categories.

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another pulled ahead as the front-runner with nine nominations across categories, including best score, best supporting male actor, best screenplay and best director.

The film, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays an ex-revolutionary who is living in hiding with his teenage daughter, is an award-show favourite this year and has received critical praise, with a 94 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes and 95 per cent on Metacritic.

Sentimental Value wasn’t far behind, with eight nominations — including for best motion picture and for acting by Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve and more, while Hamnet snagged six nominations for its score, acting and story.

Meanwhile, the action-horror flick Sinners, a runaway critical and box office success, is in the running for seven awards, including best cinematic achievement and best motion picture, as well as for Michael B. Jordan's performance in the film, in which he plays twin brothers.

The nominations come as no surprise, as these films have been showered in nominations and awards at other shows and film festivals this year. Sinners led the Critics' Choice awards nominations with 17 in total, for example, while Hamnet took the 2025 People’s Choice Award at TIFF this year (often a bellwether of Oscar success).

On the TV side, The White Lotus led the way with six nominations in all for roles by Walton Goggins, Carrie Coon and Jason Isaacs, who are all up for best supporting actor and actress awards, respectively. The Netflix show Adolescence is similarly nominated, as actors Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham are up for awards, while the show itself is up for best limited series.

Some Canadians also received nominations — Catherine O’Hara for best supporting performance for a female actor for her role in Apple TV’s comedy The Studio; Martin Short for best performance by a male actor for Only Murders In The Building; and Seth Rogen, up against Short in that same category, for his own role in The Studio, a show he both created and stars in.

While Maggie Kang wasn't directly nominated for an award, the Canadian creator of KPop Demon Hunters did get a nod, as the film received three total nominations.

The nominations land during a big moment in Hollywood — on Friday, Netflix announced its planned deal to buy Warner Bros. For $72 billion US, a deal that's now being contested by Paramount in a hostile bid worth $108 billion US.

Both Warner Bros. And Netflix have several of horses in the race — Sinners was a blockbuster success for Warner Bros. As was One Battle After Another, while Adolescence, Nobody Wants This, Frankenstein and more are all Netflix titles. Netflix has 35 total nominations, while Warner Bros. Has 31.

Paramount's only film up for nomination is Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, for best cinematic and box office achievement.

One Battle After Another leads Golden Globe noms with 9

Other notable nominations include Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, which received five nominations, and Jafar Panahi's Iranian revenge film It Was Just an Accident, with four nominations.

Among the 28 Golden Globe categories announced Monday is a new award for best podcast, with inaugural nominees Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang With Amy Poehler, The Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess and NPR's Up First.

The addition of the new category will honour “diverse talents in the medium,” according to the Golden Globes, as part of their commitment to honour the full spectrum of entertainment.

The Golden Globes have come under scrutiny in recent years for a lack of diversity and ethical lapses by the The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the voting group previously behind the awards. The HFPA was shuttered in 2022 when the award show was sold to a new owner, and the award show has been trying to rebuild its reputation since then.

A new, larger voting body of more than 300 people now vote on the awards, which moved from NBC to CBS on a shorter, less expensive deal.

The upcoming award show on Jan. 11 will be the 83rd iteration of the Golden Globes, and will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser. Glaser hosted the awards for the first time in 2025. 

“Hosting the Golden Globes this year was without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career,” Glaser said in a statement from March. “I can’t wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from The White Lotus, who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in Season 4 as a Scandinavian Pilates instructor with a shadowy past.”

Here’s a list of some the nominees up for a few of the big awards:

Best director:

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Guillermo Del Toro (Frankenstein), Jafar Panahi (It Was Just An Accident), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value), Chloé Zhao (Hamnet).

Best motion picture (musical or comedy):

Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics), Bugonia (Focus Features), Marty Supreme (A24), No Other Choice (Neon), Nouvelle Vague (Netflix), One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures).

Best motion picture (drama):

Frankenstein (Netflix), Hamnet (Focus Features), It Was Just an Accident (Neon), The Secret Agent (Neon), Sentimental Value (Neon), Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures).

Best cinematic and box office achievement:

Avatar: Fire And Ash (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures), F1 (Apple Original Films), Kpop Demon Hunters (Netflix), Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures), Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures), Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema), Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures), Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures).

Best performance by a male actor (drama):

Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams), Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein), Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent), Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere).

Best performance by a female actor (drama):

Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Julia Roberts (After The Hunt), Tessa Thompson (Hedda), Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby).

Best original song:

Dream As One (Avatar: Fire and Ash), Golden (KPop Demon Hunters), I Lied to You (Sinners), No Place Like Home (Wicked: For Good), The Girl In The Bubble (Wicked: For Good), Train Dreams (Train Dreams).

Best drama series:

The Diplomat (Netflix), The Pitt (HBO Max), Pluribus (Apple TV), Severance (Apple TV), Slow Horses (Apple TV), The White Lotus (HBO Max).

Best musical/comedy series:

Abbott Elementary (ABC), The Bear (FX), Hacks (HBO Max), Nobody Wants This (Netflix), Only Murders In The Building (Hulu), The Studio (Apple TV).

Best television limited series:

Adolescence (Netflix), All Her Fault (Peacock), The Beast In Me (Netflix), Black Mirror (Netflix), Dying For Sex (FX On Hulu), The Girlfriend (Prime Video).

Best performance by a female actor (musical or comedy):

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).

Best performance by a male actor (musical or comedy):

Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This), Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building), Glen Powell (Chad Powers), Seth Rogen (The Studio), Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear).

Best performance by a female actor (drama):

Kathy Bates (Matlock), Britt Lower (Severance), Helen Mirren (Mobland), Bella Ramsey (The Last Of Us), Keri Russell (The Diplomat), Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus).

Best performance by a male actor (drama):

Sterling K. Brown (Paradise), Diego Luna (Andor), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Mark Ruffalo (Task), Adam Scott (Severance), Noah Wyle (The Pitt).

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