Hollywood’s awards season will kick off with the 83rd Golden Globe Awards at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific.
Comedian Nikki Glaser returns for a second yr to host the ceremony on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. It’s a champagne-soaked get together that includes a few of the greatest names in movie and tv, even when the awards received’t precisely forecast the Oscars.
“One Battle After Another” topped the record of nominations with 9, intently adopted by “Sentimental Value” with eight. “Wicked: For Good” was snubbed for greatest image and greatest director. Others omitted embrace Joe Rogan (for the brand new podcast class ), Sydney Sweeney and Gwyneth Paltrow, leaving room for loads of shock inclusions. See the total record of nominees.
The Globes shall be broadcast on CBS and obtainable to stream by way of Paramount+.
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Who’s presenting the awards
The presenters introduced Thursday characteristic a mixture of Hollywood A-listers like George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Queen Latifah, together with rising stars just like the leads from “Heated Rivalry,” Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams.
Additional presenters embrace: Amanda Seyfried, Ana de Armas, Ayo Edebiri, Charli xcx, Chris Pine, Colman Domingo, Dakota Fanning, Dave Franco, Diane Lane, Hailee Steinfeld, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Joe Keery, Judd Apatow, Justin Hartley, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Hart, Kyra Sedgwick, Lalisa Manobal (Lisa from Blackpink), Luke Grimes, Macaulay Culkin, Marlon Wayans, Melissa McCarthy, Mila Kunis, Miley Cyrus, Minnie Driver, Orlando Bloom, Pamela Anderson, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Regina Hall, Sean Hayes, Snoop Dogg, Wanda Sykes, Will Arnett and Zoë Kravitz.
In the wake of Renee Good’s killing, will the Globes get political?
The Globes often need a get together, not politics. But that could be laborious within the award present’s first ceremony throughout President Donald Trump’s second time period.
The deadly taking pictures of 37-year-old mom Renee Good in Minneapolis by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could also be on the minds of many attendees. The evening’s frontrunner, “One Battle After Another,” notably opens with a raid on an ICE detention facility.
Will beasts and girlfriends problem ‘Adolescence’?
While the Globes’ TV drama and comedy classes have huge overlap with final yr’s Emmys, the restricted sequence group is filled with new blood.
Recent buzzy sequence ” All Her Fault,” “The Beast in Me” and “The Girlfriend” have all been nominated for greatest restricted sequence and the consideration of in all probability dropping to “Adolescence.”
Globes TV is the Emmys plus ‘Pluribus’
Compared to the crazy-convoluted Emmys calendar, the Golden Globes TV eligibility window is so simple as the singular soul on “Pluribus.”
If most of a present aired the earlier yr, it’s eligible. That’s it.
The massive nominees are nonetheless practically all reruns although. Everything in the very best drama sequence class was up for greatest drama at September’s Emmys, together with the winner “The Pitt.”
“Pluribus” is the one invader within the group, and has a very good likelihood of getting the Globes to evolve to its will. “Heated Rivalry” didn’t make the workforce.
Potential political storylines
Last yr, the Golden Globes largely averted conversations surrounding President Donald Trump’s politics. That is probably not the case this time round.
Since Trump reclaimed the White House, the president’s title has been added to the outside of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts constructing. Numerous artists have canceled appearances on the heart, and ticket gross sales and attendance have fallen, and viewership for December’s broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors program was down by about 35% in comparison with the yr earlier than.
Meanwhile, Trump additionally stated he would slap a 100% tax on motion pictures made exterior the United States, although no such tariffs have but to be levied.
And the awards occasion may even be happening in California, one of many states central to political redistricting forward of U.S. midterms this yr.
Who picks the winners
This yr’s voting physique is made up of practically 400 journalists and movie critics from all over the world, who cowl the leisure business for worldwide audiences.
The ceremony was initially offered by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. After a sequence of scandals, Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries acquired the rights to the present in 2023. The voting physique has expanded to incorporate extra racial, ethnic and gender range since then.
Any international leisure journalist working for an internationally based mostly media outlet can apply to be a voter.
The Globes’ new class: Podcasts
The Golden Globes this yr launched the very best podcast class, and the nominees symbolize a mixture of information and celeb conversations all of the whereas avoiding political controversy. Up for the inaugural award:
1. “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard”
2. “Call Her Daddy”
3. “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”
4. “The Mel Robbins Podcast”
5. “SmartLess”
6. “Up First,” from NPR
The nominations seemingly averted controversy by passing on in style conservative-leaning podcasts from the shortlist, akin to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which topped all main podcast platforms in 2025, and “The Megyn Kelly Show,” “The Tucker Carlson Show,” “The Ben Shapiro Show” and Candace Owens’ “Candace.”
Also axed from the nominees: the left-leaning “Pod Save America,” and in style true-crime podcasts “Morbid” and “Rotten Mango.”
How massive an evening is Warner Bros. in for?
Warner Bros. could be on the cusp of being bought, however it stands to dominate Sunday’s Globes. The studio is behind the odds-on favourite “One Battle After Another,” the almost definitely drama winner, “Sinners,” and probably the most nominated sequence, “The White Lotus.”
Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed to be acquired by Netflix in a cope with $82.7 million. The solely studio with extra nominations than Warner Bros.’ 31? Netflix, with 35.
The prime nominees
FILMS
1. “One Battle After Another”: 9
2. “Sentimental Value”: 8
3. “Sinners”: 7
4. “Hamnet”: 6
5. “Frankenstein” and “Wicked: For Good”: 5 every
TELEVISION
1. “The White Lotus”: 6
2. “Adolescence”: 5
3: “Only Murders in the Building” and “Severance”: 4 every
5. “The Bear,” “The Beast in Me,” “Black Mirror,” “Hacks,” “Nobody Wants This,” and “The Studio: 3 every
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