2026 Golden Globes Nominations: Snubs, Surges, And PTA On Top

There’s a smell to nominations morning — burnt coffee, a laptop fan whining, and that coppery sting of letdown. I expected the usual committee-safe grid. Instead, the 2026 Golden Globes nominations walked in swinging.

Auteur heat carried the room. Paul Thomas Anderson on top for One Battle After Another feels less like hype than correction. And yet, here’s my confession: I cheer when singular visions break through…and still bristle at how thoroughly big canvases get punished. It’s The Thing body-horror all over again — what you thought was safe suddenly isn’t.

The 2026 Golden Globes nominations: auteur cinema strikes back

Industry chatter promised IP coronations; voters went the other way. Anderson’s nine-nod surge mirrors the old “craft first” instinct, while Ryan Coogler’s Sinners — a delta‑gothic genre hybrid — runs neck‑and‑neck with Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.

It’s messy. It’s contradictory. It’s cinema. And yes, I’m torn mid‑paragraph—because celebrating ambition shouldn’t require exiling scale.

Wicked and Avatar: what the snubs really mean

The “Outstanding Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” lane remains a pressure valve. Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wicked: For Good miss the prestige Picture lineups, then land here — a hedge that reads like respect from afar.

Superman not making even that cut stings more than the shutouts themselves. For horror heads, at least, del Toro’s Frankenstein on the big board feels like a small course correction.

Full list of 2026 Golden Globes nominations

You came for the stats. Here’s the battlefield for January 11.

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• Blue Moon
• Bugonia
• Marty Supreme
• No Other Choice
• Nouvelle Vague
• One Battle After Another

Best Motion Picture — Drama

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• It Was Just An Accident
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best Motion Picture — Animated

• Arco
• Demon Slayer
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best Motion Picture — Non-English Language

• It Was Just An Accident
• No Other Choice
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sirat
• The Voice of Hind Rajab

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 Performance by an Actress — 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 Performance by an 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, Deliver Me From Nowhere

Best Performance by an Actor — Musical or Comedy

• Timothée Chalamet, 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

Best Screenplay

• Hamnet
• It Was Just An Accident
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
• Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
• Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
• Jonny Greenwood, Sirat
• Jonny Greenwood, Hamnet
• Hans Zimmer, F1

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 Performance by an Actress — Musical or Comedy

• Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good
• Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
• Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
• Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
• Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best Supporting Actress

• 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

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
• Paul Mescal, Hamnet
• Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
• Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly
• Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Outstanding Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1: The Movie
• KPop Demon Hunters
• Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
• Sinners
• Weapons
• Wicked: For Good
• Zootopia 2

Do the 2026 Golden Globes nominations reshape the Oscar race?

Globes aren’t math; they are a megaphone. The massive swing for Sentimental Value and Sinners changes the mood in the voting rooms, giving PTA’s frontrunner status an institutional shine.

Greenwood vs. Greenwood vs. Greenwood in the score category? Wild and historically fun — but also a vote-splitting nightmare. I’ll be watching with a pen, a drink, and a reserve of frustration. I might be wrong. I might not. I’d love to argue about it.

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The Key Takeaways

• The 2026 Golden Globes nominations reward singular vision: Auteurs and formal risks have the wind at their backs.
• Why the 2026 Golden Globes nominations sting blockbusters: “Box Office Achievement” is a pressure valve, not prestige.
• Greenwood vs. Greenwood vs. Greenwood: Three scores, one problem — voting arithmetic.
• Indie curation over volume: Neon’s strategy of careful selection is beating the “more is better” approach.
• Genre is on the main stage: Frankenstein and Sinners are pushing horror and hybrid forms into the center of the conversation.

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