Golden Globes 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’ Turned Nine Nods Into Four Wins
The 2026 Golden Globes story is no longer about nomination potential. One Battle After Another turned its leading nine nominations into four awards at the January 11 ceremony, while Good Hang with Amy Poehler became the first winner of the Globes’ new podcast category.
The final results preserved the film’s status as the season’s Golden Globes frontrunner, but they also defined the limits of its success. The Associated Press account of the ceremony records victories for the film itself, director and screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson, and supporting performer Teyana Taylor, alongside major wins for Hamnet, Adolescence and Good Hang.
Nine nominations became four wins
The film entered the ceremony with unusually broad support. The CBS nomination release for the 83rd Golden Globes lists One Battle After Another in nine races, including motion picture — musical or comedy, director, screenplay, original score and five acting categories.
Its four victories were concentrated in categories that shaped the overall assessment of the movie. It won best motion picture — musical or comedy; Anderson received the director and screenplay awards; and Taylor won the female supporting performance prize. The combination amounted to a strong endorsement of the production, its filmmaker and one member of its ensemble rather than a clean sweep across the ballot.
Leonardo DiCaprio did not win the male musical-or-comedy performance category, which went to Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme. Chase Infiniti lost the corresponding female category to Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, while Stellan Skarsgård’s performance in Sentimental Value prevailed over both Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn in the male supporting race.
The original-score nomination also stopped short of a win: Ludwig Göransson took that award for Sinners. The resulting pattern is more revealing than the four-award total alone. Voters backed One Battle After Another in the categories most closely associated with the film’s identity and Anderson’s authorship, but divided the individual acting and music prizes among several productions.
Other films prevented a broader sweep
The split between the two best-picture categories left room for another major winner. Hamnet took best motion picture — drama, and Jessie Buckley won the female drama performance award. Wagner Moura received the male drama prize for The Secret Agent, which also won the non-English-language motion-picture category.
Sinners, which had entered with seven nominations, won original score and cinematic and box office achievement. KPop Demon Hunters secured the animated-film award and the original-song prize for “Golden.” These results kept the night from becoming a single-film sweep even as One Battle After Another collected the most consequential cluster of comedy-or-musical honors.
The contrast with Sentimental Value was particularly sharp. That film began one nomination behind Anderson’s movie but converted its eight opportunities into the supporting award for Skarsgård. A high nomination count established its reach across the ballot; it did not translate into comparable support once voters selected one winner in each category.
Television followed a different pattern. Adolescence won four awards: limited series and acting prizes for Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty. The Pitt won drama series, while The Studio took musical or comedy series; Noah Wyle and Seth Rogen also received acting awards for those shows.
The first podcast award went to Good Hang
The new podcast category completed its inaugural cycle with Amy Poehler as its first recipient. The Golden Globes’ account of the podcast award identifies six finalists and says they were selected from a list of 25 eligible programs invited to submit entries by the organization’s data partner, Luminate.
Good Hang competed against Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, SmartLess, The Mel Robbins Podcast and NPR’s Up First. The winner had launched from Paper Kite Productions and The Ringer approximately ten months before the ceremony, making the award an unusually rapid recognition for a new program.
The selection process places an important boundary around the category’s historic status. The Globes added podcasting to an awards program previously centered on film and television, but the first field came from an invited pool rather than an unrestricted survey of the medium. Five of the six finalists were built primarily around prominent hosts, interviews, conversation or advice; Up First represented a daily news format.
Poehler’s victory also connected the new category closely to the Globes’ existing entertainment world. She arrived as a previous acting nominee and a four-time co-host of the ceremony with Tina Fey. The first podcast prize therefore expanded the eligible medium without moving far from established film and television talent.
What the completed results establish
The December 8, 2025 nominations correctly identified One Battle After Another as the leading contender, but the January results show where that advantage held. Its picture, director and screenplay victories formed the core of the night, with Taylor adding the film’s sole acting award.
The podcast debut also moved from experiment to precedent. Good Hang is now the category’s first titleholder, selected from a limited invited field. Later editions will determine whether the Globes broaden that field toward fiction, documentary, investigative and independent audio or continue emphasizing personality-led programs with large existing audiences.
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