One Battle After Another leads Golden Globe 2026 nominations

One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has topped the Golden Globe nominations with nine nominations, adding to the Oscar favourite’s momentum and handing Warner Bros a victory amid its deal to be acquired by Netflix.

Close on its heels was Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a Norwegian family drama about a filmmaking family. The film’s eight nominations included nods for four of its actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.

One Battle After Another received nominations for its cast — Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti — as well as nods for Anderson’s screenplay and direction. It is competing in the Globes’ category for comedy and musicals.

Netflix drama series Adolescence, The Smashing Machine actress Emily Blunt, and Hamnet actor Paul Mescal are among the British and Irish nominees for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

Margaret Qualley, left, and Ethan Hawke in a scene from Golden Globe-nominated Blue Moon. / Credit: AP

Adolescence’s nominations include best limited series, anthology series or television motion picture, best male actor in a television limited series, anthology series, TV motion picture for Stephen Graham, and Ashley Walters and Owen Cooper for best TV supporting actor.

A new podcast category was added this year, with nominees featuring a mixture of news, advice and celebrity interview programmes. The nominees were chosen from the list of 25 most-listened-to podcasts, determined by data from podcast platforms like Apple and Spotify, which were announced in October.

They include Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang With Amy Poehler, SmartLess and The Joe Rogan Experience.

The nominees for the 2026 ceremony were announced by actors Marlan Wayans and Skye P Marshall.

The Golden Globes recognise the year’s top film and TV across 28 categories.

Paul Mescal attending a special screening of ‘Hamnet’. / Credit: AP

After a series of controversies, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that previously put on the ceremony, the Globes were sold in 2023 to Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, a part of Penske Media.

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

Best Motion Picture – Drama

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

Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

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

Best Performance By A Female Actor In A Motion Picture – 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)

Adolescence was nominated for best limited series, with Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty getting nominations for their acting. / Credit: Netflix

Best Performance By A Male Actor In A Motion Picture – 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 In A Motion Picture – 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 Performance By A Male Actor In A Motion Picture – 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 Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role In Any Motion Picture

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 Performance By A Male Actor In A Supporting Role In Any Motion Picture

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)

Best Director – Motion Picture

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)

Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty, and Owen Cooper all received nominations for their roles on Adolesence, while the show itself was nominated for ‘Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television’.

Dame Helen Mirren will be honoured with the Golden Globe lifetime achievement award. Mirren will receive the 2026 Cecil B. DeMille Award in January, the Golden Globes announced in November.

The winners will be revealed during the 83rd Golden Globes ceremony, hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, on January 11.