How to watch the Golden Globes and who is nominated

Sinners, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another are among the films competing at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.

Frankenstein, Sentimental Value, Hamnet and Wicked: For Good are some of the other films vying for gold at the ceremony in Los Angeles.

A new category, Best Podcast, was introduced this year, while Adolescence, The Pitt and The Studio are nominated in the TV categories.

The Golden Globes are a major stage of the film awards season and take place less than a fortnight before the announcement of the Oscar nominations (January 22).

The Globes hand out more trophies than many other ceremonies because they split their film categories between dramas and musicals or comedies.

Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessie Buckley and Michael B Jordan were all nominated as actors this year.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of this year’s event.

9 – One battle after another

8 – Sentimental value

7 – Sinners

6 – Hamnet

5 – Frankenstein

5 – Villain: for good

4 – It was just an accident

The Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast on the CBS network in the United States and also on Paramount+.

Unfortunately, there is no legal way to watch the ceremony in the UK, but BBC News will be covering it all night.

The ceremony begins at 01:00 GMT (Monday morning) and usually lasts between three and four hours.

It is broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

One battle after another, about a former revolutionary whose daughter is kidnapped, tops the pack this year after becoming one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2025.

Its competition includes Sentimental value, a Norwegian drama about two sisters who reconnect with their estranged father, with a director planning his return, after the death of their mother.

Sinners, a vampire horror drama set in 1930s Mississippi, was an early Oscar contender, and achieved box office success shortly after last year’s Academy Awards.

Elsewhere, the film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet explores the family tragedy that many believe led William Shakespeare to write one of his most famous plays.

A new adaptation of Frankenstein offers a more moving version of Mary Shelley’s novel about a mad scientist and the creature he creates, while still being a blockbuster Villain: for good concludes the origin story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

Kidnapping drama It was just an accident, one of the best films of this year’s awards season and a top prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival, follows a man who seeks revenge on the former officer who tortured him in prison.

And Marty Supreme follows a table tennis player in 1950s New York as he attempts to stay financially afloat while making a name for himself as an athlete.

Other nominated films include conspiracy theory dramas. Bugoniakorean black comedy No other choiceBrazilian political thriller The secret agent and animated musical smash Kpop Demon Hunters.

Box office titans Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) and Leonardo Di Caprio (One Battle After Another) will compete in a particularly heated race for best musical or comic actor. Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) is a possible dark horse.

In the category of best dramatic actor, Michael B Jordan (Sinners) has a strong chance, although the more international focus the Globes have taken in recent years suggests we shouldn’t rule out the Cannes winner Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).

While the field of best musical or comedic actresses is led by seasoned pros such as Rose Byrne (If I had legs I’d kick you) and Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), there is strong competition from a newcomer Chase Infiniti (One battle after another).

The best drama actress is much easier to predict – with Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) considered well ahead of even its strongest competitors such as Renate Reinsvé (Sentimental value).

Actors and actresses nominated in a supporting role include Amy Madigan (Weapons), Jacob Elord (Frankenstein), Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn And Teyana Taylor (all one battle after another).

American comedian Nikki Glaser returns to her hosting duties after a stunning performance at the ceremony for at least a year.

She delivered an opening monologue that rivaled the Globe’s greats — Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — roasting the A-list celebrities in the room.

Hosting the Golden Globes, Glaser later said: was “without a doubt the most fun I’ve ever had in my career.”

But, Glaser told the BBC’s Regan Morris earlier this week, she often feels intimidated by all the “star power” in the room, adding: “I blur my eyes when I’m on stage, I’ll do that so hard at night.” »

It’s been almost a year since most people watched the Netflix hit about a teenager accused of stabbing his classmate, and the series has already triumphed at the Emmys, Critics’ Choice and National Television Awards.

But with many other award shows happening more or less during the calendar year, adolescence is only just getting recognized at events like the Golden Globes.

Expect to see even more of Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty at other upcoming events, such as the Actor Awards (formerly SAG) in March and the Bafta TV Awards, which don’t take place until May.

The two special lifetime achievement awards are usually presented in the evening, but this year they were presented last week during the inaugural ceremony on the eve of the Globes.

The Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker received the Carol Burnett Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television, while Dame Helen Mirren received the cinematic equivalent, the Cecil B DeMille Award.

During his acceptance speech, Lady Helen said the award had been “described to me as career recognition”.

“But,” she continued, “I prefer to think of it as a life lived, a life survived, a life enjoyed, a life sweated, and a life continued, hopefully.”

In his speech, Parker thanked to friends, colleagues and family who had supported her over several decades of career in showbiz, telling them: “You have been an integral part of an inconceivable life, that’s a bonus, thank you.”

An actor or film that wins at the Golden Globes won’t automatically win the Oscars, but it can help solidify its chances of a nomination.

As one of the premier ceremonies of awards season, the Globes can provide significant momentum, as a win or well-received acceptance speech will encourage more Academy voters to watch a particular film.

Stars like Sébastien Stan, Demi Moore And Fernanda Torres all earned Oscar nominations after their Globes win last January (although Stan’s was for a different film).

And movies like To flow And I’m still here got their awards campaign off to a strong start with their first wins at the Golden Globes, and both won Oscars in the animation and international categories, respectively.

Affectionately known as the “drunken uncle” of awards season, the Globes are a much less formal affair than the Oscars.

You can expect the celebrities to be in a relaxed mood and ready to have fun with their speeches – provided they survive Nikki Glaser’s roast first.