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THE GOLDEN GLOBES

Sunday, January 11, 2026.

THE RED CARPET (Digital Pre-Show)

CBS AT 7:00 pm

Variety’s YouTube LIVE channel & FIRE TV

6:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM PT.

THE AWARDS

CBS 

& 

STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT + FOR SHOWTIME SUBSCRIBERS

 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT.

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Nikki Glaser made history last year as the first solo female host in the show's history. She returns for her second consecutive year.

Born in 1984, Glaser is a veteran stand-up comedian and actress who has hosted everything from FBoy Island to her own Comedy Central talk show, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser. She is a self-proclaimed "Swiftie" and recently taped a sold-out comedy special for Hulu.

Nikki Glaser IMDb

Nikki Glaser Wikipedia

The film side is dominated by Paul Thomas Anderson’s "One Battle After Another," with 9 nominations, including a Best Actor nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio. Closely following is the Norwegian drama "Sentimental Value" with 8 nominations. On the television side, the third season of "The White Lotus" is the clear frontrunner with 6 nominations, including multiple nominations for its supporting cast.

So far, (8:36 PM Jean Smart, last), I do not know why, the last person on each list, alphabetically, has won.

83rd Annual Golden Globes

MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES

Best Motion Picture – Drama

• Frankenstein (Netflix)
•   >> Hamnet (Focus Features)
• It Was Just an Accident (NEON)
• The Secret Agent (NEON)
• Sentimental Value (NEON)
• Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• Marty Supreme (A24)
• No Other Choice (NEON)
• Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)
•   >> One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)

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)

Best Performance by an Actress 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)

Best Performance by an 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 an Actress 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 an 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 Supporting Actress 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 Supporting Actor 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 Motion Picture – Animated

• Arco
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle
• Elio
•   >> KPop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2 

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

• It Was Just an Accident (France)
• No Other Choice (South Korea)
•   >> The Secret Agent (Brazil)
• Sentimental Value (Norway)
• Sirāt (Spain)
• The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

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

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

•   >> One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Marty Supreme (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie)
• Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
• It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
• Sentimental Value (Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)
• Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

• Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)
•   >> Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)
• One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)
• Sirāt (Kangding Ray)
• Hamnet (Max Richter)
• F1 (Hans Zimmer)

I. TELEVISION CATEGORIES

Best Television Series – Drama

• The Diplomat (Netflix)
•   >> The Pitt (HBO Max)
• Pluribus (Apple TV+)
• Severance (Apple TV+)
• Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
• The White Lotus (HBO Max)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

• Abbott Elementary (ABC)
• The Bear (FX on Hulu)
• Hacks (HBO Max)
• Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
• Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
•   >> The Studio (Apple TV+)

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

•   >> Adolescence
• All Her Fault
• The Beast in Me
• Black Mirror
• Dying for Sex
• The Girlfriend

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama

• Kathy Bates (Matlock)
• Britt Lower (Severance)
• Helen Mirren (Mobland)
• Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)
• Keri Russell (The Diplomat)
•   >> Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

• Sterling K. Brown (Paradise)
• Diego Luna (Andor)
• Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
• Mark Ruffalo (Task)
• Adam Scott (Severance)
•   >> Noah Wyle (The Pitt)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

• Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This)
• Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)
• Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building)
• Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)
• Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
•   >> Jean Smart (Hacks)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

• Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This)
• Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
• Glen Powell (Chad Powers)
•   >> Seth Rogen (The Studio)
• Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
• Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV

• Claire Danes (The Beast in Me)
• Rashida Jones (Black Mirror)
• Amanda Seyfried (Long Bright River)
• Sarah Snook (All Her Fault)
•   >> Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex)
• Robin Wright (The Girlfriend)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV

• Jacob Elordi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
• Paul Giamatti (Black Mirror)
•   >> Stephen Graham (Adolescence)
• Charlie Hunnam (Monster: The Ed Gein Story)
• Jude Law (Black Rabbit)
• Matthew Rhys (The Beast in Me)

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

•   >> Ricky Gervais (Mortality)
• Brett Goldstein (The Second Best Night of Your Life)
• Kevin Hart (Acting My Age)
• Kumail Nanjiani (Night Thoughts)
• Sarah Silverman (Postmortem)

also...

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

  >> Owen Cooper - Adolescence

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television 

  >> Hannah Einbinder - Hacks

Best Podcast (Inaugural Category)

• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
• Call Her Daddy
•   >> Good Hang with Amy Poehler
• The Mel Robbins Podcast
• SmartLess
• Up First (NPR)

 

The 2026 Special Honorary Awards

This year, the Golden Globes introduced "Golden Eve," a separate primetime special (aired Jan 8) to dedicate more time to these legends.

• The Cecil B. DeMille Award (Film): Helen Mirren. Presented by her 1923 co-star Harrison Ford, Mirren was honored for a lifetime of daring performances, from The Queen to her current role in MobLand.

• The Carol Burnett Award (TV): Sarah Jessica Parker. Presented by her husband Matthew Broderick, Parker was celebrated for her indelible impact on television history, specifically her decade-defining role as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.

• The Omar Sharif Award: Hend Sabry. A new international honor recognizing significant contributions to Arab cinema.

• The Golden Globes Horizon Award: Alia Bhatt. Honoring a rising global star who has made a significant impact on the international stage.

Official Golden Globes Site

GoldenGlobes.com

Red Carpet Stream

VarietyYouTube (LIVE)

Official Streaming Platform

 Paramount+ Showtime

 

Labels: Amanda Seyfried, avatar, Blue Moon, Emma Stone, Frankenstein, Golden Globes 2026, Hamnet, Julia Roberts, Michael B Jordan, Nouvelle Vague

 

JACK SMITH'S testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was made public on New Year's Eve. In the testimony he says that in his opinion he had evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of possibly criminal acts by Donald Trump in connection with Trump's claims of election fraud, and the events on January 6.

Here is a link to the testimony:

TESTIMONY

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26450308-jack-smith-deposition/

Labels: Donald Trump, fraud, Jack Smith

The Epstein information released by the House Oversight Committee can be found HERE:

https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-additional-epstein-estate-documents/

To get to the documents from this page, look at "The documents can be found here.

That will take you where you can look through them yourself HERE:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hTNH5woIRio578onLGElkTWofUSWRoH_

Labels: Epstein. House Oversight Committee

 

The new Samsung Galaxy XR headset with Android XR operating system (SGAXR) looks terrific from the demo presentation. It is at least $1,000 cheaper than the AVP. It comes with 256 GB, considerable software, and a a free year of Google AI Pro and YouTube Premium; plus a few other introductory free or inexpensive content packages. 

I have not had a chance to test it. It is available for order today in the US & South Korea. Delivery should be about a week. Demos are available at Samsung stores.

https://www.samsung.com/us/

SPECS

Labels: 3D camera, eXtended Reality, Galaxy XR, HMD, immersion, SAMSUNG, XR

 

The Montclair Film Festival is getting more interesting every year!

The 2025 Montclair Film Festival runs from Oct 17  to Oct 26.

 

Opening night, tonight! will include an Opening Night Party after the Opening Night Feature, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly and a Q&A with composer Nicholas Britell.

Additional centerpiece films include

• Ryan White’s intimate documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light; and
• HIKARI’s Tokyo-set Rental Family with Brendan Fraser, who will participate in a Q & A moderated by Stephen Colbert.

 

Additional highlights of the ten day event include:

• Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, 
• Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet ,
• Rebecca Miller’s two-part portrait Mr. Scorsese and
• Closing night’s Christy with Sydney Sweeney and Ben Foster.

In addition to many genres of full-length films and short films, the festival features conversations with Pamela Abdy; and another with Spike Lee moderated by Stephen Colbert.  AND…

Montclair Film’s signature onstage series returns on December 7 with Stephen Colbert in conversation with Conan O’Brien  at NJPAC.

 

The Film Festival is the annual highlight event of Montclair Film, an organization that provides multiple, excellent film opportunities for high school students (and others). I've been following them ever since I posted in QPORIT about the 2019 event with Stephen Colbert interviewing Julia-Louis Dreyfus.

 

SOME LINKS

 

OPENING NIGHT EVENT

https://montclairfilm.org/events/jay-kelly/

 

MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE - BY DATE

https://montclairfilm.org/

 

MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE GUIDE - BY GENRE, VENUE, DATE

https://montclairfilm.org/ (SELECT “BROWSE AND BUY TICKETS”)

 

TICKET INFO

https://montclairfilm.org/festival-information/tickets/

 

MONTCLAIR FILM

https://montclairfilm.org/about/mission/

 

MONTCLAIR FILM + EDUCATION

https://montclairfilm.org/education/

 

STEPHEN COLBERT & CONAN O’BRIEN

https://www.njpac.org/event/stephen-colbert/

 

SPIKE LEE

https://montclairfilm.org/events/in-conversation-spike-lee/

 

BRENDAN FRASER

https://montclairfilm.org/events/rental-famly/

 

PAMELA ABDY

https://montclairfilm.org/events/in-conversation-pamela-abdy/

 

NICHOLAS BRITELL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Britell

 

STEPHEN COLBERT & JULIA-LOUIS DREYFUS (2019)

Labels: Brendan Fraser, Conan O'Brien, Montclair, Montclair Film, Montclair Film Festival, Scorcese, Spike Lee, Stephen Colbert