How to watch the Golden Globes and who’s nominated

Sinners, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another are among the films set to compete at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards.

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

A new category, the best podcast, was introduced this year, while Adolescence, The Pitt and The Studio were nominated in the TV categories.

The Golden Globes are a major milestone in the film awards season, and they happen to be less than two weeks away until the Oscar nominations are announced (January 22).

The Globes give out more trophies than other ceremonies, as they divide their film categories by drama and musical or comedy.

Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessie Buckley and Michael B Jordan all have acting nominations this year.

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

9 – One War After Another

8 – Sentimental Value

7 – Sinners

6 – Hamnet

5 – Frankenstein

5 – Evil: For Good

4 – It Was Just an Accident

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

Unfortunately, there is no way to legally watch the ceremony in the UK, but there will be BBC News coverage throughout the evening.

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

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

One War After Another, about a former revolutionary whose daughter is kidnapped, leads the pack this year after becoming one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2025.

The competition includes it sentimental value, is a Norwegian drama about two sisters who reconcile with their estranged father, a film director who plots his return, after the death of their mother.

sinners, a vampire horror-drama set in 1930s Mississippi, was one of the first Oscar contenders out of the gate, launching into box office success shortly after last year’s Academy Awards.

Elsewhere, the screen 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 provides a more emotional take on Mary Shelley’s novel about a mad scientist and the creature he creates, while blockbuster Evil: 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 the winner of the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, follows a man who seeks revenge on the former officer who once tortured him in prison.

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

Other nominated films include the conspiracy theory drama 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 DiCaprio (One Battle After Another) will compete in a heated race for the best musical or comedy artist. Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) is a possible dark horse.

For best actor in a drama, Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) has a solid chance, although the more international focus the Globes have taken in recent years suggests we can’t count out the Cannes winner. Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).

While the best musical or comedy field of the actress is led by seasoned pros like Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), there is strong competition from newcomers Infiniti Chase (One War After Another).

The best drama actress is very easy to predict – others Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) is considered superior to his strongest competitors viz Renate Reinve (Sentimental Value).

Among the supporting actors and actress contenders Amy Madigan (Weapons), Jacob Elord (Frankenstein), Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor (all One War After One).

US comic Nikki Glaser returns to hosting duties after a barnstorming performance at least a year away from the ceremony.

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

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

But, Glaser told the BBC’s Regan Morris earlier this week, he was always in awe of all the “star power” in the room, adding: “I wipe my eyes when I’m on stage, I do that at night.”

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

But since many other awards events come more or less during the calendar year, Adolescence is only recognized at events like the Golden Globes.

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

The two special prizes that recognize lifetime achievement are usually given out in the evening, but this year they were awarded last week at the inaugural ceremony on Globes Eve.

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker received the Carol Burnett award, for outstanding contribution to television, while Dama Helen Mirren received the film’s equivalent, the Cecil B DeMille award.

During his acceptance speech, Dame Helen said the prize “was described to me as a career recognition”.

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

In his speech, Parker thanked the friends, colleagues and family who supported him in a decade long showbiz career, telling them: “You have been an integral part of an inconceivable life, it is a bounty, thank you.”

An actor or film that wins the Golden Globes doesn’t automatically win the Oscars, but it helps strengthen the chances of a nomination.

As one of the earliest ceremonies of the awards season, the Globes can provide a huge boost in momentum, as a win or well-received acceptance speech can encourage more Academy voters to check out a particular film.

Stars like Sebastian Stan, Demi Moore and Fernando Torres all went on to pick up Oscar nominations after their Globe wins in January (although Stan’s was for a different film).

And movies like flowing and I’m still there got their awards campaign off to a strong start thanks to early wins at the Golden Globes, and both went on to win Oscars in the animated and international categories respectively.

Dubbed the “drunk uncle” of awards season, the Globes are a less formal event than the Oscars.

You can expect the celebrities to be in a relaxed mood and ready to have fun with their speeches – as long as they can survive being grilled by Nikki Glaser first.