The major snubs and surprises from the 2026 Golden Globes nominations

The 2026 Golden Globe nominations have been released, with a few major snubs and surprise nominations raising a few eyebrows.

While Wicked received a massive six nominations in the 2025 awards, including for Best Picture, sequel Wicked: For Good has been snubbed in some major categories.

However, the stars of the film, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, have both received nominations.

Grande is up for Best Supporting Actress, while Erivo is nominated in the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture category.

The film also scored two nominations for Best Original Song, as well as a nomination for the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category.

Sydney Sweeney's boxing biopic Christy didn't score a single nomination, including for the actress herself.

Josh Safdie was also dealt a major blow after being snubbed from the Best Director category for Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet.

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Chalamet scored a Best Male Actor nod while Safdie was snubbed.

In a surprise development, Emily Blunt is up for Best Supporting Actress for The Smashing Machine, a film that failed at the box office.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson also scored a nomination in the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture category for his role in the film as UFC fighter Mark Kerr.

Leonardo DiCaprio's film One Battle After Another scored the most nominations with nine, including for Best Picture, Director and Screenwriter, Best Actor for its lead and Supporting Actor nods for Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn.

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Sinners also raked in the nominations with seven, including Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Performance by a Male Actor for lead Michael B. Jordan, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Original Song, and Cinematic Box Office Achievement.

Meanwhile, it was a good year for TV shows, with The White Lotus leading the pack with six nominations, followed by Netflix's Adolescence, which scored five nominations.

Severance and Only Murders in the Building, starring Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin, both scored four nominations each.

The Awards will be held on January 11, 2026. 

Here's a full list of nominations.

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

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

Best Motion Picture, Drama

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

Best Director — Motion Picture

• Ryan Coogler, Sinners
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
• Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
• Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident
• Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
• Chloe Zhao, Hamnet

Best Male Actor — Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy

• Timothee 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 Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine
• Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
• Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
• Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
• Oscar Isaac, Frankenstein
• Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
• Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good
• Emma Stone, Bugonia
• Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
• Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

• Eva Victor, Sorry Baby
• Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
• Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
• Julia Roberts, After The Hunt
• Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
• Tessa Thompson, Hedda

Best Supporting Male Actor in a 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 Skarsgard, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Female Actor in a 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 Screenplay — Motion Picture

• Chloe Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell — Hamnet
• Jafar Panahi — It was Just An Accident
• Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt — Sentimental Value
• Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
• Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
• Ryan Coogler — Sinners

Best Motion Picture — Animated

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

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

• It Was Just An Accident
• No Other Choice
• Sentimental Value
• Sirat
• The Secret Agent
• The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Original Score — Motion Picture

• Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
• Hans Zimmer, F1
• Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
• Kangding Ray, Sirat
• Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
• Max Richter, Hamnet

Best Original Song — Motion Picture

• Dream as One, Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen, Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Golden, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Mark Sonnenblick, KPop Demon Hunters
• I Lied to You, Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
• No Place Like Home, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: For Good
• The Girl in the Bubble, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: For Good
• Train Dreams, Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner, Train Dreams

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 Television Series — Drama

• The Diplomat
• Pluribus
• Severance
• Slow Horses
• The Pitt
• The White Lotus

Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Abbott Elementary
• The Bear
• Hacks
• Nobody Wants This
• Only Murders in the Building
• The Studio

Best Television Limited Series

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

Best Female Actor – Television – 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 a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

• Sterling K. Brown, Paradise
• Diego Luna, Andor
• Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
• Mark Ruffalo, Task
• Adam Scott, Severance
• Noah Wylie, The Pitt

Best Female Actor — Television, 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 Male Actor — Television, Musical or Comedy

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

Best Supporting Female Actor — Television

• Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
• Carrie Coon, The White Lotus
• Catherine O'Hara, The Studio
• Erin Doherty, Adolescence
• Hanna Einbinder, Hacks
• Parker Posey, The White Lotus

Best Male Actor in a Limited Series

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

Best Supporting Male Actor – Television

• Owen Cooper, Adolescence
• Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
• Walton Goggins, The White Lotus
• Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus
• Tramell Tillman, Severance
• Ashley Walters, Adolescence

Best Podcast

• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd
• Call Her Daddy
• Good Hang with Amy Poehler
• The Mel Robbins Podcast
• Smartless
• Up First

Best Performance in Stand-up Comedy on Television

• Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?
• Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life
• Kevin Hart: Acting My Age
• Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts
• Ricky Gervais: Mortality
• Sarah Silverman: Postmortem

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Title: The major snubs and surprises from the 2026 Golden Globes nominations
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Published Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:12:00 GMT