Golden Globes 2026 LIVE: Awards kick off; Rose Byrne wins as Aussies shine on the red carpet; One Battle After Another, White Lotus lead nominations | Retrui News | Retrui
As Hollywood’s parade of awards ceremonies continues, the 83rd annual Golden Globes is coming in hot from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Follow our blog for all the red carpet fashion, award winners and highlights.
It’s the award many of us have been waiting for, and not just because it’s the last award of the night (yeah, you heard that right – it’s the final category, people!).
It’s the best drama film and it went to … drum roll, please … !
Yes, the incredibly emotional fictionalised depiction of Shakespeare’s family life took out one of the biggest prizes of the night, pipping major powerhouses such as Sinners, The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value.
It’s the film’s second award at the Globes following Jessie Buckley’s best actress win.
“There’s only one filmmaker on the planet who could tell this story… and that was the exceptional, exceptional Chloe Zhao,” Hamnet producer and legendary director Steven Spielberg said before handing the mic to Zhao.
“Paul [Mescal] said this morning that making Hamnet made him realise the most important thing about being an artist is learning to be vulnerable enough to allow ourselves to be seen for who we are and not who we ought to be,” she said.
“To give ourselves fully to the world, even the parts we’re ashamed of, that we’re afraid of.”
She gave special mention to Sinners′ Ryan Coogler (whom she apparently taught how to make a fire? I’d love to know the story behind that fun fact) and her other fellow nominees, saying she has watched them become “so strong and tender at the same time”.
“I salute your bravery and dedication. Let’s keep our hearts open and keep allowing ourselves to be seen,” she said.
Open hearts and dedication – how very Hamnet. And how apt (if not slightly saccharine) an ending for an awards show with very few surprises.
3.20pm
One Battle After Another racks up another one, but Julia Roberts is the real winner
By Bronte Gossling
Julia Roberts may have lost best performance by a female actor in a motion picture (drama) “one minute ago” to Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley but she still received a standing ovation as she made her way on to the stage.
Walking in to cheers and claps from the crowd, all on their feet, Roberts presented best motion picture (musical or comedy) to One Battle After Another.
That’s the fourth gong Paul Thomas Anderson’s comic thriller has picked up at the 2026 Golden Globes, setting it up nicely for the Oscars in March.
3.14pm
Best motion picture (drama): Hamnet
Frankenstein (Netflix)
WINNER: Hamnet (Focus Features)
It Was Just an Accident (NEON)
The Secret Agent (NEON)
Sentimental Value (NEON)
Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
3.11pm
Brazil’s Wagner Moura pips Joel Edgerton
By Garry Maddox
Could Joel Edgerton win best performance by a male actor in a motion picture (drama) for his stunning performance in Train Dreams? It would have been a Hollywood breakthrough if he had, but the Globe went to suave Brazilian Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent.
Moura praised his fellow nominees as “extraordinary actors”.
“The Secret Agent is a film about memory, the lack of memory and generational trauma,” he said. “I think that if trauma can be passed along generations, values can, too. So this is [for] the ones that are sticking to their values in difficult moments.”
Moura also pipped Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein), Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) and Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere).
3.09pm
Best motion picture (musical or comedy): One Battle After Another
Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Bugonia (Focus Features)
Marty Supreme (A24)
No Other Choice (NEON)
Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)
WINNER: One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
3.09pm
Jessie Buckley really likes soup (and wins best actress in a drama film)
By Nell Geraets
We’re getting close to the end now, folks. But don’t go anywhere just yet because Jessie Buckley has taken home the first award for Hamnet, winning best actress in a drama film.
Jessie Buckley arrives at the 83rd Golden Globes.Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
If you’ve seen the final scene of Hamnet you’ll understand how she managed to beat out some of the greatest names in Hollywood for this prize (Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence et al). It was 10 minutes of raw emotion – a mother’s grief laid bare.
Loading
“This is not a normal feeling or situation to be in but thank you, Golden Globes,” she said.
She went on to thank everyone else who worked on set, including the 400 extras, who don’t often get direct praise at awards shows. She even shared an anecdote about one of the grips who chopped up vegetables to make everyone soup, a treat they all apparently indulged in.
“It was such an extra special set to be part of because we were telling the story of probably the most famous Brit who ever lived, [and] we had a Chinese director, a largely Irish and Polish crew,” she said.
Stephanie Bunbury recently interviewed Jessie Buckley about this role, which the actor described as “one of the most awakening, life-affirming, deep and human experiences I’ve ever had on a film”. You can read that feature here. Or, for more must-see movies, interviews and all the latest from the world of film, sign up to our Screening Room newsletter.
3.03pm
First winner of the night to be played off
By Bronte Gossling
The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho was about to highlight what an important moment it is for young filmmakers, in his acceptance speech for best non-English language motion picture, when he got the cue to wrap it up.
It was hard to hear over the instrumental music but, before being played off, Filho said it was “a very important moment in time to be making films – here in the US, [and] in Brazil” and highlighted how not all filmmakers were American.
What was so important that he had to be interrupted? UFC stars Mackenzie Dern and Brian Ortega needed to walk around the stage to dramatic music for a few seconds before the broadcast moved on to the next award.
The Secret Agent is a political drama set in the 1970s, when Brazil was under a dictatorial regime. Wagner Moura stars as a scientific researcher who must go on the run after offending a businessman who is aligned with the government.
3.02pm
Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture (drama): Wagner Moura
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Oscar Isaac – Frankenstein
Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
WINNER: Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Jeremy Allen White – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
3.00pm
Adolescence continues to dominate
By Garry Maddox
Adolescence taking out this award was a fait accompli. After winning three acting awards, Netflix’s exceptional real-time, one-take British drama was always going to win best limited series, anthology series or TV film.
Jack Thorne, who created it with Stephen Graham, praised his collaborators. “You reinvented the vocabulary of television to make this show,” he said.
In a stirring speech, Thorne said some people thought it was a show about how we should be frightened of young people.
“It’s not,” he said. “It’s about the filth and the debris we have laid in their path.” The show’s young cast was proof that the world could be better.
“Removing hate is our generation’s responsibility,” Thorne said. “It requires thought from the top down. The possibility seems remote right now but hope is a beautiful thing.”
Adolescence beat All Her Fault (Peacock), The Beast in Me (Netflix), Black Mirror (Netflix), Dying for Sex (Hulu) and The Girlfriend (Prime Video).
2.57pm
Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture (drama): Jessie Buckley
