{"id":407496,"date":"2026-01-12T03:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:37:15","slug":"golden-globes-key-moments-2026-australian-rose-byrne-wins-best-comedy-nod-amy-poehler-takes-out-best-podcast-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407496\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Globes key moments 2026: Australian Rose Byrne wins best comedy nod, Amy Poehler takes out Best Podcast nod"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Golden Globes saw hits and misses for Australia, last-minute snubs and new categories debut.<\/p>\n

Here are the key moments from the 83rd Golden Globe Awards:<\/p>\n

Rose Byrne’s bearded dragon, Jacob Elordi misses out<\/p>\n

Australian Rose Byrne took out the nod for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture \u2014 Musical or Comedy.<\/p>\n

Byrne won for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, thanking her team, which she says shot it in “25 days for like $8.50”.<\/p>\n

It was a family affair for the Australian, with Byrne bringing her brother George as a date.<\/p>\n

Her husband, actor Bobby Cannavale, also got a thank you, but was, oddly enough, out bearded dragon shopping.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fellow Australian Jacob Elordi missed out on Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture.<\/p>\n

Nominated for Frankenstein, the prize instead went to Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd for his role in Sentimental Value.<\/p>\n

The 74-year-old Skarsg\u00e5rd confessed he had not prepared a speech because he “thought that I was too old”.<\/p>\n

Still, Skarsg\u00e5rd paid tribute to his wife and famous brood of actor children (think True Blood’s Alexander and It’s Bill).<\/p>\n

“I’m playing a father that is a bad father, and my children have really told me what a bad father is,” he told the crowd.<\/p>\n

He ended his speech with a tribute to the “extinct species” that are cinemas.<\/p>\n

“In a cinema, where the lights go down, and eventually you share the pulse with other people, that is magic.”<\/p>\n

Elordi also lost out on Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, which went to Adolescence’s Stephen Graham.<\/p>\n

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Our Australian hope Jacob Elordi missed out on his big nomination of the night.\u00a0 (AP: Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n

Amy Poehler takes out inaugural podcast award<\/p>\n

2026 was the debut year for the category Best Podcast \u2014 a Hollywood nod to the form’s growing popularity.<\/p>\n

And in a highly-predicted win, Amy Poehler’s Good Hang took the prize, handed to her by a “high as a motherf***er” Snoop Dog.<\/p>\n

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Amy Poehler made her way to the other side of the award show with this win.\u00a0 (AP: Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n

Poehler was up against ex-husband Will Arnett and his SmartLess podcast, and she took the time to thank all other nominees \u2014 except “for NPR”.<\/p>\n

“Just a bunch of celebs phoning it in. Try harder,” she joked.<\/p>\n

She ended her speech saying she wanted the podcast to bring light in a “rough” world.<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet beats out Leo in first Globes win<\/p>\n

It seems almost unbelievable, but Chalamet’s first Golden Globe came with Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture \u2014 Musical or Comedy.<\/p>\n

Chalamet had been winless for four previous Globes nominations \u2014 until table tennis odyssey Marty Supreme came along.<\/p>\n

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Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet’s role in Marty Supreme is garnering possible Oscar buzz.\u00a0 (AP: Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n

The star took time to thank other nominees and partner, Kylie Jenner.<\/p>\n

“I’m in a category of many greats, I look up to you,” he said of the other nominees, which included Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney.<\/p>\n

“My dad instilled a sense of gratitude growing up, always be grateful for what you have.<\/p>\n

“It’s allowed me to leave this ceremony in the past empty-handed, my head held high, just grateful to be here.<\/p>\n

“But I would be lying if this moment doesn’t make those moments so much sweeter.”Composers get the snub<\/p>\n

The nominees for best film score may have been industry powerhouses \u2014 think two-time Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat \u2014 but tonight they were given the unceremonious snub.<\/p>\n

In a last-minute move, the nominees were informed the presentation would be cut from the telecast.<\/p>\n

While winner Ludwig G\u00f6ransson (Sinners) was still awarded during the ceremony, it was an understandably difficult snub for some.<\/p>\n

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Ludwig G\u00f6ransson’s prize was awarded off-screen.\u00a0 (AP: Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n

Nominee Hans Zimmer said it was a shame “not to honour my friends who work so hard”.<\/p>\n

“This year is a fantastic year for composers,” he said of the snub, on the red carpet.<\/p>\n

“Don’t ignore them, you don’t have a movie without them.”\"A<\/p>\n

Hans Zimmer with fiancee Dina De Luca at the awards show.\u00a0 (Getty Images: Phillip Faraone)<\/p>\n

A Golden Globes spokesperson told Deadline<\/a> the category remains a “cornerstone” of the ceremony.<\/p>\n

It was yet another awards show snub for major category nominees \u2014 with the recent Critics’ Choice Awards handing its Best Foreign Language Film winner out on the red carpet.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nikki Glaser returns for hosting duties<\/p>\n

Nikki Glaser made history last year as the Globes’ first solo female Golden Globes host, and she came back in 2026 for another bite.<\/p>\n

Coming out of the gate with jokes about CBS News and the Epstein files, Glaser soon moved on to the nominees of the night.<\/p>\n

Expected jokes about Leonardo DiCaprio’s twenty-something girlfriends were quickly apologised for.<\/p>\n

“I tried not to, but we don’t know anything else about you, man,” she told the crowd.<\/p>\n

Later in the night, her KPop Demon Hunters parody was bluntly cut off by former SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, who threatened to remove her from the union.<\/p>\n

When Glaser pointed out she was no longer president, Drescher joked: “I get one free kill, honey.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year’s Golden Globes saw hits and misses for Australia, last-minute snubs and new categories debut. Here are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,134,81522,124922,1973,44],"class_list":["post-407496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-golden-globe-awards","tag-golden-globes","tag-hollywood","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}