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WINNER: Erin Doherty (Adolescence) — female supporting actor on television
Adrian HortonErin Doherty. Photograph: Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
The Golden Globes continue to follow the Emmys to a tee, as Erin Doherty wins best supporting actress for her barnstormer of an Adolescence episode, which takes place entirely in one therapy session, opposite Owen Cooper.
Doherty thanked Cooper, as well as Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters and director Philip Barantini, as “each of you lives in every breath in that scene,” and dedicated her win to therapists: “Life can be tough, mental health is everything, so thank you to therapists, and it was an honor to play one.”
Updated at 22.28 EST
Benjamin Lee
Here’s our end-of-year interview with Golden Globe winner Erin Doherty:
ShareWINNER: The Secret Agent – non-English language motion pictureAdrian HortonThe Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Photograph: Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s epic political thriller, set in 1970s Brazil, wins in an especially stacked category this year, including Sentimental Value, The Voice of Hind Rajab, It Was Just An Accident, Sirāt and No Other Choice.
Filho thanked star and best actor nominee Wagner Moura – “what an actor! And the best thing happens, a great actor and a great friend, that combination is explosive” – and dedicated the award to up-and-coming filmmakers, as “this is a very important time and in history to be making films.”
Updated at 22.27 EST
Adrian Horton
Just to note that the two wins for KPop Demon Hunters – best original song and animated film – are the only bright spots in an otherwise disappointing night for Netflix, whose live-action submissions, including Jay Kelly, Frankenstein and Train Dreams, are empty-handed so far.
ShareBenjamin Lee
Maybe the sharpest jab so far tonight?
ShareWINNER: KPop Demon Hunters – animated motion pictureAdrian Horton(Left to right) Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang and Michelle Wong. Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
No surprise here – the international sensation that is KPop Demon Hunters is victorious again tonight, winning best animated film. Co-director Maggie Kang thanked “everyone who believed that a movie so deeply rooted in Korean culture could resonate with a global audience”.
“We wanted to depict female characters in the way we know women, which is really strong and bold,” she added, as collaborator Chris Applehans dedicated the film to “some shared humanity, which we could really use these days”.
Updated at 22.09 EST
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) – director of a motion pictureAdrian HortonPaul Thomas Anderson. Photograph: Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
OK first, I need to know if presenter Judd Apatow’s story about Nikki Glaser once being the family’s babysitter is true. More importantly, it’s another win for Paul Thomas Anderson, who appears unstoppable tonight.
The One Battle After Another writer-director dedicated the best director award in part to Mike De Luca, now the chair of Warner Bros, whom Anderson met more than 30 years ago and has “singlehandedly has supported me and the movies I wanted to make”.
He then got emotional, remembering his assistant director Adam Somner, who died in late 2024 at the age of 57. The title assistant director “is underselling it, what he did for me, for us and for this film”, he said, recalling how Somner’s work helped make the film and “make you [the cast] all seem to enjoy it as much as you have”.
Updated at 22.07 EST
Adrian Horton
In case you missed it earlier, here’s One Battle After Another star Teyana Taylor’s emotional speech for best supporting actress in a motion picture, which kicked off the evening:
Teyana Taylor accepts her first ever Golden Globe:
“To my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight… We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter, our dreams deserve space”
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— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 12, 2026
Updated at 21.48 EST
Benjamin Lee
What the hell …
Updated at 21.50 EST
WINNER: Sinners – cinematic and box office achievementAdrian HortonZinzi Coogler and Ryan Coogler. Photograph: Jesse Grant/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
I’m nervous the Globes may make this dubious “box office achievement” award the consolation prize for Sinners, which is nominated for best drama tonight … still, it’s a sweet win for Ryan Coogler’s vampire period epic, which managed to accomplish the rare feat of attracting audiences to the theater en masse for an original story.
Flanked by the cast and crew, including his wife and producing partner, Zinzi, Coogler thanked the audiences “for showing up” .In the heat of production, he continued, the crew kept going by remembering that Sinners was supposed to be “a big movie” but “we didn’t know that people were going to show up, and we’re thankful that they did”.
Updated at 21.50 EST
WINNER: Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex) – female actor in a limited series or TV movieAdrian Horton
Michelle Williams seems to always either be nominated for or winning awards – the prolific actor isn’t in attendance tonight (presenters Melissa McCarthy and Kathryn Hahn accepted on her behalf), but gets a deserved win for her portrayal of a terminal cancer patient on a horny journey in the limited series Dying for Sex.
Updated at 21.45 EST
WINNER: Stephen Graham (Adolescence) – male actor in a limited series or TV movieAdrian HortonStephen Graham and Hannah Walters. Photograph: Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images
Adolescence continues its sweep of the limited series awards this season, with Stephen Graham once again triumphing for his extraordinary performance as the father of a teen accused of murdering a fellow kid.
As at the Emmys, Graham shouted out the whole Adolescence team. “This is for all of our cast and crew, every single member of this production,” he said, before thanking his agent of 25 years (“almost as long as me missus!”), his wife, Hannah Walters (“you saved my life”), and his family. And then he charmingly ended his speech with a bow to Queen Latifah.
Updated at 21.44 EST
WINNER: Timotheé Chalamet (Marty Supreme) – male actor in a musical or comedyAdrian HortonTimotheé Chalamet. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images
In a surprise to pretty much no one, Mr Marty Supreme wins one of the best actor awards tonight, a week after proving victorious at the Critics Choice awards.
Chalamet immediately thanked writer-director Josh Safdie, “for this role, thank you for believing in me, thank you for this portrait, for your mind, for your worldview” as well as co-star and reality TV star Kevin O’Leary – “if you would’ve told me when I was 19 years old I would be thanking Mr Wonderful from Shark Tank …” he joked.
This is another boost to Chalamet’s surging Oscars campaign, and in what’s now become standard for him, he acknowledged how his previous losses made this win “so much sweeter”. (And for those wondering, yes, he thanked “my partner” Kylie Jenner.)
Updated at 21.34 EST
WINNER: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You) – female actor in a musical or comedyAdrian HortonRose Byrne. Photograph: JC Olivera/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
Despite several critics’ awards already this season, Byrne seemed genuinely surprised to win tonight for her might performance in If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You, a much thornier, unsparing role than many others nominated tonight.
“We shot this movie in like 25 for like $8.50,” she said, before thanking her parents “who bought Paramount+ so they could watch the Golden Globes from Sydney” and her husband, Bobby Cannavale, who was absent this evening to attend a reptile expo with their kids in New Jersey.
Updated at 21.30 EST
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) – motion picture screenplayAdrian HortonMaya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
No surprise here, as One Battle After Another continues to steamroll through awards season. This is, surprisingly, Paul Thomas Anderson’s first ever Golden Globe, one he dedicated to his many collaborators, with a special shout to Regina Hall, apparently one of the first people he showed the winning script to, and who is absent tonight owing to illness.
Writers, he added, are like “magpies – we still all the best bits and pieces of what other people said” including in this case Shayna A McHayle (aka Junglepussy), Nina Simone and Thomas Pynchon. “I share this with everyone I magpied off of, I appreciate you,” he said.
Updated at 21.27 EST
WINNER: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners) – original score for a motion pictureAdrian HortonLudwig Göransson. Photograph: Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
As Hans Zimmer said on the red carpet, the Globes somewhat controversially left the award for best original score off the air this year, instead presenting the award during the commercial break. The nod goes to Ludwig Göransson for his work on Sinners, the first win of the night for Ryan Coogler’s original vampire-musical-horror-thriller that became one of the feel-good box office success stories last spring.
Updated at 21.18 EST
WINNER: Golden (KPop Demon Hunters) – original song for a motion pictureAdrian Horton(Left to right) Rei Ami, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Mark Sonnenblick, and Lee Hee-joon. Photograph: Earl Gibson III/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images
Golden was inescapable last year, so the team from KPop Demon Hunters deservedly claims the trophy for best original song. It’s an emotional win for co-writer Ejae (Kim Eun-jae), who remembered her rejection from K-pop idol training as a teen.
“I was rejected and disappointed that my voice wasn’t good enough, so I leaned on songs and music to get through it,” she said through tears. “This award goes to people who’ve had doors closed on them … I can confidently say rejection is redirection.”
Updated at 21.18 EST
Benjamin Lee
She had to go there because there really was no other place to go:
omg Leo DiCaprio’s reactions to all of Nikki Glaser’s jokes about him at the Golden Globes LOL
“What a career you’ve had. The most impressive thing is that you’ve been able to accomplish all of this before your girlfriend turned 30.” pic.twitter.com/2yZlOWHOkS
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) January 12, 2026