2026 Golden Globe Predictions

Tracking the 2026 Golden Globe race with my ranked predictions across every category, updated as the season shifts.

83rd Golden Globe Awards
Nominations: December 8, 2025 • Ceremony: January 11, 2026

Season Stage: Winner Predictions

Updated on Jan. 10, 2026



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Best Motion Picture – Drama

1

Sinners (Warner Bros.)

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2

Hamnet (Focus Features)

3

Sentimental Value (NEON)

4

Frankenstein (Netflix)

▲ 2

5

It Was Just an Accident (NEON)

▼ 1

6

The Secret Agent (NEON)

▼ 1

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Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

1

One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)

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2

Marty Supreme (A24)

3

Bugonia (Focus Features)

▲ 2

4

No Other Choice (NEON)

▼ 1

5

Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classic)

▼ 1

6

Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)

Best Motion Picture – Animated

1

KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)

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2

Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Pictures)

3

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

▲ 3

4

Elio (Walt Disney Pictures)

▼ 1

5

Arco (NEON)

6

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (GKIDS)

▼ 2

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

1

Sentimental Value (NEON)

2

The Secret Agent (NEON)

▲ 3

3

No Other Choice (NEON)

▼ 1

4

Sirāt (NEON)

5

It Was Just an Accident (NEON)

▼ 2

6

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Willa)

Best Director

1

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

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2

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

3

Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

▲ 2

4

Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)

▲ 1

5

Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

▼ 1

6

Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

▼ 3

Best Actor – Drama

1

Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

2

Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

▲ 3

3

Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)

▲ 1

4

Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)

▼ 2

5

Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein)

▼ 1

6

Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere)

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

1

Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

2

Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)

3

Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

4

Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)

▲ 1

5

George Clooney (Jay Kelly)

▼ 1

6

Lee Byung-hun (No Other Choice)

Best Actress – Drama

1

Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

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2

Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

▲ 2

3

Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

▼ 1

4

Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

▲ 2

5

Tessa Thompson (Hedda)

6

Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)

▼ 3

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

1

Rose Bryne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

▲ 1

2

Emma Stone (Bugonia)

▼ 1

3

Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

▲ 3

4

Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

▲ 1

5

Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)

▼ 1

6

Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good)

▼ 3

Best Supporting Actor

1

Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

2

Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

▲ 3

3

Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)

▼ 1

4

Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

▼ 1

5

Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

▲ 1

6

Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)

▼ 2

Best Supporting Actress

1

Amy Madigan (Weapons)

▲ 1

2

Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)

▼ 1

3

Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

4

Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine)

▲ 2

5

Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

6

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)

▼ 2

Best Screenplay

1

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

▲ 1

2

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

▼ 1

3

Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)

▲ 2

4

Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

5

Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

▼ 2

6

Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt (Sentimental Value)

Best Score

1

Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)

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2

Hans Zimmer (F1: The Movie)

3

Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another)

▲ 2

4

Kangding Ray (Sirāt)

▼ 1

5

Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein)

▼ 1

6

Max Richter (Hamnet)

Best Song

1

I Lied to You from Sinners
✍️ Ludwig Göransson and Raphael Saadiq
🎤 Miles Caton

2

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters
✍️ Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Mark Sonnenblick
🎤 Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Audrey Nuna, and REI Ami

3

The Girl in the Bubble from Wicked: For Good
✍️ Stephen Schwartz
🎤Ariana Grande

4

Train Dreams from Train Dreams
✍️ Bryce Dessner and Nick Cave
🎤 Nick Cave

▲ 2

5

Dream as One from Avatar: Fire and Ash
✍️ Andrew Wyatt, Mark Rosen, and Miley Cyrus.
🎤 Miley Cyrus

6

No Place Like Home from Wicked: For Good
✍️Stephen Schwartz
🎤Cynthia Erivo

▼ 2

Budget

Weapons — $38M
Sinners — $90M
KPop Demon Hunters — $100M
Wicked: For Good — $150M
Zootopia 2 — $150M
F1: The Movie — $200M
Avatar: Fire and Ash — $400M
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — $400M

Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

1

Sinners

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2

Weapons

▲ 3

3

Wicked: For Good

▼ 1

4

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

5

Zootopia 2

▲ 1

6

F1: The Movie

▲ 1

7

Avatar: Fire and Ash

▼ 4

8

KPop Demon Hunters

Box Office

KPop Demon Hunters — $24.6M
Weapons — $269M
Sinners — $368.3M
Wicked: For Good – $521.1M
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — $576.2M
F1: The Movie — $631.7M
Avatar: Fire and Ash — $1.1B
Zootopia 2 — $1.6B