Hamnet won Best Motion Picture, Drama and One Battle After Another won Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy at the 83rd Golden Globes on January 11, 2026, per the ceremony's own winners release — a split verdict from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's successor organization heading into the Oscar nomination stretch. Jessie Buckley won Best Female Actor in a Drama for Hamnet; Wagner Moura took the corresponding male award.
The ceremony ran January 11 at The Beverly Hilton, aired live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+, with Nikki Glaser returning as host for the second straight year, per CBS's broadcast announcement.
Who won on the television side?
Netflix's Adolescence won Best Limited Series in one of the night's defining calls, HBO Max's The Pitt won Best Drama Series, and Apple TV's The Studio won Best Comedy or Musical Series, per the Globes winners list. The Pitt's win extends the medical drama's awards run into its second straight ceremony cycle and positions it as a front-runner for the Screen Actors Guild-stage ceremonies ahead.
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What does the split say about the Oscar race?
Two different films winning the two top picture categories leaves the Best Picture race genuinely open. Hamnet, a literary adaptation with a breakout lead performance, now carries the drama-side momentum, while One Battle After Another's comedy-slot win and multiple supporting nominations give it the broader-base argument. Globes history shows split verdicts often resolve at the guilds — which makes the Actor Awards on March 1 the next checkpoint.
Why the Globes vote still matters commercially?
A Globes win reliably lifts a film's theatrical tail. Hamnet and Sentimental Value — both among the Drama nominees per the winners list — have been platform-releasing through January, and awards messaging now moves to thousands of additional screens for the post-ceremony weekend. Studios time their qualifying runs and expansions to this exact window; the Globes sit roughly a week after the Critics Choice awards and two months before the Oscars, at the peak of the viewing-and-voting overlap.
What is next in the awards calendar?
The Actor Awards — the renamed SAG Awards — announce their ceremony on March 1 after January 7 nominations, the Directors and Producers Guild ceremonies fill February, and Oscar nominations land later this month. For readers tracking the race: the Globes split means the guild ensemble and directing awards will do the narrowing.
For more context, read Sinners Takes the Actor Awards' Top Prize in the Guilds' New Era.
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