“One Battle After Another” Leads 2026 Golden Globe Nominations
One Battle After Another took the lead in film nominations for the 2026 Golden Globes on monday, while The White Lotus and Adolescence got lots of love in TV categories.
As expected, Sinners and One Battle After Another have collected a number of nominations in the film categories. One Battle After Another pulled ahead as the front-runner with nine total nominations across categories including best score, best supporting male actor, best screenplay, best director and more.
The film,in which Leonardo di Caprio plays an ex-revolutionary who is living in hiding with his teenage daughter,is an award show favorite this year that has received lots of praise,with a 94 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes and 95 per cent on Metacritic.
Sentimental Value wasn’t far behind with eight nominations – including for best motion picture and for acting by Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve and more.
Meanwhile,Sinners is in the running for awards like best cinematic and box office achievement and best motion picture,and also for Michael B. Jordan’s performance in the film, in which he plays two twin brothers.
The White Lotus received nominations for roles by walton Goggins, carrie Coon and Jason Isaacs, who are all up for best supporting actor/actress awards, respectively.The Netflix show Adolescence is similarly nominated, as actors Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham are up for awards, while the show itself is up for best limited series.
The nominations land during a big moment in Hollywood – on Friday, Netflix announced its planned deal to buy Warner Bros. for $72 billion US,a deal that’s now being contested by Paramount in a hostile bid worth $108 billion US.
both Warner Bros. and Netflix have several of horses in the race – Sinners was a blockbuster success for Warner bros. as was One Battle After Another, while Adolescence, Nobody Wants This, Frankenstein and more are all Netflix titles. Netflix has 35 total nominations, while Warner bros. has 31.
paramount’s only film up for nomination is Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, for best cinematic and box office achievement.
Other notable nominations include three nods for KPop Demon Hunters, some for the film itself and some for its chart-topping original music; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which received five nominations; and Jafar Panahi’s Iranian revenge film It was Just an Accident, with four nominations.
Among the 28 Golden Globe categories announced…
Here’s a list of some the nominees up for a few of the big awards:
On the big screen
Best director:
paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Guillermo Del Toro (Frankenstein), Jafar Panahi (It was Just An Accident), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value), Chloé Zhao (Hamnet).
Best motion picture (musical or comedy):
Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics), Bugonia (Focus features), Marty Supreme (A24), No Other choice (Neon), Nouvelle Vague (Netflix), One Battle After another (Warner Bros. Pictures).
Best motion picture (drama):
Frankenstein (Netflix),hamnet (Focus Features),It was Just an Accident (Neon),The Secret Agent (Neon),sentimental Value (Neon),Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures).
Best cinematic and box office achievement:
avatar: Fire And Ash (Walt Disney studios Motion Pictures), F1 (Apple Original films), Kpop Demon Hunters (Netflix), Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures), Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures), Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema), Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures).
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