I'll be very honest with you all, my loves, I wasn't 100% sure I was going to cover any stuff for the 2026 awards season. The world's a raging dumpster fire of hate, division and general shittiness; personally, the end of last year and the beginning of this one haven't been the best (putting it ever so mildly), and this unashamedly self-indulgent pastime felt more hollow and more farcical than usual in the backdrop of these things.
And yet... as shallow and as narcissistic as awards season can get, and with what little actual importance can be attached to these baubles, it's still a brief little moment of respite, a place to breathe and pause against the relentless rage-inducing nightmare we're currently going through. I shouldn't deny myself any moment of respite against this hellscape - it's sadly still going to be there when I stop looking at which movies have been awarded stuff. And if I am going to keep on with my Oscar predictions, you should at least see some of the data I'm working with.
So, I'm not going to go backwards and discuss the nominations for awards which have already been handed out. But I will show you the winners.
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CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS
The 31st Critics' Choice Awards were handed out on Sunday January 4th 2026 in a ceremony at the Barker Hanger at the Santa Monica Airport. Stand-up comedian Chelsea Handler returned as host for the fourth consecutive year.
Ryan Coogler's period horror Sinners led the nominations with an amazing 17 nods across all categories, with Paul Thomas Anderson's black comedy action thriller One Battle After Another coming second with 14.
Here is a full list of the Critics' Choice Awards movie winners:
Best Picture: One Battle After Another
Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Best Actress: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Best Supporting Actor: Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Best Casting/Ensemble: Sinners
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Best Original Screenplay: Sinners
Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another
Best Comedy: The Naked Gun
Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret Agent
Best Animated Feature: KPop Demon Hunters
Best Score: Sinners
Best Song: "Golden" (KPop Demon Hunters)
Best Sound: F1
Best Production Design: Frankenstein
Best Editing: F1
Best Costume Design: Frankenstein
Best Hair & Makeup: Frankenstein
Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire And Ash
Best Stunt Design: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Best Cinematography: Train Dreams
Best Young Actor/Actress: Miles Caton (Sinners)
Sinners and Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein share the most awards with both winning four gongs each, One Battle After Another takes three, and animated musical KPop Demon Hunters and sports drama F1 have two apiece.
Quite a bit of comment was given about the winners in the Supporting acting categories, with both Jacob Elordi and Amy Madigan winning gongs for their roles in horror films - Elordi as Frankenstein's Creature and Madigan as the malevolent Aunt Gladys. But as you're about to see, these might be outliers.
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GOLDEN GLOBES
The 83rd Golden Globe Awards were handed out on Sunday January 11th 2026 at a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. Stand-up comedian Nikki Glaser returned to host for a second year running.
One Battle After Another led the nominations with nine, whilst Joachim Trier's Norwegian family drama Sentimental Value came second with eight.
Here is the full list of film winners.
Best Motion Picture (Drama): Hamnet
Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy): One Battle After Another
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Best Actor (Drama): Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Best Actor (Comedy or Musical): Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Best Actress (Drama): Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Best Actress (Comedy or Musical): Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)
Best Supporting Actor: Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Best Supporting Actress: Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)
Best Original Song: "Golden" (KPop Demon Hunters)
Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret Agent
Best Animated Feature Film: KPop Demon Hunters
Cinematic And Box Office Achievement: Sinners
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Helen Mirren
One Battle After Another walked away with the most Globes, winning four, whilst Shakespearean drama Hamnet, Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent, KPop Demon Hunters, and Sinners also won two each.
Quite a few surprises here, namely the wins for Teyana Taylor, Rose Byrne and Wagner Moura. Moura becomes the first Brazilian actor to win a Best Actor award at the Globes, his win an echo of Fernanda Torres' surprise win at last year's Globes for Best Actress (Drama) for I'm Still Here. I'd hazard to guess that the definition of "musical/comedy" was stretched to breaking point to justify Byrne being nominated in that category as the film sounds about as funny as The Martian. Oh wait... But Byrne is a great actress and, even if there has been a bit of category fraud going on, her win is deserved.
There's a couple of things us prognosticators need to remember though, lest these results cloud things too much: firstly, the Golden Globes split a couple of the acting categories into drama and comedy/musical, and traditionally the Oscars favour drama; secondly, the make-up of the voters for the Golden Globes is a FRACTION of that which vote for the Oscars so we shouldn't necessarily read TOO much into this.
That said, Jessie Buckley, Timothée Chalamet and Paul Thomas Anderson might be clearing a bit of space on the mantelpiece for the Little Naked Gold Men.
In the next few days, I'll post about the nominations for the Actor Awards (previously the SAG Awards) and the PGA/DGA nods, as we have over a week until the next major awards season stop... the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, which will be announced on Thursday 22nd January 2026!
Yes, this year the Oscar nominations are out before the BAFTAs (BAFTAs are out on Tuesday January 27th 2026, although their longlists have already been revealed) so I don't have the usual full set of nominations to work with. But it'll be fine. It's all just a bit of fun.
