Golden Globes 2026: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Hamnet’ win big
With four wins, including best picture in the comedy or musical category, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was the biggest winner at the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills on Sunday, Jan. 11.
“Hamnet,” which tells a personal story of William Shakespeare and his family, and “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian political thriller, each won two Golden Globes.
“I felt there was only one filmmaker on the planet who could tell the story of Agnes and Will and the spirits of the earth and forest,” said producer Steven Spielberg while accepting the Globe for “Hamnet.” “And that was director Chloe Zhao.”
Zhao shared something actor Paul Mescal, who plays Shakespeare in the film, had told her earlier on Sunday.
“He said that making ‘Hamnet’ made him realize that the most important thing of being an artist is learning to be vulnerable enough to allow ourselves to be seen for who we are, not who we ought to be. And to give ourselves fully to the world, even the parts of ourselves that we’re afraid of, that aren’t perfect.
“I see so many of you have become so strong and tender at the same time, and you have shared so much of yourselves in your work to the world,” she said, addressing all of the film and television makers in the room. “So I salute your bravery, and I salute your dedication. Let’s keep doing this together and keep allowing ourselves to be seen.”
Moments earlier, Jessie Buckley had won best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – drama.
“It was such an extraordinary set to be part of because we were telling the story of probably the most famous Brit who had ever lived,” Buckley said. “And we had a Chinese director, a bunch of Irish [Buckley and Mescal are Irish], a mostly Polish crew, besides our British family.”
Wagner Moura won best performance by a male actor in a motion picture – drama for “The Secret Agent,” which earlier in the show had won best motion picture – non-English language.
“‘The Secret Agent is a film about memory, or the lack of memory, and generational trauma,” Moura said from the stage. “I think that if trauma can be passed along generations, values can too.
So this is to the ones that are sticking with their values in difficult moments.”