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Golden Globes 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’ wins Comedy, ‘Hamnet’ wins Drama
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- Title
- 'Hamnet' Takes Golden Globe For Best Picture - Drama: Full Winners List
- Authors
- Erik Pedersen
- Published
- Jan 12 2026
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- 842 words
One Battle After Another won best... comedy? I'm confused about how it's categorized; do the Golden Globes consider all satire to be comedy?
Yes. Some nominees from the category: Vice, Get Out, The Martian, Birdman, and Her (lol).
I think OBAA is a comedy however, I think it's trying to be funny for a significant portion of its runtime. Especially with Leo's character.
I had to search up The Martian when that one host mentioned it beating his film for Best Comedy, because that sounded so absurd to me.
My takeaway from watching the awards: they really need to update the categories. It kinda feels like they treat the "comedy and musical" categories as "catch-alls" for stuff that doesn't neatly fit the "drama" category. Do the people nominating films think that having humorous scenes makes something a comedy? Because that's the best explanation I can think of, and it's still stupid.
Humor and satire aren't just genres, they're tools. Get Out used comedy and satire to emphasize its themes around racism and interracial social dynamics, and also make it more palatable for general audiences. I haven't seen The Martian, but the premise and everything I've seen and heard about it makes it pretty clearly a sci-fi survival story—just more lighthearted and upbeat rather than an endless despair fest like most in the genre. I personally use humor in a lot of my own writing to keep the tone balanced and avoid becoming too bleak.
Between that, and previous debates I've heard about whether The Bear should count as a comedy, I think the Golden Globes just really needs to update the categories. Or at least change the parameters for what can qualify. Because it looks like directors are the ones who choose which category it gets nominated to, and some of them seem to be using the Comedy/Musical to have a better shot due to stiff competition in Drama...
Maybe they're using the super old comedy/tragedy distinction: by the end, do things end up in chaos (tragedy) or do they go back to being orderly (comedy). There can be laughs in a Shakespearean tragedy (Hamlet's grave digger, Macbeth's porter) or sadness and disappointment in a comedy (Twelve Night's Malvolio, Merchant of Venice's Shylock)
That ceremony which I watched ten years ago did the same thing at the time. Ricky Gervais hosted and he would go “the hilarious comedy The Martian.” Even Ridley Scott when he went up to accept the award said “comedy?” Followed by him going ehhh and doing the “more or less” hand sign.
Studios are the ones that submit the film in the category though
This is honestly the worst Drama winner since Bohemian Rhapsody won 7 years ago. Sinners deserved it. Buckley is going to steamroll the category and be the worst Lead Actress winner in 20-some years.
Highlight: Chalamet won Comedy here, which means he’s doing it. He’s going all the way. Skaarsgard won here, so we don’t know what’s winning Supporting Actor.
I think Sinners and Michael B Jordan are both getting robbed. Jordan played 3* distinct characters in that movie and it was absolutely clear who he was at any given time.
(Technically two, sure but I maintain one changes dramatically enough he is functionally entirely different. )
I didn't even pick up on the fact that the two brothers were the same actor for a couple of scenes. Thats probably more an indictment of my observation skills (and I went into the movie basically blind), but still, Michael B. Jordan sold the different characterisations so well!
It was really brilliantly done - they pass the cigarette (which has a plot reason since Smoke can't roll his own due to the shakes) to demonstrate the technology and then they split up a bit to let you get to know them individually. But by the latter half of the movie you (general) don't need their outfits to key you in to who they are (and which mob they worked for and betrayed).
That movie is so good.
I don't think Sinners deserved it, as I think the vampire portion of the movie is mostly bad, but I'll also echo that the genre categorization is weird. The comedy is a second full selection of good drama movies that I think should beat Sinners and Hamnet.
I just watched OBAA on Friday and...I don't get it. Leo was great, as always, but what exactly is the point of the movie? Why do all these critics think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Yes, I laughed at the ridiculousness on several occasions, but after 3 hours I'd prefer to come away with more than that. None of it was memorable.