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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
- Word count
- 842 words
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. )
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...