One Battle After Another emerged as a major winner, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. The film continued its strong showing by earning three additional honors, including Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, along with Best Director and Best Screenplay awarded to Paul Thomas Anderson.

Taylor’s win stood out, as she surpassed fellow nominee Amy Madigan for Weapons. During her acceptance speech, Taylor delivered a powerful message of representation and empowerment, emphasizing that women of color belong in every space, their voices are significant, and their dreams deserve recognition.

“To my brown sisters & little brown girls watching tonight… We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter, our dreams deserve space,” Taylor said during her acceptance speech. 

Meanwhile, Hamnet, directed by Chloe Zhao, claimed the Best Motion Picture – Drama award, edging out Sinners in the final category of the evening. Despite the loss, Sinners still achieved notable recognition by winning the Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.

Addressing the audience, filmmaker Ryan Coogler reflected on the realities of the film industry, noting that filmmaking is often more about persistence than glamour. He expressed gratitude that the project received a theatrical release and shared how the team frequently reminded themselves during production in New Orleans that audiences would eventually experience the film on the big screen.

“We don’t always, when we work in the film business, wear tuxedos and get glammed-out. It’s usually a grind,” Coogler told the crowd. “It was an honor on this movie to know that it was getting a theatrical release. We would remind people every day, in the dog days of summer in New Orleans — we would say, ‘Hey, big movie. People are going to see this — big theater.’”

Sinners earned $280 million in the United States and was a rare movie that garnered both critical acclaim and massive popularity.

Coogler continued, “We didn’t know that they would show up, so we just want to say thank you that they did. It meant the world to us.”

Golden Globes winners: Movies

Best drama

• WINNER: “Hamnet”
• “Frankenstein”
• “It Was Just an Accident”
• “The Secret Agent”
• “Sentimental Value”
• “Sinners”

Best comedy or musical

• WINNER: “One Battle After Another”
• “Blue Moon”
• “Bugonia”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “No Other Choice”
• “Nouvelle Vague”

Best actor in a drama

• WINNER: Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”
• Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams”
• Oscar Isaac, “Frankenstein”
• Dwayne Johnson, “The Smashing Machine”
• Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
• Jeremy Allen White, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”

Best actress in a drama

• WINNER: Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”
• Jennifer Lawrence, “Die My Love”
• Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
• Julia Roberts, “After the Hunt”
• Tessa Thompson, “Hedda”
• Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”

Best non-English language film

• WINNER: “The Secret Agent”
• “It Was Just an Accident”
• “No Other Choice”
• “Sentimental Value”
• “Sirat”
• “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Best animated film

• WINNER: “KPop Demon Hunters”
• “Arco”
• “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle”
• “Elio”
• “Little Amelie or the Character of Rain”
• “Zootopia 2”

Best director

• WINNER: 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”
• Chloe Zhao, “Hamnet”

Best actor in a comedy or musical

• WINNER: Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”

• Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked: For Good”

• Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”

• Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another”

• Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee’

• Emma Stone, “Bugonia”

Best screenplay

• WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
• Chloe Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, “Hamnet”
• Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident”
• Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
• Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
• Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best actor in a comedy or musical

• WINNER: Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
• George Clooney, “Jay Kelly”
• Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
• Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
• Lee Byung Hun, “No Other Choice”
• Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia”

Cinematic and box-office achievement

• WINNER: “Sinners”
• “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
• “F1: The Movie”
• “KPop Demon Hunters”
• “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”
• “Weapons’
• “Wicked: For Good”
• “Zootopia 2”

Best actress in a comedy or musical

• WINNER: Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
• Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked: For Good”
• Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”
• Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another”
• Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee’
• Emma Stone, “Bugonia”

Best screenplay

• WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
• Chloe Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, “Hamnet”
• Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident”
• Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
• Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
• Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best original song

• WINNER: “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” (music by Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Park Hong Jun, lyrics by Kim Eun-jae [EJAE] and Mark Sonnenblick)
• “Dream As One” from “Avatar: Fire and Ash” (music and lyrics by Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson and Simon Franglen)
• “I Lied to You” from “Sinners” (music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson)
• “No Place Like Home” from “Wicked: For Good” (music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz)
• “The Girl in the Bubble” from “Wicked: For Good” (music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz)
• “Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams” (music and lyrics by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner)

Best supporting actor

• WINNER: Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”
• Benicio Del Toro, “One Battle After Another’
• Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
• Paul Mescal, “Hamnet”
• Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
• Adam Sandler, “Jay Kelly”

Best supporting actress

• WINNER: Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”
• Emily Blunt, “The Smashing Machine”
• Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
• Ariana Grande, “Wicked: For Good”
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”
• Amy Madigan, “Weapons”

Best original score

• Winner: Ludwig Göransson, “Sinners”
• Alexandre Desplat, “Frankenstein”
• Jonny Greenwood, “One Battle After Another”
• Kangding Ray, “Sirat”
• Max Richter, “Hamnet”
• Hans Zimmer, “F1: The Movie”

Golden Globes winners: Television

Best limited/anthology series or TV movie

• WINNER: “Adolescence”
• “All Her Fault”
• “The Beast in Me”
• “Black Mirror”
• “Dying for Sex”
• “The Girlfriend”

Best drama

• WINNER: “The Pitt”
• “The Diplomat”
• “Pluribus”
• “Severance”
• “Slow Horses”
• “The White Lotus”

Best actress in a drama

• WINNER: Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus”
• Kathy Bates, “Matlock”
• Britt Lower, “Severance”
• Helen Mirren, “Mobland”
• Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”
• Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”

Best stand-up comedy performance

• WINNER: Ricky Gervais, “Ricky Gervais: Mortality”
• Bill Maher, “Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?”
• Brett Goldstein, “Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life”
• Kevin Hart, “Kevin Hart: Acting My Age”
• Kumail Nanjiani, “Kumail Nanjiani, Night Thoughts”
• Sarah Silverman, “Sarah Silverman: Postmortem”

Best supporting actress

• WINNER: Erin Doherty, “Adolescence”
• Carrie Coon, “The White Lotus”
• Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”
• Catherine O’Hara, “The Studio”
• Parker Posey, “The White Lotus”
• Amy Lou Wood, “The White Lotus”

Best podcast

• WINNER: “Good Hang With Amy Poehler”
• “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard”
• “Call Her Daddy”
• “The Mel Robbins Podcast”
• “SmartLess”
• “Up First”

Best actor in a comedy

• WINNER: Seth Rogen, “The Studio”
• Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”
• Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”
• Glen Powell, “Chad Powers”
• Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
• Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

Best supporting actor

• WINNER: Owen Cooper, “Adolescence”
• Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
• Walton Goggins, “The White Lotus”
• Jason Isaacs, “The White Lotus”
• Tramell Tillman, “Severance”
• Ashley Walters, “Adolescence”

Best actress in a comedy

• WINNER: Jean Smart, “Hacks”
• Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”
• Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
• Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”
• Natasha Lyonne, “Poker Face”
• Jenna Ortega, “Wednesday”

Best actor in a drama

• WINNER: Noah Wyle, “The Pitt”
• Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”
• Diego Luna, “Andor”
• Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
• Mark Ruffalo, “Task”
• Adam Scott, “Severance”

Best comedy or musical

• WINNER: “The Studio”
• “Abbot Elementary”
• “The Bear”
• “Hacks”
• “Nobody Wants This”
• “Only Murders in the Building”

Best actor in a limited series

• WINNER: Stephen Graham, “Adolescence”
• Jacob Elordi, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”
• Paul Giamatti, “Black Mirror”
• Charlie Hunnam, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”
• Jude Law, “Black Rabbit”
• Matthew Rhys, “The Beast in Me”

Best actress in a limited series

• WINNER: Michelle Williams, “Dying for Sex”
• Claire Danes, “The Beast in Me”
• Rashida Jones, “Black Mirror”
• Amanda Seyfried, “Long Bright River”
• Sarah Snook, “All Her Fault”
• Robin Wright, “The Girlfriend”

Carol Burnett Award

Sarah Jessica Parker

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Helen Mirren

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