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The most memorable moments from the 2026 Golden Globes
The 2026 awards season kicked off Sunday night with the star-studded Golden Globes — a ceremony known for its lively atmosphere. The 83rd Golden Globes were hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, who returned to helm the show for a second year in a row.
“Hamnet” won Best Motion Picture — Drama, and “One Battle After Another” won Best Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical.
Here are the highlights and memorable moments from the Golden Globes, from historic wins to powerful speeches.
Nikki Glaser returns as host
Glaser made history last year as the first woman to host the Golden Globes solo. This year, she took it upon herself to hand out an award for Best Editing to the Justice Department during her opening monologue, alluding to the redactions and delayed release of the Epstein files.
“I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight. It’s insane,” Glaser said. “There are so many A-listers, and by A-list I do mean ‘a list that has been heavily redacted.’ And the Golden Globe for best editing goes to the Justice Department. Yes. Congratulations.”
The comedian, who stole the show at 2024’s “The Roast of Tom Brady,” also cracked jokes about Kevin Hart’s height and Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends, and asked George Clooney to fix her Nespresso machine, poking fun at one of the actor’s endorsement deals.
Glaser closed out the night wearing a “Spinal Tap” hat and referencing several famous lines from the film directed by the late Rob Reiner.
Teyana Taylor gets emotional
Teyana Taylor got emotional as she accepted her award for her supporting role in “One Battle After Another.”
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“To my Brown sisters and little Brown girls watching tonight, our softness is not a liability,” she said. “Our depth is not too much. Our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter, and our dreams deserve space.”
Golden Globes get political
Several stars attended Sunday’s award show with pins protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As she accepted the award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in “Hacks,” Jean Smart wore a “BE GOOD” pin in honor of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by an ICE agent last week in Minneapolis.
“Let’s all do the right thing,” Smart said. “I think everybody in their hearts knows what the right thing is to do.”
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Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes and Natasha Lyonne also wore pins protesting ICE.
Director Judd Apatow, while presenting an award, said “I believe we’re a dictatorship now,” and then joked that he was still angrier about losing the Best Comedy award to Ridley Scott a decade ago.
New award for best podcast
For the first time, an award for best podcast was handed out. The nominees were: “Armchair Expert,” “Call Her Daddy,” “Good Hang With Amy Poehler,” “The Mel Robbins Podcast,” “SmartLess” and “Up First.”
Amy Poehler took home the win.
“This is an attempt to try to make a very rough and unkind world filled with a little bit more love and laughter,” Poehler said.
She also praised her fellow nominees.
“I’m fans of all of you, except for NPR. Just a bunch of celebs phoning it in. So, try harder,” Poehler joked.
K-pop takes home a win
Best original song went to “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters.” Ejae, who wrote the lyrics and provided the singing voice for the film’s character Rumi, accepted the award. As a child, she’d trained for years in hopes of becoming a K-pop star, only to face rejection, she said.
“I leaned on songs and music to get through it,” Ejae said. “Now I’m here, as a singer and a songwriter. It’s a dream come true to be part of a song that’s helping other girls, other boys and everyone from all ages to get through their hardships and accept themselves.”
“KPop Demon Hunters” also won Best Animated Motion Picture and was nominated for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
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“I really wanted to depict female characters the way that we know women, which is really strong and bold, really silly and weird and really hungry for food, and sometimes a little thirsty,” director Maggie Kang said after winning Best Animated Motion Picture.
What did Snoop Dogg say?
The sound dropped out for several seconds when Snoop Dogg, who was on stage to present the award for Best Podcast, said he was “high as a motherf*****.”
Teyana Taylor and Erin Doherty were also briefly censored for cursing while accepting their awards.
Wanda Sykes accepts award for Ricky Gervais
Wanda Sykes, who was presenting the award for Best Stand-Up Comedy, said she hoped Gervais, who was not in attendance, would win.
“If you win, I get to accept the award on your behalf,” she added. “And you’re gonna thank God — and the trans community.”
Gervais did win in the category, and Sykes followed through on her promise.
Julia Roberts gets standing ovation
Julia Roberts, who was nominated for, but didn’t win, Best Actress in a Drama, received a standing ovation when she presented the award for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.
“I’m going to be impossible for at least a week,” she said. “I appreciate that.”
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George Clooney and Don Cheadle, who came onstage to present the final award for the night, joked about the standing ovation, with Cheadle noting Clooney did not receive one.
“No, sit down, Mike, it’s not nice. I don’t take your pity,” Clooney then said to someone in the audience.
The 83rd Golden Globe Awards took place on January 11, 2026 and delivered a night with full of emotions laughter and buzz all over the Hollywood.
The glamorous and star-studded ceremony honoured big films like One Battle After Another and Hamnet. It was mainly welcomed by viewers as a strong moment in awards season.
However, not every part of the night worked as smoothly as everyone hoped.
Comedian Nikki Glaser returned as the host and instantly set the mood early with her confident monologue.
She joked about Hollywood culture, the media and famous faces including Leonardo DiCaprio Timothée Chalamet and George Clooney.
Many viewers praised her for bringing energy and honesty back to the stage.
One of the most talked about moments came when Teyana Taylor won best supporting actress for One Battle After Another, surprising many but her speech struck emotional chord.
The 35-year-old actress thanked director Paul Thomas Anderson and talked proudly about “little Brown girls.”
Julia Roberts also sparked buzz when she received a standing ovation during her comeback to the Globes.
Nominated for After the Hunt, the star used her moment to praise filmmaker Eva Victor.
There were lighter moments too as Rose Byrne made the audience laugh when she shared that her husband Bobby Cannavale missed the ceremony because he was attending a reptile expo.
Moreover, not everything worked as some felt that the show was too long and found the music breaks distracting.
Seth Rogen nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy during the ceremony held on Sunday, January 11.
Backstage, The Studio star told press that the show is all set to return for a second season, which begins filming next week.
“We’ve literally written some things that happened leading up to this award show into episodes as we’ve been writing the show. We start shooting in a week,” he revealed.
“So yes, several things have happened, both today and leading up to this event that we have written directly into the show, and you’ll probably know what they are when you see them,” the actor and comedian further shared.
While spilling the beans about which celebrity cameos fans can expect from the meta-comedy’s next release, the newly minted Best Actor Gold Globe winner added that he was approached by “a lot of people” at the latest ceremony, expressing the urge to appear in the series.
“A lot of people literally just came up to us and were like, ‘Put me on your show. I’ll do anything. I’ll walk by!’” he claimed.
While mentioning Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group’s CEO Tom Rothman, the 43-year-old series creator revealed that “real studio heads” are also among those who “want to be on the show.”
The Studio, created by and starring Rogen, won two Golden Globe awards in total. The series took home Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy alongside Rogen’s win.
- Top office-holders and ministers feature among gift recipients.
- All recipients deposit gifts in Toshakhana, documents say.
- Valuation of gifts remains under assessment, procedures ongoing.
More Toshakhana records have surfaced, with the Cabinet Division issuing details for the October–December 2025 quarter that list President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi among recipients of valuable gifts, The News reported on Monday.
All listed personalities deposited the gifts in Toshakhana, according to the record.
The recipients for the quarter also include the First Lady, IT Minister Shaza Fatima, Power Minister Awais Leghari, Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Cheema, Speaker of the National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq and Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, it added.
Similarly, Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi, President’s Military Secretary, President’s Spokesperson Murtaza Solangi, Auditor General of Pakistan, Minister of State for Railways and Finance, Musarrat Zaidi, DG Minerals Dr Nawaz Ahmed Virk, Secretary Economic Affairs, Secretary IT, President’s ADC and others also received gifts.
According to the Cabinet Division data, gifts received during October-December quarter included models of Roza-e-Rasool, Khana Kaaba and Makkah Mukarramah, paintings, perfumes, shields, carpets, tea sets, swords, daggers, vases, watches, decorative pieces, Saudi coffee, books, royal caps, souvenirs, table clocks, a Metro Bus model, coffee pots, shirts, musical instruments, blankets, scarves, ties and other items.
As per Cabinet Division documents, all recipients deposited their gifts in Toshakhana during October-December 2025. The Cabinet Division is in the process of assessing the value of received gifts and related procedures are ongoing. The Cabinet Division’s list does not include names of gift-givers, whereas the list for last half of previous financial year (January-June 2025) did include names of foreign and local personalities who gave the gifts.
The Shehbaz government had gradually made public Toshakhana record from 2002 to September 2025, while record from 1997 to 2001 has also already been released.
Details of gifts received:
President Asif Ali Zardari: A wooden box; a pair of floral porcelain bowls; two ties; a pair of bowls; oud wood incense; perfume pack; mug; vase; decorative plate; two cups; helmet; frame; watch; wristwatch; perfume pack; wool scarf; model of Nimrud; decorative piece; book; a box containing a robe, boat, prayer beads, etc.
First Lady: Rolex watch; Kashmiri shawl; perfume pack.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif: Three mufflers; silver vase; tea set; Metro Bus model; two shields; four decorative pieces; one cup; one book; egg device; one portrait; two shirts; blanket; model of Makkah Mukarramah; a box containing silver bowl, spoon, plate, etc.; a box containing attar; a box containing perfumes.
(Models of Khana Kaaba, vase, clock, crystal vase, horse model, sword, carpet and table clock have been displayed at Prime Minister’s House.)
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar: Russian traditional frame; Moscow landmark; two coffee sets; Kyrgyz traditional kumis mixing set with two bowls; Egyptian statue; Bahraini perfume; carriage clock.
Speaker Ayaz Sadiq: Souvenir snow leopard.
IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja: Model of Selvy Palace; cones; two multi-colour scarves; white pearl.
Energy Minister Awais Leghari: Book.
Minister of state for finance and railways: Attar (perfume).
Chief of protocol: Perfume and oud incense; silver shield; mat.
Secretary IT: Souvenir.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar: Perfume with oud incense; scarf.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi: Perfume with oud incense. Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi: Perfume with oud incense.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: Shawl; Rolex watch; perfume pack; Loro Piana fabric.
President’s military secretary: Rolex watch.
President’s spokesperson Murtaza Solangi: Rolex watch.
Auditor general: Framed shield; necktie; crystal shield; cup; coin.
Secretary Hameer Karim: Vase.
Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Cheema: A Glass and cup set as a gift.
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