Most memorable moments from the 2026 Golden Globes

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The 2026 awards play kicked disconnected Sunday nighttime with the star-studded Golden Globes — a ceremonial known for its lively atmosphere. The 83rd Golden Globes were hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, who returned to helm the amusement for a 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

"Hamnet" won Best Motion Picture — Drama, and "One Battle After Another" won Best Motion Picture — Comedy oregon Musical.

Here are the highlights and memorable moments from the Golden Globes, from historical wins to almighty speeches.

Nikki Glaser returns arsenic host

Glaser made past past twelvemonth arsenic the archetypal pistillate to big the Golden Globes solo. This year, she took it upon herself to manus retired an grant for Best Editing to the Justice Department during her opening monologue, alluding to the redactions and delayed merchandise of the Epstein files.

"I cannot judge the magnitude of prima powerfulness we person successful this country tonight. It's insane," Glaser said. "There are truthful galore A-listers, and by A-list I bash mean 'a database that has been heavy redacted.' And the Golden Globe for champion editing goes to the Justice Department. Yes. Congratulations."

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The comedian, who stole the amusement astatine 2024's "The Roast of Tom Brady," besides cracked jokes astir Kevin Hart's tallness and Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends, and asked George Clooney to hole her Nespresso machine, poking amusive astatine 1 of the actor's endorsement deals.

Glaser closed retired the nighttime wearing a "Spinal Tap" chapeau and referencing respective celebrated lines from the movie directed by the precocious Rob Reiner.

Teyana Taylor gets emotional

Teyana Taylor got affectional arsenic she accepted her grant for her supporting relation successful "One Battle After Another."

"To my Brown sisters and small Brown girls watching tonight, our softness is not a liability," she said. "Our extent is not excessively much. Our airy does not request support to shine. We beryllium successful each country we locomotion into. Our voices matter, and our dreams merit space."

Golden Globes get political

Several stars attended Sunday's grant amusement with pins protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As she accepted the grant for Best Actress successful a Comedy Series for her relation successful "Hacks," Jean Smart wore a "BE GOOD" pin successful grant of Renee Good, the pistillate who was killed by an ICE cause past week successful Minneapolis.

"Let's each bash the close thing," Smart said. "I deliberation everybody successful their hearts knows what the close happening is to do."

Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes and Natasha Lyonne besides wore pins protesting ICE.

Director Judd Apatow, portion presenting an award, said "I judge we're a dictatorship now," and past joked that helium was inactive angrier astir losing the Best Comedy grant to Ridley Scott a decennary ago.

New grant for champion podcast

For the archetypal time, an grant for champion 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 location the win.

"This is an effort to effort to marque a precise unsmooth and unkind satellite filled with a small spot much emotion and laughter," Poehler said.

She besides praised her chap nominees.

"I'm fans of each of you, but for NPR. Just a clump of celebs phoning it in. So, effort harder," Poehler joked.

K-pop takes location a win

Best archetypal opus went to "Golden" from "KPop Demon Hunters." Ejae, who wrote the lyrics and provided the singing dependable for the film's quality Rumi, accepted the award. As a child, she'd trained for years successful hopes of becoming a K-pop star, lone to look rejection, she said.

"I leaned connected songs and euphony to get done it," Ejae said. "Now I'm here, arsenic a vocalist and a songwriter. It's a imagination travel existent to beryllium portion of a opus that's helping different girls, different boys and everyone from each ages to get done their hardships and judge themselves."

"KPop Demon Hunters" besides won Best Animated Motion Picture and was nominated for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.

"I truly wanted to picture pistillate characters the mode that we cognize women, which is truly beardown and bold, truly silly and weird and truly bare for food, and sometimes a small thirsty," manager Maggie Kang said aft winning Best Animated Motion Picture.

What did Snoop Dogg say?

The dependable dropped retired for respective seconds erstwhile Snoop Dogg, who was connected signifier to contiguous the grant for Best Podcast, said helium was "high arsenic a motherf*****."

Teyana Taylor and Erin Doherty were besides concisely censored for cursing portion accepting their awards.

Wanda Sykes accepts grant for Ricky Gervais

Wanda Sykes, who was presenting the grant for Best Stand-Up Comedy, said she hoped Gervais, who was not successful attendance, would win.

"If you win, I get to judge the grant connected your behalf," she added. "And you're gonna convey God — and the trans community."

Gervais did triumph successful the category, and Sykes followed done connected her promise.

Julia Roberts gets lasting ovation

Julia Roberts, who was nominated for, but didn't win, Best Actress successful a Drama, received a lasting ovation erstwhile she presented the grant for Best Motion Picture — Musical oregon Comedy.

"I'm going to beryllium intolerable for astatine slightest a week," she said. "I admit that."

George Clooney and Don Cheadle, who came onstage to contiguous the last grant for the night, joked astir the lasting ovation, with Cheadle noting Clooney did not person one.

"No, beryllium down, Mike, it's not nice. I don't instrumentality your pity," Clooney then said to idiosyncratic successful the audience.