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Jessie Buckley is British Fashion The cover star fills the room with warmth. At the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, she won the Best Actress in a Drama Series for her powerful and emotional performance in the film. Hamnetshe summed up her joy. “This is not normal,” she grinned.
But then the Irish actress immediately made the glitzy awards show feel like her own front room, talking with her effervescent, natural enthusiasm about her role as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in director Ting Zhao’s profound reimagining of Shakespeare’s creation. village As a sad story. “It’s a very extraordinary setting because we’re telling the story of probably the most famous British man ever, and we have a Chinese director and a lot of Irish people, mostly Polish.”
She went on to thank the film’s showrunner Thomas Sternicki for cooking soup on set. “It was delicious,” she concluded. “I love what I do and I love being a part of this industry.” The entire ceremony was filled with gratitude for the absolute privilege of being allowed to make a film with something to say.
The Golden Globes are no longer the boozy party of the past, but have been streamlined and become part of the elaborate preparations for the Academy Awards on March 15. The Golden Globes are divided into two film genres – musical or comedy and drama – which always creates confusion when reading about the rest of the awards season, but two front-runners have emerged without a doubt: Hamnet and Paul Thomas Anderson’s one battle after anotherwon four awards.
On the surface, the two films couldn’t be more different. Hamnet A powerful, insightful study of grief and its impact on art and life; one battle after another is a brilliant semi-comedy epic centered on a clueless ex-revolutionary played by Leonardo DiCaprio who finds himself caught in the grip of reactionary forces and hysteria in a timeless America. However, both films were made by visionary directors who believed in the power of movies to change the way people think. “I love doing what I do, so it’s fun,” Anderson said in one of the night’s many speeches.
Hamnet Winning two awards, taking home the award for Best Picture (Drama), was a bit of a surprise as some experts thought Universal might give the award to Ryan Coogler’s radical film sinnerThis critically acclaimed and successful show brought blues music and vampires to a sensational collision in the American South. Zhao looked genuinely surprised and made a point of highlighting Coogler’s talent during his acceptance speech, concluding by praising the way the film was made for people to see. “Let’s open up and continue to meet and let ourselves be seen,” she said.
at the same time, one battle after anotherAdapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, it cemented its status as an Oscar frontrunner, winning Golden Globes for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, who made a brilliant on-screen impact as DiCaprio’s fellow revolutionary and lover. Her speech was one of the most tearful of the night, and she concluded by dedicating the award to “my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight… We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space.”
Many of Anderson’s speeches included a shout-out to embattled Warner Bros. chairman Michael De Luca, who is currently facing a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount. This is a studio that supports both sinner (It was the highest-grossing original film of the past 15 years) and one battle after another. “He came into my life about 25, 30 years ago, and he wanted to be my champion, and he single-handedly supported me and the movies I wanted to make. He said he dreamed of one day running a studio where he would let directors do whatever they wanted.” Anderson, who had never won a Golden Globe before, also paid tribute to assistant director Adam Somner, who died in 2024 after working with him for many years.
