Envelope, please … And the winner of Most Golden Globes Nominees goes to: New England!
Whether or not that award is real (it’s not), we can celebrate all the New Englanders — and local connections — at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards. The 83rd annual celebration of movies and TV airs Jan. 11 on CBS at 8 p.m., and streaming on Paramount+. Get your popcorn ready.
There are a lot. My brain is wired weirdly to see New England natives everywhere, and looking at the nominees, I felt like Charlie Day (Rhode Island native! Merrimack alum!) in the Pepe Silvia meme.
First, I’ll note the show is hosted once again by Tom Brady roaster Nikki Glaser. While in Boston last year, Glaser told me about her favorite ’25 Golden Globes jokes and watching the Super Bowl with Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson — and that a New Englander was a “huge” influence in her comedy.
“I wouldn’t be doing comedy if it wasn’t for Sarah Silverman,” Glaser said. “She’s smart, but also joking about pee-pee and poo-poo. I love that dichotomy … She’s always been a beacon for me.”
We might get some Silverman/Glaser on-stage banter.
The Bedford, New Hampshire-born/Manchester, New Hampshire-raised Silverman is nominated for Best Performance in Stand-up Comedy on Television for her latest Netflix special: “PostMortem,” about losing her parents.
Silverman told me previously she was encouraged to get into comedy by her Boston-born dad. “He had a very thick Boston accent,” said Silverman, who cut her teeth at stand-up at age 17 while at summer school at Boston University.
“He also was one of those dads who thought it was funny to teach his 3-year-old swears. I’d swear, and get this massive approval-despite-themselves from adults. Gave me the itch.”
Speaking of Manchester, N.H. comedians:
Adam Sandler is nominated for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in film for “Jay Kelly.” I’m hoping the Sandman shows up in his signature basketball shorts and hoodie — whether or not it’s for a bit, like his one with Conan at the ’25 Oscars. Actually, I hope everyone shows up dressed like Adam Sandler. #NormalizeDressingLikeAdamSandlerInPublic.
Meanwhile, Boston University alum ’07 Josh Safdie — who recently returned to BU’s campus to talk to students — and co-writer Ronald Bronstein are up for Best Screenplay for “Marty Supreme.” I want to shout out the film’s brilliant music from former Wayland and Winthrop resident Daniel Lopatin, a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never. And yes, the electronic music producer/composer/singer/songwriter’s moniker is an homage to Boston’s Magic 106.7.
HBO’s “Hacks” — co-created in part by Milton native Jen Statsky and Hadley native Lucia Aniello — is nominated for Best Television Series: Musical or Comedy.
Medford native and former Western Mass. resident Julianne Nicholson won an Emmy for her guest role as Hollywood-newbie/total train-wreck Dance Mom on season 4.
Bonus storyline connection: On the show, Ava (Hannah Einbinder, up for Best Supporting Female Actor) hails from Waltham. “I love that specificity,” Nicolson told me previously, with a laugh. “It’s so good.”
Meanwhile, season 7 of Netflix’s dark-tech hit “Black Mirror” serves up two New England ties:
Harvard alum ’97 Rashida Jones is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television. She played Amanda in episode 1, “Common People.”
And New Haven, Conn. native Paul Giamatti is up for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television. He played Phillip in episode 5, “Eulogy.”
They say you can always tell a Yale man by his love for Frank Pepe’s Pizza — and Giamatti is a vocal fan. In 2024, when he declared his love for the New Haven institution’s white clam and bacon pie on Jimmy Kimmel, Pepe’s served up a “Paul Giamatti Pie” for Oscar night. If he wins Sunday, I’ll order a piping hot Paul Giamatti in his honor.
Heck, I’ll order two if “Abbot Elementary” wins Best Television Series: Musical or Comedy. Because another Connecticut native — Waterbury’s Sheryl Lee Ralph — is in the cast.
Keep the tab open, Frank Pepe: I might have to also order a deep-dish in honor of the series about Chicago dining: “The Bear.” Yup, the anxiety-inducing, tension-filled drama is up for (double-checks notes) Best Television Series: Musical or Comedy (!), and Dorchester’s Ayo Edebiri is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy. Side note: “Cousin,” a.k.a. Ebon Moss-Bachrach, grew up in Amherst, graduating Amherst Regional High School in 1995.
Netflix’s “The Diplomat” is nominated for Best Television Series: Drama. Cast member Allison Janney was born in Boston, and graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. (Another pie, Frank Pepe!)
FX’s “Dying for Sex” is up for Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. Cast includes Marblehead native Rob Delaney, who now lives in the UK but has told me he misses “eating Regina’s Pizza in a blizzard. I miss that a lot.”
The series also stars Milton native/South Dartmouth resident Jenny Slate — who just may attend with her husband: author/ screenwriter/ South Dartmouth native Ben Shattuck. Slate also voices a character in “Zootopia 2,” which is nominated for Best Motion Picture: Animated. Two Harvard alumni — Nick DiGiovanni, Boston’s favorite internet chef, and poet Amanda Gorman — also voice characters in the Disney film.
For the first time ever, the Globes have a Best Podcast category — where BU faces BC.
Boston College alum/Burlington native Amy Poehler is nominated for “Good Hang,” while Boston University alum Alex Cooper is up for “Call Her Daddy.”
More connections? Two authors whose books sparked movies.
“Wicked: For Good.” No, it’s not about Boston, and doesn’t star Ben Affleck or Matt Damon drinking Dunkin’ — but its roots do trace to Massachusetts.
The blockbuster is up for “Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” — Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are also nominated — and it’s all based on the book by Concord’s Gregory Maguire.
Before his novel “Wicked” was published in 1995, the Tufts and Simmons alum worked around New England in “dozens of schools as a self-employed journeyman/jack-of-all-trades/author-in-residence/writing instructor.”
While he’s created a worldwide phenomenon, he told me previously: “I’m just a Boston schlub. You wouldn’t notice me if I was walking down the street dropping my Dunkin’ donuts, spilling my coffee on some old lady waiting to cross the street to Central Square … I’m just a normal Boston jerk.”
Another book connection: Jeremy Allen White is up for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama for his role as Bruce Springsteen in “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”
The film is based on the book by Concord, New Hampshire native Warren Zanes. The former member of Boston-based band The Del Fuegos, Zanes was on set for much of the filming.
He first saw the finished movie alone, in a 150-seat theater.
“It was very intense,” he told me previously. “People laugh at me, but I love Dots. I’m in the theater with my box of Dots, and I put them down on the floor with my car keys, and the movie starts. I got to the end, the credits are rolling, and I hadn’t eaten my Dots. And my children won’t believe that.”
See the full list of nominees below:
Best Picture — Drama
Frankenstein
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Picture — Musical or Comedy
Blue Moon
Bugonia
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
One Battle After Another
Best Female Actor — Motion Picture — Drama
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 Male Actor — Motion Picture — Drama
Joel Edgerton,
Train Dreams
Oscar Isaac,
Frankenstein
Dwayne Johnson,
The Smashing Machine
Michael B. Jordan,
Sinners
Wagner Moura,
The Secret Agent
Jeremy Allen White,
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Best Female Actor — Motion Picture — Musical/Comedy
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 Male Actor — Motion Picture — Musical/Comedy
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
Best Supporting Female Actor — Motion Picture
Emily Blunt,
The Smashing Machine
Elle Fanning,
Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande,
Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas,
Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan,
Weapons
Teyana Taylor,
One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Male Actor — Motion Picture
Benicio Del Toro,
One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi,
Frankenstein
Paul Mescal,
Hamnet
Sean Penn,
One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler,
Jay Kelly
Stellan Skarsgård,
Sentimental Value
Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Avatar: Fire And Ash
F1
KPop Demon Hunters
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Sinners
Weapons
Wicked: For Good
Zootopia 2
Best Director — Motion Picture
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
Chloé Zhao,
Hamnet
Best Screenplay — Motion Picture
Paul Thomas Anderson,
One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler,
Sinners
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie,
Marty Supreme
Jafar Panahi,
It Was Just An Accident
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt,
Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell,
Hamnet
Best Musical or Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building
The Studio
Best Drama Series
The Diplomat
The Pitt
Pluribus
Severance
Slow Horses
The White Lotus
Best Female Actor — Television — Musical/Comedy
Kristen Bell,
Nobody Wants This
Ayo Edebiri,
The Bear
Selena Gomez,
Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne,
Poker Face
Jenna Ortega,
Wednesday
Jean Smart,
Hacks
Best Male Actor — Television — Musical/Comedy
Adam Brody,
Nobody Wants This
Steve Martin,
Only Murders in the Building
Glen Powell,
Chad Powers
Seth Rogen,
The Studio
Martin Short,
Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White,
The Bear
Best Female Actor — Television — Drama
Kathy Bates,
Matlock
Britt Lower,
Severance
Helen Mirren,
MobLand
Bella Ramsey,
The Last of Us
Keri Russell,
The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn,
Pluribus
Best Male Actor — Television — Drama
Sterling K. Brown,
Paradise
Diego Luna,
Andor
Gary Oldman,
Slow Horses
Mark Ruffalo,
Task
Adam Scott,
Severance
Noah Wyle,
The Pitt
Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Adolescence
All Her Fault
The Beast in Me
Black Mirror
Dying for Sex
The Girlfriend
Best Female Actor — Television — Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Claire Danes,
The Beast in Me
Rashida Jones,
Black Mirror
Amanda Seyfried,
Long Bright River
Sarah Snook,
All Her Fault
Michelle Williams,
Dying for Sex
Robin Wright,
The Girlfriend
Best Male Actor — Television — Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Jacob Elordi,
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Paul Giamatti,
Black Mirror
Stephen Graham,
Adolescence
Charlie Hunnam,
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Jude Law,
Black Rabbit
Matthew Rhys,
The Beast in Me
Best Supporting Female Actor — Television
Carrie Coon,
The White Lotus
Erin Doherty,
Adolescence
Hannah Einbinder,
Hacks
Catherine O’Hara,
The Studio
Parker Posey,
The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood,
The White Lotus
Best Supporting Male Actor — Television
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 Non-English Language Motion Picture
It Was Just An Accident
(France)
No Other Choice
(South Korea)
The Secret Agent
(Brazil)
Sentimental Value
(Norway)
Sirāt
(Spain)
The Voice of Hind Rajab
(Tunisia)
Best Animated Motion Picture
Arco
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle
Elio
Kpop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain
Zootopia 2
Best Song — Motion Picture
“Dream as One,”
Avatar: Fire and Ash
, Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen
“Golden,”
Kpop Demon Hunters
, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun
“I Lied To You,”
Sinners
, Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson
“No Place Like Home,”
Wicked: For Good
, Stephen Schwartz
“The Girl in the Bubble,”
Wicked: For Good
, Stephen Schwartz
“Train Dreams,”
Train Dreams
, Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner
Best Score — Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat,
Frankenstein
Ludwig Göransson,
Sinners
Jonny Greenwood,
One Battle After Another
Kangding Ray,
Sirāt
Max Richter,
Hamnet
Hans Zimmer,
F1
Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Bill Maher,
Is Anyone Else Seeing This?
Brett Goldstein,
The Second Best Night of Your Life
Kevin Hart,
Acting My Age
Kumail Nanjiani,
Night Thoughts
Ricky Gervais,
Mortality
Sarah Silverman,
Postmortem
Best Podcast
Up First
Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard
Call Her Daddy
Good Hang With Amy Poehler
The Mel Robbins Podcast
SmartLess
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