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By Lauren Daley

January 9, 2026 | 10:58 AM

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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.”

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

Lauren Daley is a freelance writer. She can be reached at [email protected]. She tweets @laurendaley1, and Instagrams at @laurendaley1. Read more stories on Facebook here.

Lauren Daley

Lauren Daley is a longtime culture journalist. As a regular contributor to Boston.com, she interviews A-list musicians, actors, authors and other major artists.

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