At a Glance
- One Battle After Another won Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical at the 2026 Golden Globes
- The film secured four trophies total, including directing and screenplay honors for Paul Thomas Anderson
- Teyana Taylor claimed the supporting-actress prize for her role
- Why it matters: The sweeping victory positions the political satire as an Oscars frontrunner
One Battle After Another seized the top comedy prize at the 2026 Golden Globes, capping a night that saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s political satire collect four trophies. The Warner Bros. release edged five rivals to claim Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical on 11 January at the Beverly Hilton.
A Clean Sweep
The win marked the film’s fourth of the evening. Anderson personally took home two statuettes, one for direction and one for screenplay. Teyana Taylor earned the supporting-actress nod for her performance in the sprawling father-daughter revolution tale.
Leonardo DiCaprio headlines the ensemble, which also features Regina Hall, Sean Penn and breakout Chase Infiniti. The movie arrived on HBO Max earlier this month and stands as Anderson’s first feature since 2021’s Licorice Pizza.
One Battle After Another entered the gala with a field-leading nine nominations. It previously dominated the Critics Choice Awards on 4 January, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Defeated Field
Blue Moon, Bugonia, Marty Supreme, No Other Choice and Nouvelle Vague each left empty-handed in the category.
- Blue Moon – Ethan Hawke portrays lyricist Lorenz Hart in Richard Linklater’s latest collaboration with the actor. Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Cannavale round out the cast as the story follows Hart’s frayed partnership with Richard Rodgers during the 1943 debut of Oklahoma!.
- Bugonia – Emma Stone reteams with director Yorgos Lanthimos as a pharma CEO abducted by conspiracy theorists convinced she is an alien. Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis play her captors. The film earned additional nods for Stone and Plemons in lead acting races.
- Marty Supreme – Timothée Chalamet channels 1950s table-tennis phenom Marty Mauser in A24’s sports dramedy. Kevin O’Leary, Odessa A’zion, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler Okonma support the globe-trotting tournament quest. Chalamet won Best Actor at the Critics Choice Awards for the role.
- No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook’s thriller stars Lee Byung-hun as an unemployed paper-company worker who methodically eliminates job-market rivals. The film vied for Best Non-English Language Picture as well, while Lee contended in the lead-actor comedy slot.
- Nouvelle Vague – Linklater’s second nominee of the night pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Zoey Deutch plays actress Jean Seberg opposite Guillaume Marbeck’s Godard amid the 1960 French New Wave shoot.
Host and Broadcast
Comedian Nikki Glaser guided the three-hour ceremony, televised live on CBS and streamed domestically on Paramount+. The 83rd annual event unfolded under tightened security and a renewed focus on film-industry diversity initiatives following recent guild negotiations.
Awards Momentum
With its quartet of Globes, One Battle After Another vaults into the thick of the season’s top prizes. Campaign strategists will now pivot to the Screen Actors Guild and Producers Guild ballots, seen as reliable Oscar bellwethers.
DiCaprio, who has yet to claim a competitive Globe for acting, watched from the ballroom as his collaborators accepted onstage. The star’s previous wins came in the now-retired “Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama” category for The Revenant and as producer for The Departed.
Critical Reception
Reviewers praised Anderson’s skewering of extremist ideologies on both ends of the spectrum, wrapped in a multigenerational family saga. The film holds a 94 percent critics score on review-aggregator sites and has generated robust streaming numbers for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Studio executives hope the Globes triumph will translate into sustained viewer curiosity on HBO Max, where the title has already cracked the platform’s weekly top-ten list since debuting.
Next on the Calendar
Attention now shifts to the Academy Awards nominations, announced later this month. One Battle After Another is expected to land in multiple above-the-line categories, including Best Picture, Best Director and possibly two acting slots.
The Producers Guild of America hands out its top honor next weekend, followed by the Directors Guild and Writers Guild ceremonies in February. Each guild win tightens the Oscar race and influences voter sentiment heading into final ballots.
Key Takeaways
- One Battle After Another secured four wins from nine nominations, the most of any film at the 2026 Golden Globes
- Paul Thomas Anderson collected directing and screenplay trophies, adding to his previous Critics Choice haul
- Teyana Taylor’s supporting-actress victory positions her for a potential Oscar nomination
- The strong showing solidifies the movie’s status as a leading awards contender
