Golden Globes Snubs & Surprises: No Best Picture For ‘Wicked: For Good’, No Best Podcast For Ben Shapiro Or Joe Rogan, Bupkis For Kathryn Bigelow & ‘House Of Dynamite’; Rhea Seehorn Finally Scores With ‘Pluribus’
Unveiled at an ungodly hour Monday by Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall, the nominations for next month’s 83rd Golden Globe didn’t come without some pain and some answered prayers.
Across 28 categories, including the newly introduced and contentious in some legacy circles Best Podcast bracket, Monday’s noms saw Oscar dreams get closer to reality for some, and Emmys redux for others (Good morning Seth Rogen!).
Which means, the morning coffee and treadmill will be all the more of a jolt for Sinners, One Battle After Another, AppleTV’s The Studio, HBO’s White Lotus, and potential Warner Bros owner Netflix‘s limited series Adolescence. For Sidney Sweeney, the hard campaigning Ben Shaprio, House of Dynamite and its director Kathryn Bigelow, and Wicked: For Good the actual movie, in an awards hoop jumping exercise that seems to give everyone a trophy or at least a nomination — well, they might want to have a shot of something a lot stronger than just a cup of Joe this disappointing AM.
Tellingly, this morning’s pre-dawn Globes announcement comes just hours after big wins Sunday for Sentimental Value’s Stellan Skarsgård, One Battle After Another’s Teyana Taylor, director Paul Thomas Anderson and the drama itself all scored big at the LA Film Critics Association 2025 Awards. Like todaty’s nominations, the City of Angels’ critics were also very good on Sunday to If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’s Rose Byrne and Blue Moon’s Ethan Hawke.
Now with the nominations out there and the campaigns kicking into high gear for “the party of the year,” as Globe prez Helen Hoehne seems to call it every year, the next steps on the road to the once again Nikki Glaser hosted ceremony before its January 11 primetime broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ is for final ballots to b sent out on December 19. Then as everyone gets over their NYE hangover or regrets, those ballots will be sent back on January 3.
After the January 8 Golden Eve celebrating lifetime achievement honors for Helen Mirren (the Cecil B. DeMille Award) and Sarah Jessica Parker (the Carol Burnett Award), the actual Golden Globes will hit the now David Ellison-owned net and streamer on the second Sunday of 2026 live from the Beverly Hilton.
Before that, there are going to be some wounds to be healed and some shocks to get over – – as our Golden Globes 2026 snubs and surprises list makes clear. Take a look, feel the pain, and drop us a line of you think we’ve missed anyone or any show, film or podcast — not you Ben Shapiro.
SNUBS
WICKED: FOR GOOD: The Wizard of Oz retelling brought home nominations for its tunes, its director Jon M. Chu, its glad-handing and globe trotting stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, but no Best Picture, Musical or Comedy? So, Globes voters really liked every part of the resolution of the Wicked Witch of the West saga but the actual movie itself? Talk about a cowardly lion …
KATHRYN BIGELOW – Netflix’s big name, big ideas nuclear war flick House of Dynamite proved a dud today almost across the board, but leaving out its Oscar winning director feels like a very intentional detonation in the face of the streamer and the film’s helmer.
KRISTIN SCOTT-THOMAS – The fifth season of Slow Horses rightfully got a nomination, as did its male lead Gary Oldman but there was a real lack of spy craft on the part of Globe voters in the absence of the female lead who throws those cold water disparaging zingers out in the cold halls of MI5 as the ambitious Diana Taverner.
There were some surprising absences in the Golden Globe nominations, & some out-&-out surprises
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JOE ROGAN – In Blue states and Red states, the Globes are always (often correctly) accused of pandering to get big names on the red carpet and at the ceremony. Guess when it comes to the heavyweight of talk and the hugely well listened too The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcast king Rogan (who I hear can deliver a good joke or two on stage) that proved bizarrely not to be the case.
SYDNEY SWEENEY – The Christy star got in the ring and punched hard this campaign season for some recognition that didn’t involve denim. Sadly, Sweeney didn’t land a blow for a nomination this morning.
BEN SHAPIRO – The Daily Wire co-founder campaigned like Hell for a slot on the new Best Podcast list. Showing up for the opening of almost every envelope and panel show in town and dropping a lot of dough on ads, Shapiro still came up short Monday.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN – The Yellowstone creator has never been as big a hit with awards shows as his shows are with audiences, but to leave out Billy Bob Thorton-led Landman … well, that’s making it personal.
SURPRISES
NICK CAVE – With novels, Wim Wenders cameos, poetry and talk show excellence, the Bad Seeds frontman has done it all, even more so now with a Golden Globe nomination for his aching score for Train Dreams.
RHEA SEEHORN – Not really a surprise that the Pluribus lead has received the respect she so deserves this morning, However after years of getting snubbed by the Globes and its former HFPA gang for her excellent Better Call Saul work (even with multiple Emmy noms), to hear Seehorn’s name called out this AM was sweet.
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