The Golden Globes Kicks Off 2026 Award Season

The 2026 Golden Globes set the stage for what's already shaping up to be one of the more unpredictable awards seasons in recent memory. There was no obvious frontrunner going in, and there's even less of one going out.

Best Picture, two ways

The Drama category went the way most predicted, with the year's most-discussed film taking top honors. But the bigger conversation was in the Musical or Comedy category, where a low-budget indie pulled an upset that few of even the most plugged-in critics saw coming.

What Pace students are watching

Polling around the Knightly News room (n=14, very rigorous), the consensus picks among Pace students don't perfectly overlap with the Globes' choices. The mid-budget original-script films that got nominated this year are reaching audiences who tend to skip the theater.

The TV side had fewer surprises: prestige limited series continue to dominate, and the streaming-versus-network debate is, for awards purposes, basically settled.

What to actually go see

Three quick recommendations from the Knightly News staff:

• One drama that lives up to the hype — a meditative, two-and-a-half-hour film that earns every minute.
• One comedy that's actually funny and not just nominated for being interesting.
• One documentary that will be the most talked-about thing in your house if you're watching with your parents.

Award season runs through March. Pace students with AMC A-List subscriptions report that it's the best three months of the year to have one.