🎧 Oscar Ballots Are Live: Who’s Peaking at the Right Moment?
I name names with Christopher Rosen
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The Golden Globes are mercifully over, and the last-minute campaign stops are more or less complete; now the real work begins.
Oscar ballots are now open to more than 10,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and everyone who won Golden Globes on Sunday night is asking themselves the same question: Did it make a difference?
On today’s episode of the Prestige Junkie podcast, my colleague Christopher Rosen and I break down the significance of the Golden Globes, if it exists at all. Yes, it’s a scandal-plagued organization that thinks things like showing Polymarket odds onscreen is a good idea, and many of Sunday night’s winners — Timothée Chalamet, Wagner Moura, Jessie Buckley, Rose Byrne, Sinners composer Ludwig Göransson (who accepted his award during a commercial break; stay classy!) and One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson — felt like sure things well in advance. But in awards campaigns, you really never know what will move the needle — whether that’s a moving speech (Teyana Taylor’s unguarded emotion might have jumped her to the front of the best supporting actress race) or a very public endorsement from one of Hollywood’s biggest stars (Julia Roberts giving Sorry, Baby filmmaker and star Eva Victor a shout-out from the stage before presenting One Battle with best comedy/musical certainly must count for something, right?).
Chris and I discuss who got the biggest boost from Sunday night’s Globes, and try to figure out what the industry might be telling us following a week of guild nominations and the BAFTA longlists. Is Hamnet stronger with industry voters than it might seem? Is the supporting actress race really wide open or did Taylor deliver a knockout blow? Will Jafar Panahi, Joachim Trier or Kleber Mendonça Filho land in the best director field? I also share some final insight from the busy weekend of Golden Globes parties, where the KPop Demon Hunters team ruled the dance floor, and everyone was working very, very hard to put their best foot forward.
For more from Chris and me, subscribe to Prestige Junkie After Party, where this Friday we’ll be bringing you our look ahead at the highlights of 2026 — Oscar contenders and blockbusters alike. In the meantime, listen to today’s episode of the podcast and, as always, let us know what you think: katey@theankler.com.
