Adolescence, Emily Blunt and Paul Mescal among UK and Irish Golden Globe nods

Netflix drama series Adolescence, The Smashing Machine actress Emily Blunt, and Hamnet actor Paul Mescal are among the British and Irish nominees for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

The nominations were revealed in a ceremony in the US on Monday, with Adolescence given five nods, Blunt nominated for her role in The Smashing Machine as Dawn Staples, and Mescal for his performance as William Shakespeare in Hamnet.

Adolescence’s nominations include best limited series, anthology series or television motion picture, best male actor in a television limited series, anthology series, TV motion picture for Stephen Graham, and Ashley Walters and Owen Cooper for best TV supporting actor.

The drama, which prompted a national conversation around online safety upon its release, has also seen a nod for TV best supporting female actor for Erin Doherty.

In the best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture category, the nominees alongside Blunt are Ariana Grande for Wicked, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value, Amy Madigan for Weapons, and Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another.

Mescal is nominated in the best performance by a male actor in a supporting role in any motion picture category alongside Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn for their roles in One Battle After Another, Jacob Elordi for his role in Frankenstein, Adam Sandler for his role in Jay Kelly and Stellan Skarsgard for Sentimental Value.

Cynthia Erivo was nominated in the best female actor in a comedy or music film for her role in Wicked: For Good, alongside Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Chase Infiniti for One Battle After Another, Amanda Seyfried for The Testament Of Ann Lee, and Emma Stone for Bugonia.

In the drama category, Jessie Buckley was nominated for best actress in a motion picture for her role in Hamnet, alongside Jennifer Lawrence for Die My Love, Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value, Julia Roberts for After The Hunt, Tessa Thompson for Hedda, and Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby.

The nominations for best director are Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another, Ryan Coogler for Sinners, Guillermo Del Toro for Frankenstein, Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident, Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value, and Chloe Zhao for Hamnet.

The best picture nominees in the drama category were Frankenstein, Hamnet, It Was Just An Accident, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Values, and Sinners.

In the comedy or musical best picture category, the nominees were Blue Moon, Bugonia, Marty Supreme, No Other Choice, Nouvelle Vague, and One Battle After Another.

The best male actor in a drama film category saw Joel Edgerton nominated for Train Dreams, Oscar Isaac for Frankenstein, Dwayne Johnson for his role in The Smashing Machine, Michael B Jordan for Sinners, Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent, and Jeremy Allen White for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

For best male actor in a comedy or musical film, Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for One Battle After Another, Timothee Chalamet for Marty Supreme, George Clooney for Jay Kelly, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Lee Byung-Hun for No Other Choice, and Jesse Plemons for Bugonia.

The awards will be given out at a ceremony on January 11.