Golden Globes 2026: Teyana Taylor and Stellan Skarsgard win early
Teyana Taylor and Stellan Skarsgard took home the first Golden Globes handed out on Sunday, winning for their work as supporting actors in a motion picture for “One Battle After Another” and “Sentimental Value” respectively.
Taylor, who played a revolutionary on the run in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, opened her tearful acceptance speech joking that her children upstairs in a room at the Beverly Hilton had “better be off those damn phones and watching me right now.”
She got serious from there, concluding with an inspirational shout-out to Black women and girls.
“Most importantly, to my Brown sisters and little Brown girls watching tonight,” she said. “Our softness is not a liability. Our depth is not too much. Our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter, and our dreams deserve room to shine.”
Skarsgard’s win for best male supporting actor in a motion picture was a minor upset, winning over nominees that included Adam Sandler for “Jay Kelly,” and Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn for “One Battle After Another.”
“It’s a small Norwegian film, with no money for advertising or anything, that gets to see the world this way,” Skarsgard said of “Sentimental Value.” “And hopefully you will see it in a cinema because they are an extinguished species now.
“That’s magical,” he added. “Cinema should be seen in a cinema.”
Host Nikki Glaser opened with a monologue that skewered stars at the ceremony, though not as roughly as some past Golden Globes hosts have – cough, cough, looking at you, Ricky Gervais.
“Guillermo Del Toro, keep making weird monster sex movies,” Glaser said as she wrapped up with a speed round of jokes. “And James Cameron, keep making weird monster sex movies.
“Noah Wiley, keep being the only doctor I’ve seen regularly for the past 35 years,” she continued. “And Steve Martin and Martin Short, keep proving that in this industry you are never too old to keep needing money.”