Good Hang with Amy Poehler won the inaugural podcast award at the Golden Globes. The celebrity hang-out podcast was widely tipped as the favourite in the category heading into Sunday’s award show hosted by Nikki Glaser. Good Hang features Poehler, a former Globes host, in casual interviews with a range of celebrities including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ariana Grande, and Regina Hall.
Poehler acknowledged the celebrity-driven field of podcasting with a shout-out to her fellow nominee Up First, the daily news podcast by National Public Radio. The Globes’ inaugural podcast category, the first for a major televised award show, has not been without controversy as eligibility criteria focused on the top 25 series as noted by audience metrics, which generally favoured celebrity-driven shows. Other nominees included the hangout podcasts Smartless with Will Arnett, Sean Hayes, and Jason Bateman and Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd and Monica Padman. Serialised dramas and eligible political series were absent from the nominees’ list.
Other winners at the Golden Globes included Paul Thomas Anderson’s anarchic crime film One Battle After Another, which scored four awards: Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, and Best Picture, Comedy or Musical. On the drama side, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet won Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessie Buckley in a reimagining of the story that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Also winning two awards apiece were The Secret Agent (Best Actor, Drama for Wagner Moura and Best Film, Non-English Language), Sinners (Best Score and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement), and KPop Demon Hunters (Best Animated Feature, Best Song). Rounding out the winners were Marty Supreme’s Timothée Chalamet (Best Actor, Comedy or Musical), If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’s Rose Byrne (Best Actress, Comedy or Musical), and Sentimental Value’s Stellan Skarsgard (Best Supporting Actor).
On the TV side, Netflix’s Adolescence swept the field winning four awards including Best Limited Series and acting prizes for Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, and Erin Doherty. The Hollywood satire The Studio picked up two wins—Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical and Best Actor for Seth Roger—while medical drama The Pitt won for dramatic series and star Noah Wyle. Hacks’ Jean Smart and Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn won Best Actress in a comedy series and dramatic series, respectively.
