At the Golden Globes 2026, creatives behind the year’s best non-English-language film, The Secret Agent, said “this is a very important time” to be making movies. Adolescence’s Stephen Graham concluded his acceptance speech for best actor in a limited series by quoting Bob Marley’s “One Love.” These sorts of vaguely political platitudes were typical of the 83rd Golden Globes, although host Nikki Glaser kicked off the night by joking that these awards are “without a doubt the most important thing happening in the world right now.”
On the Golden Globes red carpet 2026, nominees and presenters, including Wanda Sykes and Poker Face’s Natasha Lyonne, wore “Be Good” pins—a reference to Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent on Wednesday in Minneapolis, sparking nationwide protests. The pins made an anti-ICE statement, as did those adorned by other attendees reading “ICE OUT.” They originated with an ACLU-endorsed protest campaign organized by a group of entertainment industry advocates, as reported by The New York Times.
“Of course this is for the mother who was murdered by an ICE agent, and it’s really sad,” Sykes told Variety on the red carpet ahead of the awards. “I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down, because it’s just awful what they’re doing to people.”
Task’s Mark Ruffalo said he found it difficult to concentrate on that evening’s champagne-soaked festivities amid the turbulent state of the world. “We’ve got, literally, storm troopers running around terrorizing, and as much as I love all this, I don’t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn’t happening,” Ruffalo told Entertainment Tonight from the carpet. “We have a president who says the laws of the world don’t apply to him and we can rely on his morality, but he has no morality, so where does that leave us? Where does that leave the world?”
The #BeGood campaign, supported by organizations such as Maremoto, Move On, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Working Families Power, and “leaders from every sector of the entertainment industry,” is also meant to honor Keith Porter, who was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Porter and Good’s deaths come in the aftermath of the Trump administration’s $100 million “wartime recruitment” meant to expand ICE enforcement abilities. The Be Good campaign’s goal is to remind people “to be good to one another in the face of such horror—to be a good citizen, neighbor, friend, ally and human,” according to the Times.
In the night’s opening monologue, Glaser alluded to the Epstein files without actually uttering Jeffrey Epstein’s name. “So many A-listers, and by A-listers I do mean people who were on a list that was heavily redacted,” she quipped, before digging into the broadcast’s network overlords. “And the award for most editing goes to CBS News,” Glaser said. “America’s new place to see BS news.” It was a reference to the controversy around the editorial oversight of new CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss.
Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening. When asked by Entertainment Tonight about filming the final season of her hit Max series, she said that it was “a little bit overshadowed with what’s going on in our country.” Smart, who in the aftermath of the LA fires urged TV networks to “seriously consider” not airing any award shows and instead donating the revenue to first responders and fire victims, later elaborated.
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