Golden Globes Nominations Are Announced Monday, December 7 at 5 A.M. Pacific — and This Year Every Entry Had to Disclose Its AI

The Golden Globes call themselves "the first major award show of the season," and the season, by their own timetable, is already underway. Entries for the 84th Globes closed on October 30. What remains is voting, nominations, and a ceremony with one significant new rule sitting underneath it.

The dates: nominations December 7, the ceremony January 10

• Monday, December 7, 2026, 5:00 a.m. PST — nominations announced. Who reads them out hasn't been named in any official release; last year's announcers are last year's, and we aren't carrying them over.
• Sunday, January 10, 2027, 5:00 p.m. PST — the ceremony, at the Beverly Hilton, live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. One streaming detail worth knowing before the night: Paramount+ Premium subscribers get the live broadcast; Essential subscribers get it on demand the day after.

Voting runs in two waves, administered by KPMG. Television and podcast ballots went out November 16 and close November 23; film ballots follow on November 24 and close December 4. Final ballots go out December 18 and are due back by 5:00 p.m. PST on January 2.

Nikki Glaser hosts for the third straight year

Nikki Glaser hosts for the third consecutive year — the official announcement notes she was the first woman to host the Globes solo. Her quote in that release: "I'm thrilled to host the Golden Globes for a third time, not only because it's the greatest gig I've ever had, but because my sister has three kids and now we will be equal in the eyes of my parents and the Lord." Globes president Helen Hoehne, in the same release: "We are thrilled to welcome Nikki back to the Golden Globes stage in 2027… Her comedic precision, authenticity, and ability to command the room is unmatched." The official site also records that her most recent opening monologue drew nearly 14 million views in its first 36 hours on the Globes' own platforms.

What's new this year

AI disclosure, mandatory. The 84th rulebook states — in the official rules' wording as quoted verbatim by Screen Daily — that AI use "does not automatically disqualify a work from consideration, provided that human creative direction, artistic judgment, and authorship remain primary throughout the production process." Every submission must include a disclosure describing any generative AI used anywhere in the production, including any AI alteration to a credited performer's likeness or voice. A performance "substantially generated or created by artificial intelligence" isn't eligible at all.

The podcast category grows. Best Podcast, which debuted at last year's ceremony, returns with its eligible pool widened from a curated Top 25 to a Top 30, ranked by the data firm Luminate. The official list of 30 was published October 5 and includes, among others, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Call Her Daddy, Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, Crime Junkie, Dateline NBC, SmartLess, The Daily, The Joe Rogan Experience and This American Life. Podcasts qualify on a shorter year — January 1 to September 30, 2026, with at least six episodes of 30 minutes or more.

A door opens for small films. Under the official rules, non-English-language and low-budget independent films — fully independently financed, under $10 million — may now be entered for individual acting categories without having to enter for Best Motion Picture first.

What hasn't changed: the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category continues on its existing terms — at least $150 million worldwide in the qualifying year, $100 million of it domestic, eight nominees. The competitive total stays at 28 categories.

One correction: the lifetime-achievement special belonged to last season

The Globes' lifetime-achievement special, "Golden Eve," honoured Helen Mirren (Cecil B. DeMille Award) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Carol Burnett Award) on January 8, 2026 — last season, ahead of the 83rd ceremony. No 84th edition of the special, and no new DeMille or Burnett recipients, have been announced in any official release as of this filing. Any calendar — including our own earlier working calendar, now corrected — that places Mirren and Parker on a January 2027 date is wrong, and the error is noted here so it doesn't travel.

For scale, the official host announcement records the 83rd Globes combined with its red-carpet show and the Golden Eve special reaching 21.77 million viewers on CBS and Paramount+ (a combined three-programme Nielsen figure, not the ceremony alone), with 27.07 million international viewers across 169 territories. Nominations morning is December 7; our nominations piece files the same day.