Hollywood is humming as award season continues this Sunday with the 83rd edition of the Golden Globes.
The Golden Globes – described on the awards’ website as “one of the world’s premier entertainment awards recognizing the best in motion pictures and television and beyond” – will honor 2026 winners in a live ceremony hosted for the second year in a row by comedian and actress Nikki Glaser. The ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. inside The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on CBS, with Paramount+ as the streaming option.
Nominations were announced on Dec. 8, with numerous Mississippi connections up for awards.
‘Sinners’ is set in Clarksdale.
Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is one of the leading blockbusters up for Golden Globes this year, being nominated in seven categories. While the Jim Crow-era vampire flick was filmed in Louisiana, it’s set in Clarksdale. Coogler, who is up for best director, drew from his family history to create the film’s plot. His uncle was born in Mississippi, and according to Coogler, would often tell the now-filmmaker when he was growing up about the history of blues music and what he experienced living in a racially divided South.
“He would get off work, and all he’d want to do is listen to old blues records and drink Old Taylor Whiskey,” Coogler recounted in an interview on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “And I would just sit there with my uncle, who was the oldest man I knew, listening to stories about Mississippi and talking to him about life and baseball.”
Other Mississippi connections to the movie are the appearances of Buddy Guy and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram in the ending credits scene. Guy is honored on the Mississippi Blues Trail, and Ingram is a Clarksdale-born guitarist who helped with the film’s soundtrack. After the film hit theaters, Coogler and several cast and crew members visited Clarksdale for a special hometown event.
“Sinners” was nominated for best director (Coogler), best original score (Ludwig Göransson), best original song (“I Lied to You”), best screenplay (Coogler), best performance by a male actor in a motion picture (Michael B. Jordan), and cinematic box office achievement. “Sinners” earned around $367 million worldwide in theaters versus a roughly $100 million budget, making it one of the highest-grossing original horror films in history.
Laurel’s Parker Posey could win the first Golden Globe
While Parker Posey has previously been nominated for a Golden Globe, many TV junkies believe this is her best chance yet to win one. Posey, who lived her teenage years in Laurel, is up for best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television for her role in “The White Lotus.” Acting as Victoria Ratliff in season three, Posey embodies a spacey Southern matriarch dependent on lorazepam that fans of the dark comedy quickly fell in love with.
Posey moved from Louisiana to Mississippi when her family decided to settle in Laurel. During an interview on “Late Night with Seth Myers” in 2025, she made sure to give a shoutout to Laurel, where her mother still lives.
“I grew up in Louisiana and Mississippi,” she told Myers. “My mom is in Laurel. Little shoutout to Laurel and my mother!”
Parker was nominated in 2003 in the category of best supporting actress for her role in “Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay.”
Mississippi HBCU alum up for another honor.
Trammel Tillman has taken the acting world by storm with his role as Seth Milchick in “Severance.” Tillman, a graduate of Jackson State University, became the first Black man to win an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series in 2025. Now, he’s looking to rack up another award in the form of a Golden Globe, being nominated for best performance by a male actor in a supporting role on television.
In Ben Stiller’s innie-outie world on Apple TV, Tillman embodies a somewhat sympathetic antagonist who manages the severed floor. In the season two finale, Tillman channeled his HBCU experience when leading the Lumon Industries marching band inside the fictional company’s headquarters.
“I graduated from Jackson State University, and their band is the Sonic Boom of the South, the best marching band in the entire world,” he told TV Guide. “This was an opportunity to highlight my culture, to highlight the significance of HBCUs – the marching bands, the showmanship, the pageantry, the discipline, the excellence, the Black joy.”
More on the 2026 Golden Globes
Leading the charge heading into Sunday’s awards show is Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infiniti. It’s nominated in nine categories. “The White Lotus” leads the TV side with six nominations, while Netflix’s “Adolescence” scored five. And for the first time, the Golden Globes are honoring podcasts.
Who wins Golden Globes is decided on by “an independent body of international journalist voters,” according to the awards’ website.
A full list of nominees can be found here.