The Water Cooler weighs with their 2026 Golden Globe predictions. Plus, Megan brings news from this weekend’s Critics Choice Awards.
On our first podcast of 2026, we take stock of the upcoming 2026 Golden Globe Awards. On the TV front, will they mostly rubber stamp the 2025 Emmys and award The Pitt, The Studio, and Adolescence? Or will another series break through? On the film front, how many of its 9 leading nominations will One Battle After Another receive? What about Sinners or one of the three multi-nominated foreign language films? Find out where we stand on our 2026 Golden Globes Predictions podcast. Check out the website later this week for predictions from the full team at The Contending.
But first, Megan has returned from her first trip to the Critics Choice Awards. She recaps her experience at the ceremony, and we review the winners and their potential impact on the awards race. We also spitball potential nominations we’d love to see at the upcoming The Actor Awards (formerly the Screen Actors Guild Awards).
We close our podcast with a Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.
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