Golden Globes Set Mid-January Date for 2026 Awards on CBS

The Golden Globes has revealed the date for its 2026 ceremony, a full week earlier than usual. The 83rd edition of “Hollywood’s Party of the Year” will be held on Sunday, January 11, at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT, with Nikki Glaser returning as host, the org announced Thursday.

The 83rd Golden Globes will once again be telecast live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ in the U.S. will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.

The ceremony is usually held the first weekend of January, making it the first televised awards show of the season. The move makes room for the Critics Choice Awards to possibly take that coveted January 4 spot, as they are usually the week after the Globes show. Either way, it’s going to make for a very busy week of awards announcements as the Screen Actors Guild and Producers Guild of America will reveal their nominations on the 7th and 9th, respectively. Nominations for the 83rd Golden Globes will take place on Monday, December 8, with additional information on the show’s awards timeline to be announced soon.

The Globes show date comes as the 2026 awards season calendar starts to line up ceremony dates left and right. The Oscars take place March 15, on ABC; the Screen Actors Guild Awards will hold their 32nd annual ceremony on Sunday, March 1, live on Netflix; and the non-televised Producers Guild Awards ceremony is on February 28. No date on the Directors Guild Awards, which earlier this year was held at the same time as the PGA Awards and had winners and nominees racing from the Beverly Hilton to the Fairmount to make the final awards announcements.

The Globes announced last month that Glaser would return for a second year in a row as host after helming the award show’s 2025 edition. That show hit 10.1 million viewers. CBS reported ratings figures from VideoAmp rather than the industry standard audience measurement service, Nielsen. Paramount Global, which owns CBS, is in a contract dispute with Nielsen. This was a slight increase from 9.4 million in 2024, but still a far cry from the pre-pandemic numbers the Globes usually drew in, closer to 20 million viewers. In 2020, just as the pandemic was rearing its ugly head, 18.4 million watched the Globes.

This marks the second installment in a five-year deal that CBS/Paramount sealed with the Globes and Dick Clark Productions in 2024 to take over as the home for the Golden Globes after NBC dropped the org due to its mounting controversies over memberships, bribes and more that have plagued the Globes (when they were a part of the HFPA) for decades.