Inside the 2026 Golden Globes Gift Bags Worth Nearly $1 Million
Macaulay Culkin is home and not alone at the 2026 Golden Globes.
The Home Alone alum—who was joined by wife Brenda Song—was touched by the warm reception he received during the Jan. 11 award ceremony hosted by Nikki Glaser at the Beverly Hilton where he was presenting the award for Best Screenplay, Motion Picture.
“Wow, thanks guys,” Macaulay said to the crowd as he entered to thunderous applause. “It’s been 35 years since I’ve been to the Globes. Thanks for welcoming me back, that’s really nice of you guys.”
“I know it’s weird seeing me outside the holiday season,” the 45-year-old joked, “but shockingly I do exist all year round, I promise you.”
And as the former child actor explained, it made “a lot of sense” for him to be presenting the award for Best Screenplay—which went to Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another—as they are a medium he is intimately familiar with, quipping, “I’ve been reading screenplays basically since I learned to read.” (Click here for all the winners.)
Macaulay has been extremely candid about how he now approaches his acting career—which began when he was just 4 years old—sharing that he now appreciates taking breaks whenever he can.
“Technically, I’m retired right now,” he said on the SmartLess podcast in December. “I retire and then, if I find something I like, I unretire, do that, and I immediately retire afterwards.”
Macaulay joked, “Every gig is my last.”
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“I quit for nearly a decade,” he shared. “Just went to high school, fell in love, got drunk for the first time, things like that.”
The Richie Rich star—who shares sons Dakota, 4, and Carson, 3, with Brenda—explained that after starring in the 1994 film, “I was in a position where I could just put my thumb up my butt and play video games all day long.”
The break also led him to the realization that acting was something he actually wanted to do and was passionate about, and not just a career his parents chose for him when he was a child.
“I was kind of just drifting around, and tried to figure out what I wanted out of life and so forth,” he said. “This was a calling that found me. I didn’t find it. I wanted to explore that in a different way, on my terms.”
For a look at all the big winners at the 2026 Golden Globes, keep reading.
Best Male Actor – Motion Picture – Drama
Joel Edgerton—Train Dreams
Oscar Isaac—Frankenstein
Dwayne Johnson—The Smashing Machine
Michael B. Jordan—Sinners
Wagner Moura—The Secret Agent
Jeremy Allen White—Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Best Female Actor – Television – Drama
Kathy Bates—Matlock
Britt Lower—Severance
Helen Mirran—Mobland
Bella Ramsey—The Last of Us
Keri Russell—The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn—Pluribus
Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Drama
Jessie Buckley—Hamnet
Jennifer Lawrence—Die My Love
Renate Reinsve—Sentimental Value
Julia Roberts—After the Hunt
Tessa Thompson—Hedda
Eva Victor—Sorry, Baby
Best Picture – Musical or Comedy
Marty Supreme
Bugonia
Blue Moon
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
One Battle After Another
Best Picture—Drama
Sentimental Value
Hamnet
Frankenstein
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Female Actor – Television – Musical/Comedy
Kristen Bell—Nobody Wants This
Ayo Edebiri—The Bear
Natasha Lyonne—Poker Face
Selena Gomez—Only Murders in the Building
Jenna Ortega—Wednesday
WINNER: Jean Smart—Hacks
Best Drama Series—Television
The Diplomat
The Pitt
Pluribus
Severance
Slow Horses
The White Lotus
Best Male Actor – Television – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Jacob Elordi—The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Paul Giamatti—Black Mirror
WINNER: Stephen Graham—Adolescence
Charlie Hunnam—Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Jude Law—Black Rabbit
Matthew Rhys—The Beast in Me
Best Supporting Female Actor – Television
Erin Doherty—Adolescence
Carrie Coon—The White Lotus
Hannah Einbender—Hacks
Catherine O’Hara—The Studio
Parker Posey—The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood—The White Lotus
Best Male Actor – Television – Musical/Comedy
Adam Brody—Nobody Wants This
Steve Martin—Only Murders in the Building
Glen Powell—Chad Powers
WINNER: Seth Rogen—The Studio
Martin Short—Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White—The Bear
Best Supporting Male Actor—Motion Picture
Benecio del Toro—One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi—Frankenstein
Paul Mescal—Hamnet
Sean Penn—One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler—Jay Kelly
WINNER: Stellan Skarsgard—Sentimental Value
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
Sterling K. Brown—Paradise
Diego Luna—Andor
Gary Oldman—Slow Horses
Mark Ruffalo—Task
Adam Scott—Severance
WINNER: Noah Wyle—The Pitt
Best Male Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy
WINNER: Timothee Chalamet—Marty Supreme
George Clooney—Jay Kelly
Leonardo DiCaprio—One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke—Blue Moon
Lee Byung-Hun—No Other Choice
Jesse Plemons—Bugonia
Best Supporting Male Actor – Television
WINNER: Owen Cooper—Adolescence
Billy Crudup—The Morning Show
Walton Goggins—The White Lotus
Jason Isaacs—The White Lotus
Tramell Tillman—Severance
Ashley Waters—Adolescence
Best Original Song—Motion Picture
“Dream as One”—Avatar: Fire and Ash; Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen
WINNER: “Golden”—K:Pop Demon Hunters; Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Mark Sonnenblick
“I Lied to You”—Sinners; Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson
“No Place Like Home”—Wicked: For Good; Stephen Schwartz
“The Girl in the Bubble”—Wicked: For Good; Stephen Scwartz
“Train Dreams”—Train Dreams; Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner
Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Adolescence
All Her Fault
The Beast in Me
Black Mirror
Dying for Sex
The Girlfriend
Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy
WINNER: Rose Byrne—If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You
Cynthia Erivo—Wicked: For Good
Kate Hudson—Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti—One Battle After Another
Amanda Seyfried—The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone—Bugonia
Best Female Actor – Television – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Claire Danes—The Beast in Me
Rashida Jones—Black Mirror
Amanda Seyfried—Long Bright River
Sarah Snook—All Her Fault
WINNER: Michelle Williams—Dying for Sex
Robin Wright—The Girlfriend
Best Supporting Female Actor – Motion Picture
Emily Blunt—The Smashing Machine
Elle Fanning—Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande—Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas—Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan—Weapons
WINNER: Teyana Taylor—One Battle After Another
Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
KPop Demon Hunters
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
WINNER: Sinners
Weapons
Wicked: For Good
Zootopia 2
Best Animated Motion Picture
Arco
Demon Slayer: Kimestu No Yaiba Infinity Castle
Elio
Little Amelie or The Character of the Rain
KPop Demon Hunters
Zootopia 2
Best Musical or Comedy Series—Television
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building
The Studio
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Best Director – Motion Picture
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson—One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler—Sinners
Guillermo del Toro—Frankenstein
Jafar Panahi—It Was an Accident
Joachim Trier—Sentimental Value
Chloe Zhao—Hamnet
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Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
WINNER: One Battle After Another—Paul Thomas Anderson
Marty Supreme—Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
Sinners—Ryan Coogler
It Was Just an Accident—Jafar Panahi
Sentimental Value—Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Hamnet—Chloe Zhao, Maggie O’ Farrell
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Best Podcast
- Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard
- Call Her Daddy
- WINNER: Good Hang With Amy Poehler
- The Mel Robbins Podcast
- SmartLess
- Up First
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Best Stand-Up Comedy Performance
- Bill Maher, “Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?”
- Brett Goldstein, “Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life”
- Kevin Hart, “Kevin Hart: Acting My Age”
- Kumail Nanjiani, “Kumail Nanjiani, Night Thoughts”
- Ricky Gervais, “Ricky Gervais: Mortality”
- Sarah Silverman, “Sarah Silverman: Postmortem”
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Carol Burnett Award
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Cecil B. DeMille Award
Helen Mirren
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