The 84th Annual Golden Globes take place on Sunday, January 10, 2027, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The ceremony airs live on CBS and streams on Paramount+ in the United States, and Nikki Glaser returns as host for a third consecutive year. Nominations will be announced on Monday, December 7, 2026 — less than four weeks from now.
The Golden Globes are the first major awards show of the Hollywood season, and they set the tone for everything that follows. They are also the most misunderstood: voted on by journalists rather than industry professionals, run by a private company rather than an academy, and rebuilt from scratch after a scandal that nearly killed them. This article explains the date, the timetable, how the voting works, and what happens next.
The key dates
The Golden Globes have published a full timetable for the 84th ceremony, and it runs as follows. The submission website for motion picture, television and podcast entries opened on June 1, 2026, and submissions closed on October 30, 2026. The pool of eligible work is therefore already fixed: nothing released after the deadline, or not submitted by it, can be nominated.
Television and podcast nomination ballots were sent to all voters on Monday, November 16, 2026, and are due back by November 23. Motion picture and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement nomination ballots go out on November 24 and are due back on December 4. Nominations will be announced on Monday, December 7, 2026, at 5 a.m. PST.
Final ballots are sent to voters by KPMG, the accounting firm that processes the voting, on Friday, December 18, 2026. Completed final ballots are due back to KPMG by Saturday, January 2, 2027, at 5 p.m. PST. The ceremony follows eight days later, on Sunday, January 10, 2027, at 5 p.m. PST. Dick Clark Productions produces the show.
The qualifying year for the 84th Golden Globes is January 1 through December 31, 2026. For the ceremony itself, that date matters in one specific way: the Globes fall the day before Oscar nomination voting begins on January 11, 2027, which means the Globes’ winners are announced while Academy voters are still making up their minds. That timing is not an accident. It is why studios campaign so hard for a Globe: a win on January 10 can still influence an Oscar ballot cast on January 12.
Who votes, and how?
Golden Globe nominations and awards are determined by an independent body of international entertainment journalists. To be eligible to apply as a voter, a person must be an experienced international entertainment journalist working for a recognised media organisation — a newspaper, magazine, radio station, broadcast outlet, photo service or digital platform. Personal blogs, social media profiles and review sites do not qualify. Accepted voters must follow a code of conduct, a conflict of interest policy, and a gift ban prohibiting them from accepting gifts or promotional items from any studio, network, streamer, agency or publicist.
The voting body numbers around 300 or more journalists in recent years, a deliberate expansion from the small group that voted in the past. Each voter receives nomination ballots listing the eligible films, television programmes and podcasts that were submitted. Voters rank their top choices in each category, and the nominees are the selections that receive the most votes. For the final vote, voters receive ballots listing the nominees and select one winner per category; the nominee with the most votes wins. There is no runoff and no ranked-choice system at the final stage. KPMG tabulates the ballots confidentially, and the results are not known until the envelopes are opened on stage.
That structure makes the Globes fundamentally different from the Oscars, where working film professionals vote, and from the Grammys, where working music creators vote. The Globes are a journalists’ award, and journalists vote like journalists: they reward the work they found most interesting to write about, which is why Globe winners sometimes diverge sharply from Oscar winners.
There are 28 categories recognising motion picture and television performances, including best motion pictures in drama, musical or comedy, animated and non-English language. Recently added categories include Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, and Best Podcast.
What is new for 2027
Two changes matter most. The first is the Best Podcast category, which was introduced at the 83rd Golden Globes in 2026 and returns for the 84th. The inaugural award was won by Amy Poehler for Good Hang with Amy Poehler. For 2027, eligible podcasts are drawn exclusively from a curated list of the Top 30 podcasts during the eligibility period of January 1 to September 30, 2026, determined by Luminate, an entertainment data and analytics company, using a proprietary methodology based on measures including unique listeners and viewers across all platforms. Six nominees will be named in the category.
The second change is the new rules on artificial intelligence. The Golden Globes’ eligibility and consideration rules for the 84th ceremony, last updated on July 30, 2026, address AI directly. The reported wording is that AI use does not automatically disqualify a work from consideration, but the rules draw lines around how substantially AI was used and whether a human remains the primary creator. AI performances are not eligible. The exact boundary — where legitimate AI-assisted craft ends and disqualifying AI generation begins — is not spelled out in the published rules, and it will be tested in practice this season, not in theory. The Academy has adopted similar positions for the Oscars, so the two organisations are moving in the same direction, cautiously and at the same time.
The rules also reflect a wider opening of the competition. Non-English-language and independent films can now be submitted for the individual acting categories as well as the film categories, widening the field beyond the English-language studio films that used to dominate the acting races.
How the Globes got here
The Golden Globes were long run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of overseas journalists based in Southern California. In 2021 and 2022, the organisation faced sustained criticism and boycotts over its lack of diversity and its practices, including questions about who its members were and how they were chosen. In 2022, interim chief executive Todd Boehly announced a restructuring: the awards would become a for-profit entity under Eldridge Industries, the parent company of Dick Clark Productions, and the HFPA’s philanthropic work would continue separately as a non-profit, the Golden Globe Foundation. The restructuring took effect on June 12, 2023, the HFPA dissolved itself, and the Golden Globes are now owned by Golden Globes, LLC and produced by Dick Clark Productions.
The Foundation’s record is worth noting because it is the part of the old organisation that survived intact. Over the last 28 years, the Golden Globe Foundation has donated more than 55 million dollars to entertainment-related non-profit organisations, academic programmes and humanitarian organisations, provided more than 2,224 scholarships to college students, and funded the restoration of over 138 classic films.
The practical consequence of the rebuild is the expanded, more diverse voting body described above, the gift ban, and the published rules and timetable that this article is drawn from.
What happens next
Between now and the ceremony, the season runs on a fixed schedule. Television and podcast nomination ballots are already with voters and are due back on November 23. Film ballots go out on November 24. Nominations are announced on December 7 at 5 a.m. PST, and the full list will be published on goldenglobes.com and reported everywhere within minutes. Final ballots go out on December 18 and are due back on January 2. The ceremony is on January 10.
For readers, the nominations announcement on December 7 is the date that matters most. The Globes nominate five films in most categories, and the nomination list is a reliable early guide to which films and performances the industry’s journalists think are worth talking about — and, by extension, which ones Oscar voters will be hearing about when their own ballots open the next day.
For a fuller explanation of how the US Grammys work, including the nominations process for the 2027 ceremony, see our guide to the Grammy Awards 2027. For how awards voting works across the Grammys, the Oscars and the Emmys, see our guide to how awards voting works. And for the ceremony that closes the season, see our guide to the Oscars 2027.
Frequently asked questions
When are the 2027 Golden Globes?
Sunday, January 10, 2027, at 5 p.m. PST, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The show airs live on CBS and streams on Paramount+ in the United States.
Who is hosting the 2027 Golden Globes?
Nikki Glaser, returning for a third consecutive year.
When are the Golden Globe nominations announced?
Monday, December 7, 2026, at 5 a.m. PST.
Who votes for the Golden Globes?
An independent body of international entertainment journalists, numbering around 300 or more, who work for recognised media organisations. Ballots are tabulated confidentially by KPMG.
How many categories are there?
Twenty-eight categories covering motion pictures and television, including the newer Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, and Best Podcast categories.
What are the new AI rules?
AI use does not automatically disqualify a work from consideration, but the rules draw lines around how substantially AI was used and whether a human remains the primary creator. AI performances are not eligible.
Sources
- Golden Globes, “Award Rules and Entry Forms” (84th Annual Golden Globes Timetable): Golden Globes
- Golden Globes, “84th Annual Golden Globes Eligibility and Consideration Rules” (last updated July 30, 2026): Golden Globes
- Golden Globes, “FAQs”: Golden Globes
- Golden Globes, “Nikki Glaser to Host Jan. 10, 2027, Golden Globes”: Golden Globes
- AwardsWatch, “2027 Golden Globes Reveal Key Dates, Adds AI Rules, Expands Podcast Pool”: Awards Watch
- Next Best Picture, “The 84th Golden Globes Have A Date, A Host & New AI Rules”: Next Best Picture