Big winners at the Golden Globes could indicate this week’s Oscar noms

With the Academy’s nominations voting opening today, the results of the Globes might signal the direction of certain Oscars categories (statistically speaking).

Millie Giles

1/12/26 11:05AM

Awards season is now well and truly underway, and the 83rd Golden Globe Awards last night gave credence to much of what the Critics Choice Awards had indicated the week before.

Stars aligning?

Having scooped trophies for Best Picture at both ceremonies, things are looking good for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” for the honors circuit ahead; meanwhile, despite losing out on the top prizes, fan favorite “Sinners” has won in some adjacent categories, including the award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the Globes.

In acting categories, Jessie Buckley has now won best actress for “Hamnet” at both the Globes and Critics Choice, as Timothée Chalamet also picked up acting awards at both ceremonies for his work in “Marty Supreme” — furthering his lead in the race toward the Best Actor Oscar against Leonardo DiCaprio, another top pick.

Gong show

For those whose eyes are planted firmly on the Academy Awards — which will see nominations voting open today, before results are announced on January 22 ahead of the ceremony on March 15 — the Globes have historically proved a useful indicator to predict the sway of Hollywood’s most prestigious awards show.

With data compiled by Statista, alongside results from the last decade across both awards shows, it’s clear that Best Actor and Best Actress winners at the Globes go on to have a good chance of scooping gold at the Oscars — even accounting for the former’s quirk of splitting major awards into “Drama” and “Musical or Comedy” (which can dilute the awards’ predictive power, per Numlock News analysis).

On the other hand, wins for Best Picture and Best Director at the Globes don’t make for surefire Oscar win indicators in quite the same way. Prediction markets, however, already seem pretty certain about their front-runners in both categories at present.

Millie Giles

LEARNING MACHINES

More US teens are using AI for studying. Not all of them feel great about it.

A new survey finds over half of Americans aged 13 to 17 use AI chatbots to help with school.

3d robots working at desks with computers in a repetitive office pattern

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Apple and Netflix announce a Formula 1 content swap

Just months after Apple signed a five-year, $140 million-per-year deal for US media rights to Formula 1 races, the streamer is sharing with Netflix.

In a rare content swap, Apple TV will allow Netflix to simulcast the F1 Canadian Grand Prix in May. Netflix, in turn, will allow Apple to carry its popular “Drive to Survive” docuseries.

“Drive to Survive” will land on the queues of both Netflix and Apple TV at 12 a.m. PT this Friday.

The docuseries has been a major driving force behind F1’s increasing popularity in the US, with more than half of the sport’s followers crediting “Drive to Survive” as a key reason they became fans, per a 2022 survey.

Netflix and Apple TV Join Forces to Stream Formula 1 Thrills

“Drive to Survive” will land on the queues of both Netflix and Apple TV at 12 a.m. PT this Friday.

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Trump’s speech broke the record for the longest State of the Union address ever

Much like the US men’s hockey team as they walked into the House Chamber during President Trump’s address, there would have been plenty of “mention” traders celebrating at least a few of the president’s ~10,600 words on Tuesday evening, including “hottest,” “egg,” and “alien.”

Lasting almost 108 minutes, Trump’s speech yesterday officially became the longest State of the Union address of the television age, per Bloomberg, surpassing the previous record of 89 minutes set by President Bill Clinton in 2000.

According to data compiled by The American Presidency Project, the president’s address was almost double the average length of all recorded SOTU speeches since 1964, which works out as 55 minutes.

The speech also marked what could be a new personal best in terms of length for Trump, beating his remarks to Congress in March 2025 by 8 minutes, though this was not included in the average as, according to the APP, it was not an official “State of the Union” speech.

The APP also calculated a preliminary figure for 2026 in terms of word count, and the current president trumped all other spoken-word SOTU addresses. Some addresses, however, haven’t been verbally delivered, and a couple of the written versions have racked up considerably greater tallies — most notably Jimmy Carter’s 1981 written address, which came in at 33,667 words in total.

Millie Giles

PRESSED FOR SPACE

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Will the US government release the alien files?

In the last few weeks, two US presidents have weighed in on the presence of extraterrestrial life — fueling one of America’s longest-held suspicions.