The Sunday telecast of the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on CBS suffered a rankings setback with an viewers decline of seven% in comparison with final 12 months’s present.
Nielsen knowledge confirmed the dwell occasion, hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser on the Beverly Hilton, averaged 8.66 million viewers. The massive winners of the evening included “One Battle After One other” and “Hamnet” on the function movie facet. Medical drama “The Pitt” and comedy collection “Hacks,” each from HBO Max, had been the massive TV winners.
The info, which embody livestreaming, mark the second straight viewers decline for the Golden Globe Awards, which scored 9.2 million viewers in 2025. That version dropped barely from its bounce-back 12 months of 2024, when this system delivered 9.4 million viewers — a 50% elevate over its last 12 months on NBC.
Like all awards reveals, the Golden Globes now not ship the type of rankings that after made it one of many most-watched packages of the 12 months. The present has suffered from the altering habits of viewers, a lot of whom have turned to social media for trophy-show clips.
The Golden Globe Awards additionally needed to come again from a scandal over the dearth of variety within the membership of the Hollywood Overseas Press Assn., which operated the occasion for many years. A Los Angeles Instances investigation introduced consideration and raised issues about its ethics and monetary practices in 2021.
The 83rd Golden Globe Awards could have been damage by some manufacturing parts that didn’t go over effectively based mostly on the tough response from viewers posting on social media.
Marc Malkin, senior tradition and occasions editor for Selection, was paired with “Leisure Tonight” co-host Kevin Frazier to offer operating chatter off-camera throughout the lengthy and winding journey to the stage for winners seated within the crowded resort ballroom. They weren’t effectively acquired.
“Do you assume Golden Globes commentators Marc Malkin and Kevin Frazier are going to go residence tonight totally haunted for the remainder of their days over the mind-numbing inanities they uttered all evening?” wrote movie critic Dustin Putman.
A put up from one other viewer in contrast Malkin’s commentary to “your mother speaking about who she simply bumped into on the grocery store.”
Viewers had been additionally delay by on-screen graphics that includes knowledge from the prediction market app Polymarket exhibiting the win chance of the nominees forward of their classes. “Simply push me in entrance of a bus at this level,” sports activities podcaster Bobby Wagner wrote on X.
The Golden Globe Awards offered the info as a part of a partnership cope with Polymarket, which supplies customers the chance to wager on the outcomes of occasions in sports activities, tradition, politics and different areas. The deal included an promoting purchase on the published.
