Avatar: Fire & Ash’s Golden Globes 2026 nominations are unhinged, but my pick for Best Picture winner isn’t

To paraphrase Schitts Creek's Moira Rose: awards is my favorite season. The Golden Globes is the ceremony that kicks the year off, and the full 2026 nominations have now been made public.

I'm happy to say that there's not much in the way of controversy here (except for lumping together musicals and comedies into a category when those two genres are distinctly different). Sinners, Hamnet and Frankenstein prop up the Best Picture drama category, while One Battle After Another and Bugonia are our comedy entries.

While no films have necessarily been snubbed, two things immediately stand out to me. The first is Avatar: Fire & Ash being nominated for a slew of categories, including box office success, without actually being released yet. In essence, the projections are doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

But the second is my favorite. Following suit in the 'this movie hasn't been released yet' category is Marty Supreme, the new A24 movie starring Timothée Chalamet as a fictional table tennis champ.

While Avatar doesn't exactly need the Golden Globes push, Marty Supreme's Best Picture nomination will help it enormously – and in my view, it's being rightly recognized as the best movie of 2025.

Why you need to watch Marty Supreme before the Golden Globes 2026

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Let me explain why Marty Supreme has sent me into a frenzied pandemonium weeks before its release. I'll set the scene: I'm happily winding down my work for the week one Friday afternoon when an invitation pings into my inbox.

It's for a special screening of Marty Supreme at the Tate Modern in less than 24 hours' time, and I clear my schedule faster than the speed of light.

By the time I leave the screening room, I could kick a door down. I'm buzzing with energy, feeling stronger than I ever have while being delirious with euphoria. In a nutshell, that's how watching Marty Supreme will make you feel.

Josh Safdie's new movie is like bottled lightning, moving at an electric pace with a sense of dynamism that's never lost through its 149 minute runtime. That's an achievement on its own, and I cannot remember the last time that watching a movie made me feel so alive.

The day I watched it, I heard somebody describe Chalamet as a young Al Pacino, and I can absolutely see the similarities in their career trajectories. Chalamet has never made his desire to be one of the greats a secret, and this is his big push to get his first Oscar.

In this sense, Marty and Chalamet morph into one. In fact, I think Chalamet would have handled some of Marty's unhinged personal dilemmas in exactly the same way. The dialogue is as fast-paced as the action, like you're constantly watching a ping pong ball moving across the court.

Gywneth Paltrow's fading star Kay Stone is used satisfyingly shrewdly, while I Love LA star Odessa A'zion debuts a vulnerable, tender side to her craft. In all honesty, there's not a single thing I'd change about it.

While Avatar: Fire & Ash is bound to be a smash-hit and exceed its box office targets, don't forget to champion the little guy. As Marty would tell you himself, he's gonna be a star.

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