Teyana Taylor Wins Best Supporting Actress at the 2026 Golden Globes
Teyana Taylor, star of One Battle After Another, triumphed at the 2026 Golden Globes, taking home Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture.
The 35-year-old was visibly emotional as she took the stage on Sunday, Jan. 11, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Kicking off her speech with her signature flair, Taylor turned to the crowd to show off her bedazzled thong. “Wait, see my party in the back,” she said, noting that she “almost didn’t” write the speech.
She gave a heartfelt shoutout to her children, who she said were “upstairs watching,” joking, “Y’all better be off those damn phones and watching me right now.” Taylor thanked her parents and her “tribe” of loved ones, calling them “my grounding force,” and praised One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson.
“To Paul ‘Let ‘Em Cook’ Thomas Anderson, thank you for your vision, your trust and your brilliance,” she said. “My gratitude is endless. I love you, we love you and thank you so much for holding space for me and our entire cast.”
Taylor concluded her speech with a message for “my Brown sisters and little Brown girls watching tonight.” She declared, “Our softness is not a liability. Our depth is not too much. Our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space.”
In One Battle After Another, Taylor portrays Perfidia Beverly Hills, a revolutionary who has a child with fellow vigilante Leonardo DiCaprio. Perfidia struggles with postpartum depression, which Taylor recently told PEOPLE stemmed from feeling “unheard, unseen, not beautiful and like a piece of meat.” She explained, “It resulted [in] her to feel[ing] like, ‘Okay, I need to be selfish and show up for myself, even at the expense of leaving my own child.’ But who are we to judge how she handles postpartum depression after being ignored?”
Taylor beat out a strong field of nominees, including Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine), Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), and Amy Madigan (Weapons).
Blunt, who plays Mark Kerr’s girlfriend Dawn Staples in the MMA biopic The Smashing Machine, told Wonderland Magazine, “She’s as fierce as she is fragile. They were both tormented by demons at that time, and they struggled with addiction. They couldn’t live with each other, couldn’t live without each other, and were addicted to that chaos.”
In Sentimental Value, Fanning plays an American actress working with Norwegian director Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård). She said she felt like part of Trier’s on-set family despite portraying the outsider.
Grande reprised her role as Glinda in Wicked: For Good, exploring the fallout of her friendship with Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo). “The second movie really embodies unconditional love and forgiveness and friendship,” Grande said last year.
Ibsdotter Lilleaas related to the parent-child dynamics in her film, while Madigan, a seasoned Golden Globes nominee and winner, plays the chilling Aunt Gladys in Weapons. Madigan told PEOPLE her character “proves that people want to see original, exciting characters.”
The 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards aired on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 11.
