The Golden Globes Awards have just opened the applications for their 83rd edition, scheduled for January 11, 2026, live from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The first big ceremony of the prize season, the event celebrates the best of cinema each year, television – and recently, of the podcast – in a glamorous atmosphere which earned him the nickname “Hollywood’s Party of the Year®”.
Registration is now open via the official submission platform:
👉 Submit a film or a series
The deadline is set at Friday October 31, 2025and the appointments will be announced the Monday December 8, 2025.
The evening will be broadcast live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ in the United States. For the second consecutive year, humorist, actress and actress Nikki Glaser, appointed to the Golden Globes, Gramms and Emmys, will assume the role of host of the ceremony, Animating the price discounts and the highlights of the direct.
In production, Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, a multi-reward duo at the Emmy Awards, re-stocked for a third consecutive year as an executive showrunners, under the leadership of Dick Clark Productions. The show, broadcast in more than 185 countries, remains one of the most followed television events in the world.
Created in 1944, the Golden Globes Awards are distinguished by the diversity of their categories, in particular that of the “best film in a foreign language”, which offers rare visibility to non -English -speaking works. However, despite this opportunity, we see that Tunisian films are practically absent.
This observation surprises all the more since Tunisian filmmakers regularly submit their works to the Oscars in this same category. Again in 2024 The daughters of Olffa/Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania was among the Oscar finalists, But had not been offered to the Golden Globes.
The submission procedure is however clear and accessible. Full regulations can be viewed here:
👉 Rules, calendar and categories
No prior American distribution obligation is required, and the platform makes it possible to submit directly online, whether for a film, a series or a podcast.
Furthermore – and it is a distinct but significant fact – for a few years, the Golden Globes Awards have expanded their electoral college to cinema critics around the world. In 2024, I had the honor of being selected as an international voter. I have thus become the first – and to date the only – Tunisian criticism to be one of the voters at the Golden Globes. This evolution testifies to a real desire for openness, diversification of looks, and better representation of global cinematographic sensitivities.
While the candidates for the 2026 edition are now open, the question deserves to be asked: why don’t Tunisian filmmakers submit their films for this prestigious prize in the “Foreign language” category?
Neïla Driss
