The Golden Globes formally kick off awards season (give or take the Critics Alternative Awards), often with a chaotic, enjoyable ceremony. This yr was no completely different, with Nikki Glaser internet hosting and making cracks about Leonardo DiCaprio’s love of pasta, the modifications at CBS Information, and the very concept of an award for podcasts.
For many actors, successful a Golden Globe is usually a profession excessive. However everybody is aware of that the place there are highs, there are additionally lows.
These are the movies that critics have deemed the worst in 40 Golden Globes winners’ careers, together with this yr’s winners similar to Jessie Buckley, Timothée Chalamet, Rose Byrne, Wagner Moura, Teyana Taylor, and Stellan Skarsgård.
Timothée Chalamet — “Love the Coopers” (2015)
CBS Movies
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 19%
Chalamet took house his first Golden Globe in 2026 for enjoying the brash, chaotic desk tennis prodigy Marty Mauser in “Marty Supreme.” It was his fifth nomination.
However not all of his movies have been critically beloved. Simply over a decade in the past, he had a small position within the vacation comedy “Love the Coopers,” during which he performed the son of Ed Helms and Alex Borstein.
Teyana Taylor — “White Males Cannot Soar” (2023)
Hulu
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 26%
Taylor has had a whirlwind few years culminating in her first Golden Globe win (and first nomination) for the movie “One Battle After One other.”
In 2023, she performed Imani, the supportive girlfriend of Sinqua Partitions’ character Kamal within the remake of “White Males Cannot Soar,” which additionally starred Jack Harlow, Lance Reddick, Vince Staples, and Laura Harrier.
Rose Byrne — “Like a Boss” (2020)
Paramount Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 22%
Six years in the past, Byrne starred in “Like a Boss,” a comedy during which she performs certainly one of two founders of the wonder model Mia & Mel (she’s Mel; Tiffany Haddish performs Mia). The corporate is in dire straits and, in fact, shenanigans ensue.
This yr, Byrne received her first Golden Globe — she’d been nominated twice earlier than, in 2008 and 2010, for her position in “Damages” — for her efficiency within the harrowing black comedy “If I Had Legs I would Kick You.”
Stellan Skarsgård — “Exorcist: The Starting” (2004)
Warner Bros. Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 10%
Taking over the priest position in an “Exorcist” movie is an enormous duty, and Skarsgård did his finest as Father Lankester Merrin in “Exorcist: The Starting,” the fourth movie within the franchise. Nonetheless, it was loathed by critics and audiences alike.
On a lighter be aware, this yr the Swedish legend earned his second Golden Globe for his efficiency as film director and absentee father Gustav Borg within the Norwegian movie “Sentimental Worth.” He beforehand received in 2020 for his position in “Chernobyl.”
Jessie Buckley — “Dolittle” (2020)
Common Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 15%
Moreover Robert Downey Jr., Buckley has one of many few human roles in “Dolittle,” a retelling of “The Voyages of Physician Dolittle.” In it, she performs Queen Victoria.
In 2026, she acquired her first Golden Globe nomination and win for enjoying Agnes in “Hamnet,” a narrative of William Shakespeare and his spouse, Agnes, as they meet, fall in love, and begin a household.
Wagner Moura — “Rio, I Love You” (2014)
Warner Bros. Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 8%
Maybe fittingly, each Moura’s finest and worst movies are love letters to Brazil — although one, in fact, might be dominated extra profitable than the opposite.
Moura received the Golden Globe for finest actor in a number one position (drama) for his efficiency in “The Secret Agent,” a sprawling story of a gaggle of political dissidents in Recife through the ’70s navy dictatorship in Brazil. He had beforehand been nominated in 2016 for enjoying Pablo Escobar in “Narcos.”
In 2014, Maura had a task within the anthology movie “Rio, I Love You,” during which 11 filmmakers every directed their very own brief movie going down in Rio de Janeiro. Moura appeared in José Padilha’s brief alongside Cléo Pires.
Demi Moore — “Blame It on Rio” (1983)
twentieth Century-Fox
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 7%
Moore received her first Golden Globe final yr, her first main appearing award since making her movie debut 45 years in the past. Her win got here for her position in “The Substance,” a black comedy/physique horror satire about what it means to be growing old in Hollywood.
She has been nominated thrice earlier than: in 1991 for “Ghost” and twice in 1997 for appearing in and producing the TV film “If These Partitions May Discuss.”
Her worst-rated film by critics, “Blame It on Rio,” is a considerably weird rom-com during which Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) are two finest pals who convey their teenage daughters on a visit to Rio — however Matthew begins having an affair with Victor’s daughter. Moore performs Matthew’s daughter, Nikki.
Adrien Brody — “Air Strike” (2018)
Blue Field Worldwide
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 0%
Brody received his first Golden Globe in 2025 for starring in “The Brualist.” He had beforehand been nominated in 2003 for “The Piano,” however misplaced.
Conversely, “Air Strike” has the uncommon 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is in regards to the Japanese bombings of Chongqing throughout World Struggle II. Brody is credited as a particular look.
Zoe Saldaña — “Constellation” (2005)
Codeblack Leisure; twentieth Century Fox
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 0%
Saldaña acquired her first nomination and win final yr for her efficiency in “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language musical a couple of cartel vendor who undergoes gender reassignment surgical procedure with the assistance of Rita Mora Castro (Saldaña), a lawyer.
“Constellation” is the story of a household that returns to their hometown in Alabama when its matriarch, Carmel, dies. Saldaña performs Rosa, Carmel’s niece.
Sebastian Stan — “The Apparition” (2012)
Warner Bros. Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 3%
Stan was nominated for 2 Golden Globes final yr, for lead actor in each a drama and a musical/comedy. Whereas he misplaced the drama award, he received for his efficiency within the black comedy “A Completely different Man.”
Fourteen years in the past, he appeared within the horror movie “The Apparition.” In it, a gaggle of school college students (together with Stan’s character Ben) try and recreate the “Charles Experiment,” which sees them stare at a drawing of a lifeless man named Charles to summon his spirit.
Michelle Williams — “Deception” (2008)
twentieth Century Fox
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 10%
In 2026, Williams secured her third win for her efficiency within the Hulu miniseries “Dying for Intercourse.” She additionally has received for “My Week with Marilyn” and “Fosse/Verdon” previously.
Simply three years after her first nomination for 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain,” she starred in her worst-reviewed movie, “Deception,” a thriller co-starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor. The movie is mainly a B-list “Eyes Large Shut,” during which McGregor’s character will get concerned in a mysterious underground intercourse membership that Williams is part of.
Colin Farrell — “Artemis Fowl” (2020)
Walt Disney Studios Movement Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 8%
Farrell has been nominated for 4 Golden Globes, successful his first in 2009 for “In Bruges,” his second in 2023 for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and his third in 2025 for “The Penguin.”
One among his newer movies, “Artemis Fowl,” has additionally confirmed to be his worst, in keeping with critics. In it, he performs Artemis Fowl Sr., the lacking father of the titular character.
Kieran Culkin — “Film 43” (2013)
Relativity Media
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 5%
Culkin has been nominated for six Golden Globes in his profession, successful two back-to-back in 2024 and 2025 for “Succession” and “A Actual Ache,” respectively.
Nonetheless, only a decade or so in the past, he appeared within the lowest-rated movie of his profession: “Film 43,” a comedy anthology movie. Culkin’s phase is a couple of grocery retailer clerk, Neil, whose ex-girlfriend reveals up and the 2 rapidly start having an specific dialog — unbeknownst to them, although, Neil’s mic is attached to the shop’s intercom. Neil’s ex Veronica is performed by Culkin’s real-life ex Emma Stone. And talking of Stone …
Emma Stone — “Film 43” (2013)
Relativity Media
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 5%
Stone has been nominated for 9 Golden Globes, successful two. Her first got here in 2017 for “La La Land” in 2017, and her second got here seven years later in 2024 for “Poor Issues.” Her most up-to-date nomination was this yr for her efficiency in “Bugonia.”
And identical to Culkin, the worst movie of her profession (in keeping with critics) is “Film 43.”
Denzel Washington — “Coronary heart Situation” (1990)
New Line Cinema
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 10%
Washington is without doubt one of the most adorned actors of all time, particularly in relation to the Globes. He is been nominated 11 instances — most just lately for “Gladiator II” — successful for “Glory” and “The Hurricane.” Washington additionally acquired the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016.
However critics say his worst movie of all time is the 1990 buddy comedy “Coronary heart Situation,” during which he co-stars with Bob Hoskins. Washington performs a lawyer, Napoleon, whereas Hoskins performs a racist police sergeant named Jake. The 2 group as much as clear up a criminal offense.
Angela Bassett — “Survivor” (2015)
Alchemy
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 8%
Bassett had solely been nominated for one Golden Globe, which she took house for the 1994 Tina Turner biopic “What’s Love Received to Do with It,” till 2022, when she scored her second win for enjoying Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally.”
In 2015, Bassett starred within the worst-reviewed movie in her profession thus far, “Survivor,” a spy thriller during which she performed the US ambassador to the UK, Maureen Crane.
Andrew Garfield — Lions for Lambs (2007)
United Artists
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 28%
Garfield received his first (and solely, thus far) Golden Globe in 2022 for his efficiency in “Tick, Tick…Increase!.”
His different nominations got here from “The Social Community,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and “Underneath the Banner of Heaven.”
Garfield’s worst film, in keeping with critics, was solely his second on-screen look, and he appeared alongside titans like Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Tom Cruise. Within the movie, he performs an apathetic school pupil who’s channeled by a professor, performed by Redford.
Hugh Grant — “Did You Hear Concerning the Morgans?” (2009)
Sony Footage Releasing
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 12%
Grant has one win from seven nominations, for his efficiency in “4 Weddings and a Funeral.” He was nominated in 2025 for his efficiency in “Heretic,” however misplaced to Sebastian Stan.
In 2009, Grant co-starred with Sarah Jessica Parker in “Did You Hear Concerning the Morgans?” as an estranged NYC couple who’re compelled to enter the witness safety program and transfer to Wyoming after witnessing a homicide.
Jessica Chastain — “Stolen” (2009)
IFC Movies
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 0%
Chastain has eight Golden Globe nominations to her title — together with one in 2023 for “George & Tammy” — however just one win: “Zero Darkish Thirty” in 2013.
Solely 4 years prior, although, Chastain appeared in a profession low, the 2009 movie “Stolen” alongside Jon Hamm and Josh Lucas. The movie tells the story of two fathers linked by the kidnappings of their sons 50 years aside.
Tom Cruise — “Cocktail” (1988)
Buena Vista Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 9%
Cruise has three wins from seven Golden Globe nominations: He is received for “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Jerry Maguire,” and “Magnolia.” In 2021, amid controversies with the Golden Globes and the Hollywood Overseas Press, Cruise returned all three awards.
Simply two years earlier than he’d win his first Globe, although, he appeared within the critically panned — however box-office smash — “Cocktail” as Brian Flanagan, an Military vet who turns to bartending to make ends meet.
Jean Good — “Life Itself” (2018)
Amazon Studios
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 13%
Good received her first Golden Globe in 2022 for her efficiency as legendary humorist Deborah Vance in “Hacks.” She’s since received twice extra (together with this yr).
She’s had a decadeslong profession in present enterprise, together with the 2018 flop “Life Itself,” which had an ensemble solid of Good, Mandy Patinkin, Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Cooke, and Annette Bening. The movie spans a number of generations, households, and complicated plotlines.
Hugh Jackman — “Film 43” (2013)
Relativity Media
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 5%
Jackman has one Golden Globe from 4 nominations, most just lately in 2023 for “The Son.” He took house finest actor in a musical or comedy for his efficiency as Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables.”
That very same yr, he appeared in “Film 43,” a movie comprised of a number of brief segments. In his, he performs a personality who goes on a date with Kate Winslet’s character, and he has a moderately unlucky appendage rising from his chin.
Cate Blanchett — “Borderlands” (2024)
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Rotten Tomatoes rating: 10%
Blanchett has received 4 instances: for “Elizabeth,” “I am Not There,” “Blue Jasmine,” and most just lately, for “Tár.” She’s been nominated a further 9 instances, most just lately for “Disclaimer.”
Nonetheless, critics say her worst movie was 2024’s “Borderlands,” a completely cursed video-game adaptation that additionally fell completely flat with followers and on the field workplace. Blanchett led the movie as Lilith, a bounty hunter.
Taron Egerton — “Billionaire Boys Membership” (2018)
Vertical Leisure
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 7%
Egerton’s first win was additionally his first nomination — he received for his efficiency as Elton John in 2019’s “Rocketman.” He was nominated once more in 2022 for his work on the Apple TV+ collection “Black Chook.”
Each have been rebounds from a profession low, when he appeared because the antagonistic tennis professional Dean in “Billionaire Boys Membership” in 2018.
Brad Pitt — “Cool World” (1992)
Paramount Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 4%
Pitt was nominated for his eighth Golden Globe in 2022 for “Babylon,” 28 years after his first nomination for “Legends of the Fall.” He secured his first win the following yr for “12 Monkeys.” It took him one other 23 years to win once more, this time for “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood,” in 2019.
Whereas 2019 was a peak, the nadir of his profession must be his look in “Cool World” as Frank, a detective transported into a comic book e-book world.
Jennifer Hudson — “Breathe” (2024)
Variance Movies
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 14%
Hudson received a Globe on her first strive in 2006 for her position as Effie White in “Dreamgirls,” which was additionally her appearing debut; an auspicious begin.
Her worst movie, although, got here simply final yr — the sci-fi thriller “Breathe” which takes place on an Earth the place the environment has develop into unbreathable. Hudson performs Maya, the movie’s protagonist, who is continually on the hunt for an oxygen machine and can cease at nothing to get it.
Javier Bardem — “The Final Face” (2016)
Saban Movies/Lionsgate
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 8%
Bardem has been nominated for six Golden Globes general, successful one for “No Nation for Outdated Males.” Most just lately, he was nominated for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”
In 2016, Bardem co-starred with Charlize Theron in “The Final Face,” directed by her boyfriend on the time, Sean Penn. Theron and Bardem performed medical doctors in Liberia who fall in love whereas coping with their harmful circumstances. Nonetheless, critics did not suppose a lot of it, as proven by its low rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rosamund Pike — “Return to Sender” (2015)
Picture Leisure
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 14%
Pike proved that the third time’s the appeal in 2021, successful her first Golden Globe on her third nomination. After receiving nods for “Gone Woman” and “A Non-public Struggle,” she received for her efficiency in “I Care a Lot.” She was nominated once more for her efficiency in “Saltburn” in 2024, however did not win.
On the flip facet, the worst movie in her profession in keeping with critics is 2015’s “Return to Sender,” a psychological thriller a couple of surgical nurse, Miranda (Pike), hanging up a friendship together with her rapist whereas he is in jail.
Daniel Kaluuya — “Chatroom” (2010)
Revolver Leisure
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 9%
Kaluuya scored his first Golden Globe win in 2021 for his efficiency as Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” He was additionally nominated for “Get Out.”
However again in 2010, recent off his run on “Skins,” Kaluuya appeared within the web thriller “Chatroom,” which follows a gaggle of teenagers who meet on-line and encourage one another’s dangerous habits.
Kate Hudson — “A Little Little bit of Heaven” (2011)
Millennium Leisure; The Weinstein Firm
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 4%
Hudson was nominated for her third Golden Globe in 2025 for the movie “Music Sung Blue,” however misplaced to Rose Byrne. She received her first in 2001 for her position as Penny Lane in “Virtually Well-known.”
She additionally starred within the 2011 movie “A Little Little bit of Heaven” as Marley, a lady who learns she has terminal most cancers and struggles to come back to phrases with it, whereas additionally being granted three needs.
Glenn Shut — “Maxie” (1985)
Orion Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 0%
Shut has been nominated for 16 Golden Globes, successful three for her performances in “The Lion in Winter,” “Damages,” and “The Spouse.” She was most just lately nominated for “Hillbilly Elegy,” however she misplaced to Jodie Foster.
Nonetheless, her worst movie, in keeping with critics, was 1985’s “Maxie,” during which she performs the titular character, the spirit of a would-be ’20s movie star who possesses a traditional lady, Jan, so she will be able to fulfill her future as a movie star.
Saoirse Ronan — “The Host” (2013)
Open Highway Movies
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 10%
Ronan received her first and solely Golden Globe (to this point) in 2018 for “Woman Chook,” although she has three different nods to her title.
In 2013, she appeared within the movie adaptation of “Twilight” writer Stephenie Meyer’s different collection, “The Host,” as the principle character Melanie, who will get taken over by a parasite named Wanderer.
Michael Douglas — “Past a Affordable Doubt” (2009)
After Darkish Movies; Anchor Bay Movies
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 7%
Douglas has been nominated for 14 Golden Globes, and has received 5 — he received for producing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” one for producing “Romancing the Stone,” and others for his performances in “Wall Avenue,” “Behind the Candelabra,” and “The Kominsky Methodology.” He additionally acquired the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2004.
However critics say his worst movie is the 2009 crime thriller “Past a Affordable Doubt,” during which he performs a sketchy (however profitable) lawyer who’s embroiled in a scandal when a journalist tries to set him up.
Octavia Spencer — “The Divergent Collection: Allegiant” (2016)
Lionsgate
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 11%
Spencer has been nominated for 3 Golden Globes, successful one in 2012 for her breakthrough efficiency in “The Assist.”
After that, she was solid within the “Divergent” collection, one of many many dystopian movie collection that was touted as the following “Starvation Video games,” as Johanna, a member of the “Amity” faction. She appeared in each “Rebel” and “Allegiant,” which has a critics’ rating of simply 11%.
Robert Downey Jr. — “Johnny Be Good” (1988)
Orion Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 0%
Downey has acquired 5 Golden Globes noms in his profession and has received thrice: one for his efficiency on the TV collection “Ally McBeal” in 2001, a second for his efficiency as the long-lasting detective in “Sherlock Holmes” in 2010, and a 3rd in 2024 for enjoying Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer.” He additionally received a particular award as a part of the ensemble solid of “Brief Cuts.”
One of many worst films of his profession, although, is “Johnny Be Good,” during which he appeared as Leo, the very best buddy of the principle character Johnny Walker, who’s making an attempt to resolve the place to play school soccer.
Winona Ryder — “Misplaced Souls” (2000)
New Line Cinema
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 8%
Ryder has received one Golden Globe from three nominations, for her efficiency in “The Age of Innocence.”
Seven years later, Ryder starred within the horror movie “Misplaced Souls” as Maya, a member of a gaggle of people that imagine that Devil intends to inhabit a human being.
Ryan Gosling — “Keep” (2005)
twentieth Century Fox
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 26%
It took Gosling 5 tries to lastly take house a Golden Globe, which he did for 2017’s “La La Land.” He acquired one other nomination in 2023 for “Barbie.”
Three years earlier than he’d earn his first Golden Globe nomination for “Lars and the Actual Woman” in 2008, he starred in 2005’s “Keep” as Henry Letham, a automobile crash survivor who’s slowly dropping his grip on actuality.
Awkwafina — “Breaking Information in Yuba County” (2021)
United Artists Releasing; American Worldwide Footage
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 11%
Awkwafina received her first Golden Globe for her breakthrough efficiency in “The Farewell” in 2020. It was additionally her first nomination.
Only a yr later, she’d already gotten her worst movie out of the best way: 2021’s “Breaking Information in Yuba County,” during which she performed Mina, an enforcer for cash launderers.
Sigourney Weaver — “The Chilly Gentle of Day” (2012)
Summit Leisure
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 4%
Weaver has two Golden Globe wins underneath her belt from seven nominations. She received for her portrayal of Dian Fossey in “Gorillas within the Mist” and for enjoying the villainous boss Katharine in “Working Woman.”
A profession low for Weaver is 2012’s motion thriller “The Chilly Gentle of Day,” during which she performs the duplicitous CIA handler of Henry Cavill’s character Will.
Sam Rockwell — “Gents Broncos” (2009) and “Mute” (2018) (tie)
Fox Searchlight Footage; Sony Footage Classics and Stage 6 Movies
Rotten Tomatoes scores: 20%
Rockwell’s been nominated for 3 Golden Globes, successful one for his efficiency in “Three Billboards Outdoors Ebbing, Missouri.”
Virtually a decade prior, he appeared in “Gents Broncos,” a movie a couple of would-be writer named Benjamin Purvis, who’s making an attempt to jot down a e-book referred to as “Yeast Lords.” Rockwell performs the principle character of the e-book, Bronco (later Brutus).
The identical yr he received for “Billboards” in 2018, he additionally appeared within the tech-noir movie “Mute,” during which he has an uncredited cameo as Sam Bell, his character from “Mute’s” predecessor, “Moon.”
Jim Carrey — “Darkish Crimes” (2016)
Saban Movies
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 0%
Carrey has been nominated for eight Golden Globes, successful twice in back-to-back years — in 1999 for “The Truman Present” and 2000 for “Man on the Moon.”
Three years earlier than he’d obtain his seventh appearing nom for “Kidding,” Carrey appeared in “Darkish Crimes” (also referred to as “True Crimes”), a movie primarily based on the actual story of Polish convicted assassin Krystian Bala, per The New Yorker. Carrey performs Tadek, a detective investigating a homicide.
Felicity Huffman — “Christmas with the Kranks” (2004)
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Rotten Tomatoes rating: 5%
Huffman has been nominated for seven Golden Globes, primarily for her tv work, however her solely win thus far is for her efficiency within the movie “Transamerica” in 2005.
The yr prior, she had a small position in “Christmas with the Kranks” as one of many most important character’s pals, Merry.
