Golden Globes: KPop Demon Hunters Wins Best Song, Sinners Wins Best Score (During A Commercial Break)

The 2026 Golden Globes are under way, and we have our music-related winners: actor/musicians Joe Keery (Djo) and Charli XCX presented Best Original Song to "Golden" from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, while Ludwig Göransson's work on Sinners won Best Original Score.

HUNTR/X's "Golden" beat out Miley Cyrus' "Dream As One" from Avatar: Fire And Ash, Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson's "I Lied To You" from Sinners, Nick Cave's "Train Dreams" from Train Dreams, and "No Place Like Home" and "The Girl In The Bubble," Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande tunes from Wicked: For Good.

“When I was a little girl, I worked tirelessly for 10 years to fill one dream: to become a K-pop idol," said EJAE (Kim Eun-jae), "Golden" co-writer and voice of HUNTR/X's Rumi. “So, I leaned on songs and music to get through it — and now I’m here as a singer and a songwriter.” She dedicated the Globe to "people who’ve had their doors closed at them."

Göransson won over Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein), Hans Zimmer (F1), Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another), Kangding Ray (Sirāt), and Max Richter (Hamnet). He previously won in 2024 for Oppenheimer. Both "Golden" and Sinners won Best Song and Best Score, respectively, at last week's Critics Choice Awards.

While Best Original Song was part of the evening's usual TV broadcast, the Best Original Score category was notably omitted due to time constraints — a decision made just a couple of days before the show and announced by Golden Globes owner Penske Media Eldridge earlier today.

“It feels a little bit ignorant," nominee Zimmer told Deadline on the red carpet, calling composers "the psychological underbelly of the whole thing.” He added, "this is a room filled with filmmakers who understand the mechanics and understand when I come home after working on a film, my children don’t know who I am because I haven’t been home for months."

The Globes still had plenty of screen time available to give out the Best Podcast award (it went to Amy Poehler's Good Hang.)

In other Globes highlights, first-time nominee Teyana Taylor's performance in One Battle After Another earned her a trophy for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. Nikki Glaser sang a Globes-themed cover of "Golden" in a Marty Supreme jacket — "K-pong Demon Hunters" — before Marty star Fran Drescher interrupted her.

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And Glaser signed off with a tribute to the late This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner.