‘Hamnet’ Also Won the Entire Weekend

By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy . We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Last week, the Critics Choice Awards helped ease all of us on the awards circuit into a Golden Globes weekend that still felt like being shot out a cannon. But while the event itself is a locus for all sorts of annual events, the stakes were even higher this year, with the ceremony moving from the first weekend of the year to a weekend conveniently right before Oscars nomination voting opens. Saturday alone hosted a robust slate that included the Independent Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch, the BAFTA Tea Party, and the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, plus several pre-Golden Globes parties. The stars had been showing up and showing out well before they arrived on the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s “ One Battle After Another ” is still the out and out favorite to win the Best Picture Oscar, especially after it won Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes, its rival “ Hamnet ” came out of the weekend as the bigger winner. After being feted at the AFI Awards , the film ’s cast and crew were on hand for one of Friday night’s biggest events, Donna Langley and Universal Entertainment’s Celebratory Toast, which often becomes more expansive than just an awards event, inviting stars from their upcoming 2026 releases, like “Disclosure Day” actor Colman Domingo, as well as their TV shows, like “All Her Fault” actors Sarah Snook and Michael Peña. Having made it onto 13 of the BAFTA longlists, the Tea Party felt like a victory lap for “Hamnet” as well, as the team caught up with peers from across the pond. The film is a British co-production, and so the BAFTAs seem to be the most likely place Chloé Zhao ’s film could collect another Best Picture win over “One Battle After Another.” That would be similar to how “ Conclave, ” another Focus Features release, trumped “Anora” at the same ceremony last year. Many of those who attended the BAFTA Tea Party, like “Sentimental Value” stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, or “Sinners” star Delroy Lindo, went straight from there to the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, which will air on PBS on February 22. But, spoiler alert: ”Hamnet” won Best Picture there, too. When Sharon Stone presented the award to Zhao, plus her stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, it was the most poignant moment of the night, with the Oscar nominee in tears talking about how watching the film not only have you to feel the impact of loss, but “wake you up to the understanding of what you have.” Afterwards, as a...

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