Ludwig Göransson has won Best Original Score at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards for Sinners. He beat out Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein), Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another), Kangding Ray (Sirāt), Max Richter (Hamnet), and Hans Zimmer (F1) for the trophy. This is the sixth Golden Globes nomination and second win of his career.
If you don’t remember seeing Göransson’s acceptance speech on TV, don’t worry; your memory is still intact. Mere days before this year’s Golden Globes Awards, CBS and Paramount+ opted to cut the Best Original Score category from their broadcast for time, despite the previously announced addition of new categories like Best Podcast Award and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
When asked on the red carpet for his thoughts about the category being removed from the televised, Hans Zimmer told Deadline that it “feels a little bit ignorant.” He continued, “The composer has such an important role in making films; by the time we come to the music, the director has been through war. Our first job is to remind him why he did this film in the first place.”
Earlier in the evening, the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song went to the songwriters and lyricists behind Kpop Demon Hunters’ global hit “Golden”: Ejae, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, and Mark Sonnenblick. Their fellow nominees in that category were Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, and Simon Franglen (Avatar: Fire and Ash’s “Dream as One”); Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson (Sinners’ “I Lied to You”); Stephen Schwartz (Wicked: For Good’s “No Place Like Home” and “The Girl in the Bubble”); and Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner (Train Dreams’ “Train Dreams”). Several other musicians appeared onstage throughout the Golden Globes tonight as official awards presenters, too, including Charli XCX, Miley Cyrus, Blackpink’s Lisa, and Snoop Dogg.
The 2025 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score went to Nine Inch Nails musicians Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their work on Challengers. That same year, Camille and Clément Ducol won Best Original Song for “El Mal” in Emilia Pérez.
