Worst Movies Golden Globe Winners Have Been in, According to Critics

Rotten Tomatoes score: 19%

Chalamet took home his first Golden Globe in 2026 for playing the brash, chaotic table tennis prodigy Marty Mauser in “Marty Supreme.” It was his fifth nomination.

But not all of his films have been critically beloved. Just over a decade ago, he had a small role in the holiday comedy “Love the Coopers,” in which he played the son of Ed Helms and Alex Borstein.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26%

Taylor has had a whirlwind few years culminating in her first Golden Globe win (and first nomination) for the film “One Battle After Another.”

In 2023, she played Imani, the supportive girlfriend of Sinqua Walls’ character Kamal in the remake of “White Men Can’t Jump,” which also starred Jack Harlow, Lance Reddick, Vince Staples, and Laura Harrier.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 22%

Six years ago, Byrne starred in “Like a Boss,” a comedy in which she plays one of two founders of the beauty brand Mia & Mel (she’s Mel; Tiffany Haddish plays Mia). The company is in dire straits and, of course, shenanigans ensue.

This year, Byrne won her first Golden Globe — she’d been nominated twice before, in 2008 and 2010, for her role in “Damages” — for her performance in the harrowing black comedy “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”

Rotten Tomatoes score: 10%

Taking on the priest role in an “Exorcist” film is a big responsibility, and Skarsgård did his best as Father Lankester Merrin in “Exorcist: The Beginning,” the fourth film in the franchise. However, it was loathed by critics and audiences alike.

On a lighter note, this year the Swedish legend earned his second Golden Globe for his performance as movie director and absentee father Gustav Borg in the Norwegian film “Sentimental Value.” He previously won in 2020 for his role in “Chernobyl.”

Rotten Tomatoes score: 15%

Besides Robert Downey Jr., Buckley has one of the few human roles in “Dolittle,” a retelling of “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.” In it, she plays Queen Victoria.

In 2026, she received her first Golden Globe nomination and win for playing Agnes in “Hamnet,” a story of William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, as they meet, fall in love, and start a family.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 8%

Perhaps fittingly, both Moura’s best and worst films are love letters to Brazil — though one, of course, could be ruled more successful than the other.

Moura won the Golden Globe for best actor in a leading role (drama) for his performance in “The Secret Agent,” a sprawling tale of a group of political dissidents in Recife during the ’70s military dictatorship in Brazil. He had previously been nominated in 2016 for playing Pablo Escobar in “Narcos.”

In 2014, Maura had a role in the anthology film “Rio, I Love You,” in which 11 filmmakers each directed their own short film taking place in Rio de Janeiro. Moura appeared in José Padilha’s short alongside Cléo Pires.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 7%

Moore won her first Golden Globe last year, her first major acting award since making her film debut 45 years ago. Her win came for her role in “The Substance,” a black comedy/body horror satire about what it means to be aging in Hollywood.

She has been nominated three times before: in 1991 for “Ghost” and twice in 1997 for acting in  and producing the TV movie “If These Walls Could Talk.”

Her worst-rated movie by critics, “Blame It on Rio,” is a somewhat bizarre rom-com in which Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) are two best friends who bring their teenage daughters on a trip to Rio — but Matthew begins having an affair with Victor’s daughter. Moore plays Matthew’s daughter, Nikki.

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Brody won his first Golden Globe in 2025 for starring in “The Brualist.” He had previously been nominated in 2003 for “The Piano,” but lost.

Conversely, “Air Strike” has the rare 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is about the Japanese bombings of Chongqing during World War II. Brody is credited as a special appearance.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 0%

Saldaña received her first nomination and win last year for her performance in “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language musical about a cartel dealer who undergoes gender reassignment surgery with the help of Rita Mora Castro (Saldaña), a lawyer.

“Constellation” is the story of a family that returns to their hometown in Alabama when its matriarch, Carmel, dies. Saldaña plays Rosa, Carmel’s niece.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 3%

Stan was nominated for two Golden Globes last year, for lead actor in both a drama and a musical/comedy. While he lost the drama award, he won for his performance in the black comedy “A Different Man.”

Fourteen years ago, he appeared in the horror film “The Apparition.” In it, a group of college students (including Stan’s character Ben) attempt to recreate the “Charles Experiment,” which sees them stare at a drawing of a dead man named Charles to summon his spirit.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 10%

In 2026, Williams secured her third win for her performance in the Hulu miniseries “Dying for Sex.” She also has won for “My Week with Marilyn” and “Fosse/Verdon” in the past.

Just three years after her first nomination for 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain,” she starred in her worst-reviewed film, “Deception,” a thriller co-starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor. The film is basically a B-list “Eyes Wide Shut,” in which McGregor’s character gets involved in a mysterious underground sex club that Williams is a part of.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 8%

Farrell has been nominated for four Golden Globes, winning 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 of his more recent films, “Artemis Fowl,” has also proven to be his worst, according to critics. In it, he plays Artemis Fowl Sr., the missing father of the titular character.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 5%

Culkin has been nominated for six Golden Globes in his career, winning two back-to-back in 2024 and 2025 for “Succession” and “A Real Pain,” respectively.

However, just a decade or so ago, he appeared in the lowest-rated film of his career: “Movie 43,” a comedy anthology film. Culkin’s segment is about a grocery store clerk, Neil, whose ex-girlfriend shows up and the two quickly begin having an explicit conversation — unbeknownst to them, though, Neil’s mic is hooked up to the store’s intercom. Neil’s ex Veronica is played by Culkin’s real-life ex Emma Stone. And speaking of Stone …

Rotten Tomatoes score: 5%

Stone has been nominated for nine Golden Globes, winning two. Her first came in 2017 for “La La Land” in 2017, and her second came seven years later in 2024 for “Poor Things.” Her most recent nomination was this year for her performance in “Bugonia.”

And just like Culkin, the worst film of her career (according to critics) is “Movie 43.”

Rotten Tomatoes score: 10%

Washington is one of the most decorated actors of all time, especially when it comes to the Globes. He’s been nominated 11 times — most recently for “Gladiator II” — winning for “Glory” and “The Hurricane.” Washington also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016.

But critics say his worst film of all time is the 1990 buddy comedy “Heart Condition,” in which he co-stars with Bob Hoskins. Washington plays a lawyer, Napoleon, while Hoskins plays a racist police sergeant named Jake. The two team up to solve a crime.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 8%

Bassett had only been nominated for one Golden Globe, which she took home for the 1994 Tina Turner biopic “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” until 2022, when she scored her second win for playing Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

In 2015, Bassett starred in the worst-reviewed film in her career to date, “Survivor,” a spy thriller in which she played the US ambassador to the United Kingdom, Maureen Crane.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 28%

Garfield won his first (and only, to date) Golden Globe in 2022 for his performance in “Tick, Tick…Boom!.”

His other nominations came from “The Social Network,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and “Under the Banner of Heaven.”

Garfield’s worst movie, according to critics, was only his second on-screen appearance, and he appeared alongside titans like Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Tom Cruise. In the film, he plays an apathetic college student who is channeled by a professor, played by Redford.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 12%

Grant has one win from seven nominations, for his performance in “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” He was nominated in 2025 for his performance in “Heretic,” but lost to Sebastian Stan.

In 2009, Grant co-starred with Sarah Jessica Parker in “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” as an estranged NYC couple who are forced to enter the witness protection program and move to Wyoming after witnessing a murder.

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Chastain has eight Golden Globe nominations to her name — including one in 2023 for “George & Tammy” — but only one win: “Zero Dark Thirty” in 2013.

Only four years prior, though, Chastain appeared in a career low, the 2009 film “Stolen” alongside Jon Hamm and Josh Lucas. The film tells the story of two fathers connected by the kidnappings of their sons 50 years apart.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 9%

Cruise has three wins from seven Golden Globe nominations: He’s won for “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Jerry Maguire,” and “Magnolia.” In 2021, amid controversies with the Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press, Cruise returned all three awards.

Just two years before he’d win his first Globe, though, he appeared in the critically panned — but box-office smash — “Cocktail” as Brian Flanagan, an Army vet who turns to bartending to make ends meet.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%

Smart won her first Golden Globe in 2022 for her performance as legendary stand-up comedian Deborah Vance in “Hacks.” She’s since won twice more (including this year).

She’s had a decadeslong career in show business, including the 2018 flop “Life Itself,” which had an ensemble cast of Smart, Mandy Patinkin, Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Cooke, and Annette Bening. The film spans multiple generations, families, and confusing plotlines.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 5%

Jackman has one Golden Globe from four nominations, most recently in 2023 for “The Son.” He took home best actor in a musical or comedy for his performance as Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables.”

That same year, he appeared in “Movie 43,” a film comprised of multiple short segments. In his, he plays a character who goes on a date with Kate Winslet’s character, and he has a rather unfortunate appendage growing from his chin.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 10%

Blanchett has won four times: for “Elizabeth,” “I’m Not There,” “Blue Jasmine,” and most recently, for “Tár.” She’s been nominated an additional nine times, most recently for “Disclaimer.”

However, critics say her worst film was 2024’s “Borderlands,” an absolutely cursed video-game adaptation that also fell totally flat with fans and at the box office. Blanchett led the film as Lilith, a bounty hunter.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 7%

Egerton’s first win was also his first nomination — he won for his performance as Elton John in 2019’s “Rocketman.” He was nominated again in 2022 for his work on the Apple TV+ series “Black Bird.” 

Both were rebounds from a career low, when he appeared as the antagonistic tennis pro Dean in “Billionaire Boys Club” in 2018.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 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 next year for “12 Monkeys.” It took him another 23 years to win again, this time for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” in 2019.

While 2019 was a peak, the nadir of his career has to be his appearance in “Cool World” as Frank, a detective transported into a comic book world.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%

Hudson won a Globe on her first try in 2006 for her role as Effie White in “Dreamgirls,” which was also her acting debut; an auspicious start.

Her worst film, though, came just last year — the sci-fi thriller “Breathe” which takes place on an Earth where the atmosphere has become unbreathable. Hudson plays Maya, the film’s protagonist, who is constantly on the hunt for an oxygen machine and will stop at nothing to get it.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 8%

Bardem has been nominated for six Golden Globes overall, winning one for “No Country for Old Men.” Most recently, he was nominated for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”

In 2016, Bardem co-starred with Charlize Theron in “The Last Face,” directed by her boyfriend at the time, Sean Penn. Theron and Bardem played doctors in Liberia who fall in love while dealing with their dangerous circumstances. However, critics didn’t think much of it, as shown by its low score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%

Pike proved that the third time’s the charm in 2021, winning her first Golden Globe on her third nomination. After receiving nods for “Gone Girl” and “A Private War,” she won for her performance in “I Care a Lot.” She was nominated again for her performance in “Saltburn” in 2024, but didn’t win.

On the flip side, the worst film in her career according to critics is 2015’s “Return to Sender,” a psychological thriller about a surgical nurse, Miranda (Pike), striking up a friendship with her rapist while he’s in jail.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 9%

Kaluuya scored his first Golden Globe win in 2021 for his performance as Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” He was also nominated for “Get Out.”

But back in 2010, fresh off his run on “Skins,” Kaluuya appeared in the internet thriller “Chatroom,” which follows a group of teens who meet online and encourage each other’s bad behavior.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 4%

Hudson was nominated for her third Golden Globe in 2025 for the film “Song Sung Blue,” but lost to Rose Byrne. She won her first in 2001 for her role as Penny Lane in “Almost Famous.”

She also starred in the 2011 film “A Little Bit of Heaven” as Marley, a woman who learns she has terminal cancer and struggles to come to terms with it, while also being granted three wishes.

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Close has been nominated for 16 Golden Globes, winning three for her performances in “The Lion in Winter,” “Damages,” and “The Wife.” She was most recently nominated for “Hillbilly Elegy,” but she lost to Jodie Foster.

However, her worst film, according to critics, was 1985’s “Maxie,” in which she plays the titular character, the spirit of a would-be ’20s film star who possesses a normal woman, Jan, so she can fulfill her destiny as a film star.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 10%

Ronan won her first and only Golden Globe (thus far) in 2018 for “Lady Bird,” though she has three other nods to her name.

In 2013, she appeared in the film adaptation of “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer’s other series, “The Host,” as the main character Melanie, who gets taken over by a parasite named Wanderer.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 7%

Douglas has been nominated for 14 Golden Globes, and has won five — he won for producing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” one for producing “Romancing the Stone,” and others for his performances in “Wall Street,” “Behind the Candelabra,” and “The Kominsky Method.” He also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2004.

But critics say his worst film is the 2009 crime thriller “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt,” in which he plays a sketchy (but successful) lawyer who is embroiled in a scandal when a journalist tries to set him up.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 11%

Spencer has been nominated for three Golden Globes, winning one in 2012 for her breakthrough performance in “The Help.”

After that, she was cast in the “Divergent” series, one of the many dystopian film series that was touted as the next “Hunger Games,” as Johanna, a member of the “Amity” faction. She appeared in both “Insurgent” and “Allegiant,” which has a critics’ score of just 11%.

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Downey has received five Golden Globes noms in his career and has won three times: one for his performance on the TV series “Ally McBeal” in 2001, a second for his performance as the iconic detective in “Sherlock Holmes” in 2010, and a third in 2024 for playing Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer.” He also won a special award as part of the ensemble cast of “Short Cuts.”

One of the worst movies of his career, though, is “Johnny Be Good,” in which he appeared as Leo, the best friend of the main character Johnny Walker, who is trying to decide where to play college football.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 8%

Ryder has won one Golden Globe from three nominations, for her performance in “The Age of Innocence.”

Seven years later, Ryder starred in the horror film “Lost Souls” as Maya, a member of a group of people who believe that Satan intends to inhabit a human being.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26%

It took Gosling five tries to finally take home a Golden Globe, which he did for 2017’s “La La Land.” He received another nomination in 2023 for “Barbie.”

Three years before he’d earn his first Golden Globe nomination for “Lars and the Real Girl” in 2008, he starred in 2005’s “Stay” as Henry Letham, a car crash survivor who is slowly losing his grip on reality.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 11%

Awkwafina won her first Golden Globe for her breakthrough performance in “The Farewell” in 2020. It was also her first nomination.

Just a year later, she’d already gotten her worst film out of the way: 2021’s “Breaking News in Yuba County,” in which she played Mina, an enforcer for money launderers.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 4%

Weaver has two Golden Globe wins under her belt from seven nominations. She won for her portrayal of Dian Fossey in “Gorillas in the Mist” and for playing the villainous boss Katharine in “Working Girl.”

A career low for Weaver is 2012’s action thriller “The Cold Light of Day,” in which she plays the duplicitous CIA handler of Henry Cavill’s character Will.

Rotten Tomatoes scores: 20%

Rockwell’s been nominated for three Golden Globes, winning one for his performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Almost a decade prior, he appeared in “Gentlemen Broncos,” a film about a would-be author named Benjamin Purvis, who is trying to write a book called “Yeast Lords.” Rockwell plays the main character of the book, Bronco (later Brutus).

The same year he won for “Billboards” in 2018, he also appeared in the tech-noir film “Mute,” in which he has an uncredited cameo as Sam Bell, his character from “Mute’s” predecessor, “Moon.”

Rotten Tomatoes score: 0%

Carrey has been nominated for eight Golden Globes, winning twice in back-to-back years — in 1999 for “The Truman Show” and 2000 for “Man on the Moon.”

Three years before he’d receive his seventh acting nom for “Kidding,” Carrey appeared in “Dark Crimes” (also known as “True Crimes”), a film based on the real story of Polish convicted murderer Krystian Bala, per The New Yorker. Carrey plays Tadek, a detective investigating a murder.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 5%

Huffman has been nominated for seven Golden Globes, mainly for her television work, but her only win to date is for her performance in the film “Transamerica” in 2005.

The year prior, she had a small role in “Christmas with the Kranks” as one of the main character’s friends, Merry.