Stellan Skarsgård Thanks His Wife for Her 'Brutal Support' as He Wins Golden Globe: She's a 'Tough Lover'
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Benjamin VanHoose, Nicole AcostaJanuary 12, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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Stellan Skarsgård wins at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards. -
Stellan Skarsgård won Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Sentimental Value at the 2026 Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 11
"She's been amazing, a sort of brutal support, a tough lover and very educational," the star said of his wife, Megan Everett-Skarsgård, whom he wed in 2009
The other nominees were Benicio Del Toro, Jacob Elordi, Paul Mescal, Sean Penn, and Adam Sandler
Stellan Skarsgård is a winner!
The star, 74, won Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Sentimental Value at the 2026 Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 11.
During his acceptance speech, Skarsgård admitted he was surprised by the win, joking that he thought he might be "too old" to snag the award.
"But I'm not gonna spend the next six minutes to thank everybody in the credits of the film and they know I love them," he quipped, instead choosing to highlight his wife, Megan Everett-Skarsgård.
"I've got to thank my wife. She's been amazing — a sort of brutal support, a tough lover and very educational," Skarsgård said. "And also, my children have been very educational. I'm playing a father who is a bad father. My children have really taught me what a bad father is."
Megan and Stellan wed in 2009 and share two children: Ossian and Kolbjörn. Stellan is also father to Alexander, Gustaf, Sam, Bill, Eija, Valter, whom he shares with his first wife, My Skarsgård.
The actor ended his speech on Sunday by urging audiences to experience the Norwegian film the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen. "Hopefully you'll see it in a cinema because they're an [extinct] species now. In a cinema where the lights go down ... cinema should be seen in cinemas."
Other nominees in the category included Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another), and Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly).
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Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein
Elordi is a first-time and double nominee at this year's Golden Globes, also recognized for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in the Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television category.
The actor, who stars as the Creature opposite Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth in Netflix's gothic drama, won Best Supporting Actor one week ago at the Critics Choice Awards Jan. 4, marking his first major acting award win.
“Bloody hell. I really didn't plan for it,” the Euphoria star said at the start of his acceptance speech that night before acknowledging his director: "Thank you, Guillermo del Toro. I love you. We all love you. You made my dreams when I was 11. I'm so happy to be here."
Stellan Skarsgard in Sentimental Value
In Sentimental Value, Skarsgård plays a film director named Gustav Borg trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter Nora, an actress played by Renate Reinsve, also nominated in the Best Actress category. When his daughter refuses to star in his magnum opus, he casts an American actress (nominee Elle Fanning) for the role, stirring up complicated family drama.
Swedish actor Skarsgård previously won a Golden Globe in 2020 for his performance in the HBO series Chernobyl.
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Sean Penn in One Battle After Another
Penn takes on the role of a racist antagonist named Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in director Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, on a mission to hunt down Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infiniti's characters.
This marked Penn's sixth Golden Globe nomination, and he previously won Best Actor - Drama for Mystic River back in 2004.
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Benicio Del Toro in One Battle After Another
Del Toro was nominated for his calm performance as Sensei St. Carlos in One Battle After Another. "Sensei has this thing that I feel is always positive," he recently told Variety of the character. "It’s staying in that positive and keep doing your thing. Good and truth will hopefully come up and show its face and win."
Back in 2001, Del Toro won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Traffic.
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Paul Mescal in Hamnet
Mescal takes on the role of William Shakespeare in Hamnet, director Chloé Zhao's adaptation of the bestselling 2020 novel about love and loss. This is the Irish star's first Golden Globe nomination.
"The only reason that this film is sad is because there's real joy and levity in it in the first half of the film, and I think it's kind of a bigger point," Mescal recently told PEOPLE of Hamnet, adding, "I just hope to keep making work that feels honest to me, and this film feels very truthful."
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George Clooney and Adam Sandler in "Jay Kelly"
Sandler stars opposite George Clooney (also nominated) in Jay Kelly as Ron, a hardworking, steadfast manager to the titular movie star. The last time he earned a Golden Globe nomination was in 2003 for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, Punch-Drunk Love.
The Happy Gilmore star told Netflix's Tudum why he signed on to the project: "[Director Noah Baumbach] mentioned that I was going to be a manager in it. He mentioned that I was going to have a family in it, and a year later he sent it to me. I loved this warm and conflicted character. I loved the entire movie … Clooney’s character and Laura [Dern]’s and what they were going to go through throughout the movie — the journey of it all."
Nominations for the 2026 Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, Jan. 22, ahead of the Oscars ceremony, which will be held Sunday, March 15.
See PEOPLE's coverage of the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards, taking place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. EST, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
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