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Aimee Ferrier

Wed 21 January 2026 1:00, UK

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With the Golden Globes out of the way, we saw Timothée Chalamet actually take home his first Globe, in this case for Marty Supreme, while Paul Thomas Anderson became a first-time winner, too, following the amazing success of One Battle After Another.

While it seemed pretty certain that these two would take home the coveted prizes, you can never be too sure, because in the history of the Golden Globes, there have been seven films that received seven nominations, only to walk away empty-handed, and with that many nominations, you’d be pretty confident about winning something that night, but sadly, some filmmakers have simply been incredibly unlucky in that department.

It’s interesting because many of these films are enduring classics, lauded as game-changing movies and highly acclaimed pieces of filmmaking. Yet, with so many great movies released every year, paired with the innate biases that award show judges seem to harbour, there’s always going to be some incredibly unfair snubbing going on.

When we look back, it might seem preposterous that some of the films listed below failed to win a single Golden Globe, but in various cases, they took home at least one Oscar, which, at the end of the day, is the more impressive trophy.

Which movie has the most Golden Globe noms without a win?

Seven films currently hold the record, starting with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the first feature directed by Mike Nichols. It scored nominations in most major categories, but unfortunately, it didn’t win any, although it did earn 13 Oscar nominations, winning five. While that’s much more impressive, it’s bizarre that such a successful film could win big at the Oscars and completely lose at the Golden Globes.

A year later, another iconic New Hollywood film, Bonnie and Clyde, failed to win any of its seven nominations at the Golden Globes, losing out on ‘Best Motion Picture – Drama’ to Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night. Yet again, it fared much better at the Oscars, with Estelle Parsons winning ‘Best Supporting Actress’ and Burnett Guffey taking home ‘Best Cinematography’.

Another surprising one is Dog Day Afternoon; you’d think that Al Pacino or John Cazale might have walked away with an award in hand, but neither was successful, and they missed out at the Academy Awards, too, with Cazale not even scraping a nomination.

The most recent example of a movie getting a record number of Globe nominations and no wins came in 1990 with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III, and it’s hardly surprising, because the movie was received with mixed acclaim, with many criticisms levied at a young Sofia Coppola’s cringe-inducing performance.

That’s one of the few movies on this list to lose out at both the Globes and the Oscars, but out of all of them, are you really that shocked?

Movies with the most Golden Globe nominations and no wins:

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
• Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967)
• Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
• Foul Play (Colin Higgins, 1978)
• Ragtime (Miloš Forman, 1981)
• The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)

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