Golden Globe Awards Unveil Top 25 List of Podcasts Eligible for Inaugural Audio Award

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“Call Her Daddy,” “SmartLess,” “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “The Megyn Kelly Show” are among the top 25 podcast contenders eligible to compete for the inaugural Golden Globe Award for best podcast, to be presented at the 83rd annual awards ceremony in January.

Here is the full list of eligible titles:

20/20 (from ABC News)
48 Hours (from CBS News)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Call Her Daddy
Candace
Crime Junkie
Dateline NBC
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Morbid
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
Pardon My Take
Pod Save America
Rotten Mango
Shawn Ryan Show
SmartLess
Stuff You Should Know
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Daily (from The New York Times)
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Megyn Kelly Show
The Mel Robbins Podcast
The Tucker Carlson Show
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
Up First from NPR

The 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards are set to air live on CBS on Jan. 11 from the Beverly Hilton hotel, with comedian Nikki Glaser returning for a second year as host.

The Golden Globe Awards announced in May its plan to add a best podcast award category starting with the 2026 ceremony. It comes as a recognition of the growing influence of podcast commentators and the growing role that audio storytelling plays in the larger content ecosystem. The Globes podcast kudo will include both audio and video podcasts and will spotlight work that has made a significant impact over the past year. The 25 most popular podcasts will be eligible, with six finalists to be named.

(Disclosure: The Golden Globe Awards and Dick Clark Prods. are owned by Penske Media Corp., parent company of Variety.)

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