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Stellan Skarsgård Jokes His 8 Kids Taught Him to Play a “Bad Father” During Golden Globes Speech

Stellan Skarsgård highlighted the decline of cinemas and urged audiences to support theatrical films like Sentimental Value during his Golden Globe acceptance speech.

  • On Sunday, Stellan Skarsgård won the Golden Globe for Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Film Role for Sentimental Value at the Golden Globes ceremony.
  • A small Norwegian film with no money for advertising, Sentimental Value is Joachim Trier’s film about a director’s fraught relationship with his daughters, co-starring Renate Reinsve and Elle Fanning.
  • He joked onstage that `And my children have really told me what a bad father is,` deadpanned Stellan Skarsgård, actor, who previously won a Golden Globe for HBO's Chernobyl while facing nominees including Benicio Del Toro, Jacob Elordi, Sean Penn, Paul Mescal and Adam Sandler.
  • He closed by urging audiences to see Sentimental Value, film, and other films in theaters, saying `Hopefully you will see it in the cinema, because they are an extinguished species now.`
  • He framed the moment as evidence that theaters are endangered amid a box office that has not recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic and streaming service Netflix's rise, saying `in a cinema the lights go down and you eventually share a pulse with other people.
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Stellan Skarsgård is awarded a Golden Globe statuette for his role in the Norwegian film "Sentimental Value". "I am of course very happy. This is the second most important film award in the US after the Oscars," Skarsgård writes in a comment to TT.

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NRK broke the news in Norway on Sunday, January 11, 2026.
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