The nominations were announced on December 10, 2015, at The Beverly Hilton by Angela Bassett, America Ferrera, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Dennis Quaid.

[2][3][4] Denzel Washington was announced as the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award honoree on November 16, 2015.

Robot, The Revenant, and Steve Jobs were among the films and television shows that received multiple awards.

"[11] However, The New York Times' James Poniewozik reviewed the ceremony moderately saying: "A well-run, fun Globes — privileged people toasting their terrific success with bottomless Moët — is its own corrective to Hollywood self-seriousness.

[14] The ratings was an eleven percent decline from the previous ceremony's viewership of 19.3 million, the second highest in a decade.