Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis turned the 2026 Golden Globes into a headline-making date night, stepping back into the awards-show spotlight after years of keeping their red-carpet life to a minimum. Their appearance at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills instantly became one of the evening’s most dissected moments, signaling a cautious return to Hollywood’s most public stage. For a couple that has preferred privacy, the outing doubled as both a fashion statement and a quiet reset of their public image.
The pair’s walk into the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton was more than a nostalgic sighting of two sitcom veterans turned film stars. It marked their first major awards ceremony together in years, a shift that arrives after a period of scrutiny and recalibration in their off-screen lives. On a night built to celebrate film and television, the renewed visibility of one of Hollywood’s most recognizable couples became its own subplot.

The end of a four-year awards hiatus
The Golden Globes appearance effectively ended a four-year stretch in which Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis skipped the awards circuit altogether, despite their long tenure as fixtures of film and television. Reporting on their return notes that the couple had not attended a major ceremony together since their last turn as a couple at the Oscars, underscoring how deliberate their low profile has been. The decision to re-emerge at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, held in BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, placed them back at the center of an industry conversation they had largely watched from the sidelines.
Their return also unfolded against the backdrop of what one report framed as a “four-year award show hiatus” that followed backlash, a reminder that the couple’s public standing has not been purely about box office or ratings. Coverage of their reappearance highlighted that the Globes outing came after a period in which their choices were scrutinized and their absence from high-profile events became part of the narrative around them. The renewed visibility, arriving at 21:29 EST and updated at 21:32 EST in one detailed account that cited the figure 32, was framed as a careful step back into a room that had not seen them together in years, with credits given to Jan, EST, and the byline By DEIRDRE DURKAN, SIMONDS, ASSOCIATE.
A flirty red-carpet date night in Beverly Hills
On the carpet, the tone was intentionally light. Observers described Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis as “loved up” and “super flirty,” emphasizing how their body language leaned into the idea of a rare night out rather than a calculated image rehab. One detailed style report noted that the couple looked particularly affectionate as they posed for photographers, with the coverage by Jan and Catherine Santino, identified as a Style Write, spotlighting how their date night energy softened the formality of the event. Another breakdown of the same appearance, flagged under NEED and KNOW, reiterated that Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were all smiles at the Golden Globes, underscoring how their chemistry translated into one of the evening’s most replayed clips.
The setting amplified that impression. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were described as “chasséing” onto the carpet, a nod to the playful, almost dance-like way they moved through the arrivals line. One account framed them as The Black Swan actress and Jobs star enjoying a rare outing together, with the phrasing “Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher” used repeatedly to underline their joint presence at the Beverly Hilton. Another report, also centered on Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, stressed that the Golden Globes ceremony was hosted by Nikki Glaser at the Beverl Hilton, further situating their appearance within a night that blended comedy, awards, and a high concentration of star power, as captured in a separate red-carpet recap.
Mila Kunis’s comeback narrative and the Globes spotlight
For Mila Kunis in particular, the Golden Globes marked a personal milestone. One analysis framed it as Mila Kunis’ First Golden Globes Appearance in Over a Decade Shows Her Unexpected Comeback, explicitly tying her return to the ceremony to a broader career resurgence. That piece noted how the phrase “First Golden Globes Appearance” and “Over” a decade were not just time markers but signals that her presence had “thrown everyone for a loop,” suggesting that industry watchers had not anticipated such a prominent re-entry. The same report emphasized that Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher arriving together reinforced the sense of a coordinated, carefully timed comeback.
Other coverage zoomed in on how Mila has been positioning herself in early 2026. One Instagram-focused dispatch declared that Mila is officially kicking off 2026 in full “comfy mode,” highlighting how Jan posts celebrated her relaxed yet polished style and tagged the update with MilaKunisStyle and FamilyFirst. Another social-media report, also pegged to Jan, described how Mila is starting 2026 at the absolute top of her game, calling her “the woman of the hour” as she and Ashton attended the 83rd Annual Golden Globes, with both posts reinforcing the idea that Mila and Ashton chose this particular ceremony as a symbolic reset. A separate style-focused report added that the couple of over a decade had last walked a major carpet together at the Oscars, with the note By Hannah Malach and the label Published attached to that context, underscoring how their Globes outing closed a gap that stretched back to their previous Oscars appearance.
The broader Golden Globes backdrop also mattered. The 83rd Golden Globe Awards were handed out in BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, with a partial list of winners confirming that the Golden Globe Awards once again centered the Beverly Hills ceremony as a key stop on the awards-season calendar. That context, captured in a winners rundown, meant that Kutcher and Kunis were not just returning to any red carpet but to one of the industry’s most visible stages. Another entertainment report, noting that Jan coverage had described Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher as enjoying their first red-carpet date night in three years, reinforced how unusual it is to see the pair in such a public, high-stakes environment, especially after a four-year award show hiatus that followed backlash and a period of recalibration.
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