Netflix beats HBO as streaming revolution reflected in Golden Globe nominations

Some Hollywood stars left out of Wednesday’s Screen Actors Guild nominations got a nice surprise this morning when their names were announced during this year’s Golden Globe nominations.

– Picture, Drama: “Carol”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Revenant”, “Room”, “Spotlight”. It was nominated for best picture, comedy, actor (Matt Damon) and director (Ridley Scott). Not only that, but only Game of Thrones got a Globe nomination previous year, despite the fact that the other four shows that did – The Good Wife, House of Cards, The Affair and Downton Abbey – are all still on.

Financial crisis film The Big Short, The Revenant and biopic Steve Jobs have each received an impressive four nominations for the Globes, which will be handed out in Beverly Hills on January 10.

Alicia Vikander – Nominee for Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama “The Danish Girl” and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture “Ex-Machina”: “I am truly thrilled and grateful to the HFPA for both these wonderful nominations!”

Streaming pioneer Netflix led the overall television nominations with eight nods, including two each for drug cartel drama “Narcos” and “Orange is the New Black”, a comedy set in a women’s prison. “Streaming series from Netflix, Amazon and Hulu dominated the TV awards, which jumped all over the dial. Six shows tied for the most nominations: “Fargo”, “Mr. Robot”, “Outlander”, “Transparent”, “American Crime” and “Wolf Hall”. Mark Ruffalo was nominated for another film, “Infinitely Polar Bear”, in which he plays a man with bipolar disorder. Both were nominated for best actress in a comedy, and their films _ “Spy” and “Trainwreck”, respectively _ will compete for best comedic film.

Coming into the season, George Miller’s long-awaited reboot had already won two Australian Film Institute awards from 11 nominations. Its show Casual, which included a pair of episodes directed by multiple Oscar nominee Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), earned the service its first-ever Globe nomination. But competition is always stiffer among dramas than comedies, especially since none of the other major awards groups split comedy films into their own category. Last year’s Golden Globe best comedy/musical film victor, “Birdman“, went on to win the best picture Oscar.

Eddie Redmayne, best actor nominee for “The Danish Girl”: “Having the opportunity to help tell Lili and Gerda’s story has been a great privilege for me, and I am hugely grateful for the guidance, generosity and insight given to me by the transgender community”.

Maggie Smith, who received a lead actress in a comedy or musical nomination for “Lady in the Van”, was first nominated for a Golden Globe for most promising female newcomer for the 1963 melodrama “The V.I.P’s”.

Idris Elba received a Supporting Actor in a Feature Film nomination for Netflix’s Beast of No Nation, and also earned a nom for his role in the BBC TV series, Luther.

The Globe honors also highlight an increasing division in Hollywood between big-budget successes and critics’ favorites.

Indeed, it was the Big Three’s oddball cousins, FOX and the CW, that ended up making the biggest splash-the former with nominations for “Empire” star Taraji P. Henson and Jamie Lee Curtis, in Ryan Murphy’s kooky horror comedy “Scream Queens“, and the latter with two Comedy Actress nominations, for Rachel Bloom (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, an hourlong sitcom musical) and defending champion Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin“, a comic telenovela).