The streaming giant takes home some acting awards but loses out on three big honours.
Amazon didn’t have quite the prime night it had hoped for at Sunday’s 76th Golden Globes Awards, but the streaming content provider didn’t go home empty-handed either.
Amazon Prime streaming shows got nominated for three biggies — best drama series, best comedy series and best limited series — for Homecoming, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and A Very English Scandal, respectively.
As Gold Derby noted, Amazon stood a chance of being the first TV network since 2001 to win all three of those awards at one Golden Globes awards show. That last happened when HBO took home trophies for Six Feet Under, Sex and the City and Band of Brothers in the same night.
Homecoming
Amazon Prime thriller Homecoming didn’t take home the Golden Globe for best drama series.
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Instead, Amazon lost in all three categories. FX thriller The Americans beat out Homecoming for best drama series, and another FX offering, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, won over A Very English Scandal. The winning drama about Andrew Cunanan’s killing spree will stream on Netflix starting Jan. 17.
While The Marvelous Mrs Maisel won a Golden Globe for best comedy last year, this year’s award went to another streaming giant, Netflix, for The Kominsky Method, which also beat out Barry, The Good Place and Kidding.
The Kominsky Method tracks acting coach Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas, who nabbed an acting statue) and best friend Norman Newlander (Alan Arkin) as they navigate the ups and downs of getting older. Douglas dedicated his award to his 102-year-old dad Kirk Douglas and more generally, to the alta cockers, Yiddish for old folks.
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which follows a housewife turned stand-up comic in the ’50s, did take home a major honour from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Rachel Brosnahan won for best actress in a comedy, though Alex Borstein, who plays Mrs. Maisel’s marvellous manager, lost to Patricia Clarkson’s controlling mother in Sharp Objects.
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