Streaming service Netflix leads in Golden Globes nominations

NEW YORK — The folks at TV’s Big Four networks might as well have slept in Thursday morning and skipped the announcement of the Golden Globes nominations.

In the latest sign of their lack of critical love and viewer sizzle, commercial broadcasters ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC together scored a paltry nine nods (though three more than last year), while streaming service Netflix boosted its total from last year’s seven to singlehandedly claim the lead with nine nominations distributed across six series (“Narcos,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Grace and Frankie,” “Bloodline,” “House of Cards” and “Master of None”) plus its original film, “Beast of No Nation.”

Fellow streaming video outlet Amazon snagged five nominations (up from two last year) and Hulu scored its first.

Grand total for digital on-demand outlets: 15.

With its two nominations, tiny broadcast outlet CW beat CBS’ single mention (for supporting dramatic actor Alan Cumming in “The Good Wife”) as well as NBC (which will air the Globes awardscast on Jan. 10, but was completely snubbed on Thursday by the Globes). CW’s “Jane the Virgin” leading lady Gina Rodriguez — last year’s winner — and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star Rachel Bloom are pitted against each other in the musical or comedy actress category.

Broadcast networks were shut out altogether in the music or comedy series category, where they used to glow. “Casual,” on Hulu, shares the category with “Mozart in the Jungle” and “Transparent” (both on Amazon), “Orange is the New Black” (Netflix), and “Silicon Valley” and “Veep” (HBO).

The nominees for best drama series include only Fox’s breakout hit “Empire” among broadcast networks, plus USA’s “Mr. Robot,” Netflix’s “Narcos,” Starz’ “Outlander” and “Game of Thrones” on HBO.

Even pay-cable network HBO, which traditionally ruled at awards time, has been humbled by this year’s digital invasion. It has seven nominations, down from 15 last year.

Premium rival Showtime suffered a falloff, too, with last year’s nine nominations shrinking to three.

But Starz, which had two nominations last year, enjoyed a happy uptick to six, spread across its series “Flesh & Bone,” “Blunt Talk” and time-travel romance “Outlander,” which got three nominations, including best drama, best actress (Caitriona Balfe) and best supporting actor (Tobias Menzies).

Fox, shut out last year, landed four nominations thanks to two for “Empire,” plus Rob Lowe in the comedy actor category on its freshman “The Grinder” and Jamie Lee Curtis in its new horror-comedy “Scream Queens.”

The most nominations for any show was three, scored by USA’s quirky thriller “Mr. Robot” along with ABC’s prestige drama “American Crime,” FX’s “Fargo,” Starz’ “Outlander,” PBS’ miniseries “Wolf Hall” and the much-honored Amazon comedy “Transparent.”

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which bestows the Golden Globes, exhibited a lack of sentiment for AMC’s “Mad Men,” which completed its stellar run last season. Only Jon Hamm, in the dramatic actor category, was saluted.

FX’s “The Americans,” which seems to singularly suffer the role of best stealth drama (having been ignored for nearly every award in its three seasons, other than the prestigious Peabody), maintained that status by escaping Globes notice again this year.

Other notable absentees on the nomination rolls were HBO’s fading “Girls” as well as “True Detective” (which, after landing four nominations in its premiere season, was critically lambasted for its second cycle).

Showtime’s “Homeland” also suffered neglect, while its splendid drama, “The Affair,” was cited only with a supporting dramatic actress nod for Maura Tierney.

Nominees

Nominees for the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:

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— Picture, Drama: “Carol,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Revenant,” “Room,” “Spotlight.”

— Picture, Musical or Comedy: “The Big Short,” “Joy,” “The Martian,” “Spy,” “Trainwreck.”

— Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo”; Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”; Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs”; Eddie Redmayne, “The Danish Girl”; Will Smith, “Concussion.”

— Actress, Drama: Cate Blanchett, “Carol”; Brie Larson, “Room”; Rooney Mara, “Carol”; Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”; Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl.”

— Director: Todd Haynes, “Carol”; Alejandro Inarritu, “The Revenant”; Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”; George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”; Ridley Scott, “The Martian.”

— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Christian Bale, “The Big Short”; Steve Carell, “The Big Short”; Matt Damon, “The Martian”; Al Pacino, “Danny Collins”; Mark Ruffalo, “Infinitely Polar Bear.”

— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy”; Melissa McCarthy, “Spy”; Amy Schumer, “Trainwreck”; Maggie Smith, “The Lady in the Van”; Lily Tomlin, “Grandma.”

— Supporting Actor: Paul Dano, “Love & Mercy”; Idris Elba, “Beasts of No Nation”; Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”; Michael Shannon, “99 Homes”; Sylvester Stallone, “Creed.”

— Supporting Actress: Jane Fonda, “Youth”; Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight”; Helen Mirren, “Trumbo”; Alicia Vikander, “Ex Machina”; Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs.”

— Foreign Language: “The Brand New Testament,” “The Club,” “The Fencer,” “Mustang,” “Son of Saul.”

— Animated Film: “Anomalisa,” “The Good Dinosaur,” “Inside Out,” “The Peanuts Movie,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie.”

— Screenplay: Emma Donoghue, “Room”; Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, “Spotlight”; Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, “The Big Short”; Aaron Sorkin, “Steve Jobs”; Quentin Tarantino, “The Hateful Eight.”

–Original Score: Carter Burwell, “Carol”; Alexandre Desplat, “The Danish Girl”; Ennio Morricone, “The Hateful Eight”; Daniel Pemberton, “Steve Jobs”; Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, “The Revenant.”

–Original Song: “Love Me Like You Do” (music and lyrics by Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ali Payami, Ilya Salmanzadeh), “Fifty Shades of Grey”; “One Kind of Love” (music and lyrics by Brian Wilson, Scott Bennett), “Love & Mercy”; “See You Again” (music and lyrics by Justin Franks, Andrew Cedar, Charlie Puth, Cameron Thomaz), “Furious 7”; “Simple Song (hash)3” (music and lyrics by David Lang), “Youth”; “Writing’s on the Wall” (music and lyrics by Sam Smith, Jimmy Napes), “Spectre.”

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–Series, Drama: “Empire,” “Mr. Robot,” “Game of Thrones,” “Outlander,” “Narcos.”

— Actor, Drama: Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”; Wagner Moura, “Narcos”; Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”; Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”; Jon Hamm, “Mad Men.”

— Actress, Drama: Taraji P. Henson, “Empire”; Viola Davis, “How to Get Away With Murder”; Robin Wright, “House of Cards”; Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”; Eva Green, “Penny Dreadful.”

— Series, Musical or Comedy: “Orange is the New Black,” “Silicon Valley,” “Transparent,” “Veep,” “Casual,” “Mozart in the Jungle.”

— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”; Aziz Ansari, “Master of None”; Rob Lowe, “The Grinder”; Patrick Stewart, “Blunt Talk”; Gael Garcia Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle.”

— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”; Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin”; Lily Tomlin, “Grace and Frankie”; Jamie Lee Curtis, “Scream Queens”; Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”

— Actor, Movie or Limited Series: Oscar Isaac, “Show Me a Hero”; Patrick Wilson, “Fargo”; Idris Elba, “Luther”; David Oyelowo, “Nightingale”; Mark Rylance, “Wolf Hall.”

— Actress, Movie or Limited Series: Kirsten Dunst, “Fargo”; Lady Gaga, “American Horror Story: Hotel”; Sarah Hay, “Flesh & Bone”; Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”; Queen Latifah, “Bessie.”

— Supporting Actor, Series, Limited Series or TV Movie: Damian Lewis, “Wolf Hall”; Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot”; Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”; Ben Mendelsohn, “Bloodline”; Tobias Menzies, “Outlander.”

— Supporting Actress, Series, Limited Series or TV Movie: Regina King, “American Crime”; Uzo Aduba, “Orange is the New Black”; Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”; Maura Tierney, “The Affair”; Judith Light, “Transparent.”

— Movie or Limited Series: “Fargo,” “American Crime,” “American Horror Story: Hotel,” “Wolf Hall,” “Flesh & Bone.”

Previously announced:

Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Denzel Washington.