The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards , which aired Sunday, further proved online shows have truly arrived.
While traditional shows and movies still dominated — theatrical release \u00a0\u00bb La Land \u00a0\u00bb claimed a record seven awards — original streaming shows definitely made their presence known.
The non-traditional shows made their mark right from the start, with Netflix drama \u00a0\u00bb Stranger Things \u00a0\u00bb earning a prime position in host Jimmy Fallon’s opening number. ( Barb lives!)
Netflix stunner \u00a0\u00bb The Crown ,\u00a0\u00bb about Queen Elizabeth II’s early years, received a royal welcome. Star Claire Foy, who plays the queen, won the Golden Globe for outstanding actress in a television drama, and the show won for outstanding television drama.
Naturally, Foy thanked the 90-year-old monarch she portrays.
\u00ab\u00a0(Queen Elizabeth) has been at the center of the world for the last 63 years,\u00a0\u00bb Foy said. \u00ab\u00a0I think the world could do with a few more women at the center of it. \u00a0\u00bb
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos attended the awards ceremony, as Amazon Studios shows received five TV nominations, winning the best actor award early on for Billy Bob Thornton’s performance as a comeback-seeking lawyer in \u00a0\u00bb Goliath. \u00a0\u00bb
Bezos and his package-delivering powerhouse of a company were the target of one of Fallon’s opening-monologue jokes.
\u00ab\u00a0(Bezos) actually arrived yesterday, but there was no one around to sign for him,\u00a0\u00bb Fallon cracked.
Casey Affleck also thanked Bezos and Amazon when he won the award for best actor in a motion picture drama for \u00a0\u00bb Manchester By the Sea ,\u00a0\u00bb an Amazon-backed theatrical film.
Science fiction and fantasy films and shows peppered the evening, beginning with that opening production, a spoof of the \u00a0\u00bb La Land \u00a0\u00bb opening musical number. Among the stars taking part were \u00a0\u00bb Game of Thrones \u00a0\u00bb actor Kit Harington mocking the death drama surrounding his character Jon Snow, and Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores from \u00a0\u00bb Westworld ,\u00a0\u00bb who obligingly shut down, as her character’s animatronic host does on the show.
Fans of \u00a0\u00bb Rogue One: A Star Wars Story \u00a0\u00bb saw two of that film’s stars reunited on stage as Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso) and Diego Luna (Cassian Andor) presented the award for best screenplay to \u00ab\u00a0La La Land\u00a0\u00bb writer Damien Chazelle.
And Star Wars princess Carrie Fisher and her mother, actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, who both died in late December, were honored in a special clip montage set to the two of them singing together. Cecil B. DeMille lifetime-achievement award winner Meryl Streep also cited her friend Fisher, recalling that the actress once told her, \u00ab\u00a0Take your broken heart, make it into art. \u00a0\u00bb
Two superheroes presented an award, as Chris Hemsworth of \u00a0\u00bb Thor \u00a0\u00bb and Gal Gadot of \u00a0\u00bb Wonder Woman \u00a0\u00bb bestowed the best foreign-language film award to France’s \u00a0\u00bb Elle. \u00ab\u00a0<\/p>\n