The winners of the 2016 Golden Globes were announced yesterday and while the glitzy awards show was created to recognise excellence in film and television, it was the streaming players that dominated.
Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Amazon all lined up for awards, which up until a few years ago were won by traditional TV players.
However, this year the top TV gong in the musical or comedy category was taken out by Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle.
Amazon beat stablemate and last year's winner, Transparent, as well as Netflix's Orange is the New Black and Hulu's Casual in order to take out the top award.
Mozart in the Jungle was nominated for two awards, with the show winning both. The second saw its star, Gael García Bernal, taking home the Golden Globe for best performance by an actor in a television series - musical or comedy.
Netflix received a total of eight Golden Globes nominations, and while receiving no awards, just the shear number of nods the streaming service managed to get has some saying it has cemented itself as the “new network TV”.
While streaming service Presto didn't win any awards, locally the player is still trumpeting that the content on its service won more Golden Globes than the content on any other Australian streaming service.
One of the programs it cites is Mr Robot, which took home the 2016 Golden Globe for best TV series – drama. The show's lead actor Christian Slater also won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a series, limited series or TV movie.
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