Golden Globes nominations: Netflix dominates with Marriage Story and The Irishman
- Streaming giant Netflix trounces Hollywood studios by scooping 17 film nominations
- Martin Scorsese’s 3½-hour gangster epic and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tied for the second-most movie nods
Hollywood disrupter Netflix dominated the Golden Globe nominations on Monday as its heart-wrenching divorce saga Marriage Story grabbed six nods including best drama, kicking off the race for the Oscars.
The streaming giant, which has spent billions to lure the industry’s top filmmaking talent and fund lavish awards season campaigns, trounced the traditional Tinseltown studios with 17 film nominations.
“I’m not surprised by the dominance – I’m surprised by how massive the dominance is,” Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said at the Beverly Hills ceremony. “The announcements this morning are sort of like a coming-of-age of the streaming services.”
The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s 3½-hour gangster epic, also from Netflix, secured five nominations, ending tied for second with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s nostalgic love letter to 1960s Tinseltown.
The nominations traditionally see the stars and films destined for awards success start to break away from the competition – the Globes are seen as a major bellwether for February’s Academy Awards.