The way is consume our entertainment is changing rapidly. Dog-eared paper books are giving way to ebooks, more and more movies are being distributed digitally and on-demand, and television is making way slowly for new entrants like Netflix and Yahoo Screen. The latest big name to find success on the small screen is Amazon.
Amazon’s Transparent won the award for the best comedy or musical on TV, beating out big names such as Louie and Silicon Valley. The award was accepted by the show’s creator Jill Soloway who thanked Amazon CEO Bezos – who was seated at a prime table – immediately after thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which holds the annual Golden Globes ceremony in Beverly Hills. A little while later, the star of “Transparent,” Jeffrey Tambor, won the award for best actor in a television comedy. He called Amazon “my new best friend.”
In Transparent, Tambor plays a transgender woman — a father, Mort Pfefferman, who comes out as a woman, Maura, to his family. For that reason, the series has been hailed as groundbreaking. This marked the first time a streaming series had been awarded one of the top honors by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and was huge validation for Amazon after investing more than $100 million in video content in the third quarter of last year.
Netflix, meanwhile, keeps going from strength to strength, and was nominated for several other awards for both Orange is the New Black and House of Cards.
