Netflix wins big at Golden Globes as ‘Queen’s Gambit’ keeps fueling chess sales: Monday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. Netflix wins big at Globes Streaming platforms dominated the winners at last night’s Golden Globes awards, which wasn’t too surprising after a year of pandemic-related production delays and audiences binge-watching at home. But the biggest winner of all was Netflix. As per The Verge, “no studio or streaming service took home as many awards as Netflix,” with awards for “The Crown,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “I Care a Lot,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Queen’s Gambit,” of which more to follow. Amazon also performed well, with awards for Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and John Boyega in “Small Axe,” its joint production with the BBC, while the Disney+ movie “Soul” won two awards. No wins though, for the Netflix show “Emily in Paris,” which attracted controversy for its two nominations, including, as reported in an investigation by the L.A. Times, the fact that more than 30 Hollywood Foreign Press Association members were treated to a stay in a five-star Paris hotel while visiting the set of the show in 2019.  (Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler even mocked the show in their opening monologue, with Fey joking that she couldn’t wait to find out it was a musical or a comedy.)Checkmate “The Queen’s Gambit” was both a... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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