HBO fought off a strong showing from streaming services Amazon Prime and Hulu to finish with the most Golden Globes Awards wins on Sunday night, according to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

HBO finished with four Golden Globe Award wins from its 15 nominations, topping all cable networks and streaming services (the broadcast networks were shut out of this year's nominations). Amazon Prime Video and Hulu were the only other distributors to win multiple awards with two each during NBC’s live awards telecast.

Netflix, which led all networks and streaming services with 17 Globe award nominations, finished with just one win in the television category: the best actress in a TV drama series award for Olivia Colman for her starring role in The Crown.

HBO was paced by two wins each for Succession, including best TV drama series honors, and for Chernobyl, which won the Globe for best limited series or motion picture made for television.

Amazon Prime’s Fleabag also won two Golden Globe Awards, including best comedy series and best actress in a comedy series for Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The sophomore series matched its wins in the same categories during the Emmy Awards this past September.

Tom Hanks and Ellen DeGeneres were awarded lifetime achievement awards during the telecast, which was hosted by Ricky Gervais.

The winners of the 2020 Golden Globes Awards in the television category are as follows:

Best Television Series, Drama

"Succession" -- (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama

Olivia Colman, "The Crown" (Netflix)

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Drama

Brian Cox, "Succession"(HBO)

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

"Fleabag" (Amazon Prime)

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag" (Amazon Prime)

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Ramy Youssef, "Ramy” (Hulu)

Best Television, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

"Chernobyl" (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Russell Crowe, "The Loudest Voice" (Showtime)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Michelle Williams, "Fosse/Verdon" (FX)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Stellan Skarsgard, "Chernobyl" (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV

Patricia Arquette, "The Act" (Hulu)

HBO's Chernobyl collected two Golden Globe Awards Sunday night, including the award for best limited series or motion picture made for television.

Chernobyl, which chronicles the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, topped Hulu's Catch-22, FX's Fosse/Verdon, Showtime's The Loudest Voice, and Netflix's Unbelievable for the award.

Chernobyl star Stellan Skarsgard also won a Globe for best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television.

Patricia Arquette took home the Golden Globe for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television for her role in Hulu's The Act. 

Netflix drew the most 2020 Golden Globe Awards nominations Monday morning in what was a strong showing for streaming services, according to the Hollywood Press Association.

Netflix drew 17 Golden Globe nods, topping HBO’s 15, with streaming services Hulu and Prime Video each drawing five nominations and FX Networks garnering four nods, the association announced during a morning ceremony in Los Angeles.

Recently launched streaming service Apple TV+ earned three nominations, tying cable premium service Showtime. The broadcast networks were shut out of this year's Globe nominations.

Netflix was led by drama series The Crown and Unbelievable, which both drew four nominations along with HBO’s Chernobyl (pictured).

Netflix also garnered 17 Golden Globe nominations in the motion picture category for such films as Marriage Story, The Irishman and Dolemite Is My Name. 

The 77th annual Golden Globes Awards will air live Jan. 5 on NBC. 

A partial list of Golden Globe nominations in the television category are as follows:

Best Television Series, Drama

"Big Little Lies"

"The Crown"

"Killing Eve"

"The Morning Show"

"Succession"

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama

Jennifer Aniston, "The Morning Show"

Olivia Colman, "The Crown"

Jodie Comer, "Killing Eve"

Nicole Kidman, "Big Little Lies"

Reese Witherspoon, "The Morning Show"

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Drama

Brian Cox, "Succession"

Kit Harington, "Game of Thrones"

Rami Malek, "Mr. Robot"

Tobias Menzies, "The Crown"

Billy Porter, "Pose"

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

"Barry"

"Fleabag"

"The Kominsky Method"

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

"The Politician"

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Christina Applegate, "Dead to Me"

Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

Kirsten Dunst, "On Becoming a God in Central Florida"

Natasha Lyonne, "Russian Doll"

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag"

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Michael Douglas, "The Kominsky Method"

Bill Hader, "Barry"

Ben Platt, "The Politician"

Paul Rudd, "Living With Yourself"

Ramy Youssef, "Ramy”

Best Television, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

"Catch-22"

"Chernobyl"

"Fosse/Verdon"

"The Loudest Voice"

"Unbelievable"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Christopher Abbot, "Catch-22"

Sacha Baron Cohen, "The Spy"

Russell Crowe, "The Loudest Voice"

Jared Harris, "Chernobyl"

Sam Rockwell, "Fosse/Verdon"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Kaitlyn Dever, "Unbelievable"

Joey King, "The Act"

Helen Mirren, "Catherine the Great"

Merritt Weaver, "Unbelievable"

Michelle Williams, "Fosse/Verdon"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Alan Arkin, "The Kominsky Method"

Kieran Culkin, "Succession"

Andrew Scott, "Fleabag"

Stellan Skarsgard, "Chernobyl"

Henry Winkler, "Barry"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV

Patricia Arquette, "The Act"

Helena Bonham Carter, "The Crown"

Toni Collette, "Unbelievable

Meryl Streep, "Big Little Lies"

Emily Watson, "Chernobyl"

Emmy winners in the limited series or movie category were spread across several shows and performers.

HBO’s drama series Chernobyl took home the Emmy statuette for Outstanding Limited Series, while Netflix’s Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) won the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie.

Related: 'Game of Thrones' Triumphs in Best Drama Category

Jharrel Jerome was the top choice in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role in Netflix’s When They See Us, while Michelle Williams won the statuette for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performance in FX’s Fosse/Verdon.

Patricia Arquette (Hulu’s The Act) and Ben Whishaw (Netflix’s A Very English Scandal) won Emmy awards in the Outstanding Supporting Actress and Actor in a Limited Series or Movie categories, respectively. 

“If not me – then who?” — This was the drive for thousands of fellow liquidators, who stopped the spread of radiation at the doorstep of Europe.

Thirty-three years ago, following the Chernobyl explosion, I volunteered to go there, joining an Army Reserve and becoming a “liquidator.” Liquidators, military and civilian personnel, were assigned with the removal of radioactive debris and other daunting tasks performed under extreme radiation conditions. I was deployed in military-driven cleanup operations (starting from July 1986), including six severely dangerous “nuclear jumps” on “the roof.”

Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story, the book I authored about my liquidator life-changing accounts, interconnected with the accident’s history and its possible causes. I was directly involved in many of the events depicted in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl; I have also studied scores of sources related to the accident.

HBO’s Chernobyl created an enormous wave of attention to the largest known nuclear catastrophe. For that alone, the show deserves a lot of praise. Many viewers hail the superb main cast acting and the masterful work of the film crew.

Sadly, that’s where its brilliance ends. I feel that the version of Chernobyl accident presented by HBO is distorted in many ways. Here are just a few important ones:

• Valery Legasov and Boris Shcherbina, together with the fictional scientist Ulyana Khomyuk, are the show key protagonists who did everything — from leading decontamination efforts to unearthing the truth about the explosion causes. In reality, Shcherbina was the State Commission Head, where Legasov was a member; Legasov was more instrumental in the aftermath, but not to the extent portrayed in the show, and Shcherbina’s role was hardly close to his heroics in it.

• Neither Legasov nor Shcherbina were present at the trial for the station/shift managers. Why it was so essential for the show to reinvent history? Simple: the story presented by HBO is a typical law-and-order drama, where the state law is mightily suppressive and malicious (Soviets!); therefore “a few good men,” three protagonists, ultimately fail in their effort to bring the truth about the accident to the world. Such setup requires the trial at the end — thus, to fit the law-and-order dogmas and to make the trial a spotlight, the real events were hand-picked and altered.

• Chernobyl heavily accentuates a persistent desire of “apparatchiks” to halt the protagonists. Historically, every government faced with a nuclear accident attempted to cover up facts to avert global outrage (for example, Three Mile Island and Fukushima).

• So did the Soviets, but not as tenaciously as it is shown in Chernobyl. In reality, Legasov’s talk in Vienna was an eye-opener for both sides, the West and the Soviets. From then on, USSR did realize the seriousness of the West’s reaction, voluntarily sharing information and getting technical support in return.

• It’s obvious why the fictitious character of Khomyuk was created. Legasov and Shcherbina were heavily engaged at the station; creators couldn’t force them to do all the investigative work that is compulsory for the law-and-order drama. Thus, Khomyuk came into play, wearing blue leotard and red cape.

• I was particularly upset by the depiction of liquidator work in many scenes. For instance, we didn’t wear the lead protective gear while climbing the stairway to the roof of Reactor 3: it was over 200 feet high — try to carry additional 30 to 40 pounds of the lead, heading up there, and you’d get what I mean. The gear was stored, and worn for the shift, at the safe place closer to the top.

• The human radiation impact is presented by Chernobyl creators in a way that is more typical for deadly contagious disease (scenes with people touching either graphite or contaminated firefighter uniforms; panic in the eyes of the “bio robot” who tore a boot on the roof, etc.). Ionizing radiation is not Ebola, it penetrates through the body and causes lethal cell malfunctions, which, nevertheless, are not manifested as swiftly as depicted – nor can radiation be passed from human to human. In another episode, Khomyuk claims that a newborn daughter of firefighter Ignatenko perished but saved the mother, because the fetus “absorbed” the radiation. This is completely impossible.

The ripple effect from the show, “based on a true story” about this event of great magnitude by such a reputable company as HBO, is far more influential than from just another “a few good men” tale. Such responsibility should not be taken lightly.

My position is confirmed by Dr. Robert Gale, a top UCLA doctor who treated radiation victims of the Chernobyl accident. He recently denounced Chernobyl as “wrong and dangerous” while criticizing HBO’s depiction of the tragedy. I am concerned that for many years to come the real story of Chernobyl will be remembered and only looked at through the prism of this show.

Sergei Belyakov is a Soviet-born U.S. scientist, a former liquidator and the author of Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story. 

HBO’s five-part series Chernobyl and Netflix’s debut of former Fox drama series Lucifer top a list of new and returning shows headed to cable and streaming services this week.

Chernobyl, which premieres May 6, dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident, and the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster, all the while battling a culture of disinformation, according to HBO.

Lucifer launches its first season on Netflix May 8 after running three seasons on Fox broadcasting. Series star Tom Ellis returns in the series' 10-episode Netflix run.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting this week on cable networks and streaming services:

May 6 -- State Of the Union (comedy) -- SundanceTV

May 7 -- Foster (documentary) -- HBO

May 9 -- Klepper (series) -- Comedy Central

May 10 -- The Society -- (drama series) -- Netflix

May 10 -- Sneaky Pete (returning series) -- Prime Video

May 10 -- Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (documentary) -- Showtime

May 12 -- Our Cartoon President (returning animated series) -- Showtime