The first major Hollywood awards show of the year, the Golden Globes, would be held without a red carpet. Despite the absence of a star-studded audience, a lot remains at stake at the ceremony that honors the best in film and television.

Millions of viewers are expected to catch the live stream of the Golden Globes. But what should you be watching for?

Here is a quick guide to the event, which will take place in Beverly Hills, California and New York:

Can Netflix strike gold?

The 2020 Golden Globes nominations saw Netflix make its entry into the big leagues. The streaming platform won an overwhelming 34 nominations. But the ceremony did not go the way Netflix expected and they ended the night with a paltry two wins.

The streaming giant would want to change that this time around, and signal its coming-of-age in Tinseltown with a deluge of wins.

Netflix has received 42 nominations across the film and television categories this year. One of Netflix’s win last year was for Olivia Colman, who plays the lead role in the show ‘The Crown’. Colman is yet to lose a Golden Globe, having converted her previous nods for ‘The Favorite’ in 2019 and ‘The Night Manager’ in 2017.

Netflix would want Colman to keep the record going as she has been nominated for reprsing the role of Queen Elizabeth in the latest season of ‘The Crown’.

A fellow Brit, Sacha Baron Cohen, is also a strong contender for his role in “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”

Eighth time lucky for Anthony Hopkins?

The legendary, Anthony Hopkins, is a serious awards contender every time he appears on the big screen. Surprisingly though, Hopkins has earned a lifetime achievement award, but has failed to win a competitive Golden Globe since 1979.

Even when he won the 1992 Oscar for his role as the antagonist in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, the Globes jury chose Nick Nolte in ‘The Prince of Tides’.

If the Hollywood Foreign Press Association chooses to right that wrong this year, they will crown the 83-year-old Hopkins as their oldest ever best actor.

Standing in Hopkins’ way is Black Panther himself: the late Chadwick Boseman.

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The Globes is being shot here, and there…

In light of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the Golden Globes has announced that co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will anchor a ‘bi-coastal’ ceremony from New York and Los Angeles.

The move should allow more high-profile guests to present awards in person — including Big Apple-based Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones — even if the nominees have to stay home.

With the Oscars now planning to broadcast from multiple locations, the Academy will be watching closely to see if Fey and Poehler can strike up their usual rapport from opposite sides of the country.