The Hollywood Foreign Press Association really likes getting its TV online.

The nominations for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday morning, and the television categories were dominated by series from digital outlets Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, leaving traditional broadcasters and even cable programmers in the dust.

Netflix led the pack with eight total nominations, beating awards titan HBO, which racked up seven nods. Close behind were Starz with seven, and Amazon and FX with five apiece.

NBC, the network broadcasting the Golden Globes, failed to secure even a single nomination.

The honorees included shows from streaming networks that have garnered widespread acclaim, such as Amazon’s “Transparent.” But true to its, shall we say, idiosyncratic reputation, the HFPA also prompted widespread headscratching by recognizing a number of shows that, while generally well-received, were not considered awards contenders.

For drama series, the HFPA nominated three newcomers: Fox’s smash hit soap opera “Empire,” USA’s paranoid thriller “Mr. Robot,” and Starz’s time-travel adventure “Outlander.” Both “Outlander,” with its European setting and cast, and “Mr. Robot,” an edgy, cinematic drama beloved by TV geeks, are typical of the worthy but more out-there choices often made by the HFPA, which last year awarded Showtime’s “The Affair” best drama series (but failed to even nominate it this time around).

The true outlier in the drama series category is “Narcos,” Netflix’s drama series about the rise of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. Lead actor Wagner Moura also landed a nomination in the drama actor category, one of the most intensely competitive fields in television. The series received mixed to favorable reviews (The Times’ Mary McNamara called it a “grand if inconsistent experiment”) when it debuted in August, with some critics put off by its incessant voiceover and Scorcese-lite style.

Left out of contention in drama series were such annual awards favorites as “Mad Men,” which had its series finale in May, and the PBS period piece “Downton Abbey,” whose accents and costumes alone are usually enough to secure a nod. Even another Netflix show, “House of Cards,” was snubbed.

The nominations on the comedy side included perhaps even more surprises. For comedy or musical series, the HFPA nominated four series from streaming outlets and two more from HBO, leaving network series such as “Modern Family” and “The Big Bang Theory” out of the running.

In addition to last year’s winner, “Transparent,” and Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” a perennial nominee, the HFPA also honored Hulu’s “Casual,” a comedy about a woman who moves in with her bachelor brother after a divorce, and Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” set in the classical music world. Both are well-regarded but have hardly generated as much buzz as “Orange” or “Transparent,” or the field’s two other contenders, “Veep” and “Silicon Valley,” both from HBO.

This streaming favoritism was visible throughout the acting categories as well, with Aziz Ansari and Gael Garcia Bernal both picking up nominations for comedy actor (for Netflix’s “Master of None” and Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” respectively) and Lily Tomlin for comedy actress for “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix). Judith Light (“Transparent”) and Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) both secured nominations in the overstuffed category for supporting actress in a series, limited series or TV movie.

It’s also worth noting that Starz performed very well on Thursday. The premium-cable network and its period-piece, European co-productions such as “The White Queen” and “Dancing on the Edge” have fared well at the Golden Globes in recent years. There are plenty of viewers who will be pleased by the three nominations for “Outlander,” Ron Moore’s ambitious adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling romance novels. Lead actress Catriona Balfe, who plays spirited protagonist Claire, landed a first-time nomination, as did Tobias Menzies, who plays the show’s villain (as well as Claire’s husband Frank, but never mind all that).

More surprising were the two nominations for “Flesh & Bone,” which scored a surprise nomination for limited series or television movie and for lead actress Sarah Hay. The gritty ballet drama was not well-received by critics —McNamara called it “absurd” — but was picked over such fare as HBO’s “Show Me a Hero” and “Bessie.”

And it wasn’t all bad news for the broadcast networks. ABC fared the best of the lot, picking up four nominations in total, with most of those going to its high-minded anthology series “American Crime.”