"Damages" Nominated For Four Golden Globes

The Golden Globe nominations came out yesterday and FX's legal thriller "Damages" got four nominations, the most for any television show.  It's up for Best Drama, Best Actress (Glenn Close), Best Supporting Actress (Rose Byrne), and Best Supporting Actor (Ted Danson).  That's pretty good for a show that was almost canceled due to low ratings.

According to TV Guide Glenn Close had this to say: 

"I am thrilled to be nominated and doubly thrilled that [the executive producers] and Ted [Danson] and Rose [Byrne] are nominated as well. Damages represents one of the best teams I've ever had the privilege of working with."

Now anyone that follows the crazy awards show season knows the Golden Globes are kind of like pretty curtains on a wall with no windows.  Fun, but totally unnecessary.  The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the architect of the Golden Globes, is a shadowy organization of about ten guys from Canada who years ago got together one day in a bar and said, "Let's put on an awards show!"

They hooked up with a few prominent stars, served them food and lots of booze and they had an awards show.  The thing's grown since then because the number of prominent stars increased and so did the food and the booze.  In fact the people who run the Oscars have been ripping their hair out the last few years because all those wonderfully heartfelt acceptance speeches from people like Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Hilary Swank and George Clooney, sound just oh, so stale by the time the Oscars role around in February.  All those people gave the first really heartfelt version of the speech a month earlier at the Golden Globes.

But I'm all in favor of anything that brings attention to "Damages."  So if that means Golden Globe nominations, so be it.

The tricky part will be if the writer's strike is still on by January 13th when the show airs.  Glenn Close has already said she won't cross a picket line and considering all those stars who've been out on the street supporting the writers, the stargazing at the Golden Globes might be very thin.

What do you want to bet the Academy is just praying the strike settles after January 13th but before February when the Oscars are scheduled.  That way, all those heartfelt speeches will debut on the Oscars and actually sound...well, heartfelt.