Have the Emmys, Golden Globe Awards, SAG awards, etc all been taken over by a bunch of neo-cons or is it that most people consider it to be well-crafted entertainment.
Did people get this bent out of shape with James Bond movies? I remember James definitely roughing up the various neer-do-wells from the various terrorist-minded organizations in those films before dispatching them in ways more bloody and violent than what I've seen so far on 24.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28TV_series%29FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Critical acclaim for 24:
For his work in the first season of 24, Kiefer Sutherland won a Golden Globe for his performances; Surnow and Cochran, the creators of the show, won an Emmy Award. In 2004, the show won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series.<4> 24 won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series, Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series, and Outstanding Stunt Coordination. Kiefer Sutherland also picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 2004 and 2006. Sean Callery won an Emmy in 2003 for his work on Episode 2.15 (Season 2, 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm) for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.
Kiefer Sutherland holding two of the show's Emmys on August 27, 2006, after the show with the 24 crew24 received 12 Emmy nominations in 2006, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Kiefer Sutherland) and supporting nods to Jean Smart (Martha Logan) and Gregory Itzin (Charles Logan).<5> Itzin said in an interview following the news, "So just to end up being one of five is obviously a big surprise and very gratifying. But in another way, I wasn't surprised because the show is so damn good, it should get recognized."<6>
At the Primetime Emmys, 24 went on to win Outstanding Drama Series and Sutherland received his first Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series award<7> and Director Jon Cassar an Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.<8> The show also won Best Dramatic Underscore Music Composition and Best Single Camera Editing.
The show has been nominated for 2 categories in the upcoming 2007 Golden Globe Awards, with the series nominated for the "Best Drama Series" and lead actor, Kiefer Sutherland nominated for the "Best Performance by an Actor in a Drama Series" catergory. On January 4, 2007, two Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced for 24: Kiefer Sutherland was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, and the entire fifth season cast was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.