Lady Gaga’s Golden Globes nomination for “American Horror Story: Hotel” rivals one of the awards’ all-time ridiculous “WTF?” moments: Pia Zadora actually winning a statuette as new star of the year for her “performance” in the 1982 film “Butterfly.”

First problem: Gaga is not an actress. What’s she doing as the vampy Countess on “AHS: Hotel” is a performance, all right, but it’s the kind of voguing you might see in one her music videos. Her dialogue delivery is stilted — and that’s putting it kindly. In fact, Gaga’s story arc consists of her seducing various clone-like men — and then slitting their throats with a gloved finger concealing a blade. She has no dramatic range — just a series of poses that series creator Ryan Murphy emphasizes in the absence of any real acting performance.

Gaga’s nomination, in fact, reeks of the kind of palm-greasing for which the Globes are famous: the intervention of publicists, impresarios such as Harvey Weinstein and the stars themselves, who sometimes bestow lavish gifts like watches on the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

(As The Post reported back in 1999, USA Films received flack for sending each member of the HFPA a Coach watch on behalf of its Sharon Stone movie, “The Muse.” Stone was nominated but didn’t win, and the watches were eventually returned.)

When you look at Gaga’s competition — Kirsten Dunst from “Fargo,” Sarah Hay from “Flesh & Bone,” Felicity Huffman from “American Crime” and Queen Latifah from “Bessie” — it’s clear that the HFPA nominated her because they want her star power at the show.

If Lady Gaga wins, it will be a joke. Just like the Golden Globes. Even when the nominations reveal the HFPA’s willingness to nominate newcomers who have a harder time getting recognition from more entrenched organizations, the organization sabotages its credibility by anointing those who haven’t earned their day in the sun.