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Quotes About Nominations

I have a specialization in a very particular area: the presidential primary process.
~ Steve Kornacki
I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
~ Walter Murch
I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
~ Patricia Ireland
Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.
~ Justin Trudeau
Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
~ Lee Ann Womack
We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don't get nominated in the first place - and we can't do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels.
~ Dana Loesch
The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.
~ Tyne Daly
Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.
~ Florence Pugh
I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
~ Estelle
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Awards season is big for me - I love following all the films and who might be nominated.
~ Kendrick Sampson
I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.
~ David O. Russell
A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
~ Jim Bunning
'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!
~ Tom Goodman-Hill
There was a pause, and then Damien said, I nominate Erik Night. Shaunee rolled her eyes. Erin said, Okay, how many times do we have to explain this to you--the boy is not on your team. He likes breasts and vaginas, not penises and anu-- Stop! I absolutely did not want to get off on this subject. I think Erik Night is a good choice, and not because he likes me or, well...
~ P.C. Cast
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
~ Leonard Maltin
Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.
~ Christopher Guest
Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.
~ Bruce Vilanch
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.
~ David Letterman
The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.
~ Unknown
I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
~ Patricia Heaton
One of them was Jake Eberts, a film producer whose works include Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, A River Runs through It, The Killing Fields, and Chicken Run, and whose films received sixty-six Oscar nominations and seventeen Oscar wins (he passed away in 2012).
~ Daniel J. Levitin