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The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full.
Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.
No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
The BRIT awards is a really great occasion, especially for us Brits, because it shows the talent and support coming from our country.
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.
For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.
A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us.
Whether I am going in the right direction or not is determined not just by awards but also by the kind of films I do and their success.
My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!
For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.
Since childhood, I have been watching the Filmfare Awards, and it has always been very special to anyone who works in the film industry.
Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register.
When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.
Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.
I just cannot fathom the criteria and the eligibility for awards as there is an ocean of difference between the state and national awards.
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
BET, I'll never, never, ever forget them for this wonderful blessing they gave to me, to be on the 10th annual BET awards for my comeback.
Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
Every awards show, I take the same date: my best friend, Blaire. I took my boyfriend once to the VMAs, and I never made that mistake again.
All I'm interested in is putting in consistent performances. If awards come along with that, great. It means you are doing something right.
My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
To me 'Varayo' is a special song, not just because it has given me seven awards so far, but the experience of singing with Unnikrishnan ji.
It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.
I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.
When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.