Donald Trump should be focused on how to fix the country, not an award show.
I have never won a single award – National or Filmfare – and I just hope they don’t give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won’t accept it.
My sixth book, ‘A Breath of Snow and Ashes,’ was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.
An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.
By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win – I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.
I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.
I never knew I’d be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.
I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.
Though I was nominated for awards for films like ‘Tezaab’ and ‘Apna Sapna Money Money’ but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.
I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I’ll do it again now.
My general feeling about award shows that I’ve been to in the past was always that when you win, it’s a great time. What a joy. You’re celebrating there. And when you lose, the whole thing feels very stupid and why does anyone care about any of this. This is boring. I want to go home.
I won an ASCAP award two years in a row – that was sick.
I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.
The stigma with country is it’s not cool. That’s wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can’t perform by ourselves.
It’s hard because there’s a part of me that wants ‘True Detective’ to win every award we’re nominated for. But I’m a huge fan of ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’
If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.
Robert Pattinson is an incredibly gifted actor. Every role that Pattinson plays is a contender for an acting award.
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the ‘Human Stain.’ I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for ‘Kramer vs Kramer.’
It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that. It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.
I don’t want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn’t sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
I’d probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It’s a special award.
Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.
I won an award when I was 15 and my mum and dad were very proud and so was I but for me, individual things like that aren’t as significant as I have been part of so much and there were weeks and months of hard work building up to those pinnacle moments and they can be full of moments of pride.
My job is not to get an award. My job is to illuminate people about something that they should know.
An award doesn’t necessarily make you a better actor.
One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in 2009 and ‘The King’s Speech’ this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.
To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I’m just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.
Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General’s Award wasn’t something I even thought to wish for.
I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.
I have a nice script for Salman Khan which is much bigger than ‘Tere Naam.’ I have bought the rights of Tamil film ‘Pithamagan,’ which featured national award winning actor Vikram who had also done Tamil version of ‘Tere Naam.’
For every stand-up comedian, Just for Laughs is our Super Bowl. Every comic in the world goes to Just for Laughs in Montreal. And they presented me with the Stand-Up Comedian of the Year award for 2018. This is my Oscar; this is my Emmy. That’s my baby now.
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
‘Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi’ has a very nice subject which I think could be remade into a Hindi film. It was my first film in Telugu for which I got Filmfare Award for the best actress.
I wish there was an autotune for acting. That would make everyone win the best acting award immediately.
I went from playing for nobody and having awkward experiences at award shows to now being all over the place playing sold-out shows for people who know all of the words.
There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.
Some of my contemporaries don’t want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.
I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.
The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers – the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
It’s funny going to America because you’re starting again. You’ve just won a Brit Award, but nobody will care. You have to prove yourself, but it’s good to do that stuff. You might be big in Britain, but you still have to work at it everywhere else.
‘Strong Island’ has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it’s just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director – and, I believe, the first African-American trans director – to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there’ll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don’t have configuration management, don’t have vulnerability management, don’t have patch management.
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring – and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.
Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered.
Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They’re to promote each other’s movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they’ll go to see them. It’s still the same.
My father’s failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn’t invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.
I love what I’m doing most of the time, but it’s hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don’t know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman’s neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in ‘Tootsie.’ Under Sydney Pollack’s direction, ‘Tootsie’ had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera.
My next project is ‘Venus Vs,’ which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don’t realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.
