But there is another kind of support which has been even more conspicuously absent: the proposal of any feasible strategy for breaking the deadlock.
Mendes's award for direction is the most thoroughly and conspicuously deserved of the list.
He thundered, "I will not rest" until Christian pastor Saeed Abedini is released from Iranian prison, but was cagey about what his wakefulness entailed: "everything within our power, within our voice, from the White House, from the State Department, from our government" stops conspicuously short of military intervention.
In his advocacy for this regime change - to bring about a shift from discretion to a rule for monetary growth - he was conspicuously unsuccessful.
Better still, it did so without being conspicuously judgmental.
Dating back to the Liao dynasty (916-1125), the site has been a grotesquely expanded – huge new courtyards of conspicuously lacquered wood bury the smaller, faded original halls.
When pressed by Jeremy Paxman on whether he was up to the job, all Ed Miliband could muster was a watery "Hell yes", as if his spirit animal had been the conspicuously posh boy from that 20-year-old chip advert all along.
But pictures of celebrating supporters were conspicuously absent from the paper's news pages.
But one nation was conspicuously missing from the list: the US.
Today he set about paying for those priorities – £500m for a cybersecurity programme – by scrapping cold war tanks, planes and ships, sacking 17,000 military personnel and – less conspicuously – 25,000 civilian staff.
Another Ukrainian Eurovision star, the 2004 winner Ruslana, conspicuously supported the Kiev protest movement this winter, singing her victorious tune night after night to the Maidan protesters, who were demanding closer European integration.
