The phrase "a second nomination for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone receiving a nomination for an award or position for the second time.
Example: "After her outstanding performance last year, she received a second nomination for the Best Actress award."
Alternatives: "a second nomination to" or "a second nomination in".
Singleton, who was 24 years old when he wrote Boyz N the Hood, became both the first African American and the youngest person ever to be nominated for the best director Oscar, plus a second nomination for best original screenplay.
In 1952 they earned a second nomination for "The Sniper".
Alt-J also received a second nomination for the album award, for their debut An Awesome Wave.
He received a second nomination for his work on Mike Nichols's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and a third for another Nichols film, "Silkwood".
Just a year later, she shed the pounds gained for that project to earn a second nomination for Chicago, only to yoyo again to embody Jones for 2004's ill-fated sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
Freeman had a second nomination for best supporting actor in a mini-series or movie for Sherlock: His Last Vow.
And there's a first nomination for The Voice (BBC1) which nudges The X Factor off the shortlist for entertainment programme.
He won a third nomination for the best actor award with his starring role in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the story of John Forbes Nash, a real-life Nobel Prize-winning mathematician suffering from schizophrenia.
There was also a first nomination for singer Adele, for her BBC1 special Adele at the BBC, but nothing for ITV's Downton Abbey in its last chance to break its Bafta TV awards duck.
A package containing a severed leg has proved to be JK Rowling's passport on to the Theakstons longlist, as her novelist alter ego Robert Galbraith picks up a first nomination for the award.
While Fontaine topped her sister in 1941, and picked up a third nomination for the 1943 film The Constant Nymph, De Havilland went on to win two Oscars and was nominated three other times.
