Ms. Fey: "And I am going to start a really aggressive award-season workout routine – in the middle of the show".
But because her star has been so bright in that role, it has all but obscured the memories of Ms. Couric's start in television as an aggressive, award-winning reporter at local television stations in Miami and Washington, then as an NBC News Pentagon correspondent and reporter in Saudi Arabia after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Working Title Films, which co-produced "Les Misérables" with Cameron Mackintosh, is confronting the same questions as it amps up an already aggressive awards campaign for the film.
If "Intouchables" gains box office traction in the United States, you can expect the same kind of aggressive awards campaign for Mr. Sy that Harvey Weinstein mounted to secure what many consider to be an undeserved best actor statuette for the Italian comedian Roberto Benigni in the 1997 Holocaust comedy, "Life Is Beautiful".
"We were intentionally more aggressive in awarding equity in 1999," said Dennis Vereb, the company's vice president for compensation, both to reward executives for record earnings and to motivate them to lift the company's share price.
It was for "most aggressive rider," an award handed out after each stage of the Tour de France.
Under Mr. Christie, the state has rewarded schools that made aggressive changes, like awarding grants to a group of Newark high schools that replaced half their staffs.
It's doubtful that either actress will be affected by this minor misstep -- official Oscar voting, it should be noted, doesn't begin until Dec. 27 -- but the mere fact that the mistake became news at all shows how aggressive this year's awards race is already.
They analyzed penalties awarded for aggressive behavior in football and ice hockey players.
The City has been rocked by pay revolts at companies including Shell, RBS and Provident Financial, and there are calls for investors to become more aggressive in voting down pay awards rather than relying on their traditional method of expressing dissatisfaction: abstention.
There is also a white jersey for the Tour's quickest young rider, a team prize and an award for the most aggressive rider on each stage, while the man who is last overall is called the Lanterne Rouge.
