It's a shame, in a way, that they've been nominated against each other.
Mulligan's co-stars, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne-Marie Duff, were nominated against each other in the best supporting actress category.
This rampant popularity escalates to him even being nominated against his will to join in on the Elder election.
Breckinridge accepted the nomination, but maintained that he had not sought it and that he had been nominated "against my expressed wishes".
At the 37th People's Choice Awards, she was nominated against Dempsey and Oh in the Favorite TV Doctor category, and the following year, she was a contender in the Favorite TV Drama Actress category.
The track is nominated against Sam Smith's Golden Globe-winning Bond theme "Writing's On the Wall," David Lang's "Simple Song #3," "Til It Happens To You" by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga, and "Manta Ray" by J. Ralph and Antony and the Johnsons' Antony Hegarty (the nods for "Till It Happens to You" and "Manta Ray" marked the first time in Oscar history that songs from two documentaries are nominated).
It feels amazing to be nominated, especially against these other artists that are so amazing and have had such long and amazing careers like Jenni Rivera, who we lost this year, Thalia, Dulce Maria, like a bunch of amazing artists.
For all the $4 million spent on his behalf, he will eventually win only a minuscule number of delegates, gained no momentum and established no sense that he has even begun to unite his party behind his effort to be nominated to run against President Obama.
Now he is a Democrat, hoping to be nominated to run against the Republican incumbent, Gov. Rick Scott.
If the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award is about athletic achievement alone, the new world heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury, has a right to be nominated and to be judged against the other athletes.
