But if Hollywood can no longer make pictures that deserve prizes and get a vast audience – such as The Godfather – we might as well accept it and move forward.
Mary Ann Liebert, the founder of the Rosalind Franklin Society, a group committed to securing Nobel nominations for women, told NPR that she thinks women who deserve prizes are often overlooked -- because nobody steps forward to nominate them.
He modestly told the press that Carl Sandburg, Isak Dinesen and Bernard Berenson deserved the prize, but the prize money would be welcome.
She was my treasure and my love and so I looked at her as if she was a prize, a prize I deserved, a sexual prize even.
"All I can say is that the work deserved the prize," said Susumu Tonegawa of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who himself won the prize in 1987 for his work on immunology.
Accepting her prize for The Audience, Oscar-winner Dame Helen joked it was the Queen herself who deserved a prize.
If the night's performances had anything to do with it, then Violet deserved the prize.
Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.
If only for his novel The Tin Drum, Grass has for a long time deserved the prize," Walser said.
Money and commerce, he believes, are ruining art, and he thinks that a little-heard Russian composer whom he particularly admires, Galina Ustvolskaya, deserved the prize more.
