Sentence examples for failed to be nominated from inspiring English sources

But the sad thing about new inclusions, like Tatiana Maslany, is that they sometimes knock out really deserving actors such as The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies, who won the trophy last year but failed to be nominated this time.

Fans of Uggie, the adorable Jack Russell terrier who somehow failed to be nominated in the best supporting actor category for the Oscar-winning film "The Artist," will be barking his own story in a coming memoir published by Gallery Books, The Associated Press reported.

When "Beloved" failed to be nominated for a National Book Award (Pete Dexter's "Paris Trout" won that year), forty-eight prominent black intellectuals and writers, including Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alice Walker, and Quincy Troupe, protested "against such oversight and harmful whimsy" in a statement that was printed in the Times Book Review.

Other bookies' favourites include Matthew McConaughey as best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, a role for which he failed to be nominated at the Baftas (the film was eligible, but overlooked), where Chiwetel Ejiofor now seems sure to triumph on 16 February.

Last year, Chinese scientist "Youyou Tu won the Nobel Prize, yet she failed to be nominated for China's own State Science and Technology … Awards," the researchers wrote.

Strangely, she failed to be nominated for her follow-up film, "Zero Dark Thirty".

They failed for lack of unity and a national leader, as Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld had been born in Germany and was ineligible to be nominated for President.

"It was already enough to be nominated.

Neither seems likely to be nominated.

I was just honored to be nominated".

I'm thrilled to be nominated".