He rightfully gained a nomination for the TS Eliot prize last week, as, among other things, his poems persuade the reader to re-examine society, to look at the complexity of our confusing modern world.
At the 2003 Grammy Awards, the lead single "Dirrty" gained a nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
Knowles' live version of "Me, Myself and I" from The Beyoncé Experience Live! gained a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
This system, introduced in 2006, is designed to prevent past embarrassments when acclaimed films failed to gain a nomination.
And its failure to gain a nomination in either music category (Original Score or Original Song) suggests that the categories don't fit the facts of movie-making.
This year's nominations overlook the blockbusters churned out by the Hollywood industry with King Kong, directed by Peter Jackson, the man responsible for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, being the only big-budget film to gain a nomination in a leading category, for best director.
It's crazy as a band of beserkers – there's no way a 15-volume, two-author series of novels that was originally envisaged as a trilogy constitutes a single "work appearing in a number of parts" – but the Hugo judges have postponed the inevitable controversy, refusing to comment unless the "book" receives enough votes to gain a nomination.
Ice Cube, a founding member of the rap group N.W.A., whose rise to fame was dramatized in the film "Straight Outta Compton" — which was praised by critics and audiences but failed to gain a nomination for best picture this year — was another invitee.
"Breaking Bad" won the Emmy in this category last year, and it is a favorite to gain a nomination and even a repeat victory for its final season.
O'Dowd travelled to Ireland later in the month to meet Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and independent TDs and senators in an attempt to gain a nomination.
The crew responsible for the episode's visual effects, VFX supervisors Jay Worth, Robert Habros, and Andrew Orlaff, and Visual Effects Artist Eric Hance, succeeded in gaining a nomination for their work.
