The prize differs in other ways, too: anyone can nominate a winner online, and the selection panel is public, in contrast to the secretive gathering and closed voting process that decides the Nobel prizes each year.
The last hoorah, do or die time, use it or lose it — your last chance to nominate a winner for the coveted Crunchies Awards.
Consequently, the Democratic Party was anxious to nominate a winner.
The party decided that nominating a winner would trump nominating an ideologically rarified candidate.
You have to be a former winner to nominate a candidate, or a member of a national assembly or the courts at The Hague; a professor of history, social sciences, philosophy, law or theology; a university president; or the director of an international affairs or peace research institute.
For instance, with five previous winners nominated (a first), the best supporting actor category is a tough one to call, and the competition for screenplay prizes gives writers more attention than they generally command in Hollywood.
An individual may not be nominated posthumously, but a winner who dies before receiving the prize may be awarded it posthumously, as with Dag Hammarskjöld (for peace; 1961), Erik Axel Karlfeldt (for literature; 1931), and Ralph M. Steinman (for physiology or medicine; 2011).
He quoted George Clooney's speech at last Sunday's Golden Globes: "If you're nominated, you're already a winner".
There is no need to look to a government agency to nominate winners and losers in the telecom industry when the market seems capable of sorting through the transition from monopoly to competition.THEODORE PAYNEMorristown, New JerseyYeltsin's legacySIR You are off-beam in your interpretation of Boris Yeltsin's politics and its implications for Russia ("Boris Yeltsin's latest gamble", May 15th).
Of the ten animal heroes nominated, the winner and two runners-up will be chosen by a panel of judges, including actresses Kristin Bell and Sally Pressman, and Jay Kopelman, an Iraq war veteran, author and founder of the nonprofit, Freedom Is Not Free.
(The play itself was also nominated; the winner that year was "Luther" by John Osborne).
