"We nominated everyone, and then they turned on us as if in a cloak of darkness".
"When you're nominated, everyone wants to talk to you, about you, and it's hard not to think, well, aren't I fascinating?" But not even the force-feeding diet of Oscars fizz and puffery could alter Mirren's intractably British DNA: "At night I would get in bed and say to myself, No! Don't listen to the cacophony of egos!" God bless you, ma'am.
Either way, everyone nominated in this, the NTAs' 21st year, wants to win … but who will?
They do at least make a touching speech, insisting that no one would understand quite how pleased they are to be nominated and reminding everyone that they, inlike most other artists, will be heading back to work the next day.
And if he nominated a successor, everyone would be gunning for that person".
Yes, he knew of the honor beforehand, but everyone nominated is a professional and should be courteous enough to take the time to plan and not steal precious moments from those later on.
The catch is that not everyone can nominate someone for an award.
Vote more than once.. Nominate your own startup (everyone else does).
He said: "It's important as many people as possible feel part of this special moment and from today there's a chance for everyone to nominate the people in their street, village, town or city that they would like to see honoured as baton-bearers".
Everyone was nominated for Oscars, obviously.
