This year, the only casualty so far has been The Sessions (nominated only in the supporting actress category), which at the weekend saw its box office plunge 74%, following a weak debut in the previous frame.
Also, they are nominated only by the German work force and thus fail to reflect the globalization of German companies.
Speaking of the Grammys, of late Ms. Streisand's work has been nominated only in the 'Traditional Pop Album' category.
"Triplicate," Bob Dylan's three-volume continuation of his exploration of American pop standards, has received widespread praise but is nominated only in the pop vocal album category; not so long ago it might have landed an overall album-of-the-year nod.
But this year the alumni committee nominated only one person, the architect Maya Lin, who submitted the winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington when she was a senior at Yale in the class of 1981.
That's what the Academy did, too, when it nominated only Aiello from the cast of "Do the Right Thing".
George Clooney on Tuesday joined Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith and other film industry figures who lamented that the Academy nominated only white actors for the second consecutive year, and ignored other black talent behind the cameras.
(While travelling he met the fabulously wealthy King Croesus, who asked him to say who was the happiest man on earth, expecting himself to be nominated, only to get the disconcerting reply, "Call no man happy until he is dead").
His 1963 masterpiece "The Organizer" wasn't nominated only because that was the same year as Fellini's "8 1/2," which, not surprisingly, was the Italian entry.
Through a spokesman, Mr. Kushner declined to comment on his aspirations, and the McGreevey administration pointed out that Mr. Kushner had been nominated only for a seat on the port agency board, not the chairmanship.
