Get nominated or nominate yourself.
Now we're the middle-aged bores pottering around in slippers, fretting about how our savings scheme is doing in an unstable market and, saddest of all, "getting into" things: expensive coffee, Booker-nominated novels, obscure types of pilates.
PRIZE FIGHTERS: It's the literary awards season, the time of year when publishing types scan the lists of nominated books and mutter, "They picked what?" If you've wondered what can go on behind the scenes at prize committees, have a look at the novelist John Fowles's "Journals, Volume II: 1966-1990," publasted last month.
Kasich was (as was Huntsman before him) the media's "Here's the type of Republican that should be nominated!" candidate.
The most nominated composer, the late Alfred Newman, received 43 nominations.
Fox charged advertisers about $2.7 million for each 30-second spot on Feb. 3. Oscar sponsors prefer the nominated films to be blockbusters, which often have upbeat themes, rather than the type of movies that predominate among the honorees for 2007.
For the first time a woman has directed a nominated movie that not only was a hit with the critics, but is the type of film the Academy loves to reward: serious, manly (there's only one tiny female role in the movie) and a worthy topic (the Iraq war).
Most providers (8/11) nominated staff or management in their organisation as people who would affect decisions about types of education activities to produce.
Dafoe was cast against type as a compassionate good guy, and not a villain, in his Oscar-nominated performance as Sgt Elias.
Laurence Olivier gave an Oscar-nominated performance as a Nazi-hunting Jewish survivor of the death camps, and Gregory Peck was cast against type as Josef Mengele, trying to clone Adolf Hitler.
