What follows is an incomplete list of the people and productions whose names will not be read from Radio City Music Hall teleprompters on CBS on June 6, but who nonetheless triumphed in giving human flesh to a largely ectoplasmic season.
Never the heaviest hitter, the New Yorker nonetheless triumphed in front of thousands inside the Donbass Arena with well-executed jabs - his punch landed 62% of the time and made a mess of the Ukrainian's left eye.
That would be, ah, a liberal movie about a vigilante who nonetheless triumphs in the end.
Can a performer seem miscast yet triumph nonetheless?
Nonetheless, Hibs' triumph came at an immediate cost to reputation.
If it wasn't quite a Cinderella story, it was nonetheless a triumph of pluck, timing and social media.
This may be populist auteurism, but it is auteurism nonetheless: a triumph of one man's vision over a chorus of disapproval – and, at a time when arts funding is being slashed, a shining example of non-subsidised success.
There is nothing wrong with releasing one movie after another that basically repeats the same theme that has dominated cinema since the dawn of the industry: the difficult but nonetheless inevitable triumph of David over Goliath, of good over evil.
But it was a triumph, nonetheless.
But for the city's poorest borough, whose population was accustomed to neglect, it was a triumph nonetheless.
