With an eclectic range of nominees honouring genres from rap to country, the evening truly is the music industry's Oscars equivalent.
Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, head of diversity and inclusion at Google for Europe, Middle East and Africa, who was one of the main judges of the awards, said: "We are delighted with the range of nominees this year, from all categories of diversity and inclusion across Europe.
PAGE A17 BLOCKING OBAMA NOMINEES Senate Republicans are blocking a wide range of presidential nominees as a means of reshaping and restraining the Obama administration's economic policies on prominent issues like housing, finance and offshore drilling.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are blocking a wide range of presidential nominees as a means of reshaping and restraining the Obama administration's economic policies on prominent issues like housing, finance, foreign trade and offshore drilling.
A report by The Intercept said, citing obtained emails, that the board was "basically dead," but things were looking up when President Trump earlier this year picked a bipartisan range of five nominees for the board, including a computer science and policy professor and a former senior Justice Department lawyer named in March.
Ms. Ruemmler said the administration does seek a broad range of life experiences in nominees.
Some 1,000 people submit nominations for each prize, and the number of nominees usually ranges from 100 to about 250.
So a very small, but committed, minority can add a picture to a roster of nominees that will range between 5 and 10, depending on how many hit a threshold set at 5 percent of the vote.
Check out the full list of nominees below, which ranges from Kim Cattrall and Jesse Eisenberg to Ricky Martin and Philip Seymour Hoffman, all in the same super category.
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee conducted the search process in conjunction with a leading professional search firm and identified, interviewed and evaluated a wide range of candidates, including Third Point's nominees.
We had some of the best editors come together and cut together an amazing sequence that really showed the entire range of movies, not just the nominees but everything that people were seeing this year.
