But then there are winners like The Affair and Gina Rodriguez, the star of Jane the Virgin, both of which failed to get nominations at the Emmys.
A Labour source said: "When Jeremy Corbyn nominated Tony Benn in 1988 against the democratically leader of the time, Neil Kinnock, Benn and Kinnock had to get nominations".
Normally, by early December, there would be putative favorites in at least a few major categories, and the cognoscenti would be able to rattle off the names of most of the films and actors expected to get nominations.
Two sociologists at UCLA University of Californiaa, Los Angeles) did a study which looked at IMDb data for 3,000 Oscar-eligible movies (released between 1985 and 2009) to see which genres were most likely to get nominations.
Harriet Harman, Labour's former deputy leader, said a party leader who could not command the confidence of enough MPs to get nominations should not be on the ballot.
The party ruled last week that Mr Corbyn did not need to get nominations.
But changing the rules to get nominations approved has only been threatened in the past, and has not actually been carried out.
If the show was produced by Daryl Roth, would she have been mentioned in every single story about its failure to get nominations?
Under an exclusive media partnership with Variety, the complaint said, the sales representative offered to help find a distributor for the film, and said she had begun lining up awards consultants to help get nominations.
Sometimes vice presidential nominations were necessary investments just to get a nomination.
