Award Season Quotes

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

Most actresses save their best gown of the award season for the Academy, so it truly is a red carpet full of the fashion's creme de la creme.

I don't typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it's silly. I just don't typically get caught up in it.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

Award season is such an exciting time of the year and I enjoy seeing who is nominated, who wins and - like most women - the fashions.

I literally don't think about Oscar.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia.

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.

One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as 'Slumdog Millionaire' in 2009 and 'The King's Speech' this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.

I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

I am distressed when I see news channels saying 'Devdas' has let down the country by not getting an Oscar nomination.

I just wish one of the big American studios had bought 'Devdas.' They would have pitched the film for the Oscars in a big way, like Miramax did with the Chinese film 'Hero.'

I'm always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.