Awards Season Quotes

It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.

Many people vote a straight party line from the president down to city council. Hollywood publicists need to think long and hard about who they are putting forward to lead their awards season campaigns.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'

This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

In Hollywood, Oscar is king.

Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

Hollywood and fashion are symbiotic partners, especially during awards season.

The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.