nomination

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She won a Bafta in 2010 for best leading actress and an Oscar nomination following her portrayal of a schoolgirl in the coming-of-age drama An Education.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

She earned her first Tony Award nomination in 1976 for portraying Rose Trelawny in Arthur Wing Pinero’s “Trelawny of the ‘Wells.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

“A delay in the Warsh nomination is a gift to Warsh. I don’t envy anyone taking that job now,” said Tim Duy, chief U.S. economist at SGH Macro Advisors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The tie that binds the Oscar curse and our assumptions of what the roles an actor chooses after their first Oscar nomination should look like is much shorter than it may initially seem.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

The political campaign, of course, lost all other issues, and resembled a campaign only in that it was something filling the hiatus between nomination and election.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov