The phrase
"awards magnet" refers to something or someone that attracts or wins a lot of awards.
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Since it premiered at Cannes last year, Inside Llewyn Davis has been touted as a sure -
fire awards magnet.
He's a
huge awards magnet (by my count, he has won / been nominated for a grand total of 92 different titles), so it's obvious he has the talent.
Much in the way Scott Rudin has owned the Oscar circuit for sometime, Gardener and Kleiner have established themselves as
an awards magnet for their films as seen by their two previous Best Picture winners («Moonlight» and «12 Years a Slave») and their three other nominations for «The Tree of Life,» «Selma,» and «The Big Short.»
Why it could succeed: Ever since the Emmy triumphs of his John Adams miniseries, director Tom Hooper has become
an awards magnet, winning Best Picture with The King's Speech and steering 2012's Les Miserables to 3 Oscar wins and another Best Picture nod.
Of this lot I can see Spencer and Manville returning with Janney being a one and done despite her status as
an awards magnet.
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a stage play about Billie, was also
an awards magnet with Audra McDonald winning the Tony...
The all - new 2018 Honda Accord is quickly becoming
an awards magnet.