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That line is one of the great consolation prizes in all of American fiction.
This is why the joke was always that you could watchIts a Wonderful Lifearound the clock during December.
For example:
-Home Alonewas beat up by critics and resented for its commercial success.
Score and Song nominations were likely based on John Williams sterling reputation.
-Scroogedonly got a Best Makeup nomination and was a modest box-office success.
-And what of all those but its a Christmas movie technicalities and provocations??Gremlins?
That scene inJarheadwhere naked Jake Gyllenhaal is go-go dancing wearing only a Santa hat?
A measley two for Visual Effects and Makeup.
It just took a lot longer.
Atta boy, Clarence and opportunistic TV station managers!
