The faces of the nominees are usually the highlights of the night. Fixed smiles when someone else's name is read out as the winner. A glazed-eye quality that looks like a cross between a beauty pageant contestant and a pig's head in a butcher's shop. It opens another dimension when you're sitting at the table and someone doesn't win. One year, a usually pleasant and polite person excused themself for bit of fresh air, and stormed out with a fixed smile on their face with such a glazed look in the eyes.
Some people are good at winning awards and some people are just hopeless.
People can be gracious and kind, even witty. Some people, if they have a cause, can sound like Moses on the mountain top and some people are about as intelligible as a fart in a bathtub. And that's the thing, people get so into the competition that they can't help themselves. An award is an award. Performing is driven by ego and acting is about using ego to communicate and television is simply pure ego.