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John Hawkes

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

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John Hawkes felt proud and excited about being nominated for the SAG and Spirit Awards, but he didn't expect to win the Academy Award because he saw himself as less likely to succeed. Because of this, he chose not to stay awake for the Oscar announcement, accepting his underdog status calmly.

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