A gold cup is partly wrapped in grey paper beside a round medal and a brown ribbon.

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Perry White

Lois, Pulitzer Prizes are like Academy Awards, nobody remembers what you got one for, just that you got one.

— Superman Returns • 2006

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker compares two famous honours with a wry point: people rarely recall what the winning work was, only that a prize was won. The joke is that recognition becomes a label attached to a name, and the details fade.

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