Glenn Close at the Oscars in 2019 HARD cheese Glenn Close. You may be one of the world’s greatest actors, but you’ve never won an Oscar. You’re not getting in, I’m afraid. What’s that, Sigourney Weaver? You’ve been nominated for three Oscars. Didn’t win any, though, did you? Sorry, back of the line. The news this week that winners of Oscars, Grammys or the Nobel prize can be fast-tracked through the UK immigration system was hailed by the Home Secretary Priti Patel as an example of how the “best and brightest” in arts and the sciences could come to the UK under a new points-based immigration system.