The best thing about the end of movie awards season isn't that we have to listen to actors bleat about how important they are - although that helps - but that cowboys awards season can get going.

And cowboy awards season has started in earnest now that the nominations for this year's Academy of Country Music awards have been announced.

It looks like it'll be a good year for Kenny Chesney, who's scored double the ACM nominations than any of his competitors. That's probably life-changing news if you follow things like this, so now you can go back to whistling through your teeth and standing on your porch shooting trespassers with your shotgun in peace again.