So it seems about time that Santorini captured the No. 1 island title for the first time in World's
Best Awards history — beating out Maui, Bali, and the Galápagos.
Not exact matches
An early effort in the holiday season is an ad campaign surrounding Target's upcoming exclusive box set from country superstar Brooks, the
best selling solo artist in U.S.
history, that will run during the Country Music
Awards on Nov. 2.
Hulu, meanwhile, made Emmy
history as a streaming service winning the night's biggest
award, while actress Elisabeth Moss also picked up her first Emmy (after being nominated seven times before, but never winning, for Mad Men and Top of the Lake) in the
Best Actress category for The Handmaid's Tale.
For obvious reasons it tends to
award cards to individuals with decent salaries, and
good credit scores and
histories.
The two have been in movies together before, ranging from the ho - hum (Baby Mama) to the very
good (Mean Girls) but if
history tells us anything, it's that this movie's
best bet is to find a way to get the two to host some sort of fictional
awards show...
Because he is a dedicated Marxist as
well as a famous geneticist, Lewontin saw the conflict between creation and evolution as a class struggle, with
history inevitably
awarding the victory to the naturalistic class.
Last night at the Academy
Awards, audiences witnessed the most awkward moment in Oscar
history: Somehow, the wrong film was announced for
Best Picture.
These recent
awards are testament to the quality of sparkling wine that Tasmania can produce and I believe we are witnessing
history here, with sparkling wine achieving the top accolade across the
best of each wine style.»
The 2006 «ILIMA
award went to the world renowned restaurant, and marks the first time in
history that a vegetarian restaurant has won «
Best of» from among hundreds of restaurants serving all kinds of fare.
This is a unique circumstance in that it is a first in the
history of the
Best of the
Best awards.
With the nominees now having been announced for the 2014 Golden Boy
award, voted on by journalists and handed to the
best player under 21 in Europe, we decided to take a look back through the
history of it and the 11 players who have been voted as the winner in its short
history.
He was part of a very successful era in United
history where they won three back to back premier league titles and won 2008 Champions League final against Chelsea and won Fifa
best player of the year
award (Ballon Dor).
The four - time Ballon d'Or / World Player of the Year
award winner will go down in
history as one of the greatest players to step onto a football pitch and with
good reason.
Considered one of the
best players in the
history of soccer, he's the top scorer in the
history of Argentina, a champion player for Barcelona, and the only player to win five FIFA Ballon d'Or
awards.
After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European
history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book
Award for
best book in international affairs and numerous other
awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural
history of Twentieth Century social thought.
With names like the rain god, Samini, Efya, reining VGMA Artiste of the Year, Joe Mettle, Adina, King Promise, Kidi, Kuami Eugene, MzVee, Fancy Gadam, Kwesi Arthur, Sarkodie, Tiwa Savage from Nigeria, Nasty C from south Africa and a host of others all representing the various genres, the 19th Vodafone Ghana Music
awards will definitely go down in
history as one of the very
best.
The
award, which is given to «investigators with a
history of exceptional talent, imagination, and preeminent scientific achievement,» will support a project aimed at finding
better treatments for Huntington's disease.
Hemingway teamed up with Academy
Award - winning producer and director Barbara Kopple and the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce the film Running from Crazy, in which Mariel confronts her family's
history of mental illness as she explores the path she has taken toward
well being.
Steven Finkbeiner was selected for the
award based on his
history of exceptional talent, imagination, and preeminent scientific achievement in finding
better treatments for Huntington's disease.
After becoming the first girl to earn a win and to pitch a shutout in Little League World Series
history, 14 - year - old Mo «ne Davis won the
award for
Best Breakthrough Athlete at the ESPYS.
Of course, some of the most laboriously expositional dialogue in recent television
history also distracts which, combined with the most functional, dull and themeless music I have heard in a TV drama of late, is likely to leave audiences perplexed; bearing in mind that 2008's John Adams, directed by Tom Hooper (the recent recipient of a
well - deserved Academy
Award for The Kingà cents â
The film was released in 1972 to unprecedented critical and commercial success, emerging as one of the highest - grossing films in Hollywood
history and netting a total of four Oscars, including
awards for
Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and
Best Picture.
The Academy
Award's 2017
Best Original Song category became possibly the queerest of any category in Oscar
history with gay crooner Sam Smith's Spectre theme also competing against bisexual Lady Gaga's showtune - ish ballad from campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground.
The National Board of Review's
awards celebrate excellence in filmmaking with categories that include
Best Picture,
Best Director,
Best Performances,
Best Ensemble, Breakthrough Performances, Directorial Debut and Spotlight
Award as
well as signature honors such as the William K. Everson
Award for Film
History, Freedom of Expression, and Special Achievement in Filmmaking.
He makes
good movies and he makes popular movies, and sometimes he makes both at the same time, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has never
awarded its
best director
award to the most successful director in
history.
LGBT
history was made at the Academy
Awards Sunday night when A Fantastic Woman nabbed the Oscar for
Best Foreign Film.
In the 85 - year
history of the
awards, no Oscar ® - winning
best picture has ever been made without motion picture film technology.
The French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the
best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
best decade in movie
history) and went on to win 5 Academy
Awards (
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Director,
Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Actor,
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Adapted Screenplay,
Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100
best American movies of all - t
best American movies of all - time.
(If Annette Bening were to pull off a shocker, she'd be the first two - time
Best Actress winner in the 17 - year
history of the
awards, which somehow makes it seem even less likely.)
But perhaps it was the six
award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short
award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts
Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of
Best Short Film;
Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker
Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short
Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of
Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the
Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the
Best Documentary Short; and A
History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of
Best Experimental Short Film.
And it's captured by Coogler's Fruitvale Station director of photography, Rachel Morrison, who just made
history by becoming the first woman to be nominated for the Academy
Award for
Best Cinematography for her work on Dee Rees's Mudbound.
In the last 12 months, French director Agnès Varda became the oldest Oscar nominee in
history for Faces Places, as
well as the winner of an Honorary Academy
Award — a long - overdue recognition of the director's work.
Sofia Coppola won the
best director prize for her Southern Gothic adaptation «The Beguiled,» becoming the second woman to win that
award in the festival's 70 - year
history, and the first since Yuliya Solntseva won in 1961.
The
History Boys star Richard Griffiths, nominated for
best actor, said: «I am naturally thrilled to bits, as I have never been nominated for a movie
award before.
Thirty - three years old, English,
good and wealthy family, right studies, (Eton first and
History of Art at Cambridge then), newlyweds with Hannah Bagshawe — antiquarian with whom he shares a nose not exactly perfect and to whom he pointed his finger to when he got the
award saying «Hannah, I love you so much» — Edward John David Redmayne — called Eddie — stays to Hollywood business as Rania di Giordania stays to 7Eleven.
Tomlin comes with a
well - reviewed minor hit and as one of the most
awarded actresses in
history across film, television and stage.
TORONTO — Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley's documentary inquiry into her tangled family
history, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association's 2012 Rogers
Best Canadian Film
Award.
La La Land made
history at the 74th Golden Globe
Awards, winning in all categories it was nominated in - a record seven trophies, including
Best Picture - Comedy / Musical, cementing it's frontrunner status for
Best Picture as Academy voters...
William A. Wellman will forever be immortalized in Academy
Award history as directing the first
Best - Picture winner, the 1927 silent film «Wings.»
On Sunday, Jordan Peele made
history at the 90th Academy
Awards when he became the first black screenwriter to win
Best Original Screenplay.
Best Film: HER
Best Director: Spike Jonze, HER
Best Actor: Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA
Best Actress: Emma Thompson, SAVING MR. BANKS
Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, NEBRASKA
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, FRUITVALE STATION
Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Animated Feature: THE WIND RISES Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, FRUITVALE STATION Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
Best Directorial Debut: Ryan Coogler, FRUITVALE STATION
Best Foreign Language Film: THE PAST
Best Documentary: STORIES WE TELL William K. Everson Film
History Award: George Stevens, Jr..
For TV, Sterling K. Brown made
history as the first black actor to take home the
Best Actor
award for his role in This Is Us.
Pictures Premiere
history: Aug. 28, 2013 Venice Film Festival; Oct. 4, 2013 (United States) Other
awards won: British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography; Critics» Choice Awards Best Director, Best Sci - Fi / Horror Movie; Golden Globe Best Director Other Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Sandra Bullock), Best Cinematography (won), Best Production Design, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score (won), Best Sound Editing (won), Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Visual Effects
awards won: British Academy Film
Awards (BAFTA) Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography; Critics» Choice Awards Best Director, Best Sci - Fi / Horror Movie; Golden Globe Best Director Other Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Sandra Bullock), Best Cinematography (won), Best Production Design, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score (won), Best Sound Editing (won), Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Visual Effects
Awards (BAFTA) Outstanding British Film,
Best Director,
Best Cinematography; Critics» Choice
Awards Best Director, Best Sci - Fi / Horror Movie; Golden Globe Best Director Other Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Sandra Bullock), Best Cinematography (won), Best Production Design, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score (won), Best Sound Editing (won), Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Visual Effects
Awards Best Director,
Best Sci - Fi / Horror Movie; Golden Globe
Best Director Other Oscar nominations:
Best Picture,
Best Actress (Sandra Bullock),
Best Cinematography (won),
Best Production Design,
Best Film Editing (won),
Best Original Score (won),
Best Sound Editing (won),
Best Sound Mixing (won),
Best Visual Effects (won)
Brush up on the recent
history of the Academy
Award for
Best Director, as
well as their movies»
history and other notable accolades, below.
Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance The Shape of Water fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman nominated for
best director and Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison made
history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy
Awards.
Joel and Ethan Coen, «No Country for Old Men» Year: 2007 Cast: Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly Macdonald Distributor: Miramax Films / Paramount Vantage Premiere
history: Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2007; wide release Nov. 9, 2007 Other
awards won: British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best Direction, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Critics» Choice Awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Other Oscar nominations: Best Director (won), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, won), Best Adapted Screenplay (won), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound
awards won: British Academy Film
Awards (BAFTA) Best Direction, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Critics» Choice Awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Other Oscar nominations: Best Director (won), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, won), Best Adapted Screenplay (won), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound
Awards (BAFTA)
Best Direction,
Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Critics» Choice
Awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Other Oscar nominations: Best Director (won), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, won), Best Adapted Screenplay (won), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound
Awards Best Film,
Best Director,
Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem); Golden Globe
Awards Best Screenplay; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Other Oscar nominations: Best Director (won), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, won), Best Adapted Screenplay (won), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound
Awards Best Screenplay; Screen Actors Guild
Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Other Oscar nominations:
Best Director (won),
Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem, won),
Best Adapted Screenplay (won),
Best Cinematography,
Best Film Editing,
Best Sound Editing,
Best Sound Mixing
Tom Hooper, «The King's Speech» Year: 2010 Cast: Anthony Andrews, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, Timothy Spall Director: Tom Hooper Distributor: Momentum Pictures Premiere
history: Sept. 6, 2010 Telluride Film Festival; UK - wide release Jan. 7, 2011 Other
awards won: British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay; British Independent Film Awards, Best British Independent Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Screenplay; Critics» Choice Awards Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay; Golden Globe Award Best Actor Motion Picture Drama (Colin Firth); Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth) Other Oscar nominations: Best Actor Colin Firth (won), Best Director (won), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Geoffrey Rush), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helena Bonham Carter), Original Screenplay (won), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound
awards won: British Academy Film
Awards (BAFTA) Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay; British Independent Film Awards, Best British Independent Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Screenplay; Critics» Choice Awards Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay; Golden Globe Award Best Actor Motion Picture Drama (Colin Firth); Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth) Other Oscar nominations: Best Actor Colin Firth (won), Best Director (won), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Geoffrey Rush), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helena Bonham Carter), Original Screenplay (won), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound
Awards (BAFTA)
Best Film, Outstanding British Film,
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Colin Firth),
Best Original Screenplay; British Independent Film
Awards, Best British Independent Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Screenplay; Critics» Choice Awards Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay; Golden Globe Award Best Actor Motion Picture Drama (Colin Firth); Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth) Other Oscar nominations: Best Actor Colin Firth (won), Best Director (won), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Geoffrey Rush), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helena Bonham Carter), Original Screenplay (won), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound
Awards,
Best British Independent Film,
Best Actor (Colin Firth),
Best Screenplay; Critics» Choice
Awards Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay; Golden Globe Award Best Actor Motion Picture Drama (Colin Firth); Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth) Other Oscar nominations: Best Actor Colin Firth (won), Best Director (won), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Geoffrey Rush), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helena Bonham Carter), Original Screenplay (won), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound
Awards Best Actor (Colin Firth),
Best Original Screenplay; Golden Globe
Award Best Actor Motion Picture Drama (Colin Firth); Screen Actors Guild
Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture,
Best Actor (Colin Firth) Other Oscar nominations:
Best Actor Colin Firth (won),
Best Director (won),
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Geoffrey Rush),
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helena Bonham Carter), Original Screenplay (won),
Best Original Score,
Best Cinematography,
Best Film Editing,
Best Art Direction,
Best Set Direction,
Best Costume Design,
Best Sound Mixing
Brush up on the recent
history of the Academy
Award for
Best Director, as
well as their movies»
history and other notable accolades, from Damien Chazelle to the Coen brothers.
Director Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere) will very likely make
history in 2015 as the first African American female to be nominated for
best director in the Academy
Awards history.
Kathryn Bigelow, «The Hurt Locker» Year: 2009 Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce Distributor: Summit Entertainment Premiere
history: Sept. 2008 Venice Film Festival; wide release June 26, 2009 Other
awards won: British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Other Oscar nominations: Best Director (won), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Sound Editing
awards won: British Academy Film
Awards (BAFTA) Best, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Other Oscar nominations: Best Director (won), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing (won), Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing (won), Best Sound Editing
Awards (BAFTA)
Best,
Best Director,
Best Original Screenplay,
Best Cinematography,
Best Editing,
Best Sound Other Oscar nominations:
Best Director (won),
Best Original Screenplay,
Best Actor (Jeremy Renner),
Best Cinematography,
Best Film Editing (won),
Best Original Score,
Best Sound Mixing (won),
Best Sound Editing (won)