Sentences with phrase «recent years the winners»

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The most recent competition, to land a module on the moon and have it travel 500 meters and transmit video back to Earth, ended without a winner after 10 years.

A 79 - time winner on the PGA Tour who was world number one for a record 683 weeks, Woods lost form in recent years due to injuries and the mastering of a new swing while his ranking has plummeted to 876 after his long spell on the sidelines.

With «the sheer number and volume of new snack brands that have been launched in recent years, you've kind of got to be careful that you're picking winners,» says Bernstein's Howard.

Although I personally trade only stocks and ETFs, I know that binary options trading has become extremely popular with traders in recent years because of the low amount of starting capital required, the ability to only determine whether a trade will go up or down, and the instant gratification of knowing whether or not your binary option trade is a winner within a matter of minutes.

South Coast Winery has three times earned the California State Winery of the Year award and the winery's Vineyard Rose restaurant is a recent winner of the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.

Over the years, his restaurants have received numerous accolades; its most recent achievement being that Brennan's was honored as a «Where In the World to Eat Award Winner» by Condé Nast Traveler.

But he's a five - time winner on the PGA Tour and had sustained runs in recent years that pushed him to the top levels of the world rankings.

In the past, Southwest Conference winners (usually Texas) represented District Six in Omaha, but in recent years as many as four teams have competed for the distinction.

Defending champions Real Madrid are still in the mix for their third straight title, while last year's finalists Juventus, and recent winners Barcelona and Bayern Munich, are still around as well.

If José can find a buyer for Schurrle, which should be too hard despite the German's lack of game time in recent months, he should get rid of the World Cup winner and bring in the 26 - year - old Cuadrado.

In recent years Kroenke has encouraged a top 4 safe financial mantra with the title winners mentality being placed on the back burner.

30 year old Portuguese international Ronaldo split from long term girlfriend Shayk in recent weeks and playboy model Chavez has now come out and claimed that she had an affair with the Ballon d'Or winner.

Three - time Premier League winners Chelsea have enjoyed more success in recent years, but Liverpool have been champions of England on 18 occasions since the start of the 20th century.

A virtual ever - present in the Ballon D'or shortlist in recent years, Iniesta still pulls the strings for Barcelona — despite being arguably a little below the level he reached 2010, when he finished 2nd behind Lionel Messi after bagging a World Cup winner.

Their most recent clash was in the Cincinnati Masters where Federer prevailed in straight sets to win, and despite having a healthy respect for the Serbian, the 34 year old is once again up for the challenge of stopping the 9 time major winner.

The eight - time PGA Tour winner offered his witticism after the mutual antipathy that had festered between him and Woods for years burst into nastiness at the recent Players Championship.

Spanish World Cup winner Gerard Pique appeared in the competition for United in recent years, as did Giuseppe Rossi and Federico Macheda.

They have got recent history of spoiling the party as FCBurnley said, but this year must be our turn?!! Wood to net the winner please.

We've enjoyed a tremendous record against newly - promoted sides in recent years, but the closest we went to a late winner was when substitute Erik Lamela wriggled half a yard away from his marker, only to see Ryan palm away his rising shot.

Booked tickets: Spain coach Julen Lopetegui retains a core of World Cup 2010 winners lead by captain Sergio Ramos and vice-captain Andres Iniesta, with younger players introduced through recent years including David De Gea, Dani Carvajal, Koke, Isco and Alvaro Morata, who should travel once he regains his form at Chelsea.

The most EPL title winner Liverpool have 64 victories and their most recent victory comes on last season of this year by 0 - 1 goals at Sunderland home.

In recent days, opposition officials have described the election results as a fraud and claimed that Raila Odinga, the 72 - year - old Nasa leader, was the legitimate winner.

Indeed, one small study published in 1978 showed that lottery winners were no happier one year after receiving their prizes than were other, similar nonwinners and that recent victims of paralysis conversely seemed less unhappy than expected.

Based on these ratings, Bozsik's team established that recent winners no longer only exemplify the body ideal of thinness, but have also become increasingly muscular over the past 15 years.

Ralph Steinman, a recent winner who passed away from pancreatic cancer, was so engrossed in his cancer vaccine research that he developed and tested an experimental treatment on himself in the years building up to the award [source: Altman and Wade].

7) Deephan The Palme D'or award winner from director Jacques Audiard is one of the very best immigrant dramas in recent years.

Greta Gerwig's comedy has now grossed far more than «Moonlight» in total last year, and is ahead of what recent Oscar winners «Spotlight,» «12 Years a Slave,» «Birdman» and «The Artist» each had taken in at this date in their runs.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starreyears, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's StarreYears a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starred Up.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady.

The most recent example would probably be last year's Palme d'Or winner WINTER SLEEP.

I'll admit I don't know too much about this category, but action films seem to do well here (recent winners include The Dark Knight, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Matrix) and the only one with any Oscar hope this year is Inception.

Imagine if the Oscars, rather than offering up another canned montage of Hollywood classics, had seen fit to properly celebrate their most extraordinary best picture winner in recent memory, reminding us that the academy's legacy extends well beyond this year's crop of movies and their ability (or lack thereof) to move the ratings needle.

Other SVOD services, such as MUBI, are also getting in on the game, with their recent acquisition of Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki from this year's Cannes as a global exclusive.

In recent years, Oscar winner Cage has been charged with giving the same type of performance in the same type of movie.

In Best Actor Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) was snubbed in favor of recent National Board of Review winner Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year) and Whiplash faired extremely well with the group, netting nominations for Best Film and Best Director (Damien Chazelle).

In September, Lady Bird auspiciously launched in Telluride, just as Moonlight — a fellow production from indie distributor A24 and the Academy's most recent best picture winner — did a year earlier.

You'd have to go back to 2013 to find the most recent mismatch between Gothams and Oscars, and boy was it a wild one: Inside Llewyn Davis beat out eventual Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave to claim the Gothams» top prize.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

The Telluride Film Festival has become a reliable launching pad for Oscar winners in recent years.

The winners list has been pretty star - heavy in recent years — what's your issue?

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

We can't imagine The Martian winning Best Picture — but then again, we could say that for every recent winner except 12 Years a Slave, and the Academy is an unpredictable bunch.

Notwithstanding the recent interest, at least among the cinephile set, in such films as this year's Cannes Grand Prix winner Old Boy (Park Chan - wook, 2003), and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki - duk, 2003), Korean cinema remains an unknown quantity to most filmgoers.

Recent winners have included «La La Land,» «Room,» «The Imitation Game,» «12 Years a Slave,» «Silver Linings Playbook,» «The King's Speech,» «Precious,» and «Slumdog Millionaire.»

In recent years, «The Artist» and «Argo» have both been critical and commercial successes (and not coincidentally, Best Picture Oscar winners), and Disney are clearly hoping that the same kind of success follows for «Saving Mr. Banks,» which examines one of the family friendly company's most beloved films, 1964's «Mary Poppins,» and their own founder and figurehead, Walt Disney, here played by megastar Tom Hanks.

That snub for director Martin McDonagh doesn't help, either, although best picture winners have overcome that in recent years (see «Argo.»)

The European Film Academy has been predictive of the Foreign Language Oscar in recent years including for such winners as Ida, The Great Beauty and Amour.

Fire at Sea / Fuocoammare Directed by Gianfranco Rosi Italy / France, 2016, 108m English and Italian with English subtitles Winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Gianfranco Rosi's documentary observes Europe's migrant crisis from the vantage point of a Mediterranean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees, fleeing war and poverty, have landed in recent decades.

The result has been one of the year's most critically acclaimed and nominated performances (a recent Critics» Choice winner and Golden Globe and SAG contender).

The best performance of all, though, belongs to Rockwell, an actor who seemed destined to become a multiple Academy Award winner a few years back but has somehow lost that vibe in more recent films that Hollywood either doesn't notice or doesn't take seriously.