Sentences with phrase «took the award for»

I don't like him, but he's a better choice than a guy who thinks he should have dominion over a woman's body and his running mate who takes the award for being the world's only Catholic conservative objectivist.

It was a very good goal but the next one took the award for goal of the game some four minutes later.

I should take the award for best alarm snoozer.

To say last night was Lupita Nyong «o's night is an understatement: She owned the red carpet in an ethereal Prada gown, took the award for best supporting actress, and made 90 percent of the room cry with an incredibly moving acceptance speech.

Hotly - tipped Penélope Cruz took the award for best supporting actress for her amusingly volatile performance in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, while the late Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

And then there's Roger Deakins, who at last took the award for Cinematography after an unbelievable 13 -LRB-!)

The fact that the only black acting winner that year was Octavia Spencer, who took the award for playing a sassy maid in a movie called «The Help», is an irony we don't even want to touch.

McConaughey's co-star Jared Leto took the award for best supporting actor for his role as Rayon in «Dallas Buyers.»

Kubo and the Two Strings took the award for Animated Film, while Hungarian holocaust drama, Son of Saul, won the award for Film Not in the English Language.

In the Sounds and Departures categories, Patrick Sheehan's GIP took the award for Best Sounds Feature, and top music video nods went to Paavo Hanninen's «Dance Square» by Video Age for Best Sounds Music Video, and Ben Siler & Company's «Memphis Beach» by Chakerine for Best Hometowner Music Video.

MoNique took the award for Best Supporting Actress, and her speech was one of the few highlights of the night, even if it did feel kind of artificial.

Errr... sorry... but as much as I despise the thing... the Corvette C7 Z06 takes the award for most affordable» Supercar»... hands down.

As far as value is concerned, the Volvo XC90 takes the award for that.

Beloved director Steven Spielberg took the reigns for the 2015 film adaptation starring Tom Hanks, but it was beloved English thespian Mark Rylance who took an award for his role as a soft - spoken Russian spy.

Taking the award for the most convoluted name is the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact, announced today at IFA 2014.

Long joins last year's inaugural winner of the Hatchet Job prize, Adam Mars - Jones, who took the award for his excoriating dismissal of Michael Cunningham's novel By Nightfall in the Observer.

Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 The British author behind books including Man Booker winner The Remains of the Day takes the award for his «novels of great emotional force».

The airline doesn't seem to be taking this award for granted, though.

Frost Me Gourmet is San Diego's newest Food Network Cupcake Wars champions taking the award for the Breeder's Cup Episode on Season 9.

Ritz Carlton Santiago took the award for Chile's Leading Hotel, Venezuela's Leading Resort went to Laguna Mar Hotel Resort & Spa and Charming Luxury Lodge & Private Spa were double winners having been voted South America's Most Romantic Resort and Argentina's Leading Spa Resort

Over the past year we've seen minimum and recommended system requirements for PC titles climb steadily upward, but Dying Light has probably just taken the award for most brut...

Over the past year we've seen minimum and recommended system requirements for PC titles climb steadily upward, but Dying Light has probably just taken the award for most brutal yet.

Even though it appeared on the PSN a year after its Xbox Live Arcade debut, Castle Crashers took the award for Best PS3 Downloadable Game.

As it happens, one of them did; Kinect Sports took the award for Best Family Game.

That Game Studio took this award for their game Twang.

Thanks to advanced motion capture technology Melina Jurgens, who took the award for Best Performer, was able give a sublimely unnerving live performance as Senua, especially considering that this was her debut as an actress in any capacity (she was originally hired as a video editor).

South African Reserve Bank's deputy counsel Jonathan Maphosa took this award for his work in areas including drafting and negotiating the BRICS Inter-Central Banks Agreement

Volunteer - run social enterprise Barefoot Law took this award for its free legal advice programme in East and Central Africa

Allen & Overy took the award for Banking and Finance Team of the Year, sponsored by Cantab Asset Management, for advising Blackstone and Goldman Sachs on the acquisition and securitisation of a portfolio of buy - to - let mortgage loans being offloaded by the UK Asset Resolution, a government agency set up in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to manage the mortgage portfolios of distressed and rescued banks.

Hogan Lovells took the award for CSR Innovation for its partnership with the Royal British Legion to offer pro bono legal representation to veterans in war pensions tribunals, as well as the families of those who died during service.

Slate Magzine took the award for best Internet news service.

Baker McKenzie took the award for Private Equity Team of the Year after impressing judges with its work for Bain Capital on the $ 3.1 bn (# 2.4 bn) sale of its portfolio company, Brakes Group — a distributor of frozen, grocery and chilled foods to the catering industry — to Sysco Corporation, North America's leading food service distributor.

Pinsent Masons took the award for M&A Team of the Year (Medium - Sized Deal) in recognition of its work helping pharmaceutical giant Teva acquire Allergan's global generics business.

Taking the award for the non-profit sector was Fair Mining Collaborative's Moving Toward Reconciliation, which involves resource, capacity building for First Nations communities affected by resource development.

Not exact matches

Western Australia's largest IT company Kinetic IT has taken out two industry awards for developing WA Police's new State Command Centre.

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

Including last night's nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for four acting Academy Awards (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, WoWS) without taking home a single statue.

The judging panel has decided on the shortlist of finalists for the Solent Deals Awards, which takes place at Hilton at Ageas Bowl, Southampton on June 7.

The actress took her bumps and bruises with pride, however, accepting the Razzie award for Worst Actress in person, showing she knew how terribly wrong the performance turned out to be.

But those attending TechCrunch's annual gala for Silicon Valley's top tech companies took notice of how the workplace messaging startup accepted its Fastest Rising Startup award.

Slack took home two of four awards for which it was nominated at the 2016 Crunchies awards Monday, a surprise to no one who has followed the company as it has grown to nearly 2 million users since it launched two years ago.

He also took home $ 3.06 million in salary and a previously disclosed equity award of $ 89.2 million, bringing his total payout for the year to about $ 102 million.

Jimmy Fallon took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night to present the award for Video of the Year, but no one probably expected him to arrive quite like this.

(Musk is unlikely to be struggling: He took $ 175,000 in reimbursements for using his private jet, and received $ 23.89 million in option awards.

Rose is best known for his award - winning blog, GoodFinancialCents.com, and book, Soldier of Finance: Take Charge of Your Money and Invest in Your Future.

Halle Berry, 51, took a stand this year, advocating for more diversity at award shows and speaking out against domestic abuse.

HBO may have led the Emmys tally last night, with 29 total wins, including eight for the drama series Big Little Lies, while Netflix took home 20 awards itself.

By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a dive.

Although the Gators fell in the College Softball World Series to Oklahoma, Barnhill still took home the award for 2017 USA Softball Player of the Year.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.