Sentences with phrase «won for best»

Three of Leonard's books have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America: The Switch, nominated for Best Original Paperback Novel of 1978; Split Images, for Best Novel of 1981; and LaBrava, which won for Best Novel in 1983.

Two audiobooks won awards during the 57th Grammys: The Young Reader's Edition of I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai won for Best Children's Album, and the late Joan Rivers, who died last September at 81, received the award for Best Spoken Word Album for her narration of her memoir Diary of a Mad Diva.

Marilyn Horowitz won for Best Political Thriller for The Book of Zev from the 2017 Independent Press Awards.

As Henio Arcangeli Jr., general manager of Honda Sales at American Honda Motor Co., Inc., said, «Honda took a clean - sheet approach to reinventing America's most popular car, and we couldn't be prouder to receive this honor...» The Accord joins other models like Honda Civic in 2016 and the Honda Ridgeline, which won for Best Pickup in 2017.

The 2016 Jeep Cherokee won for Compact SUV of Texas, while 2016 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited won for best Off - Road Utility Vehicle, and the 2015 Jeep Renegade won for top Compact Crossover Utility Vehicle.

«Frozen» won for best animated feature, while Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for «12 Years a Slave.»

Best Actress for Veep, and Jeffrey Tambor won for Best Actor for Transparent (of course, for playing a trans woman).

And Leonardo DiCaprio, having finally won for Best...

For their work on this stunning - and freezing - historical picture, Iñárritu won the Academy Award ® for Best Director, Emmanual Lubezki won for Best Cinematography, and DiCaprio won his first award for Best Actor.

The 39 - year - old star won for Best Actor in a Comedy for his lead role in The Disaster Artist, but was not on hand to retrieve the accolade.

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won for Best Adapted Screenplay for their Up in the Air, and Reitman was actually gracious enough this time to let Turner speak for a second or two before Reitman cut him off and turned his back to him.

In 1990, Whoopi won for Best Supporting Actress in «Ghost» and Williams won Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for his role in «Good Will Hunting» despite losing out to Anthony Hopkins in 1991 for the Best Actor category.

Original and adapted screenplay awards were given to James Ivory and Martin McDonagh for Call Me By Your Name and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (which also won for best film, outstanding British film, leading actress for Frances McDormand and supporting actor for Sam Rockwell).

The two actresses who won for best performances in a TV series come next.

If Hepburn hadn't won that year she still would have won the following year, Dunaway (despite being ultra wonderful in Network) would have already have won her Oscar, and Spacek could have won for her best performance.

It's happened before that the winner for best picture didn't also get a statuette for best director (notably when the film «Crash» won for Best Picture but «Brokeback Mountain» director Ang Lee took the directing prize), but not often.

Ben Affleck won for Best Director and he was completely left off the Oscar nomination list.

Bridges earned a much - deserved Best Actor award at the Oscars for his role and one of the tunes he sang, «The Weary Kind,» won for Best Original Song.

Spreading the wealth a bit, popular favorite Get Out won for Best Original Screenplay, allowing its brilliant creator Jordan Peele an opportunity to accept the love for his superb film.

England's Hermione Gingold was the sole Golden Globe acting award winner (she won for Best Supporting Actress) although all four of them were nominated.

At the 66th Academy Awards ceremony, Campion won for best original screenplay, but lost the directing category to Steven Spielberg, who won for «Schindler's List.»

While «The Handmaid's Tale's» Samira Wiley, who took the stage at the Golden Globes when the Margaret Atwood - based Hulu show won for best drama TV series, danced in a reserved section of the party, author and activist Janet Mock, who serves as a writer of FX's upcoming «Pose,» was leaving.

Streisand was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in «Yentl» but won for Best Director — the only woman to earn that prize at the Globes.

The Grand Budapest Hotel won big, too, but it was a night that also saw Obvious Child star Jenny Slate taking home the award for Best Actress in a Comedy, The Lego Movie winning Best Animated Feature and Life Itself won for Best Documentary Feature.

The film received another large award when Jean Dujardin won for Best Actor.

The slow - cooked film — shot over a dozen years with the same performers — also won for Best Motion Picture, Drama.

It also won for Best Score and Best Costume Design.

In one of the most touching moments of the night, «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend» co-creator and star Rachel Bloom won for Best Actress in a TV Series (Comedy) and gave an honest, candid speech about the struggles she'd been through to get the show made.

In less prestigious categories, The Hateful Eight won for Best Soundtrack and Mad Max: Fury Road won for Best Hair & Make - Up.

It'd be interesting if Amy Adams won for Best Supporting Actress.

«Lady Bird» took home the prize for best picture in the comedy or musical category, while its lead Saorise Ronan won for best actress.

Bartlett Sher also won for Best Director and «My Fair Lady» itself as Best Revival of a Musical.

Not one, but two movies won for Best Feature, an unprecedented tie in the top category.

Also Ava DuVernay's 13th, exploring race in the US criminal justice system, won for Best Documentary.

Cult classic «Doctor Who» won for best brand on Tumblr, and best use of animated GIFs went to «The Purge,» the film starring Ethan Hawke about the one night a year where anything and everything is legal.

The Big Short took home Best Screenplay, while Inside Out won for Best Animation and Brooklyn took home the Outstanding British Film award too.

Later, his co-star Sterling K. Brown won for best drama actor.

Last night, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won for Best Ensemble, the SAG equivalent of Best Picture.

In other awards, I Am Love won for Best Foreign Language Film, Toy Story 3 took Best Animated Film and The Tillman Story was hailed as the Best Documentary.

Nominated for five Academy Awards (including Best Actress for Day and Best Supporting Actress for Ritter), this won for Best Original Story and Screenplay.

Rodrigo Grande's Argentine crime thriller At the End of the Tunnel won the Golden Space Needle Audience Awards for Best Film and Best Director and Peter Bratt's Dolores, a portrait of racial and labor activist Dolores Huerta, won for Best Documentary.

For the second consecutive year, medical Game of Thrones took home the award for best drama while Veep won for best comedy.

Best Supporting Actor should've gone to Mahershala Ali or Dev Patel, not Aaron; the Best Foreign Language Film is Toni Erdmann hands down (though I do also like Elle); and Natalie Portman should've won for Best Actress, but she still has a shot at the Oscar.

The very talented Mahershala Ali also won for Best Supporting Actor in Moonlight, which makes me very happy.

«And I remember when Kathryn Bigelow won for best director and how it seemed as if possibilities were expanded because of it.

Roger Deakins won for best cinematography in «Blade Runner 2049,» «The Shape of Water» for best production design, «Phantom Thread» for score and «Baby Driver» for film editing.

The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story was the big winner in the limited series category as it won for best limited series and stars Sarah Paulson, Sterling K. Brown and Courtney B. Vance took home awards as well.

Actor / Director / Producer / Writer Warren Beatty is a 14 - time Oscar nominee (won for Best Director, Reds, 1982) and Hollywood legend.

The Iranian drama «A Separation,» which would've been graced with a dozen Oscar nominations (instead of two) by a more internationally minded academy, won for best foreign language film for this tale of a Tehran custody battle, a series of deceptions and the emotional costs of divorce.

Cate Blanchett won for best lead actress for her performance in Woody Allen's «Blue Jasmine.»