Sentences with phrase «won widespread attention»

D.C. Public Schools was once among the nation's lowest - performing urban school districts, but in recent years has won widespread attention for making rapid progress as judged by scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Overnight he's launched a dossier that documents the extent to which Britain is becoming unfair under Labour - it wins widespread attention, including in The Sun and Guardian.

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Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.

He gained widespread attention a couple years later with the crime thriller «The Usual Suspects» which won Academy Awards for Kevin Spacey (Best Supporting Actor) and Christopher McQuarrie (Best Original Screenplay).

Three years ago, the last time the Russian filmmaker was here, he garnered widespread attention for Leviathan, his acclaimed, partially state - funded tale of corruption that was seen as challenging Vladimir Putin's government and which won the best screenplay award.

Represented by the Kerlin Gallery, Prendergast came to widespread attention for her «City Drawings», for which she won the Best Young Artist Award at the Venice Biennale 1994.