** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

** won the Cinema for Peace 2007 Best Director Award

** The Bunsen – Kirchhoff Award, a German award for spectroscopy

** Yambo Award ( Lucca Comics Festival )

** Premio U Giancu Award ( U Giancu & Rapallo Comics Festival ).

** New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film

** Screen Directors Guild Award for Best Foreign Film

** Festival de Cannes Best Actress Award ( Giulietta Masina )

** New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film

** Berlin Film Festival Special Award

** BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Film from any Source

** Bodil Award for Best European Film

** Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures

** New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film

** National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Picture

** Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film & Best Foreign Language Film Director

** New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film

** National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Story

** Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

** New York Film Critics Award for Best Direction

** New York Film Critics Award for Best Motion Picture

** 27th Cannes Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award ( with French director René Clair )

** Film Society of Lincoln Center Award for Cinematic Achievement

** 2002: Lifetime Achievement Award

** 1981: Special Award

** Axis & Allies: while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode ( which has the Axis powers winning the war ), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.

** The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture.

** The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Braveheart winning Best Picture.

** In Mexico City, black American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres.

** Centre College's football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6 – 0 to break Harvard's five-year winning streak.

** Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a Tony Award for its star, Richard Kiley.

** The Montréal Canadiens defeat the New York Rangers 4 games to 1 in the best-of-seven series, winning the Stanley Cup.

** In the Republic of China legislative election, the Kuomintang suffers its worst election setback in 40 years in power, winning only 53 % of the popular vote.

** Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize winning and National Book Award winning author

** Record for playing in the most winning games – 1, 972

** one person from each tribe winning individual immunity ( as in Guatemala and Gabon ),

** the winning tribe getting an additional reward, such as a meal, while they watch the proceedings of the other tribe's Tribal Council ( as in Palau, Cook Islands and Samoa ), or

** if he rolls neither, he keeps throwing until he rolls one or the other, winning with the chance and losing with the main.

** Eric Moo 巫啟賢 / 巫启贤 ( 1963 -; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Muu Ki Hien ), Award winning singer / composer / producer

** Jeremy McGrath made his first appearance at the X Games, winning gold in motorcross step Up, and bronze in supermoto.

** Cam Sinclair made what some call the greatest comeback in action sports history, winning his first X Games gold medal in best trick by pulling a double backflip, the trick that bit him hard in Red Bull X Fighters only 8 months befors, leaving him in a coma for seven days, and having him retrain his body, learning how to walk and, eventually, to ride again.

** Shaun White earned his second gold medal in skateboard vert, breaking Pierre Luc Gagnon's 3-year winning streak.

** 1st round: Beat Chelsea 5 – 4 on aggregate, after losing 1 – 2 away and winning 4 – 2 at home two weeks later.

** Yang Yang ( A ) becomes China's first Winter Olympic gold medalist, winning two golds in short track speed skating.

** 30 May – Jim Clark ( Great Britain ) wins the 50th running of the Indianapolis 500 in Lotus 38-Cosworth, with a winning margin of one lap.

** Escobar becomes the first Puerto Rican world champion, winning the world Bantamweight title over Rodolfo Chango Casanova by 9th round knockout, in the first world title fight between a Puerto Rican and a Mexican.

** Common variation: If more than one player is on the green, then you must bid on your winning hand in order to win the game.

** The Godfather, the Academy Award – winning 1972 film with Marlon Brando as the Godfather

** Brand new and exclusive interview by Thelma Schoonmaker, Powell's widow and Oscar winning film editor