In 2008 the three agencies were consolidated into Screen Australia.

In 2008, he received his first Emmy Award for " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie " for his title performance in the HBO miniseries John Adams, a role that also led to a Screen Actors Guild award.

* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ( 2008 )-nominated for Frost / Nixon

Since 2008, all stations operated by Seoul Metro and SMRT have been fitted with Platform Screen Doors, but only within Seoul and excluding stations operated by Korail.

She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown ( 1988 – 1998 ), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards ; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal ( 2004 – 2008 ), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Most of today's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e. g., Fox Searchlight ) or genre films ( e. g., Sony's Screen Gems ); several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010.

These channels were renamed Sky Movies Screen 1 and Screen 2 in February 2008.

" He received the 2004 and the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, with nominations in the same category in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

In December 2008, at the Screen 2 presentation of the federally mandated Alternatives Analysis Study, the possible corridors and modes of transit were furthered narrowed down to either Halsted Street ( Bus Rapid Transit or elevated Heavy Rail Transit ) and the Union Pacific Railroad corridor ( elevated Heavy Rail Transit ).

In the August 2008 Screen 1 of the Alternatives Analysis, the four corridors being studied for the Orange Line extension include alignments along Cicero Avenue, Pulaski Road, and a combination of the Belt Railway and either Cicero or Kostner Avenues.

Durning was honored with the Life Achievement Award at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Ceremony on January 27, 2008.

On May 1, 2008, Adobe dropped its licensing restrictions on the SWF format specifications, as part of the Open Screen Project.

Other composer credits include Trespass ( 2001 ), Beyond Sorry ( 2004 ), Bush Bikes ( 2003 ), Us Mob ( 2005 ) and Aurukun-Voices From The Cape ( 2008 ) by David Vadiveloo, Case 442 ( 2005 ) by C. A. A. M. A., Going Bush ( 2006 ) by SBS TV, Marree Man ( 2007 ), the series Halal Mate ( 2007 ) ( for which he was nominated in the category of " Best Music for a Documentary " at the 2008 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards ), That's Australia ( 2007 ), Desert Heart ( 2007 ) and Wedding Makers ( 2008 ) by Rebel Films, Artists At Work-David Frazer ( 2007 ), IOU-Lloyd Rees ( 2007 ) and Tom Moore-Glassorama ( 2008 ) by Tony Wyzenbeek at ABC TV, and the SBS series Love's Harvest ( 2007 ) by Brian McKenzie and Rebel Films.

Clooney taught Opinion Writing in fall 2008, and in spring 2009 he taught Films that Changed Us, a new course based on his book, The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen ( Atria, 2002 ).

He also plays the police inspector in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he and the cast of the movie won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

* 2008: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture-Slumdog Millionaire

Kapoor's first role in an international film was in Danny Boyle's 2008 Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

The northbound platform was also upgraded with air conditioning and full height platform screen doors where train doors open on the right, and was officially completed on 22 May 2009. It was formerly the only underground MRT station without the air-conditioning and Full-Height Platform Screen Doors between 1987 and 2008.

* 2008: Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role – American Gangster

* Smother ( 2008, with Variance Films ; Screen Media, distributor )

Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of " The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz.

* 2007: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for Three or More Actors, New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus, 2008.

In January 2007, the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey presented a revival starring Amanda Plummer and Kevin Anderson, directed by Michael Wilson ; and, in May 2008, the Off-Broadway group The Actors Company Theatre ( TACT ) presented a revival of the 1964 revision of the play, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, which received a favorable notice from The New York Times.

In February 2008, a five-member hearing committee of Actors ' Equity Association, the labor union which represents American stage actors, banned Quaid for life and fined him more than $ 81, 000.

He occupied the top slot of Box Office Indias Top Actors list for the first time in 1994 for two consecutive years, then again in 1998 and for the majority of the 2000s ( from 2002 till 2008 ).

* 2008 Actors ' Fund of America Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award

It is included in Forbes ' fourth annual ranking of America's Best Colleges ; in Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians, and Writers ( 2008 ) where it is one of sven universities in the Southeast for its creative writing program ; the Sykes College of Business has been named by The Princeton Review as an outstanding business school for the sixth year in a row-and one of the 294 best business schools in the world, as well as the MBA Marketing program listed as one of the top 15 programs in the country ; in 2010 the National Council of State Boards of Nursing named UT a No. 1 nursing program in the country based on UT students ’ success on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses ( NCLEX-RN ).

It was inaugurated on 18 April 2008 with a friendly football game between Honarmandan ( Actors ) versus a local team.

* Tony Stevenson, ‘ Ziauddin Sardar: Explaining Islam to the West ’ in Profiles in Courage: Political Actors and Ideas in Contemporary Asia, editors, Gloria Davies, JV D ’ Cruz and Nathan Hollier, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2008.

* 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series ( nominated )

In July 2008, Walsh was nominated as a candidate on the Unite for Strength slate for a place on the national governing board of the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) in elections scheduled for 18 September 2008.

In June 2008 she participated in the NAACP Theatre Awards Festival Actors on Acting panel.

" Taco Teatro ", a Spanish-language, University of Melbourne-based theatre company produced the first adaptation of Rojo Amanecer on stage in May 2008 depicting the events happened in the Plaza de Tlatelolco at the Guild Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

On January 7, 2008, it was announced that due to the 2007 – 2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the 65th Golden Globe Awards would not be telecast live.

It was reported on April 4, 2008, in Variety that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America over controversy surrounding Leatherheads.

Their show won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award in 2008 for best radio programme of the year.

* 2007 – 2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

* International Horror Guild Award: The Nightmare Factory ( anthology ) 2008, Best Illustrated Narrative

Kostash is a recipient of the Alberta Achievement Award ( 1988 ) and of the Alberta Council of Ukrainian Arts “ Excellence in Artistry ” Award, 2001, the Canadian Conference of the Arts Honourary Life Member award, 2002, the Queen ’ s Jubilee Award, 2002, the Alberta Centennial Medal, 2005, the City of Edmonton ’ s 2006 Citation Award, “ Salute to Excellence ,” and the Writers Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement, 2008.

Formed officially in 2008, the Mandurah Students ' Association is the official Guild body representing students at the Mandurah Campus.

Reilly was one of 20 writers who chose financial core status with the Writers Guild of America during the 2007 – 2008 Writers Guild of America strike ; after the strike, the WGA wrote a letter releasing the names of these individuals, inviting accusations of blacklisting.

Strong was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Recount and won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for a Television movie .< ref >

Christopher Foyle was also, from 1978 until 2008, the Chairman and CEO of aviation companies Air Foyle & Air Foyle HeavyLift, was Chairman and later Deputy President of the Air League, was a Trustee of the Foyle Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Essex.

The series was severely impacted by the 2007 – 2008 Writers Guild of America strike and cancelled after 6 episodes.

Bonington was presented with the Golden Eagle Award for services to the outdoors in 2008 by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild.

For example, in January 2008 the Predator's Union was described as going on strike, a parody of the 2007 – 08 Writers Guild of America strike.

A published survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21 % FCP ( and growing from previous surveys of this group ), while all others were still on an Avid system of some kind.

Shortly after the resolution of the 2007 – 2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Triumph appeared at the WGA East Awards and lampooned many of the strike's key figures, as well as the controversy surrounding the decision of late night hosts ( such as O ' Brien and Jay Leno ) to return to the air in violation of Guild rules: How about our negotiating committee?

The Jindo Dogs Guild of Korea ( 한국 진돗개 조합 ), as of 2008, issues certificates of pure Korean Jindo Dog, which specifies the registered number of the mother, sex, and birth date of the dog, as well as breeder's address and whether the dog is of purebred.

Network Ten had initially intended only to bring back Good News Week as a one-off special, but decided to expand it after the short supply of US shows resulting from the 2007 – 2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused the network to take an interest in developing more local programs.