The Old West End Magazine is published monthly and highlights " The Best in Urban Historic Living ".

After launching his career as the winner of an early series of Australian Idol, soul singer / songwriter Guy Sebastian has also made an impact on this genre in Australia winning awards at the Urban Music Awards Australia and New Zealand for Best Male Artist and Best R & B Album.

Her second album Superwoman included the singles " Rough Day " and " So Over You ", and earned Paulini two nominations at the 2007 Urban Music Awards for ' Best R & B Album ' and ' Best Female Artist '.

Hazel made another prominent appearance in " Man's Best Friend " on the George Clinton album Computer Games ( 1982 ), as well as the track " Pumping It Up " from the P-Funk All Stars album Urban Dancefloor Guerillas.

* Chrisette Michele, Patchogue-raised Grammy winner who won a Grammy Award for Best Urban / Alternative Performance in 2009 for her song " Be OK ".

At the 1998 Brit Awards in February, The Verve won the awards for Best British Group and Best British Album ( Urban Hymns ).

According to the journal DesignIntelligence, which annually publishes " America's Best Architecture and Design Schools ," the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas was named the best in the Midwest and ranked 6th among all undergraduate architecture programs in the U. S in 2007.

The City Management and Urban Policy program and the Special Education program at the University of Kansas are ranked 1st in the nation by U. S. News & World Report's " America's Best Graduate Schools ".

Dwele and Meshell Ndegeocello's renditions of " That ’ s The Way Of The World " and " Fantasy ", respectively, were each nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Urban / Alternative Performance.

* Best Urban / Alternative Performance

* 2004: En Honor a la Verdad – Best Urban Music Album

The album earned two more Grammy nominations: one for Best Urban / Alternative Performance for the track " Star / Pointro " and another for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for the track " Don't Say Nuthin '.

** 2004: Nominated for Best Urban / Alternative Performance for " Star "

In 2007, Shankill won the ' National Best Urban Village ' award and two other awards in the Tidy Towns Competition.

In that year, comedian Russell Brand was presenter and three awards were dropped from the ceremony: Best British Rock Act, Best British Urban Act and Best Pop Act.

Urban later won acclaim for his portrayal of policeman Nick Harvey in Out of the Blue, a dramatisation of New Zealand's Aramoana massacre, for which he won the Qantas Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2008.

* Best Urban / Alternative Performance

Shanghai World Financial Center was named by architects as the best skyscraper completed in 2008 receiving both the Best Tall Building Overall and Asia & Australasia awards from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat ( CTBUH ).

In 1991, they were recognized at the Soul Train Music Awards for Best R & B / Urban Contemporary Album of the Year, Group, Band or Duo.

* Best R & B / rap :'t Hof van Commerce, Will Smith

* Best R & B / rap :'t Hof van Commerce, Eminem

Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.

Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by portraying the painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's van Gogh biographical film, Lust for Life ( 1956 ).

A close personal friend of Pete Best ( he actually lived in Best's house and fathered his youngest brother, Roag ), Aspinall would join The Beatles as their road manager, which included driving his old Commer van to and from shows, both day and night.

Their leader, " Bert ", played by Dick van Dyke, sings " Chim Chim Cher-ee " which won the Oscar for " Best Song " in 1965.

Best known is the play " Gijsbrecht van Aemstel " by 17th century playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel, which is about the sacking of Amsterdam in the days after the death of Floris V.

One of the first true Superstar DJs, Paul van Dyk was one of the first artists to receive a Grammy nomination in the newly added category of Best Dance / Electronic album for his 2004 release Reflections.

* 2003 Best Trance Track Paul van Dyk-Nothing But You

* 2005 WMC 2005 Best Track House Progressive / Trance: Nothing But You ( Paul van Dyk )

* 2009 Best Track " Home " ( Paul van Dyk Club Mix ) By The Ministry Of Sound

* 2009 Best DJ National Paul van Dyk By Raveline Poll 2009

* 2009 Best Trance Track " Paul van Dyk Feat Johnny McDaid – Home " By Trance Awards 2009

* 2010 Best DJ National Paul van Dyk By Raveline Poll 2010

The van was named to Car and Driver magazine's Ten Best list for 1990 and 1991 and featured as one of their " vehicles for the coming ( fuel ) crisis ".

* 1995: Best comic of 1994 by the " Belgische Kamer van stripexperten " ( Belgian assembly of comic experts )

* " Grass ", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction issue 599 ( September 2001 ), edited by Gordon van Gelder ; also appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 15th Annual Collection ( 2002 ), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

* Best Traditional Track: Barleycorn ( performed by Tim van Eyken )

* Best Short Form: " Hockey's Night in Canada ", by Edo van Belkom

* Best Long Form: Wolf Pack, by Edo van Belkom

* Best Promoter: Kees van Toorn ( Netherlands )

* Best Promoter: Larry van der Putte ( Netherlands )

She was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award as Best Choreographer, along with collaborator Anthony van Laast, for Bombay Dreams.

* Herman van Veen – 8 wins, from 1970 to 2010, including a lifetime achievement award in 2010, two awards in the children's category and four in the ' Best male vocal ' category.

In 1999, van der Pol played Sandy Dumbrowsky in the Huntington Beach Playhouse revival of Grease, which earned her a Bobbi Award for " Best Actress in a Musical.

* Best Technical Achievement ( Ben van Os )