Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

* Best Original Screenplay, 1951 An American in Paris

* Viviana Zelizer Best Paper in Economic Sociology Award ( 2005 – 2006 ), American Sociological Association.

* Best New American Voices 2001 ( 2001 )

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

* The Best American Science Writing 2004 ( editor )

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.

* Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret ( 1985 )

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

In 2004, she became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Lost in Translation.

* 1981 – Calum Best, American model

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and, in the same year, Kelly was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film musicals and the art of choreography.

* 1951 – Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for An American in Paris

He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards ( including the " Artist of the ' 90s ") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States.

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

The 2002 CD won " Best Pop / Rock Album of the Year " at the 2002 Native American Music Awards.

* 1926 – James Best, American actor

* 1972 – Travis Best, American basketball player

His work has appeared in 27 journals and magazines, seven short-story anthologies, and The Best American Essays.

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 ( editor, with Michael Cart ) ( 2002 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 ( editor ; introduction by Zadie Smith ) ( 2003 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 ( editor ; introduction by Viggo Mortensen ) ( 2004 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 ( editor ; introduction by Beck ) ( 2005 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 ( editor ; introduction by Matt Groening ) ( 2006 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 ( editor ; introduction by Sufjan Stevens ) ( 2007 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 ( editor ; introduction by Judy Blume ) ( 2008 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 ( editor ; introduction by Marjane Satrapi ) ( 2009 )

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 ( editor ; introduction by Guillermo Del Toro ) ( 2011 )

His story " Night Train ," which originally appeared in the magazine Tin House, was included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004.

LeRoy's work has also appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003, MTV's Lit Riffs, XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits, Nadav Kander's Beauty's Nothing, and The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes.

Work from the magazine has received the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and has been included in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.

* The Best American Nonrequired Reading ( first issue: 2002 )

* " Rock the Junta " from The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 ( ISBN 978-0618902811 ) originally featured in Mother Jones

Her fiction and essays have been published throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including in Semiotext ( e )’ s The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading and most recently, Dave Eggers ’ s The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008.

Portions of the script were included in the anthology The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 edited by Dave Eggers.

* The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South ( paperback with a new introduction, 2007 ; chosen as Summer Reading for the Duke Incoming Class of ' 11 due to its connection with Durham, NC )

* World's Best Reading

Creamfields has won the award for Best Dance Event in the UK festival awards for 3 consecutive years and in 2010 won the highly coveted Music Week award for ' Festival Of The Year ' beating off the likes of heavyweight festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds.

The short story, " The Fifteen-Year Layover ," written by Michael Paterniti and published in GQ and The Best American Non-Required Reading, chronicles Nasseri's life.

They discussed their musical ambitions after a conversation about Reading Festival, Falkous gave Harding a tape of songs he had written on his own, and shortly after they formed a band called Best after early Beatles drummer Pete Best.

This novel was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 2005, and made the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List for books published in 2004.

While touring they managed to pick up another Juno nomination for Best Rock Album ( We Sweat Blood ) and tour Australia as well as more European dates including Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in Germany and Download, Leeds and Reading in England.

* George Sale, et al., " Arabic Reading Lessons: Consisting of Easy Extracts from the Best Authors ".