Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

Messter replied with a series of longer films starring Henny Porten, but although these did well in the German-speaking world, they were not particularly successful internationally, unlike the Asta Nielsen films.

By the 21st century, the Netherlands had become a modern, dynamic country with a successful, internationally oriented economy ( the 16th largest in the world in 2010 ) and a high standard of living.

In addition, western animation has ventured into the genre with the most successful effort being the internationally hailed DreamWorks Animation film franchise, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

The film received favorable reviews, and was commercially successful, grossing over $ 67 million worldwide, although it performed better at the box office internationally than domestically.

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ) in 1978.

* Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( Games Workshop, 1983 )-An internationally successful fantasy miniature wargame.

In the 1980s, as several fashion firms based in the city became internationally successful ( such as Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana ), Milan started to be recognized as one of the world's fashion capitals.

Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.

By this point the sport's more serious organization was drawing internationally with notable Canadians such as John Eaves which went on to win world titles, Francois Brosseau and Michel Daigle who both went on to train many other successful Canadian freestyle skiers.

Although the album could not match the sales of their previous albums in the UK, Blur became the band's most successful internationally.

This movie received mixed reviews, although it was moderately successful in the US and internationally.

Jones had an internationally successful television variety show titled This Is Tom Jones from 1969 to 1971.

The films were extremely financially successful, The Stud, made for $ 600, 000 went on to gross over $ 20, 000, 000 internationally.

The death metal band Vader is considered the most successful Polish heavy metal act and have gained commercial and critical praise internationally.

The risqué humour ( often about sexual intrigue ) and mostly gentle satiric barbs in these pieces, together with Offenbach's facility for melody, made them internationally known, and translated versions were successful in Vienna, London and elsewhere in Europe.

Their recordings were internationally successful, and they scored two US Top 10 hit singles and a string of Top 20 albums.

Although the album could not match the sales of their previous albums in the UK, Blur became the band's most successful internationally, particularly in the US, helped by the successful single, Song 2.

As a singer she released two internationally successful albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling over four million copies worldwide.

Artist like Enrique Iglesias or Alejandro Sanz have become successful internationally, selling million of albums worldwide and winning major music awards such as the coveted Grammy Award.

Singapore's expertise in successful new town design was internationally recognised when the Building and Social Housing Foundation ( BSHF ) of the United Nations awarded the World Habitat Award to Tampines New Town, which was selected as a representative of Singapore's new towns, on 5 October 1992.

The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band who became internationally successful in the mid-1960s.

Her follow-up albums, Pau-Latina ( 2004 ) and Ananda ( 2006 ) consolidated Rubio internationally as one of the most successful Mexican super stars in the world.

Among the most notable Jamaican jazz instrumentalists who made successful careers abroad was alto saxophonist Joe Harriott, now regarded internationally as one of the most original and innovative of jazz composers.

Goldoni, a prolific writer, is best known for his comic play Servant of Two Masters, which has been translated and adapted internationally numerous times.

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1996 TV series ), an animated television series based on the Beano comic strip, known internationally as Dennis and Gnasher.

Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 ( eleven years Van Dyke's junior ), made both the actress and her signature tight capri pants extremely popular, and she became internationally famous.

* Jimeoin ( McKeown ), the successful comedian is also a former resident of Portstewart having attended Dominican College before finding fame with his unique comic style first in Australia and then internationally.

Wharton consistently criticised and ridiculed what he described as the " race relations industry ", and one of his most famous comic creations was the " prejudometer ", an anti-racist instrument that supplied readings in prejudons, the " internationally recognised scientific unit of racial prejudice ", when pointed at a suspected racist.

Little Lulu comic books, popular internationally, were translated into Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Greek.

He illustrated Tribune Media Services ' nationally and internationally syndicated Ghost Story Club comic strip and the weekly cartoon panel Draw Play for the Chicago Bear Report newspaper.

The first edition of Rumble Pak was released to comic book stores domestically and internationally on February 2004 and the publication was re-released to North American mainstream media stores on October 2004.

Among Pagina / 12s leading writers are the internationally renowned investigative journalist and author Horacio Verbitsky ; historian Osvaldo Bayer ; political scientist José Natanson ; the Cervantes Prize winning poet Juan Gelman ; football journalist, novelist and comic author Juan Sasturain ; and Uruguayan journalist and writer Eduardo Galeano.

He was sufficiently well known internationally by this point to be depicted in comic strips in the British comic Film Fun for twenty years from 1933.

Drabble is an internationally syndicated comic strip that appears in about 200 newspapers.

The comic has also been covered and reviewed internationally, including a New York Times article by Bill Keller, published on 5 April 1993, a Washington Post article by Paul Taylor, France's newspaper Liberation, in 1994, and the international magazine The Economist, in 1997.

Because the comic is available online, and the books are available internationally, the cartoonists have, on occasion, explained some topics to their international readers through their characters.

Jane Arden was an internationally syndicated daily newspaper comic strip which ran from 1927 to 1968.

Salinger ’ s narrator summarizes the Chief ’ s ever more fantastic installments of The Laughing Man ’ s escapades, presenting him as a sort of comic book hero crossing “ the Chinese-Paris border ” to commit acts of heroic larceny and tweaking his nose at his archenemy “ Marcel Dufarge, the internationally famous detective and witty consumptive ”.

Mother Goose and Grimm ( aka Mother Goose & Grimm ) is an internationally syndicated comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News.

The game was available for purchase in comic and hobby game oriented stores across the United States and internationally ( but only in English ), its 144-card set sold in Starter sets of 40 random cards ( MSRP $ 12. 99 ) and Booster packs of 13 additional cards ( MSRP $ 4. 99 ).

Shown internationally, mainly in art house theatres, the film is a darkly comic thriller set in a Hungarian Metro system.