A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

It was named Money magazine's Best Place to Live in the U. S. in 2006, # 2 in 2008, and # 6 in 2010.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

It is popular with travellers – from 2001 to 2005 and 2007 – 2008 Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport in an annual survey of several million passengers worldwide by Skytrax.

In 2006, it was ranked # 5 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the " 50 Best High School Movies " and in 2008, it was ranked # 412 on Empires list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.

It ranked 96 in Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2006 and in October 2008, IKEA Canada LP was named one of " Canada's Top 100 Employers " by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.

It was included in many 2008 " best of " lists, and received numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress by lead Anne Hathaway.

** 2008 Worlds Best Male Pop Artist ( Winner )

** 2008 Worlds Best Pop / Rock Artist ( Winner )

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at MOJO Awards 2008, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at the 2008 MOJO Awards, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

The 2008 – 09 Manchester display, titled " Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery Exhibition at the Manchester Museum ", won the category " Best Archaeological Innovation " in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

The 2008 Princeton Review Best 290 Business Schools names Millsaps ' Else School of Business as one of the nation's top business schools and ranked Millsaps number 3 for " Best Classroom Experience ".

iTunes picked " Saints of Los Angeles " in their " Best of 2008 " in the Rock category as the number one song ; the song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the " Best Hard Rock Performance " category.

Matt Kelland of Short Fuze ( left ) and Keith Halper of Kuma Reality Games at the 2008 Machinima Film Festival with the Mackie award for Best Technical Achievement

The 2008 edition of " America's Best Colleges ", compiled by U. S. News & World Report, ranked Northern Michigan University as a Master's ( Midwest )-Third Tier institution.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

In June 2008, Mate Peroš was elected president of Hajduk.

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.

Armenia's national debt has increased significantly since 2008 when public external debt consisted of only 13. 5 percent of GDP.

American Samoa has a total of 241 km of highways ( estimated in 2008 ).

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

For example, an array of 10 integer variables, with indices 0 through 9, may be stored as 10 words at memory addresses 2000, 2004, 2008, … 2036, so that the element with index i has the address 2000 + 4 × i.

A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that in any hypothetical nonlocal hidden-variables theory the speed of the quantum non-local connection would have to be at least 10, 000 times the speed of light.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

* Verizon Wireless — Formerly operating an AMPS network, on February 18, 2008, Verizon has discontinued all AMPS service.

The company has posted a three phase turn down schedule, which was completed in September 2008.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

As of mid 2008, the AIM-120 AMRAAM has shot down nine aircraft ( six MiG-29s, one MiG-25, one MiG-23, and one Soko J-21 Jastreb ).

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

In 2008 the Brazilian minister of defense has formulated the " Estratégia Nacional de Defesa " ( National Defense Strategy ), that claims to build a strong national industry and make strategic partnerships with allied nations to develop technology together.

In 2008, Brazil has signed a strategic partnership with France and Russia to trade military technology.

The UDF government also failed to stop the growing negative account balance, which has since then continued to increase, reaching a negative of $ 12. 65 billion in 2008.

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

Fort Dodge Animal Health has their vaccines available for multiple European Countries ( vaccination will start in 2008 in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Italy ).

The town has been subject to several orders of natural disaster: floods and mudslides in 1994 and 2008, and landslides in 1996 and 1999.

This version of the script logo has been on the front of the away jerseys since 2001 and the home ones since 2004. The Orioles began the 2008 season in a rebuilding mode under President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail.

The countdown since 2008 has shown the elements of journalism and production involved in bringing news stories to air

In a 2008 interview he described the way that online social media has empowered consumers: