Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

Best known for his play Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles.

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.

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

Published in 1985, it is also known variously as Chapterhouse Dune, Chapter House Dune, and Chapter House: Dune, and rose to # 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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.

* Charlotte Best, Australian actress, known for her role as Annie Campbell on Home and Away

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

He was forced to sell drugs out of a car wash he worked at by a local drug gang known as the " Best Friends ".

The current electoral system based on the Westminster system, was devised by the British and incorporates what is commonly known as " Best losers ", which maintains ethnic representation of MPs in the legislative assembly.

Busby's team also became associated with the liberalisation of Western society during the 1960s ; George Best, known as the " fifth Beatle " for his iconic haircut, was the first footballer to significantly develop an off-the-field media profile.

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich ( that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination ) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer / director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

Best known for his empiricism and rational skepticism, advanced doctrines of naturalism and material causes.

Best known as the director of Dracula ( 1931 ), the cult classic Freaks ( 1932 ), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres.

* August 20 – Dudley D. Watkins, Scottish illustrator for D. C. Thomson & Co. Best known for Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Dandy, The Beano, and The Topper.

* July 1 – John Ford ( musician ), Best known for penning Part of the Union whilst in Strawbs

Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963.

Best known for his " trilogy on modernity and its discontents "— L ' Avventura ( 1960 ), La Notte ( 1961 ), and Eclipse ( 1962 )— Antonioni " redefined the concept of narrative cinema " and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large.

The first AS / 400 systems ( known by the development code names Silverlake and Olympic ) were delivered in 1988 under the tag line " Best of Both Worlds " and the product line has been refreshed continually since then.

Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist.

Also, it has been suggested that the source of all or part of the dust may not be the same as that for visual or radar meteorites ( Best, 1960 ), and the same distribution would not be expected.

Best Bet for Tonight: That darlin' dazzler from Paree, Genevieve, opening in the Empire room.

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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.

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

Category: Hugo Award for Best Novella winning works

Category: Silver Bear for Best Director recipients

Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.

The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Star Gary Busey received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Holly.

* Harold Russell, Academy Award winning actor for his portrayal of Homer Parrish, in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.

In 2010, she was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens.

Roberts won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich.

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.

Her portrayal of a young woman faced with a moral dilemma fetched her a fourth Filmfare Best Actress Award.

In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

* The Tale of Sweeney Todd ( 1998 ), a television movie directed by John Schlesinger, commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting for which Ben Kingsley received a Screen Actors Guild Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of the title role.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Martin Landau received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi and the film received the award for Best Makeup.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

Julie Andrews wins an Academy Award for Best Actress, for her portrayal in the role.

In the film, he is played by Liam Neeson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal.

The following year he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a marooned FedEx systems analyst in Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away.

In 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor.

The film, which premiered in Los Angeles at the Carthay Circle Theatre, was the first musical film in history for which one of its cast members won an Academy Award-Luise Rainer received the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Ziegfeld's first wife, Anna Held.

In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets ; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.