Willis Harold O ' Brien ( AKA: " Obie "; March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962 ) was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood " was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history ," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World ( 1925 ), King Kong ( 1933 ) and Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

In Paste Magazine No. 22 June / July 2006-a Special Collector's Issue featuring the 100 Best Living Songwriters-Mark Heard was remembered as well under the heading Wish You Were Here: " Mark Heard's lyrics are weighted with such a wry longing that they'll forever reflect a fresh turbulence.

Although the band scored a number of hits, they are best remembered for their signature song " Cult of Personality ", which won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1990.

Best remembered by TV viewers in 1960 as Jackie Gleason's sidekick on Gleason's various 1950s comedy / variety shows, including The Honeymooners " Ed Norton ", it was Carney who received the honors – six Emmies and a Best Actor Oscar ( for 1974's Harry and Tonto ) — to Gleason's none.

He is best remembered for his role as " crazed " television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes.

Today, Young is most remembered as the affable insurance salesman in Father Knows Best ( 1949-1954 on radio, 1954-1960 on television ), for which he and his co-star, Jane Wyatt, won several Emmy Awards.

Winters won Academy Awards for her acting in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and is also remembered for her roles in A Place in the Sun ( Oscar-nominated for Best Actress ), The Big Knife, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, and The Poseidon Adventure ( Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress ).

Best remembered for their 1993 single " No Rain ", the group enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock.

" According to the BBC, Best was remembered by mourners at his public funeral held in Belfast as " the beautiful boy " a " beautiful game ".

For many people, Wyatt is best remembered as Margaret Anderson in the television comedy Father Knows Best from 1954 to 1960.

Best known for her work in the United Kingdom, she is remembered in the United States for a television advert that presented her as a celebrity, even though she was not widely known in the US at the time the advert was produced ( see below ).

While probably better remembered as Scarlett O ' Hara's loving but doomed father in Gone with the Wind, it was for his performance as the drunken Doc Boone in Stagecoach, co-starring John Wayne ( in Wayne's breakthrough role ), that Mitchell won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award.

He is perhaps best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Five times, Buzzi was nominated by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards in several categories from comedy and variety to Best Performer in a Children's Television Program ; she was recognized not only for making people laugh, but for her versatility as an actress ; she is remembered for a guest starring dramatic role on Medical Center with Greg Evigan in which she played the wife of a fatally ill man played by Don Rickles.

Today, Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical Mary Poppins, for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson received a nomination for Best Director Oscar.

She is arguably best remembered for her comic performance in Singin ' in the Rain as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont ; Hagen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

The film is often remembered for one of Walter Brennan's best performances, as Judge Roy Bean, which led to him winning his record-setting third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, he is best remembered for his role in director Norman Jewison's film, A Soldier's Story for which he received a nomination for " Best Actor in a Supporting Role " from both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.

Best remembered for his gothically themed introductions and wordplay.

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 ''.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010, and his second book Not Taco Bell Material also reached New York Times bestseller status and received widespread acclaim for its cutting social commentary and humor.

The magazine Book ranked Big Brother No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 list.

The film is also notable for its memorable theme by Greek composer Vangelis, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

The novel was critically well-received for its gripping plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

A second and more contemporary collaboration with Harris and Ronstadt, Trio II ( 1999 ), was released and its cover of Neil Young's " After the Gold Rush " won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).

British cinema's growing international reputation was enhanced by the success of The Red Shoes, the most commercially successful film of its year in the U. S., and by Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Despite its editorial issues, the 3rd edition rules were well-received enough to win the 1986 / 1987 Gamer's Choice Award for " Best Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game " ( Rabe 1987 ).

Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

In 1990, Marmite Limited — which had become a subsidiary of Bovril Limited — was bought by CPC International Inc, which changed its name to Best Foods Inc in 1998.

The British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph placed " Some Velvet Morning " in pole position in its 2003 list of the Top 50 Best Duets Ever.

The series was occasionally the subject of controversy for some of its darker story elements, but was nevertheless the recipient of a number of awards, including the 1992 BAFTA for Best Comedy.

However, this was later cited as a positive feature of the programme's daring scripts in Britain's Best Sitcom by its advocate Rowland Rivron.

* Paramount has retained the rights to some of its silent films, including 1927's Wings, the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture, and Josef von Sternberg films Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York.

Quake mobile was reviewed by GameSpot on the Samsung Nexus and they cite its US release as October 2005, they also gave it a Best Mobile Game " in their E3 2005 Editor's Choice Awards.

The term " rhythm and blues " was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, when its " Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles " chart was renamed as " Best Selling Soul Singles ".