The short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave and the full length feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit all received Academy Awards.

While the film itself received mixed reviews, Close and Janet McTeer received rave reviews for their performances.

Close received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and multiple critics nominations for her performance in Albert Nobbs.

On January 24, 2012, Close received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, her first nomination since 1989, and her sixth Oscar nomination overall.

Glenn Close received considerable praise for her performance ; she was lauded by the New York Times for her " richness and comic delicacy ," while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that, once she " finally lets loose and gives way to complete animal despair, Close is horrifying.

The film received a further eight nominations, in the categories of Best Direction ( Stephen Frears ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Close ), Best Cinematography ( Philippe Rousselot ), Best Costume Design ( Acheson ), Best Original Film Score ( Fenton ), Best Editing ( Mick Audsley ), Best Make Up Artist ( Jean-Luc Russier ) and Best Production Design ( Craig ).

Critics were enthusiastic about the film, and it received six Academy Award nominations, including that for Best Picture, Best Actress for Close and Best Supporting Actress for Archer.

The Art of Noise also received a full writing credit for The Prodigy's " Firestarter ", which samples the female " hey, hey " voice from " Close to the Edit ".

As with Close to the Bone, the album was not a commercial success although " Suboceana " received some radio play, mainly in the UK, and the single " Don't Say No " made the UK Top 100 ( Tom Tom Club's fifth, and to date final, single to do so ).

Patti LuPone, who initially had been promised the Broadway run, sued Lloyd Webber and received a settlement reported to be $ 1 million ; Faye Dunaway, set to replace Close in L. A., was let go because Lloyd Webber felt her singing voice was not up to the role.

In 1962, Close received his B. A.

The 1977 release Muy Amigos / Close Friends, a duet collection with Puerto Rican singer Danny Rivera, also received a Grammy nomination.

Close to the border, and already home to significant Jewish minorities the Cova da Beira region received many refugees.

Close quarters hand to hand fighting ensued, and after Owen received a fatal wound, Watson took command.

Magnification received a warm reception from critics and fans, although not on the level of older albums such as Fragile or Close to the Edge ; the album reached # 71 in the UK and # 186 in the US.

Mike Nichols, Ted Flicker, and Del Close were her most frequent collaborators in this regard.

Some key figures in the development of improvisational theatre are Avery Schreiber, Viola Spolin and her son Paul Sills, founder of Chicago's famed Second City troupe and originator of Theater Games, and Del Close, founder of ImprovOlympic ( along with Charna Halpern ) and creator of a longform improv format known as The Harold.

Close stands the House of Frescoes, and the fresco in the main room represented a priestess or goddess with ears of corn in her hand.

Her father was a descendant of the Taliaferros of Virginia ; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals ' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

During her childhood, Close lived with her parents in a stone cottage on her maternal grandfather's estate, in Greenwich.

Close has credited her early years for her acting abilities: " I have no doubt that the days I spent running free in the evocative Connecticut countryside with an unfettered imagination, playing whatever character our games demanded, is one of the reasons that acting has always seemed so natural to me.

Close started her professional stage career in 1974, and her film work in 1982.

In the 1990s, she starred in the highly rated presentation of the 1991 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama Sarah, Plain and Tall ( and its two sequels ) and also in the made-for-TV movie Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story ( 1995 ); for the latter role Close won her first Emmy.

Close won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama series for her role in Damages.

In an interview after her win, Close admitted her role of Patty Hewes in the series was the role of her life.

In the film, Close played the title role of Albert Nobbs, a woman living her life as a man in 1800s Ireland after being sexually assaulted as a young girl.

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.

In February 2006, Close married her longtime boyfriend David E. ( Evans ) Shaw in Maine.

She has a daughter, Annie Starke, from her previous relationship with John Starke that ended in 1991. Close is a second cousin once removed to actress Brooke Shields.

Close announced to the public that she has had her DNA sequenced.

* Close Combat-( Microsoft, 1996 )-not the first wargame to break out from hexes, and still presented in a 2-dimensional format, Close Combat nonetheless uniquely addressed factors such as individual morale and reluctance to carry out orders.

Close played Theda Bara, a silent film diva mostly known as the first movie " vamp ".

The Head on the Door reached number seven in the UK and was the band's first entry into American Top 75 at number 59, a success partly due to the international impact of the LP's two singles, " In Between Days " and " Close to Me ".

The UK premiere was at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969 ; this was the first performance of the text as written.

Close on Rose's heels, the entrepreneur Bonnie Heath soon set up his own thoroughbred horse farm and produced the state's first Kentucky Derby winner.

Close by, he founded the first civilian community in Texas, San Antonio de Bexar ( now San Antonio, Texas, USA ).

He was the first choice for director Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Close Encounters is the first collaboration between film editor Michael Kahn and Spielberg.

He was the first Chairman of the Effingham Housing Association, a charity which built homes for local people ; the most recent development, Barnes Wallis Close, was opened by two members of his family in 2002.

His first known victim, 70-year-old Eva Lyons, lived at Keswick Close in the town.

The band went on their first UK tour with Swiss female band Kleenex, in May 1979 after Rough Trade Records released their first single, " Fairytale in the Supermarket "/ " In Love "/ " Adventures Close to Home ".

The album's first single " So Close " ( co-produced by Jon Bon Jovi ) reached Number 11 and was Hall & Oates ' last major hit.

Close to Qila Mubarak were the Mohallas of the Khatris, Aroras, Baniyas along with the big Havelis of the nobility, The first settlers of Patiala were the Hindus of Sirhind, who opened their business establishments outside the Darshani Gate.

Other notable roles include Mary Elizabeth ( O ' Brien ) Sims on the Lifetime Television drama series Any Day Now ( 1998 – 2002 ), for which she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, the voice of Little Bo Peep in the first two Toy Story films, a supporting role in the John Hughes's Pretty in Pink as well as guest-starring roles on such CBS's television series as Magnum, P. I., Joan of Arcadia, Close to Home, Two and a Half Men and ABC ' Men in Trees, Ugly Betty and Boston Legal.

The twins first attended Wood Close School in Brick Lane and then Daniel Street School.

Snow ( 2 / 66 & 3 / 40 ), removed the West Indian openers Conrad Hunte and Easton McMorris for 12 runs in the second innings, Brian Close caught Sobers off him for a first ball duck and England won a stunning victory by an innings and 34 runs.

She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in The Echo of Thunder ( 1998 ), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in Dash and Lilly ( 1999 ), her frigid society matron in A Cooler Climate ( 1999 ) and her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic The Reagans ( 2003 ).

His film credits include Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature film, The Sugarland Express, writing on Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( for which he was not publicly credited ), and producing and co-writing Dragonslayer.

* 2011-EFILM develops post production workflow for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the first U. S. Feature film to shoot using the ARRIRAW format on the Alexa.