Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars.

The film gained eight Academy Awards nominations, including Best Director, and won two statues, for Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories.

The film also won the 1979 Golden Globe Award for Best Film ( Comedy or Musical ), and also gained nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Her performance in Alfie gained her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.

He has won three Emmy Awards, and has gained two Academy Award nominations.

The Naked Civil Servant won a British Academy Television Award ( BAFTA ) for its star John Hurt as well as a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and a prize at the Prix Italia ; Rock Follies won a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award, while Widows also gained BAFTA nominations and ratings of over 12 million — unusually for a drama serial, it picked up viewers over the course of its six-week run.

Tammany Hall, which evolved from an organization of craftsmen into a Democratic political machine, gained control of Democratic Party nominations in the state and city in 1861.

Throughout this period, Five Live gained several awards including five Sony Awards in 2005 ; the single gold award was for its coverage of the 2004 Asian tsunami in the News Story Award category alongside another four silver awards and six nominations.

The role garnered him an ALMA Award and he gained three Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe award nominations.

The first season gained the most Emmy nominations for a basic cable drama.

Swiss composer and musician Andreas Vollenweider gained world wide recognition with his harp music and has received a Grammy Award, followed by two Grammy nominations, one as recent as 2007.

Her performance as Lily in Black Swan gained her worldwide accolades, including receiving the Premio Marcello Mastroianni for Best Young Actor or Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Mantegna has gained Emmy Award nominations for his roles in three different miniseries: The Last Don ( 1997 ), The Rat Pack ( 1999 ), and The Starter Wife ( 2007 ).

In 2002, Molina gained wide recognition for his portrayal of Diego Rivera alongside Salma Hayek in the biopic Frida, a role which garnered him BAFTA and SAG award nominations.

She gained three consecutive Gold Logie nominations for her work on the show, and was widely praised for " bringing the magic back to Midday ".

He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and 1 Grammy Award.

His four feature films Amores perros ( 2000 ), 21 Grams ( 2003 ), Babel ( 2006 ) and Biutiful ( 2010 ) have gained critical acclaim worldwide including 12 Academy Award nominations.

Critics raved and McRae gained nominations for the Mercury Prize, a Q magazine award and the BRIT Award for Best Newcomer.

It subsequently gained numerous nominations for major Australian and international film and television awards.

Crichton gained two Academy Award nominations for A Fish Called Wanda ; one for Best Director and the second for Best Original Screenplay ( which is shared with John Cleese ).

The success of the album gained them two World Music Award nominations, winning them World's Best-Selling German Artist.

The film won an Academy Award for Editing and gained five other nominations as well, including a Best Actor for Douglas.

Back in New Zealand, the band gained nominations for ' Best new band ' and ' Best unreleased song ' in the New Zealand BNet awards.

I lived in this onward-driving contest where each day overcame a new difficulty, gained a new truth, or banished a previous error ''.

He gained the highly respected second place of this prestigious DJ contest ).

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition plans to contest the 2011 elections, having gained the endorsement of the RMT June 2010 conference.

In July 1965, he had come third in the Conservative Party leadership contest, obtaining only 15 votes, just below the result Hugh Fraser gained in the 1975 contest.

Hattiesburg gained its nickname, the Hub City, in 1912 as a result of a contest in a local newspaper.

In the late 1970s Yellowman first gained wide attention when he won a contest event in Kingston, Jamaica called " The Tastee Talent Contest " where deejays would perform toasting.

Ukrainian talent contest winner, Kseniya Simonova, gained worldwide fame and became an online phenomenon with her sand painting which depicted World War II and how her family had been separated by the war.

Arce has gained some popularity outside the ring as well, acting in various Televisa comedy sketches ( see above ), and participating in Adal Ramones's show's dancing contest, " Bailando por un Sueño ", where he and a fellow contestant arrived in eighth place out of nine couples.

The sandwich first gained local fame when Schimmel put it on the Blackstone's lunch menu, and its fame spread when a former employee of the hotel won a national contest with the recipe.

He fought his third election in one parliament when he was selected to contest the very safe Conservative seat of Ribble Valley in the by-election caused by the resignation of David Waddington to become the Leader of the House of Lords in 1990, but was again defeated at the Ribble Valley by-election on 7 March 1991 when Mike Carr gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats by 4, 601 votes.

He gained public interest in spring 2004 when he won SSDSGPS ( Stefan sucht den Super-Grand-Prix-Star ), a talent contest hosted in Stefan Raab's Late-Night-Show TV total.

Serbia gained the rights to host the contest after Marija Šerifović's 2007 victory in Helsinki, Finland.

Glenrothes gained national publicity in 2009 by winning the Carbuncle Award following an unofficial contest operated by Urban Realm and Carnyx Group which was set up to criticise the quality of built environments in Scotland.

As a result of that election where the government gained control of the senate for the first time in over 25 years, there was significant attention to the Senate contest.

In the 1999 elections, he gained third place, aided by the fact that most major candidates had pulled out to support either incumbent Richard Prebble or challenger Marian Hobbs in a close contest.

In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona ; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U. S., she reached the semi-finals.

She gained prominence when she placed first in a national singing contest at age 11, subsequently signing a record deal and releasing her first album Amita Tata Young in 1996.

The contest has gained public attention in recent years due to the sudden stardom of Takeru Kobayashi, his subsequent rivalry with American Joey Chestnut, and the current controversy over Kobayashi's contractual dispute and absence.

Dawn gained her revenge during an arm wrestling contest on the November 4 episode of SmackDown !, headbutting Gayda and catfighting with her until Haas made the save.

Steed gained press and controversy with the release of a " Crackwhore " female model for Quake II in response to a skin ( character texture ) contest for the first Quake sponsored by a group of female gamers who called themselves the " Crackwhore Clan ".

However, in a close three way contest, the BNP gained from this campaign more than its authors.

Posing as an American student who has won an essay-writing contest promising her a trip to Mabili to meet its president, Julie claims that Ishmael is a gorilla famed in the United States who has gained a following of people that she represents and who wish to see him successfully released back into the wild.

David Robert " Dave " Holmes ( born March 14, 1971 ) is a television personality who gained national attention as the runner-up on MTV's first Wanna Be a VJ contest in 1998.