Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

Jonathan Tunick is the most prominent arranger, being one of only twelve people to have won Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony awards.

The film won all of its nine Oscar nominations, a record at that point in time, and a special Oscar for co-star Maurice Chevalier.

Jones ' animated short film The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics won the 1965 Oscar for Best Animated Short.

( He won an Oscar for his work on On the Waterfront.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Probably the most noted film of the period is Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for which Giuseppe Tornatore won a 1990 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the Cahiers du cinema crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards.

Though he never won the Oscar for directing, he was nominated five times in the category.

" The first of those was Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), for which Capra won his second Best Director Oscar.

In 1938 he won his third Director Oscar in five years for You Can't Take It with You, which also won Best Picture.

Amarcord, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.

The following year Fellini's Casanova won the Oscar for Best Costumes ( Danilo Donati ).

During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

Les Girls ( 1957 ) won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Wild Is the Wind ( 1957 ) earned Oscar nominations for Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn, but neither Heller in Pink Tights nor Let's Make Love ( both 1960 ) were box office hits.

In 1940, his high speed stroboscopic short film, Quicker ' n a Wink won an Oscar.

They also starred together in The Fortune Cookie ( for which Matthau won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor ), The Front Page and Buddy Buddy.

The film was a success, securing three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Supporting Actor for Lemmon, who won.

Despite the many celebrated films he directed, many of which won Academy Awards in various categories, Frankenheimer was never nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He starred in Out of Africa ( 1985 ), opposite Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe, and Szabó's Oberst Redl ( 1985 ).

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

Eighty thousand won top honors and a chance to try for the team itself.

Besides Schlesinger, the Justice Department's Information Director, Edwin Guthman, has won a Pulitzer Prize ( for national reporting ).

They seem to feel that because they fought on the right side during the Civil War, and won, they have earned the right merely to deplore what is going on in the South, without taking any responsibility for it ; ;

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

Toying with her field in the early stages, Garden Fresh was asked for top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip Grimm and won by a length and a half in 1.24 3-5 for the 7 furlongs.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

A cookie with caramel filling and chocolate frosting won $25,000 for a Minneapolis housewife in the 13th annual Pillsbury Bake-Off Tuesday.

`` The commander has failed in his duty if he has not won victory -- for that is his duty ''.

Recently, WWRL won praise for its expose of particular cases of employment agency deceit.

Just to test himself, he played roulette for quarters on his old combination, five and seventeen, and within an hour, he had won, surprisingly, twenty dollars.

Instantaneously he would have won an immeasurable moral victory, for if she picked up, say, a pair of her panties, she might just as well lift his shorts lying alongside -- the expenditure of energy was almost the same.

Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

Karpov won a gold medal for academic excellence in high school, and entered Moscow State University in 1968 to study mathematics.

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

In the victory won by the Christians on the banks of the river Salado, near Tarifa, he earned his title of Afonso the Brave ( 1340 ).

* France – Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe won by Dancing Brave

In Metal Edge's 2000 Readers Choice Awards, it won Album of the Year and tied with " Iron Maiden's Brave New World for Album Cover of the Year, while the single " Revolution is My Name " won Song of the Year.

Her book Home of the Brave has won two awards.

Her book Home of the Brave has won the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction, the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award, and is a Judy Lopez Memorial Award honor book.

He also finished second in the National League in at bats with 640, earned his only bid to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and also won his third Gold Glove at third base ( the first by a Brave third baseman since Clete Boyer in 1969 ) en route to the Braves making their second World Series appearance in a row.

József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air, won the Ernst & Young award of the ' Brave Innovator ' in 2007.

Since then it has been used for the first Top League game of the 2007-8 season between Suntory Sungoliath and Toshiba Brave Lupus, also played under lights and won 10-3 by the former on October 26, 2008.

He is best known for his performances in the summer of 1986 when he defeated Dancing Brave in the Epsom Derby, and won the Irish Derby by eight lengths.

Dancing Brave was sired by Lyphard out of Navajo Princess, a mare who won sixteen races including the Molly Pitcher Handicap.

On February 12, 2007, Sydal won the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship from Masato Yoshino, becoming the first gaijin to hold that title.

He returned to Cardiff to act in his own language in the Welsh film, Bydd yn Wrol ( Be Brave ), for which he won Best Actor at the Bafta Cymru ( Welsh BAFTAs ).