* Frank Herbert, critically acclaimed, science fiction author of the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: Dune

After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

In 2001, The Kinsey Sicks, produced and starred in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit, " DRAGAPELLA!

This critically acclaimed production transferred to the Garrick Theatre in the West End for a limited season, opening on March 28, 2009 running until July 25, 2009.

Other productions in the United States include one in 1902 starring Minnie Maddern Fiske and a 1997 production starring Janet McTeer ( in a critically acclaimed performance ) at the Belasco Theater, which received three Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.

In 1963, she starred in Jean-Luc Godard's critically acclaimed film Le Mépris.

Campbell made a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street.

* Prominent media journalists, pundits on major nationally syndicated television shows, commentators on prominently scheduled television shows, nationally acclaimed media columnists and syndicated columnists, critically acclaimed and best-selling authors and writers, major national newscasters and news analysts, national television reporters and television anchors, national television game show hosts on prominently scheduled game shows, radio personalities on prominently scheduled radio shows, comedians on major headlining comedy shows, reality television personalities on most prominently scheduled reality television shows, daytime television show hosts, and late night television show hosts have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

He has said that the decision to direct it was influenced by his having had to defer some of his salary on the low-budgeted Spider, but it is one of his most critically acclaimed films to date, along with Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) a film about the struggle of one man to gain power in the Russian Mafia.

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

The volume was critically acclaimed and won a contest run by the Sunday Referee, netting him new admirers from the London poetry world, including Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir.

McLean's first concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Albert Hall in London in 1972 were critically acclaimed.

To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.

He next directed Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), notorious for its overlong and strenuous production, but critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d ' Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still a box office success, earning a revenue of $ 136 million against a budget of $ 54 million.

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

The British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time, with other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Ridley Scott.

The show was critically acclaimed, receiving multiple BAFTA awards.

It was one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series.

Chaosium later published other games in the setting, including the critically acclaimed RuneQuest.

By combining New Wave and electronic music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s.

During the immediate postwar period, Wyler directed a handful of critically acclaimed and influential films.

Gang Starr released its first LP No More Mr. Nice Guy on Wild Pitch Records ; the group achieved a sizable following and released six critically acclaimed and influential albums from 1989 to 2003.

A challenge to world conscience was provided by an influential 1968 article by Garrett Hardin that critically analyzed the dilemma in which multiple individuals, acting independently after rationally consulting self-interest ( and, he claimed, the apparently low ' survival-of-the-fittest ' value of conscience-led actions ) ultimately destroy a shared limited resource, even though each acknowledges such an outcome is not in anyone's long term interest.

With Afrocentric lyrics and innovative beats, the Jungle Brothers were critically acclaimed and soon joined the influential Native Tongues collective.

The band is one of the most successful, most influential, critically acclaimed, and significant bands in the history of OPM.

Black Isle Studios is most famous for working on the first two games in the popular and influential Fallout series as well as the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment.

While Pere Ubu have never been widely popular — usually categorized as " underground rock "— they have a devoted following and are an influential and critically acclaimed band.

They were the first UK signing to Herb Alpert's A & M Records and recorded their first single " Oh How She Changed " b / w " Or Am I Dreaming " in 1968, which was produced and arranged by two highly influential seventies ’ producers, Gus Dudgeon and Tony Visconti, who also worked on their critically acclaimed first album, Strawbs, which was released in 1969.

Her works were critically acclaimed, financially successful and politically influential in her own period.

Chopra went on to produce and write several other highly commercial and critically acclaimed films over the years namely ; Hum Tum, Dhoom, Veer Zaara, Bunty Aur Babli, Salaam Namaste, Fanaa, Dhoom 2, Chak De India and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi thus launching Yash Raj Films as the most powerful film production house in the history of Indian Cinema, with a net worth of ( estimated ) and making Chopra one of the most influential people in the country.

Chase is best known for his second original series, the influential and critically acclaimed HBO drama The Sopranos, which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007.

Rivermaya is one of the most influential, critically acclaimed and significant Filipino rock bands in the Philippines.

Geoff Barrow from the influential and critically acclaimed trip-hop group Portishead ( band ) was born in Walton in Gordano and lived there until he was 11 when he moved to nearby Portishead.

It became one of the most critically praised science fiction films of the 1950s.

With flaming red hair and an endearing quaver in her voice, Verdon was a critically acclaimed performer on Broadway in the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1950s, the PCF critically supported French imperialism during the Indochina War ( 1947 – 54 ) and the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ), although many French communists also worked against colonialism.

" Although his 1990s singles never reached the top 20, George Jones ( who had been around since the 1950s ) regularly recorded and released critically acclaimed material, including the semi-autobiographical " Choices.

The Hawaiian monk seal is critically endangered, although its cousin species the Mediterranean monk seal ( M. monachus ) is even rarer, and the Caribbean monk seal ( M. tropicalis ), last sighted in the 1950s, was officially declared extinct in June 2008.

Dealers in Death was a moderate success, and was well received critically, so the Ali brothers kept McNaughton on as director for a second documentary, this time about the Chicago wrestling scene in the 1950s.

A critically lauded author, he wrote novels, essays and nonfiction works, and reviewed books for The New Yorker from the 1950s till the late 1970.

Afterward, he starred in the critically acclaimed film, Quiz Show, as Dick Goodwin, a Congressional investigator intent on uncovering the corruption behind the 1950s game show scandal, and played Albert Brooks ' sports agent brother in Mother.

Waheeda Rehman is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood movies and is known for many successful and critically acclaimed movies from the 1950s, 60s and early 70s most notably C. I. D.