In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

The film earned critical acclaim and went on to be nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Actor in a Leading Role ( for Rea ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Davidson ) and Best Director.

The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including one for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Chester Morris ), Best Art Direction ( William Cameron Menzies ) and Best Picture.

Leading up to the 2008 U. S. presidential election, CNN devoted large amounts of coverage to politics, including hosting candidate debates during the Democratic and Republican primary seasons.

Leading the A's to a four-game sweep over the San Francisco Giants and the franchise's first World Series title since 1974, Henderson hit. 474 with an. 895 slugging average ( including two triples and a homer ), while stealing three more bases.

It was also nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Michael Caine ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Vivien Merchant ), Best Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Alfie ") ( a UK hit record for Cilla Black, but performed by Millicent Martin in the original UK release and Cher in the American print of the movie ), Best Picture and Best Writing ( Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium ).

The film was also nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Pete Postlethwaite ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Emma Thompson ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The city also has numerous hotels, including the ultra-luxurious Town House Galleria, which is the world's first seven-star hotel, ranked officially by the Société Générale de Surveillance, and one of The Leading Hotels of the World.

Leading contributors include Gunduz Caginalp ( Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance from 2001 – 2004 ) and collaborators including 2002 Nobelist Vernon Smith, David Porter, Don Balenovich, Vladimira Ilieva and Ahmet Duran, and Ray Sturm.

It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Jones.

Leading thinkers of this category, including Stanley J. Tambiah, believe that magic is meant to be expressive, rather than instrumental.

Ultimately, it received eight Oscar nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning two for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Penn and Best Original Screenplay for writer Dustin Lance Black.

The Rose was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Frederic Forrest ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Bette Midler, in her screen debut ), Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

Leading up to the 1998 – 99 season, Kariya told reporters he was ready to play a rougher style to protect himself from the opposition, including " getting stick up " against oncoming players.

Leading up to the 2006 – 07 season, the Predators were picked by many analysts in the media ( including those from The Globe and Mail and ESPN ) to contend for the Stanley Cup.

Leading musicians willingly appeared with the College orchestra, including Joseph Joachim and Hans Richter.

The Stockholm production was nominated for eight national Swedish Theatre Awards Guldmasken and won six of them, including Best Leading Actress in a Musical ( Helen Sjöholm ), Best Leading Actor in a Musical ( Tommy Körberg ), and Best Stage Design ( Robin Wagner ).

Sobers took 15 wickets in the 1960-61 series, including a best analysis of 5 / 120, at an average of 39. 20, and his bowling allowed Worrell to play an extra batsman in the final three Tests, thus using Sobers for the first time as a designated all-rounder, a role in which he became the dominant player in world cricket over the next decade, being awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World title ( retrospectively ) eight times in 13 years.

That role brought her her greatest stage recognition to date, and several awards including the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

Leading up to World War I, the decorative arts, including miniature, watercolour painting, and functional objects such as vases, became more prominent in the Australian arts scene.

* Leading 11-1 in the 7th inning of a game played on August 2, 1991, the Texas Rangers made a plethora of defensive changes — including moving DH Geno Petralli to 3B, thereby losing their DH.

Winning the league title in 1970 – 71, Leading goalscorer with 42 goals, including 7 hatricks, was Geoff Davies who scored 28 goals in the following 1971 – 72 season.

The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction ( Bob Clark ), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role ( Geneviève Bujold ) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role ( Christopher Plummer ).

Leading divines, either Calvinist or those sympathetic to Calvinism, settled in England ( Martin Bucer, Peter Martyr, and Jan Laski ) and Scotland ( John Knox ).

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

Leading rhetorical theorists included John Quincy Adams of Harvard who advocated the democratic advancement of rhetorical art.

Leading English cricketers first visited a foreign country in 1789, when John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, organised a tour of France.

Leading up to the passage of this law, in 1846, supporters issued a pamphlet, probably authored by Judge John Fine, which relied on its readers ' familiarity with the United States Declaration of Independence to demand " That all are created free and equal ...", and that this idea should apply equally to the sexes.

Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones.

It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon ) and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Janet Suzman ), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Picture.

Leading the resistance forces from this location was Texas Ranger " Jack " John Coffee Hays.

A Song to Remember was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Cornel Wilde ), Best Cinematography, Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Sound, Recording ( John P. Livadary ) and Best Writing, Original Story.

The film was a tremendous financial success, and won Academy Awards for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound, Recording ( John Livadary ), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Larry Parks ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( William Demarest ), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Film Editing.

Leading political figures were given satirical roles within a typical Anglican community, for example, Gordon Brown was the PCC Treasurer, John Prescott was in charge of the working men's club and the Home Secretary was Chairman of Neighbourhood Watch.

Sands of Iwo Jima was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( John Wayne ), Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Recording ( Daniel J. Bloomberg ) and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.

* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Spencer Tracy ; Best Director, John Sturges ; Best Writing, Screenplay, Millard Kaufman ; 1956.

Leading members of the group include Ben Jonson, Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick, Edmund Waller, Thomas Carew and John Denham.

Leading up to the landmark issue, John has little control over events, and is led along by a psychic serial killer, who threatens to kill Chas and his family, and a demon, Rosacarnis, who offers his memories back, at the cost of 24 hours in her service.

Leading it were the dynamic but unscrupulous George Hudson from the North Midland, and John Ellis from the Midland Counties, a careful businessman of impeccable integrity.

Mary, Queen of Scots was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Vanessa Redgrave ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt ), Best Costume Design, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound ( Bob Jones, John Aldred ).

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Marsha Mason ), Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Music, Song ( John Williams and Paul Williams for " Nice to Be Around ").

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In 2007, Te Kanawa was sued for breach of contract by event management company Leading Edge, after cancelling a concert with Australian singer John Farnham.

Leading members of the group include John Ashbery ( born in poetry1927 ), Frank O ' Hara ( 1926 – 1966 ), Kenneth Koch ( 1925 – 2002 ), James Schuyler ( 1923 – 1991 ), Barbara Guest ( 1920 – 2006 ), Ted Berrigan ( 1934 – 1983 ), Anne Waldman ( born in 1945 ) and Bernadette Mayer ( born in 1945 ).

Leading figures in the colony such as former royal governors Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward as well as John Brown, Nicholas Brown, William Ellery, the Reverend James Manning, and the Reverend Ezra Stiles who had played an influential role in founding Brown University in Providence in 1764 as a sanctuary for religious and intellectual freedom were involved only twelve years later in the 1776 launch of the American Revolutionary War which delivered American independence from the British Empire.