Among the 10 Academy Awards won by Gone with the Wind was a Best Actress award for Leigh, who also won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

The role went to her Gone with the Wind co-star, Vivien Leigh, who won her second Academy Award for her role.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

Under his direction, Vivien Leigh won the Best Actress Oscar, Hattie McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress, and Ingrid Bergman was nominated.

Jane Wyman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama but lost the Academy Award for Best Actress to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire.

In 1995, she teamed up with daughter Jennifer Jason Leigh to produce Turner ’ s screenplay for Georgia, a film depicting the troubled relationship between two singing sisters ( played by Leigh and Mare Winningham, who both won praise and several awards for their performances ).

In any case, Leigh was cast — despite public protest that the role was too " American " for an English actress — and eventually won an Academy Award for her performance.

He won three E. J. Whitten Medals – awarded to the player judged best player on the ground for Victoria in State of Origin matches, the 1997 AFL Players Association Most Valuable Player Award ( now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy ) and the Michael Tuck Medal for player judged best on ground in the 2004 pre-season cup final.

The team won the Buddies Cup, as it was then known, and also the NFP Grand Final against Leigh in October 2002, which secured promotion back to the Super League for the 2003 season.

Leigh Centurions won this game 22-18, thus ending Rovers ' twenty four match unbeaten run.

Leigh won a Tony Award for composing the music for Man Of La Mancha.

He won the league's most prestigious award, the Brownlow Medal and was recognised as one of the best players and captains in the league between 2002 and 2003 through six time All-Australian selection including captaincy and winner of the Leigh Matthews Trophy for the league's most valued player.

On their way to finishing top of the National League 1 table, Salford also won the Arriva Trains Cup beating Leigh in the final.

Leigh were forced into a knock-out semi-final to try to get through to the Grand Final – a play-off match they ultimately won.

Leigh have been Rugby League Champions twice, in 1906 and 1982, and won the Challenge Cup twice, in 1921 and 1971.

Leigh won the Second Division Championship in 1985 – 86, losing one league match and won it again in the 1988 – 89 season.

In April 1996, Eric Hughes was appointed head coach replacing Ian Lucas who was sacked after Leigh had won only one of its first five games of the season.

Whitehaven were the opponents when Leigh won the National League One Grand Final 32-16 ( after extra time, 16-16 at full-time ) in 2004, thus securing promotion to Super League.

In July 2006, Leigh won the Northern Rail Cup after defeating Hull Kingston Rovers 22-18 at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool.

Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

Bette Davis was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress but lost to Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind.

Gone With the Wind swept the major awards, including Best Actress, which went to Vivien Leigh.

An episode of The Waltons and several TV movies followed, including a portrayal of an anorexic teenager in The Best Little Girl in the World, for which Leigh dropped to under medical supervision.

In 1990, Leigh made a significant career breakthrough when she was voted the year's Best Supporting Actress by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her portrayals of two very different prostitutes: the tough streetwalker Tralala who submits to a brutal gang rape in Last Exit to Brooklyn, and Susie, a teenage prostitute who falls in love with ex-con Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues.

As Hedy, the psychotic " roommate from hell " who steals flatmate Bridget Fonda's identity and boyfriend and commits murder with a stiletto heel, Leigh created a memorably vulnerable and frightening character, and was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and nominated by the Chicago Film Critics Association for Best Actress.

Leigh and Cumming jointly received a citation for Excellence in Filmmaking from the National Board of Review, and were nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.

Ablett's individual accolades and achievements include induction into the AFL's Hall of Fame, selection in the AFL Team of the Century, selection in the Geelong Football Club Team of the Century, the 1993 AFLPA MVP award ( now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy ), three Coleman Medals, four All-Australian jumpers, eleven State representative jumpers for Victoria, selection in the Victorian Team of the Century, a Norm Smith Medal, a Carji Greeves Medal as the 1984 Geelong Best & Fairest Player, and being the leading goal-kicker for the Cats on nine occasions.

* Best International Film Award: Mike Leigh, Naked

Girls contracted to Television X in 2008 include Suzie Best, Cathy Barry, Amber Leigh, Renee Richards, Keisha Kane, Cate Harrington and Donna Marie.

* Best Actress-Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

He was awarded the Leigh Matthews Trophy for the second time in his career, as well as the AFLPA's Best Captain Award for the first time.

* Best Director: Mike Leigh for Grief ( National Theatre )

Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh made an appearance in one of these videos.

Jennifer Jason Leigh was voted the year ’ s Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and at the Montreal World Film Festival, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and was widely predicted to receive her first Academy Award nomination for the role.

Surprisingly though, it was Mare Winningham who actually went on to receive an Oscar nomination ( as well as an Independent Spirit Award and Screen Actors Guild nomination ) as Best Supporting Actress, while Leigh was controversially overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, much to the disappointment of critics and fans.

'” When Leaving Las Vegas star Elisabeth Shue won her Independent Spirit Award as Best Actress, she personally dedicated it to Leigh ’ s performance in Georgia.

* New York Film Critics Circle: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Best Actress ( won )

* Montreal World Film Festival: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Best Actress ( won )

Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Peggy Lee portrays alcoholic jazz singer Rose Hopkins ( a performance for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ).

The award would be renamed the Leigh Matthews Trophy in his honour in 2002.

* Leigh Matthews Trophy, the " Most Valuable Player " award voted on by the AFL Players Association

Leigh has received three separate career tributes — at the Telluride Film Festival in 1993, a special award for her contribution to independent cinema from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2002, and a week-long retrospective showing of her film work held by the American Cinematheque at Los Angeles ' Egyptian Theatre in 2001.

After three seasons interrupted by injury and inconsistent form, Matthews returned to his best in 1982, winning the inaugural Players ’ Association Most Valuable Player award ( which was later renamed, in Matthews ’ honour, to the Leigh Matthews Trophy ).

In 2002, the AFLPA MVP award, of which Matthews was the inaugural recipient, was renamed the Leigh Matthews Trophy.

In 1989, he won the AFL Players Association MVP award, now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy.

Additionally, Judd won his second club best and fairest award, his second All-Australian selection and the Leigh Matthews Trophy as the AFL Players Association's Most Valuable Player.

Walter Leigh Rayfield VC ( 7 October 1881 – 19 February 1949 ) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

In 1994, Leigh Perkins, Orvis CEO from 1965 to 1992, received the Chevron Conservation Award for lifetime achievements in conservation, perhaps the most prestigious such award given in the United States.