The Best of The Gants ( 2000 )

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.

A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* 2012: Best Country Song – " Threaten Me with Heaven "

It was nominated for " Best Coastal Resort " in Scotland along with St Andrews in Fife, North Berwick in East Lothian, and Rothesay in Argyll and Bute.

He has been honored with a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, a J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, a TED Prize ( named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design ), and many other awards and honors.

Together with Ulvaeus, Andersson was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in a category " Outstanding Music " ( for the musical Chess ), and for a Tony Award in a category " Best Orchestrations " ( for musical Mamma Mia !).

Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

At times, Charlton was not on speaking terms with United's other superstars George Best and Denis Law, and Best refused to play in Charlton's testimonial match against Celtic, saying that " to do so would be hypocritical ".

Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight ( along with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell ) in 1973.

According to the U. S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2011 ranking, " California Institute of Technology headlines the new rankings, with top billing in three categories: chemistry, earth sciences and physics.

The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ( 1759 ); Candide: or, The Optimist ( 1762 ); and Candide: or, Optimism ( 1947 ).

In March 1987, the group were awarded ' Best New Talent ', along with ' Song of the Year ' and ' Best Video ' for " Don't Dream It's Over ", at the inaugural ARIA Music Awards.

( British singer Vera Lynn reached the top of the chart in August 2009 at age 92, but with the greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

Trio won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

* Will Friedwald, Album liner notes The Best of Peggy Lee, The Capitol Years

The liner notes for the initial release falsely implied that the recordings had been made in the spring of 1962, prior to The Beatles ' EMI contract, on a night when Ringo Starr happened to be sitting in for Pete Best.

According to Silver ( quoted by Herb Wong in the liner notes for The Best of Horace Silver ) the classic Fields film was playing on television while Silver was inspired to compose the tune.

On the CD, Mitch played almost all of the instruments, took some of the photos for the liner notes, and won a Prairie Music Award for Best Instrumental Recording.

Rhino Entertainment released Hit by a Train: The Best of Old 97's, an eighteen track compilation of songs from the band's beginnings through 2001, featuring liner notes and an essay by rock critic Robert Christgau.

Do the Funky Somethin ': The Best of Rufus Thomas ( liner notes ), Rhino Records, 1996.

According to Glenn Frey's liner notes for The Very Best of Eagles, the use of the word " steely " in the lyric ( referring to knives ) was a playful nod to band Steely Dan, who had included the lyric " Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening " in their song " Everything You Did ".

Express Yourself: The Best Of Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band liner notes.

Ritz wrote the liner notes on Rick James's 1997 compilation The Ultimate Collection and Linda Ronstadt's 2002 compilation The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt.

" Johnny was always aware of what was going on around him ", recalled Susan Maier Watson ( later to become the musician's wife ) in an interview printed in the liner notes to the album The Very Best of Johnny ' Guitar ' Watson.

According to the liner notes to their compilation album Sibling Revelry: The Best of the Smothers Brothers, The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers was their best selling album of their career.

* Opal Louis Nations, liner notes to " The Best of King Gospel ," Ace, 2003

In the liner notes to Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre, David Ossman is cheerful when discussing it and says that " I always thought it was the closest thing to the relentlessly pun-filled one-acts we did in clubs.

( Wasserman, who had died the previous February, had written the liner notes to Baez's 1977 compilation, The Best of Joan C. Baez ).

Chelsea's claims to be first to play it are backed by the first paragraph of the liner notes for " Liquidator-The Best of the Harry J All Stars ".

My Girl: The Very Best of the Temptations ( Compact disc liner notes ).

According to the liner notes on In Time: The Best of R. E. M.

* Liner notes, The Very Best of Stars on 45

And when Marilyn Monroe sang those high notes in Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), it was actually Nixon's voice the audience heard.

The city lives all its splendor during the Carnival celebration that lasts 4 days and 5 nights, being the headquarters city of Las Tablas Best Carnival of the republic, where one of the main attractions of the carnival in Las Tablas, are famous or culecos mojadera, which is sprayed with water ( clean and purified ) to the participants of this activity from sisternas cars ( especially pre-sterilized for this activity ) located throughout the park and surrounding streets are where the carnival, while can admire the tour of the queens of both streets, street up and down the street on spectacular floats, and suitable for this activity packed day, with the notes of the contagious and famous and well known murgas of Panama ( which also have its epicenter in the town of Las Tablas, where the best murgas the country ), do jumping and dancing for joy to young and old alike, unable to contain her joy and excitement following the queen with the most sympathetic all day without stopping or until the forces accompanying the activity takes place during four days of carnival, another attraction of this carnival is wasteful luxury and splendor of the costumes shown in the queens and their ladies, and the designs and finishes epectaculares floats of both daytime ( from culecos or mojaderas ) and evening, reaching its greatest splendor Carnival on Monday, his grace and charm of women represented in their Tableña and queens in ladies of his court to make the carnival Tableño one of the best and most famous carnavals the world.

" Ebert later placed the film on his list of " The Best 10 Movies of 2000 ", writing: " Tarsem, the director, is a visual virtuoso who juggles his storylines effortlessly ; it's dazzling, the way he blends so many notes, styles and genres into a film so original.

Hall won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1973 for the notes he wrote for his album Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits.

In November 2006 Ulster Bank issued its first commemorative banknote – an issue of one million £ 5 notes commemorating the first anniversary of the death of the former Northern Ireland and Manchester United footballer, George Best.

Giacchino notes that he won on the same night as his SVA classmate Joel Harlow won for Best Makeup Oscar for Star Trek.

Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913 – 1938 " with Christopher King and authored the notes, which was nominated for a 2008 Grammy award for Best Historical Album.

* Liner notes for the music album “ Private Investigations-The Very Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler ”, November 2005.

The sleeve notes to their 1998 Greatest Hits collection, The Very Best Of Jigsaw stated " A look at Jigsaw ’ s songs reveals the innovative work of its creators: the advanced song structure, the clever use of classical techniques like counterpoint and a novel approach to using sound effects – leaving the listener with a sadly-overlooked-but-very-impressive catalogue of melodic pop songs ".