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.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.

A Scottish Deerhound named Foxcliffe Hickory Wind won Best In Show at the 2011 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show February 14-15, 2011.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

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.

Though the film won the Critics ' Award at the Berlin Film Festival it never saw popular release due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as Dinah Washington, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Earth, Wind and Fire.

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

The Wind and the Wheat won the guitarist his first Dove Award, an honor that he received in 1988.

She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

He co-wrote several songs for the film, including A Mighty Wind ( with Guest and Eugene Levy ), which won the Grammy for " Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media " and A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow ( with wife Annette O ' Toole ), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song.

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for Words for the Wind and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field.

His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.

His movie credits include East of Eden, " Big Daddy " in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Desire Under the Elms, Wind Across the Everglades, The Big Country, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ; Ensign Pulver, the sequel to Mister Roberts ; and Our Man in Havana, based on the Graham Greene novel.

Earth, Wind & Fire also won a Rock Music Award in the category of Best Soul Album for Gratitude and Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll for favorite Rock / Blues Group in 1975.

The Wind ( 1938 ), won the same award in its fourth year after the Nonfiction category had subsumed Biography.

It featured her biggest hit, " Wind Beneath My Wings ", which went to No. 1 on Billboards Hot 100, achieved Platinum status, and won Midler her third Grammy Award – for Record of the Year – at the 1990 telecast.

Ernest Haller, who had won the 1939 Oscar for Best Color Cinematography on the movie Gone with the Wind, served as director of photography for the show.

He is the co-writer and frequent cast member of Christopher Guest ’ s mockumentary features, particularly A Mighty Wind, where his sympathetic performance as brain-damaged folksinger Mitch Cohen won kudos ; his accolades included a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor-Musical or Comedy and the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Levy is one of only a handful of people who have won at least five Canadian Comedy Awards, including two for Best Writing ( Best In Show in 2001 and A Mighty Wind in 2004 ) and three for Best Male Performer ( Best in Show, American Pie 2 in 2002, and A Mighty Wind ).

The Chamber Choir has performed on Songs of Praise and the BBC Proms and the Symphonic Wind Band and Orchestra have won prizes at the Boosey and Hawkes National Concert Festival.

In August 2009, Independence Wind along with joint venture partner Wagner Forest Management won Maine DEP approval for construction of a proposed $ 120-million, 22-turbine, utility-scale wind power project along a prominent mountain ridge in Roxbury, Maine.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

Enya recorded two solo instrumental pieces called " An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian " ( Irish for " The Solar Wind ") and " Miss Clare Remembers " that were released on the 1984 album Touch Travel.

Wind erosion is of two primary varieties: deflation, where the wind picks up and carries loose soil particles ; and abrasion, where surfaces are worn down as they are struck by airborne particles carried by wind.

On the U. S. stage the book has been adapted into two musical versions, Scarlett and Gone with the Wind.

" Promise of a New Day ", the second release from the album, also hit No. 1, and was followed by the Top 10 hit " Blowing Kisses in the Wind " and two Top 20 hits: " Vibeology " and " Will You Marry Me ?".

The Wind Waker introduces two variations: Miniblins, rodent-like beasts that carry pitchforks, and Bokoblins, impish creatures.

While " Cast Your Fate To The Wind " by Guaraldi achieved modest chart success as a single in 1963, a cover version two years later by British group Sounds Orchestral cracked the Billboard top 10 ( in the spring of 1965 ).

Some common group settings include music for Full Orchestra ( consisting of just about every instrument group ), Wind Ensemble ( or Concert Band, which consists of larger sections and greater diversity of wind, brass and percussion instruments than are usually found in the orchestra ), or a chamber group ( a small number of instruments, but at least two ).

The contestants were divided into two tribes: Maraamu and Rotu ( Marquesan for ' Wind ' and ' Rain ' respectively ).

These included, in 1955, two performances each night as he played a gypsy in Listen to the Wind at the Arts Theatre and then a peasant in Summertime later in the evening.

McDaniel had befriended several of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland and Clark Gable, with the last two of whom she would star in Gone with the Wind.

She and her escort were seated at a segregated table for two, apart from her Gone with the Wind colleagues and her colleagues in the motion picture industry.

The film was the winner of a then-record seven 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards ( from a record thirteen nominations, a record that still stands ) including Worst Picture, Worst Actress ( Elizabeth Berkley ), Worst Director ( Paul Verhoeven ), Worst Screenplay ( Joe Eszterhas ), Worst New Star ( Elizabeth Berkley ), Worst Screen Couple (" any combination of two people ( or two body parts )") and Worst Original Song ( David A. Stewart and Terry Hall for " Walk Into the Wind ").

" The Flute Concerto, in two movements, was written for the flautist Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, a member of the Copenhagen Wind Quintet who had performed in Nielsen's Wind Quintet ( 1922 ).

* There have been two movies that have used the city of Winslow as a filming location ; Frank and Jesse and Smoke in the Wind.

Penzance Youth Wind Band under the direction of Paul Carter have joined forces with Nevada Union High School instrumental music department on two occasions.

The band program has featured two Jazz Ensembles, two Concert Bands ; the Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, a voluntary Marching Band, known as the Sandwich Renegade Regiment, a Pep Band, and a Football Marching Band.

Reaching an impasse with the parent band, Crosby and Nash decided to re-activate their partnership, inaugurating the duo act Crosby & Nash, touring regularly, signing to ABC Records and producing two additional studio albums, Wind On The Water in 1975 and Whistling Down The Wire in 1976.

Kansas ' two most popular songs, " Carry On Wayward Son " and " Dust in the Wind ," have been covered by other artists, and featured on film and television soundtracks.

The members of the NSC were determined to end the crisis decisively, believing that the fall of South Vietnam less than two weeks before and the forced withdrawal of the United States from Cambodia, ( Operation Eagle Pull ) and South Vietnam ( Operation Frequent Wind ) had severely damaged the U. S .' s reputation.

The album featured the Earth, Wind and Fire brass section, and two singles from the album (" Sunset Now " and " This Is Mine ") both reached the UK Top 40, but would be the band's last singles to do so until various remixes were released in the 1990s.

Mills and Bell had two daughters, Juliet, star of television's Nanny and the Professor and Hayley, a Disney child star who starred in Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and Whistle Down the Wind, and one son, Jonathan Mills.