This project landed him a Gemini nomination and the winner of the award is still to be determined

Barrino is one of only three winners, the others being Ruben Studdard, and most recently, Kris Allen, to have landed in the bottom three or two, which she did twice, making her the only winner of the series who landed in the bottom group on more than one occasion.

On the back of their performances and popularity in the competition, Ward ( winner ), Andy Abraham ( runner-up ), Journey South ( 3rd place ) and Maria Lawson ( 8th place ) landed recording contracts.

Finally after spending 111 days inside the house, Nene landed as the grand winner dubbed as The Big Winner garnering 554, 906 votes or 48. 9 % of total votes in the Big Night held at Clark Expo Amphitheater, Angeles City, Pampanga on December 10, 2005.

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

The first athlete whose torso reaches the vertical plane of the closest edge of the finish line is the winner.

The winner is whoever comes closest to guessing when the ice beneath it will weaken to the point where it falls through to the water beneath.

Mears becoming the third four-time winner after a late-race duel with Michael Andretti in 1991, and Al Unser, Jr. finally securing victory by defeating last-place-starting driver Scott Goodyear by 0. 043 of a second in 1992, the closest finish in race history to date.

The closest vote ever occurred in, when the winner Lindy Ruff edged out Peter Laviolette by a single point.

The closest margin of votes was in 2009 between winner Mark Ingram of Alabama and Toby Gerhart of Stanford.

Notable for being among the closest political races in United States election history, Republican Dino Rossi was declared the winner in the initial automated count and again in the subsequent automated recount.

In what was the closest final round in AMTA history, the University of Virginia won the championship by a single point using a tiebreaker, after a three judge panel split with one judge choosing Virginia as the winner, one choosing Harvard, and one calling the round a draw.

Air racing is a motorsport that involves airplanes competing over a fixed course, with the winner either returning the shortest time, the one to complete it with the most points, or to come closest to a previously estimated time.

The winner Arvo Karlsson, driving an Austin Atlantic, had accumulated the least penalty points and had been the closest to the target times throughout the route and the special tests involving hillclimbing and acceleration.

The race was notable in that less than a fifth of second separated the winner from the fourth-placed driver, and is generally reckoned to be the closest 1-2-3-4 in Formula One history.

The closest he came was in 1969 at the U. S. Open at Houston, where he held a three-shot lead over the field after three rounds, but shot 78 in the last round to finish three shots behind winner Orville Moody.

Yet when the dust at the polls finally settled, it was Guroalim who emerged as winner – by a slim margin of some 50 votes over his closest opponent.

The winner is chosen according to which target has a shot closest to its center cross-mark.

The entry that comes closest to the evaluation of a panel of judging experts is the winner and receives cash prizes.

* In 1996, Wang had a two-point pre-final lead over Roberto Di Donna ( Italy ), and seemed to be the clear winner until in the last shot he got only 6. 5 ( at a level where anything below 9. 0 is considered a very bad shot ), and lost the gold medal by the closest possible margin, 0. 1 points.

The winner is the one closest to the 2 / 3 average.

The winner was the one who guessed closest to 2 / 3 of the average guess.

The winner of the contest is the person ( s ) whose number is closest to p times the average of all numbers submitted, where p is some fraction, typically 2 / 3 or 1 / 2.

* Don Griffin-Two-time Super Bowl winner with San Francisco 49 ' ers

* Don Bragg ( born 1935 ), Gold medal winner in the pole vault at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy.

Notable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, poet Don Blanding, and Hugo Award winner, C. J.

Alonso was the winner of the 2003 Don Balon award for the best Spanish player in the league, while Nihat was voted the best foreign player and Denoueix the best manager.

The winner was Don Mattingly ( no relation to the New York Yankee baseball player ), representing the Evansville ( Indiana ) Thunder.

* Don l ' Orignal-1972 ( winner of the ( 1972 Governor General's Award for Fiction )

* Don MacTavish, Stock Car Driver and winner of the 1966 NASCAR Sportsman Series Championship

Don King had negotiated the contracts so that he would own both the winner and the loser of Eubank v Benn 2.

In 1962 when the Dodgers led the NL for most of the season ( only to find themselves tied with the hated Giants at the season's end ) it was Snider and third-base coach Leo Durocher who reportedly pleaded with Manager Walter Alston to bring in future Hall of Fame pitcher ( and Cy Young award winner that year ), Don Drysdale, in the ninth inning of the third and deciding play-off game.

The winner was the Minister of War and the Navy, Don Rafael Yglesias Castro, the Civil Party candidate.

In 1990, Stupak ran for state senator but lost a hotly contested primary to eventual general election winner Don Koivisto.

Notable athletes within the list include NFL players Wilson Whitley, Glenn Montgomery, Alfred Oglesby, Craig Veasey, Donnie Avery, David Klingler, Kevin Kolb, Sebastian Vollmer, and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware ; baseball stars Doug Drabek, Michael Bourn, and Brad Lincoln ; golfers Fred Couples, Billy Ray Brown, Steve Elkington, and Fuzzy Zoeller ; track and field legends Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell ; NBA legends Hakeem " The Dream " Olajuwon, Clyde " The Glide " Drexler and " The Big E " Elvin Hayes as well as Bo Outlaw, Don Chaney, Michael Young, Damon Jones, Carl Herrera and Otis Birdsong ; and legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.

In the end, the Sheik bankrolls Don Don's bordello and then declares that he is upping the stakes to $ 2 million for the winner.

* Don E. Fehrenbacher 1948 — Pulitzer Prize for History winner

The game's winner receives a traveling trophy named the Don Shula Award.

The underdog Orioles went on to sweep the series over a Los Angeles team that featured some formidable pitching of its own in Hall of Famers Koufax and Don Drysdale, and 17-game winner Claude Osteen.

The winner, Don Barbieri, faced the Republican nominee, Cathy McMorris, in the general election on 2 November 2004.

It produced the most dramatic of finishes, when Lance Todd trophy winner Don Fox had the easiest of conversions to win it for Wakefield Trinity, but missed it to leave Leeds 11 – 10 winners.

Simex-Iwerks ' ( formerly Iwerks Entertainment ) was founded in 1985 in Burbank, California, by Oscar winner and Disney Legend Don Iwerks and Stan Kinsey, two former Disney Executives.

2005 Lake Tyler winner Don Cruz initially planned to keep the house after having his plan to rent out the Dockhouse and Master Bedroom Suite on a nightly basis rejected by the City of Tyler ; however, he decided to sell after receiving tax forms showing the house had a higher value than he originally thought.

Notable staff has included the mathematicians Benoît Mandelbrot, Ralph E. Gomory, Shmuel Winograd, Alan Hoffman, Don Coppersmith, Mike Shub, Gregory Chaitin, the inventor Robert Dennard, roboticist Matthew T. Mason, author Clifford A. Pickover, computer scientists Frances E. Allen, John Cocke, Stuart Feldman, Ken Iverson, Irene Greif, Steven Rohall, Li-Te Cheng and Mark N. Wegman, Barry Appelman, the inventor of AOL Instant Messenger, Postfix and TCP Wrapper author, Wietse Zweitze Venema, the 1990 Economics Nobel Prize winner, Harry Markowitz, and physicists Llewellyn Thomas, Rolf Landauer, Charles H. Bennett, J.

* Don McPherson ( 1985 – 1988 )-Heisman Trophy runner-up, Maxwell Award winner ( College Football Player of the Year, College Football Hall of Fame

Lé Bulletîn d ' Quart d ' An ceased publication in 1977, having notched up a quarter-century, and was replaced by Les Chroniques du Don Balleine ( 1979 – 1987 ) which in turn gave way to the current Les Nouvelles Chroniques du Don Balleine ( winner of the Prix Littéraire du Cotentin in 1993 ).