Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna ’ s farewell performance won ’ t be in it with yours, Poirot.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

He also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ) and Atlantic City ( 1980 ).

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

England have never won the UEFA European Football Championship – their best performance being a semi final appearance at the 1968 and 1996 Championships.

Essendon won just one of its first six games in 1981 and Sheedy threatened to come out of retirement and show his players " how it was done " if their performance didn't improve.

For his performance as Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.

The movie won an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film and brought Masina the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance.

The next year, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as New York City Detective Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection, marking his graduation to leading man status.

Claire Trevor won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Rocco's physically abused, alcoholic, girlfriend.

Helped by Aaron's performance, the Braves won the league championship that year.

He won another Cannes award for his performance in Missing ( which received the Palme d ' Or ).

After receiving Golden Globe Awards and Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias ( 1989 ) and Pretty Woman, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

His performance as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia ( 2011 ).

Dunst won the Best Actress Award award for her performance.

In 2006, her performance in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit won her an Emmy for guest actress in a drama series.

Dench won the 1977 SWET Best Actress award for her performance and in 2004, members of the RSC voted her performance the greatest by an actress in the history of the company.

The hen appeared to have no doubts as to her duties and was quick to settle down to the performance of them.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

The pain and distress associated with the performance may easily give the wife a deep-seated dread of marital relations and cause her, unconsciously, to make the sex act unpleasant and difficult for both by exercising her vaginal muscles to complicate his penetration instead of relaxing them to facilitate it.

Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

Later that year at the Secular Games, at the performance of the Troy Pageant, Messalina attended the event with her son Britannicus.

The head of NBC took notice of Grant's performance and called her manager to book her for her own Christmas special.

She dedicated her performance to the victims of 9 / 11, and officially started the Demolition Derby.

Bernadette Peters steps into the six-month-old revival of ' A Little Night Music ' with a transfixing performance, playing it as if she realizes her character's onstage billing -- " the one and only Desiree Armfeldt " -- is cliched hyperbole.

Also, according to Sondheim, " Lansbury was so insecure onstage, and unhappy with her performance, that we considered replacing her.

In 1996, Love starred in The People vs. Larry Flynt and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Flockhart received a Clarence Derwent Award for her performance.

In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.

Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.

She is cited to have worried if she was pleasing him and confronted him on her performance.

Most countries in this second category share the difficulty of having many of the structures of a modern political and social system without the modern standards of performance required to make them effective.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

Even adding a second execution unit ( see below ) does not improve performance much ; rather than one pathway being hung up, now two pathways are hung up and the number of unused transistors is increased.

The performance or speed of a processor depends on the clock rate ( generally given in multiples of hertz ) and the instructions per clock ( IPC ), which together are the factors for the instructions per second ( IPS ) that the CPU can perform.

A second layer of EVM skill can be very helpful in managing the schedule performance of these “ intermediate ” projects.

Cotillard was the first female and second person to win both an Academy Award and César Award for the same performance.

She was the first actress to win an Academy Award for a performance in any foreign language, and the second Italian leading lady Oscar-winner ( after Anna Magnani ).

Both the SPAD A. 2 and the Royal Aircraft Factory B. E. 9 added a second crewman ahead of the engine in a pod but this was both hazardous to the second crewman and limited performance.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

However, not long after the second performance, the opera became so successful that the fame of Paisiello's opera was transferred to Rossini's, to which the title The Barber of Seville passed as an inalienable heritage.

" " As we reach the second half of the sixth century, we find that images are attracting direct veneration and some of them are credited with the performance of miracles " Cyril Mango writes, " In the post-Justinianic period the icon assumes an ever increasing role in popular devotion, and there is a proliferation of miracle stories connected with icons, some of them rather shocking to our eyes ".

Depending on the clock frequency, the number of memory wait states, as well as on the characteristics of the particular application program, the average performance for the Intel 8088 ranged from approximately 0. 33 – 1 million instructions per second.

A 50 MHz 80486 executed around 40 million instructions per second on average and was able to reach 50 MIPS peak performance.

For example, in evaluating the effectiveness of a new therapy, the mean performance of the therapy in one treatment group might be compared to the mean effectiveness of a placebo ( or a well-known therapy ) in a second, control group.

While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

The win hinged on Bannerman ’ s century and a superb bowling performance by Tom Kendall who took of 7 for 55 in England ’ s second innings.

" Dixit's performance in Beta won her a second Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).

* Million instructions per second, a measure of a computer's central processing unit performance

For the most early 8-bit and 16-bit microprocessors the performance was recognized in thousand instructions per second ( kIPS ), which equals 0. 001 MIPS.

By determining the timing between the activation of the first and second switches, the velocity of a key press can be determined — greatly improving the performance dynamic of a keyboard.