It won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Nebula Award for Best Script, and was also nominated for ten Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Parisot, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman, winning Best Actor for Allen.

The first U. S. edition, translated by William Weaver, won the National Book Award in category Translation

Weaver has been nominated for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards ( one win ), two Emmy Awards, six Saturn Awards ( two wins ) and six Golden Globe Awards, winning two in 1988 for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person ever to have won two acting Golden Globe Awards in the same year.

Weaver won Golden Globe awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for her two roles that year.

The Democratic Party won El Paso County four additional times prior, and the Populist Party won in 1892, with General James B. Weaver.

In one of the better showings by a third-party candidate in U. S. history, Weaver received over a million popular votes, and won four states ( Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, and Nevada ) and 22 electoral votes.

Weaver also performed well in the South as he won counties in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas.

Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1955, wrote most of his first novel, Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír (" The Great Weaver from Kashmir "), in Taormina which he then praised highly in his book of autobiographical essays, Skáldatími (" The Time of the Poet ", 1963 ).

Hall moved to the new Weaver Vale seat in 1997, and Helen Southworth ( also of the Labour Party ) represented the seat until her retirement at the 2010 election, whereby the Conservative candidate David Mowat won the seat from Labour.

The election was won by James A. Garfield of the Republican Party and Dow was surpassed by two other unsuccessful candidates: Winfield Scott Hancock of the Democratic Party and James Baird Weaver of the Greenback Party.

The Red Sox won the first game of the series, 11 – 10, on September 30, eliminating the Orioles from division title contention ; however, after the game Weaver insisted, in an interview with a reporter, that " we're still trying to finish second.

Actresses with the most nominations are Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman, and Sigourney Weaver tied with five ; Foster, Portman, and Naomi Watts are the only actresses to have won it twice.

Weaver won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for Child's Play ( 1970 ).

Under current head wrestling coach Jeff Buxton, the team has won 31 consecutive National Prep Titles ( from 1981 – 2012 ) and produced a number of NCAA champions and Olympic gold medalist Robert B. Weaver.

Bumper Robinson won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Television Movie, and Alex Burrall and Jason Weaver both won a special award for Outstanding Young Performers Starring in a Mini-Series.

They won the Tillotson Cup for being the best club in the Combination, and then had former Chelsea and Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Reg Weaver blow away all records with his stunning tally of 67 goals in the 1937 – 38 season.

Weaver eventually received a $ 4 million bonus from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and won 16 games in 2009.

She then won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for her role in the critically acclaimed Amber Waves, a made-for-TV movie about a rough farmer ( Dennis Weaver ) who finds he is dying of cancer.

Weaver came out of retirement, but of 105 games under his command, Baltimore won only 53.

By the early 1990s Weaver appeared in several films including Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, earning her another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and winning a BAFTA Award, followed by Dave opposite Kevin Kline and Frank Langella.

In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

Griffith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, while both Weaver and Joan Cusack were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

* 1988: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Motion Picture ( Sigourney Weaver )

* Buck Weaver Award from MIT Sloan School of Management 2003.

Weaver was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for her performance in the film.

The agency ’ s acting clients include Academy Award winners Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, William Hurt, Susan Sarandon, and Christopher Walken, as well as Mickey Rourke, Frank Langella, Hailee Steinfeld, David Strathairn, Abigail Breslin, Laura Linney, Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Fox, Michael Cera, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Monaghan, Lesley Manville, Jacki Weaver, Seann William Scott, America Ferrera, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emmy Rossum, and Christina Ricci.

Weaver landed the title role of the NBC series McCloud in 1970, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations.

Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster have also earned Academy Award nominations for their work in Apted-directed films.

For her role in the franchise, Weaver has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, a BAFTA Award for Best Leading Newcomer, and four Saturn Awards for Best Actress, winning one for Aliens.

For her performance in Alien, Weaver was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Leading Newcomer and a Saturn Award for Best Actress.

Although her performance had already been acclaimed in the first film, Aliens gave worldwide recognition to Weaver: she was the second horror actress in history ( after Ellen Burstyn for The Exorcist ) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

On his presentation speech about Weaver before rewarding her for her overall career with the Heroine Award at the 2010 Scream Awards, Aliens director James Cameron stated her main participations in film history as Alien, Ghostbusters, and Avatar.

After one year's teaching at North Carolina State University, Weaver joined the English department at the University of Chicago, where he spent the rest of his career ( Young 3-4 ), and where his exceptional teaching earned him that university's Quantrell Award in 1949.

In 1983, the Rockford Institute established the annual Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters.

Earl Weaver retired and Joe Altobelli took over for 1983.

The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.

Shannon and Weaver argued that there were three levels of problems for communication within this theory.

When a human played the game against the computer, the computer queried the Earl Weaver or Tony La Russa Expert System for a decision on what strategy to follow.

* The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Mother, wove the stars and their light, known as " the Silver River " ( what Westerners call " The Milky Way Galaxy "), for heaven and earth.

He worked on it on and off for several years, but when he died in September 1891, he left the piece unfinished, and not until the literary scholar Raymond Weaver published it in 1924 did the book – which is now known as Billy Budd, Sailor – come to light.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

New owner Wayne Weaver originally announced that he and team president David Seldin would look for a general manager and a head coach simultaneously.

Weaver ultimately narrowed his choices down to three: Mike Shanahan, an assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers, Tony Dungy, defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, and Tom Coughlin, head coach for Boston College.

At this press conference, Weaver elaborated that different people had taken different liberties with the Jaguars ' image over the years, singling out the ' All Black ' look which the team wore for every prime-time home game from 2003 to 2007 as a point of regret.

Landis was widely praised for cleaning up the game, although some of his decisions in the Black Sox matter remain controversial: supporters of " Shoeless Joe " Jackson and Buck Weaver contend that he was overly harsh with those players.

* In 1977 for television, directed by Harvey Hart and starring Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalbán, Fritz Weaver, Fred Gwynne and Neville Brand.

He helped T. S. Eliot in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver to appoint Eliot as his successor at The Egoist ( helped by Pound ), and later in 1919 with an introduction to the editor Bruce Richmond of the Times Literary Supplement, for which he reviewed French literature.

With the December 18, 2010 episode, Bridges beat Sigourney Weaver's record for longest gap between hosting appearances on SNL ( Weaver had a 24-year gap between her first time hosting in 1986 and her second time hosting in 2010, while Bridges had a 27-year gap between his first appearance in 1983 and his most recent one, also in 2010 ).

Putting together a new backing band from the remnants of The Revolution, Prince added bassist Levi Seacer, Jr., Boni Boyer on keyboards, and dancer / choreographer Cat Glover to go with new drummer Sheila E. and holdovers Miko Weaver, Doctor Fink, Eric Leeds, Atlanta Bliss, and the Bodyguards ( Jerome, Wally Safford, and Greg Brooks ) for the Sign o ' the Times Tour.