This completely remarkable film wins award after award (and people applauded it in the theater where I saw it), which suggests that Obama's remarkable ascendance to the presidency delivers the same quality of exhilarating victory of stubborn skill and rectitude over prejudice and inertia.
Jay-Z and Kanye West had three wins sharing one award with Ocean along with Skrillex, and a slew of nominees had two wins apiece, including former best new artist winner Esperanza Spalding.
Tom O'Neil, entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles Times' TheEnvelope.com and founder of GoldDerby.com, a Web site dedicated to predicting and analyzing award show wins, said the Academy finally began making an effort to recognize black actors after Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in 2002.
And then he comes back in 2012 and only wins the National League MVP award while leading his Giants to a second World Series title in 3 seasons.
Maine and Nebraska already have provisions that award electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. (And each state's at-large vote-winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two U.S. senators.) In this instance, Kerry could win Maine, but if he lost in one of the state's congressional districts, Bush would get that electoral vote.
The French film about a literature teacher in inner-city Paris received glowing reviews and several other wins -- including an Independent Spirit Award for best foreign-language film -- though it came up short at the Oscars and at the Cesars (France's Oscar equivalent), taking home only a writing award at the latter.
The latter may have the marketing muscle of Fox juggernaut American Idol behind her, but the former wins when it comes to income--and, for that matter, award show acclaim (her latest win: album of the year at the 2010 Grammys).
The U.N. was not formally invited and usually does not attend the ceremony unless someone from the organization wins the award, the official said.
Cone isn't necessarily the first name that comes to mind when dreaming on a young pitcher, but he was a Cy Young Award winner and five-time All-Star who at various times led the league in wins, strikeouts and innings, played for five World Series champions and had a better claim to being a Hall of Famer than he ever got credit for.
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