50 résultats pour "awards"

• Cy Young Award Winners Cy Young Award Winners (American League).

  1956 Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers 1957 Warren Spahn Milwaukee Braves 1960 Vernon Law Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers 1963 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1964 Dean Chance Los Angeles Angels 1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Mike McCormick San Francisco Giants 1968 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Tom Seaver New York Mets 1970 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1971 Ferguson Jenkins Chicago Cubs 1972 Steve Carlton Philadelph...

• American League: Gold Glove Award Winners American League: Gold Glove Award Winners (Pitcher).

  1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...

• Eclipse Awards Horse of the Year These annual awards have been presented by the Daily Racing Form, the Thoroughbred Racing Association, and the National Turf Writers Association since 1971.

  2002 Azeri 2003 Mineshaft 2004 Ghostzapper 2005 Saint Liam 2006 Invasor 2007 Curlin 1) Triple Crown winners.2) The Daily Racing Form (DRF) and theThoroughbred Racing Associations of NorthAmerica (TRA) each chose a horse of the yearindependently from 1950 to 1971. In all but 4 ofthe 21 years the awards coexisted, the groupschose the same horse. Source: National Thoroughbred RacingAssociation.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• National League: Gold Glove Award Winners.

  1957 no award 1958 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1959 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1960 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1961 John Roseboro Los Angeles Dodgers 1962 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1963 Johnny Edwards Cincinnati Reds 1964 Johnny Edwards Cincinnati Reds 1965 Joe Torre Milwaukee Braves 1966 Johnny Roseboro Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Randy Hundley Chicago Cubs 1968 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1969 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1970 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1971 Johnny Bench Cincinna...

• Cy Young Award Winners.

  1956 Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers 1957 Warren Spahn Milwaukee Braves 1960 Vernon Law Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers 1963 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1964 Dean Chance Los Angeles Angels 1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Mike McCormick San Francisco Giants 1968 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Tom Seaver New York Mets 1970 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1971 Ferguson Jenkins Chicago Cubs 1972 Steve Carlton Philadelph...

• American League: Gold Glove Award Winners.

  1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...

• Eclipse Awards Horse of the Year.

  2002 Azeri 2003 Mineshaft 2004 Ghostzapper 2005 Saint Liam 2006 Invasor 2007 Curlin 1) Triple Crown winners.2) The Daily Racing Form (DRF) and theThoroughbred Racing Associations of NorthAmerica (TRA) each chose a horse of the yearindependently from 1950 to 1971. In all but 4 ofthe 21 years the awards coexisted, the groupschose the same horse. Source: National Thoroughbred RacingAssociation.

• 1929: Les awards puis les oscars récompensent les meilleurs du cinéma

  Quatre oscars dorés, à l'entrée du Shrine Auditorium de Los Angeles, évoquent la remise de ces récompenses. Les awards puis les oscars récompensent les meilleurs du cinéma Le 16 mai 1929, l'hôtel Roosevelt à Hollywood accueille la première remise des prix décernés par l' Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. En quelques années, cette récompense -baptisée plus tard oscar -devient le prix cinématographique le plus important. L' idée de d...

• Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor, born in 1932, American actor, an internationally celebrated and award-winning performer.

• Tom Hanks Tom Hanks, born in 1956, American motion-picture actor, a two-time Academy Award winner who is acclaimed for both his comic and dramatic performances.

• Randy Johnson Randy Johnson, born in 1963, American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who has won five Cy Young Awards and ranks among the greatest strikeout artists ever.

• Paul Newman Paul Newman, born in 1925, American actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who won an Academy Award for his role in The Color of Money (1986).

• Jodie Foster Jodie Foster, born in 1962, American motion-picture actor, director, and Academy Award winner, who began her career as a child actor.

• Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), American actor, winner of four Academy Awards for best actress, noted for her unique combination of timeless beauty, wit, and fiery passion.

• James Cagney James Cagney (1899-1986), American actor and Academy Award winner, noted for his tough-guy roles.

• Sporting News Sportsman of the Year This award was first presented in 1968 and was known as the Sporting News Man of the Year before 1993.

• Titanic (motion picture, 1997) Titanic (motion picture, 1997), drama about the sinking of a luxury liner during its first transatlantic voyage, based on the true story of the Titanic disaster that occurred in 1912.

  Derrick Lea (Leading stoker Barrett)Richard Ashton (Carpenter John Hutchinson)Sean. M. Nepita (Elevator operator)Brendan Connolly (Scotland road steward)David Cronelly (Crewman)Garth Wilton (First class waiter)Martin Laing (Promenade deck steward)Richard Fox (Steward no. one)Nick Meaney (Steward no. two)Kevin Owers (Steward no. three)Mark Capri (Steward no. four)Marc Cass (Hold steward no. one)Paul Herbert (Hold steward no. two)Emmett James (First class steward)Christopher Byrne (Stairwell stewa...

• Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind, motion-picture epic about a tempestuous Southern belle and the changes in her life due to the American Civil War (1861-1865), based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Mitchell.

  Isabel Jewell (Emmy Slattery)William Stack (Minister)Robert Elliott (Yankee major)George Meeker, Wallis Clark (His poker-playing captains)Irving Bacon (Corporal)Adrian Morris (Carpetbagger orator)J. M. Kerrigan (Johnny Gallagher)Olin Howlin (Yankee businessman)Yakima Canutt (Renegade)Blue Washington (His companion)Ward Bond (Yankee captain Tom)Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler)Mickey Kuhn (Beau Wilkes)Lillian Kemble-Cooper (Bonnie's nurse)Si Jenks (Yankee on street)Harry Strang (Tom's aide) Award...

• Sullivan Award Winners.

  2001 Michelle Kwan Figure Skating 2002 Sarah Hughes Figure Skating 2003 Michael Phelps Swimming 2004 Paul Hamm Gymnastics 2005 J. J. Redick Basketball 2006 Jessica Long Paralympic Swimming 2007 Tim Tebow Football

• Sullivan Award Winners.

  2001 Michelle Kwan Figure Skating 2002 Sarah Hughes Figure Skating 2003 Michael Phelps Swimming 2004 Paul Hamm Gymnastics 2005 J. J. Redick Basketball 2006 Jessica Long Paralympic Swimming 2007 Tim Tebow Football Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Steven Spielberg I INTRODUCTION Steven Spielberg The imaginative films of Steven Spielberg are known for their technical creativity and memorable characters.

  Courtesy of Everett Collection Spielberg teamed up with writer-producer George Lucas in the 1980s to make the action-adventure Indiana Jones film series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Other directorial projects during this period included the science-fiction fantasy E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial , at the time the highest-grossing film ever made; The Color Purple (1985), a drama based on the novel...

• Michael Jordan.

  playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...

• Michael Jordan I INTRODUCTION Michael Jordan, born in 1963, American professional basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history.

  playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...

• ocars

  Each year, one or two artists host the ceremony starting by an opening number or a monologue. And then the concerned movies are presented and the artists who recorded the nominees for Best Original Song quite often perform those songs live at the awards ceremony, and the fact that they are performing is often used to promote the television broadcast. In each category, one of the 5 nominees is awarded of the Oscar given by another artist. This year, it was special because it was Michelle...

• Walt Disney I INTRODUCTION Walt Disney Walt Disney, an American cartoonist and film producer, started an entertainment empire with his creation of animated movies and world-renowned amusement parks.

  Donald DuckDonald Duck waves to visitors at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The Disney Studios created the excitable duck in1934.Kelly-Mooney Photography/Corbis In 1923 Disney moved to Hollywood, California. He, his brother Roy O. Disney, and Iwerks began producing short animated films. In 1927 Disney created the cartooncharacter Oswald the Rabbit. A year later he produced another character, a mouse called Mortimer, but shortly after changed the name to Mickey. In 1928 MickeyMouse starred...

• Diving (sport).

  water that creates a larger, more noticeable splash after the diver’s body displaces water under the surface. To minimize this upjet, top-level divers make a quickswimming motion by releasing their hands and collapsing their arms as they submerge. Instead of a large splash, the surface of the water appears to boil as the airbubbles rise from the diver’s entry. For feetfirst entries, which are rare in top-level competitions, divers place their legs and feet together while pointing their toes down...

• Associated Press Athletes of the Year This award was first presented in 1931.

  1961 Wilma Rudolph track and field 1962 Dawn Fraser swimming 1963 Mickey Wright golf 1964 Mickey Wright golf 1965 Kathy Whitworth golf 1966 Kathy Whitworth golf 1967 Billie Jean King tennis 1968 Peggy Fleming skating 1969 Debbie Meyer swimming 1970 Chi Cheng track and field 1971 Evonne Goolagong tennis 1972 Olga Korbut gymnastics 1973 Billie Jean King tennis 1974 Chris Evert tennis 1975 Chris Evert tennis 1976 Nadia Comaneci gymnastics 1977 Chris Evert tennis 1978 Nancy Lopez golf 1979 Tracy Aus...

• Fédération Internationale de Football Associations World Player of the Year This award was first presented in 1991.

• Arthur Miller I INTRODUCTION Arthur Miller American playwright Arthur Miller began writing plays while a student at the University of Michigan.

  devoted his life to the pursuit of “success.” His misguided philosophy has ruined the lives of his wife and two sons. When Loman is too old to travel, he loses his job. In aseries of scenes, brilliantly dramatized by the playwright, Loman relives his experiences. Eventually his mind begins to fail, and he commits suicide. Although Miller generally wrote in a realistic style ( see Realism), much of Death of a Salesman is conveyed expressionistically ( see Expressionism) through Willy Loman’s mi...

• Serbia - country.

  Minority groups speak their own languages, such as Albanian and Hungarian. Bosniaks generally speak Bosnian and write it with the Latin alphabet. Serbs are by tradition Orthodox Christians. The Roman Catholic and Protestant churches also have adherents in Serbia. Most of the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo areSunni Muslims ( see Sunni Islam), as are the Bosniaks of the Sandžak region. Bosniaks are descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam in the 15th and 16th centuries. B Education The leading in...

• Schindler's List Schindler's List, motion picture about a German factory owner who saves a large number of Jewish people from death during the Holocaust, based on Thomas Keneally's book about Oskar Schindler.

• West Side StoryWest Side Story, motion-picture musical about star-crossed lovers from different cultures in New York City, based on the 1957 stage play by Arthur Laurents andJerome Robbins, which was inspired by Romeo and Juliet (1595?

  Trivia The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other off the set to keep tensions high. Quote Riff (singing): “When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!” Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Lawrence of Arabia (motion picture) Lawrence of Arabia (motion picture), box-office hit motion picture about the adventures of British soldier T.

• E.T.--The Extra-Terrestrial E.T.--The Extra-Terrestrial, box-office hit motion picture about a boy

• The Godfather The Godfather, box-office hit motion picture about the fortunes of a prominent Mafia family during the 1940s and 1950s, based on a best-selling novel by Mario Puzo.

• Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now, motion picture about the Vietnam War (1959-1975) patterned after Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness (1902).

• The Sound of Music The Sound of Music, motion picture about a religious young governess who brings music and happiness to a widower's large family, set in Austria during World War II (1939-1945).

• On the Waterfront On the Waterfront, motion picture about a down-and-out boxer who finds courage to stand up to a corrupt labor union through the friendship of a woman and a priest.

  Terry: “You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you,Charlie.” Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Star Wars Star Wars, science-fiction movie about a young man who joins a rebel group and helps them battle the evil empire.

• To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird, motion picture about a Southern lawyer who defends a black man in a rape trial, based on a novel by Harper Lee.

• The Graduate The Graduate, motion picture about a disillusioned college graduate who returns home to live with his upper-middleclass parents and faces amorous advances from their neighbor's wife, based on the novel by Charles Webb.

• Roger Clemens.

• Chinatown (motion picture) Chinatown (motion picture), motion picture about a Los Angeles, California, detective uncovering a major political scandal.

  they are capable of anything.”J. J. Gittes (discovering the land fraud): “He passed away two weeks ago and he bought the land a week ago. That’s unusual.” Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Barry Bonds.

• Barry Bonds Barry Bonds, born in 1964, American professional baseball player, one of the greatest hitters of all time but who was indicted on criminal charges relating to performance-enhancing drugs.

• Clint Eastwood I INTRODUCTION Clint Eastwood, born in 1930, American motion-picture actor, director, and producer.

• Clint Eastwood.

• Maris Breaks Home Run Record.

  Bothered by an injured hip, Mantle was removed from the lineup in mid-September with 54 long balls, leaving Maris alone in the home-run derby. The pressureincreased as a result of a July 17 ruling by Major League Baseball Commissioner Fred Frick that the record would have to be matched or bettered within 154 games,the number of games played in the 1927 season. In 1961, for the first time, American League teams played 162 games. Frick, a friend of Ruth's, said that if therecord was broken after 1...

• Jackie Robinson Breaks the Barrier.

  Leagues. The crowd of fans at the Negro Leagues' annual East-West Classic All-Star Game in 1944 outnumbered the major league All-Star Game 46,247 to 29,589. Another barrier to black players fell when baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, an adamant opponent of desegregation, died in office in 1944 and wasreplaced by A. B. “Happy” Chandler. Chandler was known to support integration, but it took Branch Rickey, who had built the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system intothe finest in baseba...

• American Literature: Drama I INTRODUCTION American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.

  American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...