While last year's top prize of $50,000 went to winner Matthew "Top Shelf Cookie" Gutkoski, this year's top prize is $60,000.
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This Central American nation took the top prize in 43.
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He was, Mullally says, intense about taking the top prize.
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A top prize tier winner would receive $100,000 in cash.
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Finally, Agora awarded photographer Michael Aboya with the top prize.
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It's still unclear how many people won Powerball's top prize.
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The odds of winning the top prize were 1 in 258,890,850.
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Ultimately, Finisterre says he was offered the top prize of $30,000.
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This photo won Ferenc Szémár top prize in the Skyscapes category.
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"Parasite" took home the top prize at the 92nd Academy Awards.
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For Powerball's $345 million top prize, it's 1 in 758.73 million.
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The husband and wife instead tied for the competition's top prize.
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It took home the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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It won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Though all fell short of the top prize, none were terrible.
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He won the Pritzker, the top prize in architecture, in 1989.
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In 1985, he won journalism's top prize for his weekly political commentary.
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The top prize has climbed to $415 million for Tuesday night's drawing.
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German Shorthaired Pointer This breed took home the top prize last year.
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Despite their royal status, neither William nor Kate took the top prize.
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But even if you don't score the top prize, you still win.
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The top prize has been climbing for more than two months now.
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The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 292 million.
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At the Cannes Film Festival, "I, Daniel Blake" took the top prize.
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In the teen category, this festive winter village took the top prize.
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Germany won the top prize, but Turkey's pavilion was our critic's favorite.
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Again, she won the top prize — a cool $100,000 — on the ticket.
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Sedin's winning was the last top prize in the game, called Juggernaut Jackpot.
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Your chance of winning that top prize is roughly 2.93 in 22.9 million.
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On Sunday, "Parasite" took home the top prize at the 92nd Academy Awards.
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Black Panther won the top prize at the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Josh and Gabriel ran away with the competition, easily winning the top prize.
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Though neither royal won the top prize, William did place higher than Kate.
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Alys Tomlinson was awarded top prize in the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards.
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Last year, Alfonso Cuarón's Roma finally won the category's top prize for Mexico.
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The picture also won the top prize in the contest's mammals "Behavior" category.
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That means the top prize has now risen to an estimated $1.6 billion.
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HBO claimed the top prize when "Game of Thrones" won for best drama.
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There are numerous categories, but the top prize is the Truck of Texas.
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No film from South Korea had previously been nominated for Hollywood's top prize.
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Also in the field competing for the top prize at the event Sept.
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Two years later, he returned to Cannes with "Parasite," winning the top prize.
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The top prize drops back to $40 million for the next drawing Saturday night.
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"Parasite" took home the top prize at the Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles.
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The top prize increased to £2 million this year from £1.88 million last year.
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Similarly, Universal's "1917" is the front-runner for the top prize of best picture.
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A Wire Fox Terrier named King took the top prize in the 2019 show.
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It's also the 12th film to win the top prize with zero actor nominations.
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Black Panther marks the first superhero film to be nominated for the top prize.
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Plus, like last year, the top prize is $100,000 in equity-free cash. Yowza.
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Your chance of winning the top prize is about 1 in 292 million. (CNBC)
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In all, 14 movies will compete for the top prize, the Golden Goblet. siff.
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Citadel beat out D.E. Shaw Group, PIMCO and Two Sigma for the top prize.
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Even if you don't win the top prize, you still benefit from the exposure.
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Prometeo took the top prize for its Watson-based AI solution targeted at firefighters.
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Favorite Vegan/Vegetarian Item: Cauliflower Gnocchi At last, Cauliflower Gnocchi takes a top prize.
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Only 210 other foreign-language films have been nominated for the Academy's top prize.
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In 1955 the festival introduced the Palme d'Or, the top prize for a film.
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The International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest has revealed its top prize winners.
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His success will surely encourage other celebrity outsiders to go directly for the top prize.
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"Parasite" becomes the 12th film to win the Oscar's top prize with zero actor nominations.
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The scent and the commotion attracted the judges, who eventually awarded it a top prize.
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Now at $393 million, the top prize has been climbing for more than two months.
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But we were able to find 15 innovative companies to compete for the top prize.
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But this teen beat the odds and scratched her way to score the top prize.
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The Cannes jury awarded its top prize, the Palme d'Or, to the critical favorite Shoplifters.
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Even though not every designer went home with a top prize, each dress deserves recognition.
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Over the weekend, Mr. del Toro won the top prize at the Directors Guild Awards.
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Scotland even hosts a global porridge-making competition — the Golden Spurtle is the top prize.
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Scene City "The Irishman" takes top prize at the 2020 National Board of Review gala.
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The top prize is now at an advertised $22.06 million for the drawing on Saturday.
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" The night's top prize for best picture went to "Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood.
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"Parasite," by South Korea's Bong Joon-ho, wins the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize.
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Powerball has paid out its top prize only seven times this year, lottery officials said.
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Interest is building after Saturday's drawing failed to yield a winner for the top prize.
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The YM Nursery in Yonago, Tottori, Japan, earned the top prize in the School category.
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It won the top prize at the Producers Guild, Directors Guild, and Critics Choice Awards.
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Owlboy won the top prize, which came with something better than recognition: a $10,000 check.
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Powerball isn't far behind: The top prize has climbed to $281 million for Saturday night's drawing.
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But "La La Land" has faced a significant backlash that could cost it the top prize.
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Powerball says the odds of winning the top prize are one in more than 292 million.
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This marks the second time a German shepherd has won the top prize at the show.
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Only 10 others have ever been nominated for Oscars' top prize in its 92-year history.
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In 2006 "Crash" took the top prize, after being launched at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Top prize ($15k) went to Thatcher Cardon, a family practice physician and flight surgeon by day.
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Nowadays, the top prize for a Halloween costume competition doesn't necessarily go to the scariest creation.
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But that money is split among many winners, with the top prize capped at €4 million.
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The odds of her winning the top prize of this game were one-in-six million.
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Photographer Lorenz Holder won top prize for his colorful image of BMX Pro Rider Senad Grosic.
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The image earned him the top prize in the 15- to 17-year old photographer category.
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Who knows, you might take home the $50,000 top prize or find your next investment opportunity.
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It marks the second time a German shepherd has won the top prize at the show.
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What has held him back from taking the top prize more often in the trophy hunt?
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Flynn, the 2018 Best in Show winner, was overjoyed to have taken home the top prize.
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But even in taking home the top prize, there were still some hurdles it couldn't overcome.
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But just because Joker has the most nominations doesn't mean it will win the top prize.
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With the victory, Noah claimed the top prize of $35,000 and 1,000 Madden Championship Series points.
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Directed by Ruben Ostlund ("Force Majeure"), it won the Palme d'Or, the top prize at Cannes.
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New York City's Vessel took the top prize in the Display category for its open design.
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Big jackpots draw more players, increasing the chance that you'd have to split the top prize.
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The top prize, the Crystal Globe, went to a Czech film for the first time 15 years.
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The World Luxury Hotel Awards were recently announced, and the Armani Hotel in Dubai took top prize.
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Taken from a telescope near Barcelona Spain, the photo won top prize in the Our Moon category.
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If the US intelligence community is to be believed, Moscow is preparing to reap the top prize.
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The top prize for Mega Millions has reached $367 million and Powerball has climbed to $229 million.
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On Saturday, the best duos from around the world are competing for a $3 million top prize.
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The top prize has now jumped to $2156.2 million, following no jackpot winner in Wednesday night's drawing.
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Already, scooter companies operate in 65 cities and are vying for the top prize, New York City.
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That turned into a project that won the top prize in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition.
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The dinosaur-print version of the wallpaper just won Etsy's top prize in its inaugural Design Awards.
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The Netherlands' only previous top prize for the women had been in the team competition in 1928.
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The Cannes Film Festival jury awarded its top prize, the Palme d'Or, to the critical favorite Shoplifters.
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Carrie Walls of Ashburn won the top prize in the Virginia Lottery's Ford Expedition Plus $100K promotion.
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It won the top prize out of 19 category winners and beat 48,000 entries from 100 countries.
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In 2004, she won a top prize at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Portland, Ore.
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Despite having three films up for best animated feature, Disney did not take home that top prize.
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Old Navy, which launched in 1994, had been the top prize in Gap's often inconsistent brand portfolio.
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The champion of the 213-team Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will earn the $23,22 top prize.
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Last year, a Wire Fox Terrier named King won the terrier group and took the top prize.
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The Netherlands only previous top prize for the women had been in the team competition in 1928.
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Rumor, a German shepherd, won the top prize at this week's venerable Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
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Loach, 79, is one of only nine directors to have won the top prize at Cannes twice.
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"Game of Thrones," the eight-season epic, took home the top prize in the drama category. (CNBC)
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With no ticket matching all six numbers in Tuesday night's drawing, the top prize is now $530 million.
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Take the many entries vying for the top prize of Australian Geographic's Nature Photographer of the Year 2016.
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"Games of Thrones," a worldwide hit, got 22 nods, including for the top prize of best drama series.
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If "Hidden Figures" or "Moonlight" takes the top prize, however, it will signify the Academy's openness to change.
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The film won the top prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, as did its two young stars.
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Instead, it lost most of the technical awards to Mad Max, and then the top prize to Spotlight.
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It leads to a (friendly) national rivalry, as American players have rarely climbed to take the top prize.
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But 2019's biggest controversy came when a beloved dachshund named Burns didn't take home the top prize.
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Liu took home the top prize for women at the U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit on Friday.
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Lead by jockey Mario Gutierrez, the undefeated Nyquist took the top prize, beating out frontrunners Exaggerator and Outwork.
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The top prize for Mega Millions is now at $367 million and Powerball has climbed to $229 million.
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This aerial view of swimmers in Bulgaria by Yavor Michev took home the top prize for that country.
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Now at an estimated $84.43 million, the top prize has been rolling higher for more than two months.
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Malsar took the top prize during the 200-meter race in 1984's New York/Stoke Mandeville Games.
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AC Milan were the last team to retain Europe's top prize when they triumphed in 843 and 1990.
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On Wednesday, the contest's organizers announced that Cardon had won the $15,000 top prize for his prototype invention.
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They upstaged Simone Manuel, who claimed the top prize for the United States in the women's 2100m freestyle.
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Photographer Shangzhen Fan's image of them won the top prize in the contest's "Animals in their Environment" category.
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Even if you don't take the top prize, you still reap phenomenal benefits by competing in Startup Battlefield.
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If you require incentive, consider this: We bumped the top prize this year to a very cool $22018,25.
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Now that it claimed the entertainment industry's top prize, the movie got a 121 percent boost in revenue.
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The top prize is $5,000, but there will be monetary prizes and trophies for regional and age divisions.
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Sam Mendes' "1917" earned the drama category's top prize and he took home the Globe for best director.
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The Carpetbagger When it comes to Oscar's top prize, this is the most wide-open competition in years.
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Forty-three countries will compete for the top prize, which is awarded in a grand final on Saturday.
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The champion of the 24-team, $2000,213 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will earn the $23,22 top prize.
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Taking top prize for cutest cat was Lilly, whose guardian Terra Davis works in the office of Rep.
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With no one matching all six numbers drawn on Saturday, the top prize has climbed to $296 million.
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As a reward for their winning solution, the team of three was awarded the top prize of $10,000.
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He won theater's top prize for his performance in "The Invention of Love," one of numerous Broadway roles.
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Here are the six other finalists who won their their category and also competed for the top prize.
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After nobody won Saturday's Powerball top prize, the potential jackpot has swelled to an even more monstrous amount.
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Likewise, Cedrus Residential, located in Tehran, Iran, took home the top prize in the Completed Building Housing category.
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With so many talented squads vying for the top prize, this could be a World Cup to remember.
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For the second time in a week, Dominguez won the top prize, this time to the tune of $100,000.
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In March, Dubai hosted the first World Drone Prix, with 225 teams vying for a top prize of $2000,000.
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The state will be a top prize early next month, with its primary allocating a hefty 415 pledged delegates.
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The film beat out, among other contenders, "The Big Short," which won the Producers Guild of America's top prize.
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Powerball's top prize has grown to $2.93 million, after no one hit all winning numbers in Saturday night's drawing.
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After winning top prize at Sundance this year, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is headed to theaters next month.
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Yes, Green Book took home the top prize, but none of the Best Picture nominees went home empty-handed.
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He is a 3-year-old male and the third dog of his breed to take the top prize.
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With no one hitting all winning numbers in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, the top prize has surged higher again.
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Dr. Daniel Kastner of the National Institutes of Health received the evening's top prize, Federal Employee of the Year.
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Taylor Swift was not nominated this year, despite having eligible videos and taking home the top prize in 2015.
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Zanetti lost out on the top prize by 19563 of a point while Russia's Denis Abliazin settled for bronze.
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"Wajib" takes top prize As many predicted, Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir's "Wajib" won best fiction feature at the festival.
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Rumor won the herding category in 2016 as well, but lost the top prize to a German shorthaired pointer.
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At its awards ceremony in April in Singapore, Ms. Tsvetanova was the top prize winner, or "laureate," from Europe.
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Only participants in the United States are eligible for the top prize — a visit to Carnegie Mellon and $5,000.
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The top prize goes to Sergio Tapiro Velasco for his photograph of Mexico's Volcán de Colima erupting at night.
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In nearly a century and a half, a golden retriever has never gotten the top prize from the judges.
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Her blindspot solution allowed her to take home the Samueli Foundation Prize, the competition's top prize, along with $25,000.
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The show, with Tony Rock as host, features proudly low production values and a top prize of just $10,000.
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Since no one hit the Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night, the top prize has climbed to $375 million.
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Drama series "Game of Thrones" was back with a vengeance, winning the night's top prize for outstanding drama series.
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The film won the Palme d'Or, the top prize at Cannes, as well as the festival's International Critics Prize.
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Forty-three countries will compete for the top prize, which will be awarded in a grand final on Saturday.
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Image: László Francsics, HungaryHungary's László Francsics won top prize for his photo, "Into the Shadows," earning him £10,000 ($12,133).
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The 28-year-old finally claimed the top prize at his fourth Olympics, triumphing with a score of 15.766.
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The top prize is for a "full chain remote code execution exploit with persistence" of the dedicated security chip.
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More than any other factor, measurement of first-year income awards top prize to STEM majors time after time.
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Regardless of how it unfolded Sunday night, some tweeted how groundbreaking it was for "Moonlight" to take the top prize.
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It was the first film not in English to take home the top prize in the academy's 92-year history.
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" In 2011 the group gave its top prize to "The Social Network," which lost the Oscar to "The King's Speech.
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Given their pedigrees — even before joining Uber and Tesla — it's little wonder that Godwin and Oehlerking took the top prize.
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It won the Venice Film Festival's top prize and critics raved about Phoenix's performance, which has led to Oscar talk.
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The streaming company won just two Oscars despite receiving 24 nominations (including two for the evening's top prize, best picture).
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And a report by Agence France Press found that only 11 of the 268 top prize-winners have been women.
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Fieri won the hosting gig after taking home the top prize on season 2 of The Next Food Network Star.
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Between 15-483 startups will be chosen to vie for the top prize: a $50,000 check and the Disrupt Cup.
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Jackie the 11-year-old Labrador retriever mix took the top prize at the 2018 competition, which aired on Feb.
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It earned the audience and jury's top prize, and Fox Searchlight purchased the film for a record-setting $17.5 million.
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In 2009, Xiaolu Guo, a British-Chinese novelist and film-maker, won that year's top prize for "She, A Chinese".
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Mohammad Mirza's green and orange aerial view photo won the top prize for Kuwait at the Sony World Photography Awards.
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But Chappell, 15th in the standings, is unlikely to claim the FedExCup top prize even if he wins the tournament.
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It also takes the top prize as International Living's cheapest country for retirees for the fourth year in a row.
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Photographer Yu Jun won the top prize in 2016's Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for the image.
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All right, tingleheads ... the votes are in for TMZ's ASMR Challenge, and the top prize goes to Oakley the Dog!!
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Fun Fact: Ninja and his celeb teammate, Marshmello, ended up winning the $1 MILLION top prize at the Pro-Am.
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The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $435 million, after Wednesday's drawing failed to yield a winner for the top prize.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tease, a Whippet from Scotland, won the top prize at Britain's Crufts dog show in Birmingham on Sunday.
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Wire fox terriers have proven the most frequent winners at Westminster, having clinched the top prize a record 14 times.
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The company has offered rewards for hacks since 2015, but announced a new top prize of $1.5 million on Thursday.
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When he was in second grade, he won the top prize in a citywide drawing contest for public-school children.
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FROM AFAR ("Desde Allá") This urban drama from Venezuela won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival last year.
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Kevin Durant — The offseason's top prize is established as an all-time offensive weapon, and he's secretly an excellent defender.
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Last year, Zsa Zsa, a 9-year-old English bulldog, took home the top prize, beating out 13 other dogs.
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Though still a long shot to take home the top prize, it does have a relatively kind draw in Roma.
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Top prize for neighborhood opportunity in the United States went to Madison, Wisconsin, with a Child Opportunity Score of 83.
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And of the 21 films vying for the top prize, the Palme d'Or, programmers picked only three directed by women.
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Just last year, the Netflix film Roma also achieved this feat but failed to take home the night's top prize.
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Still, the odds of winning a top prize from Pick 2000 range from 27.8 in 24,03 to 20 in 20.
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Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot is now $430 million, after Saturday's drawing failed to yield a winner for the top prize.
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Richard Beare of Charlotte took home the top prize of $250,000 from a $5 scratch-off game called Carolina Black.
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On the hit game show "Deal or No Deal," contestants play and deal for a top prize of $1 million.
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The former won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, while "Billboards" won the people's choice award at Toronto.
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The top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to Parasite — making it the first Korean film to take home the honor.
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In many past years, PGA best film winners have gone on to win the best picture Oscar, Hollywood's top prize.
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Roper submitted 150 entries -- the maximum allowed -- and one of her lineups ended up winning the $1 MILLION top prize.
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The awards have a spotty track record, having given their top prize to far more mediocre films than great ones.
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But what bearing do the nominations have on Hollywood's top prize — the Oscars — and how this year's race is shaping up?
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This year, just three out of 17 films competing for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, were directed by women.
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The university won the top prize at the last DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015 with its highly advanced DRC-HUBO robot.
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Two immunologists who figured out a way to unleash the immune system to attack cancer have been awarded medicine's top prize.
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Users can earn $100 for every template they create, while there's a $10,000 top prize and $5,000 for the runner-up.
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The film won the Venice Film Festival's top prize before its public debut, which has led to Oscar buzz as well.
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The audience erupted in cheers as "Parasite" became the first international film to take the top prize at the Academy Awards.
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Which still gives films like Get Out, Lady Bird, and even Dunkirk a real fighting chance at winning the top prize.
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He started in independent film, winning the Palme d'Or, Cannes's top prize, for "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" (1989) aged only 26.
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The film will debut in Cannes 25 years after his classic Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize.
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U.S. gymnasts Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles won the silver and bronze medals, respectively, while Wevers took home the top prize.
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Ru said it was one of the 10 best outfits ever on the show, and she easily took the top prize.
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The hairless pooch took home the top prize at the 2016 World's Ugliest Dog Competition, held on Saturday in Petaluma, California.
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The top prize grows as more people buy their $2 tickets, which you'd have to expect will happen again this time.
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But what bearing do the nominations have on Hollywood's top prize — the Oscars — and how is the 2017 race shaping up?
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After no one hit all winning numbers in Saturday night's drawing, the top prize has jumped to a whopping $83 million.
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It is one of 21 movies from Europe, Japan, Australia and the Americas competing for the Golden Lion, Venice's top prize.
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They are jockeying for a $215,2000 top prize, the richest jackpot in the history of the bee, which began in 1925.
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The startup took the top prize at Disrupt NY 2014 and, 15 months later, Snapchat snapped up Vurb for $114.5 million.
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"I think Spiclypeus wins top prize for being the most aesthetically pleasing horned dinosaur, but that's my bias talking," Mallon said.
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The men's wear designer Billy Reid, who won the top prize in 2010, had flown in from Alabama to be present.
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Zanetti lost out on the top prize by 0.234 of a point while Russia's Denis Abliazin had to settle for bronze.
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Warren Richardson won this year's top prize for a photograph of a refugee passing a baby through a barbed wire fence.
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Throughout the night, he made the case that it would be he, not The Donald, claiming that top prize in Cleveland.
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This eerie snap taken off the coast of Tala Bay earned Alex Dawson the top prize in the wide-angle category
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After more than eight weeks with no big winner, the lottery game's top prize is $260 million for Saturday night's drawing.
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A tender, lovingly crafted look at subsumed, aching desire, it's unquestionably one of the best films to win the top prize.
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If not for the barely raised ring around the LED flash, the Nokia 9 PureView would've took home the top prize.
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And in 2015, with "Dich, teure Halle" as her showpiece, honors came in rapid succession, including the top prize at Operalia.
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With no one hitting all six numbers on Friday, the top prize has jumped to $372 million for Tuesday night's drawing.
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A village in the Scottish Highlands even hosts a global porridge-making competition, where the Golden Spurtle is the top prize.
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With no one hitting all six numbers on Tuesday, the top prize is an estimated $340 million for Friday night's drawing.
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G claimed the $22,2000 top prize and a berth in DreamHack Masters Jonkoping, with the runner-up FURIA squad winning $20,000.
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In 2009, the Academy amended its nomination rules so that up to 10 films could be nominated for the top prize.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has jumped to $323 million, after Tuesday's drawing failed to yield a winner for the top prize.
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According to the Guardian, King is the 22019th wire fox terrier to win the top prize (the most of any breed).
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It took the New York critics' top prize, and Scorsese and the film were runners-up with the Los Angeles reviewers.
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Earlier this month, the association also gave its top prize - the A.M. Turing award - to two cryptographers, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman.
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Martha, a three-year-old 125-pound Neapolitan Mastiff from Sebastopol, California, took the top prize at the Petaluma competition on Friday.
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The film won the Venice Film Festival's top prize and critics have raved about Phoenix's performance, which has led to Oscar talk.
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Marvel smash Black Panther took home $1.3 billion at the global box office, and the top prize at the Golden Trailer Awards.
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Now at $28 million, the top prize has been growing for more than two months through twice-weekly drawings with no winner.
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The film won the Venice Film Festival's top prize and critics have raved about Phoenix's performance, which has led to Oscar talk.
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There were several signs that this biopic of Queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury could earn a nomination for Oscar's top prize.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu took home the top prize at the Directors Guild of America awards for the second year in a row.
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At the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night, the journalism drama "Spotlight" won the top prize: outstanding performance by a cast.
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A three-year-old Neopolitan Mastiff named Martha took the $1,500 top prize at the annual celebration of repulsiveness in Petaluma, California.
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The last time there was a top-prize winner was on March 28, when a Wisconsin man nabbed a $768.4 million jackpot.
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First, some background: You might not realize this, but the top prize in the $1.5 billion Powerball is not actually $20453 billion.
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But Siba, the standard poodle who took home the prestigious competition's top prize on Tuesday night, is perfectly happy with some McDonald's.
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The student team from Germany's WARR Hyperloop, took home the top prize in the competition for its pod which traveled 201 mph.
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When Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite won the top prize at Cannes, multiple reviews called it the Korean director's finest work to date.
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Dogs make everything better, even the films that are up for the Academy Awards' top prize: the highly coveted Best Picture Oscar.
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What Hollub doesn't want to sell is the merger's top prize, Anadarko's acreage in the top U.S. shale field, the Permian Basin.
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A single ticket sold in Wisconsin matched all six numbers in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing to land the $7.653 million top prize.
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Even a George Lucas look-alike took part, but the top prize went to Dawn Bright who dressed up as Queen Amidala.
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But it's a horror movie, and that will probably be enough to keep it out of the conversation for the top prize.
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This gives clubs that do not participate in Europe's top prize-money generating competitions a "considerable competitive advantage internationally," said the report.
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"Green Book," a film about racial injustice in the segregated U.S. South in the 1960s, took best picture, the night's top prize.
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Even when Hanyu fails to win the top prize at the major global meets, he does not deviate from his usual script.
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Last year, Efron and Rogen missed out on taking home the top prize in the best fight and best musical moment categories.
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The international health advisor spoke to PeopleTV's Reality Check on Monday after taking home the top prize on the show's 10th season.
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But it was a blue cheese from the United States that recently won the top prize at this year's World Cheese Awards.
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A nerve-racking final Round after round, 15 of 291 spellers in the competition battled for the top prize during Thursday's final.
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Fun fact: in New Zealand they have a competition called Smokefreerockquest where high school bands battle each other for a top prize.
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The film academy selected eight movies for the top prize of best picture, even though rules allow for up to 10 nominees.
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Mike Babcock, the coach of the team that last won hockey's top prize in 1967, doesn't have much use for sports history.
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When the film was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, it was given the festival's top prize, the Golden Lion.
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And last week she took home the top prize, the title of Best Sommelier in France, the first woman to win it.
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Only one movie by a female director, "The Piano" by Jane Campion, has ever won the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.
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But instead, a black standard poodle named Siba took the pageant's top prize, and was showered with purple ribbons and silver trophies.
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With no one matching all six numbers drawn on Wednesday, the top prize has jumped to $373 million for Saturday night's drawing.
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In 2019, it became the first South Korean movie to win the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The evening's top prize for on-field performance went to quarterback Jackson, who capped his stellar season with the NFL's MVP honor.
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In 1999, Loteki Supernatural Being, aka Kirby, became the first Papillon to win the top prize — when he was 8 years old.
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With no one matching all six numbers drawn on Saturday, the top prize has jumped to $245 million for Wednesday night's drawing.
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This year, Japan's Kokichi Sugihara claimed the top prize with a deceptively simple illusion that plays with how our mind perceives 3D objects.
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Since the inception of the award in 2002, California's French Laundry is the only other non-European establishment to claim the top prize.
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When she scratched off the Power 5's ticket she purchased for $5, Dominguez discovered she had won the top prize of $555,555.
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Between it and Powerball's top prize of $470 million, nearly $1.5 billion is up for grabs for some very lucky winners this week.
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Isaac snagged the top prize over his fellow nominees Idris Elba (Luther), David Oyelowo (Nightingale), Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall) and Patrick Wilson (Fargo).
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While the current $415 million top prize is less than a third of that unclaimed $1.5 billion windfall, it's nothing to sneeze at.
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I don't know if that's why academy voters chose it for the top prize, but the movie was clearly art at its finest.
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The Grace of Venus: Martin Lewis (UK)This infrared image of Venus was awarded top prize in the Planets, Comets, and Asteroids category.
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The students — Maura Kalil, Emily Klein, Andrew Mallory, Peter Seltzer and Alyssa Stankiewicz — took the top prize in the Total Impact Portfolio Challenge.
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But of all of them, Mendes' movie, with its Academy-friendly subject matter and stellar execution, seems poised to win the top prize.
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Just two years ago, a similar controversy bubbled up when The Martian ran as a comedy – and and took home the top prize.
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Shoplifters, from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, made its debut at Cannes, where the jury awarded it the top prize, the Palme d'Or.
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In 2015 Lorenzo Vigas's "Desde Allá" ("From Afar") became the first Latin American winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival's top prize.
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That can't feel good for Colbert, who has to watch Corden — into whom he leads every night — compete for the top prize instead.
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The 10-day program is organized as a competition, and its Clown d'or is the top prize for any acrobat or circus artist.
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On June 9, Reel Addiction of Pensacola nabbed the top prize at the three-day Gulf Coast Billfish Classic hosted in Biloxi, Miss.
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At Wembley, eight of the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams from around the world were competing for the top prize of $250,000.
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Yet again, Janga was given a chance to take the top prize, but made a mistake on "tetradrachm" ("an ancient Greek silver coin").
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It's the second Outstanding Series win in as many years for Game of Thrones, which hadn't taken the top prize prior to 2015.
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Some customers can earn better prizes, centered around the Warcraft movie, including the top prize of an advance screening for 40 plus people.
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"Green Book," which took home the top prize at the Academy Awards, has been shrouded in controversy since it hit theaters in November.
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With no one hitting all winning numbers in Saturday night's Powerball drawing, the top prize has jumped above the half-billion-dollar mark.
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Coppola's win is an important moment for a festival that has only seen one female filmmaker awarded the Palme d'Or -- Cannes' top prize.
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It was only after filmmakers began to give their victory speeches that Moonlight was revealed as the actual winner of Hollywood's top prize.
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We're thinking big picture and we want to continue to get better each day, to continue to the top prize, as coach says.
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The winner this year will be awarded a new truck and about $50,000 in cash, the top prize from a total $500,000 purse.
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Gregory Bonds kept pushing, enduring numerous pitch rounds through Defy's competition, where he won the top prize — a $15,000 grant for his business.
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Twenty movies will compete for the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, organizers said this week in announcing the festival's lineup.
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Trump referenced his campaign strategy during his victory speech Tuesday night after sweeping five primary contests in the Northeast, including top-prize Pennsylvania.
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No film in 22 years has won best picture at the Oscars without being nominated for SAG's top prize of best movie ensemble.
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The top prize at this year's Combo Breaker for the recently released Injustice 23 game is $20,000—unsurprisingly, Sonic Fox takes it home.
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And here "Border," which won the top prize in Cannes' "Un Certain Regard" slate this year, becomes a somewhat more conventional genre film.
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Farmers from across the region bring their best animals—cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, goats, and poultry—for a shot at the top prize.
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The film, which stars Joaquin Phoenix, won the Golden Lion top prize after it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on Aug.
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While Bao's photo claimed the top prize, the competition has other categories (including Animal Portraits and Urban Wildlife), each with their own winner.
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Her film about the relationship between her father and her 12-year-old brother won top prize at a camp youth film festival.
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Credit... DES MOINES — Every four years, Iowa is the top prize in politics, the first and perhaps most important jewel in the crown.
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Or, will one of the other competing nominees, like Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" or Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite," take the top prize instead?
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Mr. Wang, who won a top prize at the 2015 international science fair, avoids the well-known label and uses "research competitions" instead.
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One took the top prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival in September, while the other drew complaints and a boycott from Roma associations.
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The final rider of the competition, Minikus and Babalou 41 seized top prize money and blazed past peers with a time of 47.7 seconds.
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Nelson won the top prize in the Win for Life game after matching all four numbers for a drawing that took place on Saturday.
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Winning the competition, though, was Michelle Collins – who snagged the top prize after belting out the Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields classic "Big Spender".
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Release date: November 23 Shoplifters made its debut earlier this year at Cannes, where the jury awarded it the top prize, the Palme d'Or.
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Only one woman has won the top prize, the Palme d'Or—Jane Campion for "The Piano" in 1993 (and she shared that year's award).
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"Parasite" took home the top prize at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English language film to win the best picture award.
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Meanwhile, The Shape of Water, which won the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, is the biggest nominee this year, with 13 nods.
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Up for the Tonys' top prize this year Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, The Prom and Tootsie.
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TRUE TO its title, the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival was stolen by "Shoplifters" while everyone was looking the other way.
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In March, a 15-year-old British teenager won the top prize of $250,000 at the World Drone Prix, a major drone racing tournament.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will premiere at Cannes 25 years after Tarantino's Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize.
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The first team to get to the Moon and explore the lunar surface before the deadline will receive the top prize of $20 million.
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In a welcome change, Underwood was listed among the nominees for the top prize in the traditionally male-dominated entertainer of the year category.
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Mr. Angelopoulos's "Eternity and a Day," which won the top prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, will be shown Sunday at 3 p.m.
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The man, Ronnie Music Jr., 33, scooped up the multimillion dollar top prize in the state's instant "100X the Money" game in February 2015.
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The movie recently won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award, which is the festival's top prize, and early reviews have been largely positive.
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Last year's winner, Ada Hegerberg, will once again look to capture soccer's top prize after enjoying yet another fantastic year for French club Lyon.
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On Friday, the sidebar section Critics' Week gave its top prize to the father-son drama "Hunting Season," from an Argentine filmmaker, Natalia Garagiola.
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But arguably, Cohen's greatest triumph came in 2013, when her Trabantamino won the top prize at the annual lowrider competition in Espanola, New Mexico.
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But if you can add to that a top prize in Plácido Domingo's Operalia, then a glittering career is off to a solid start.
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The film's cast members garnered a standing ovation at the Screen Actors Guild Awards even before they won the top prize of the night.
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In September 1951, the Venice Film Festival awarded its top prize, the Golden Lion, to "Rashomon," by a little-known Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa.
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Early reviews from its Venice Film Festival premiere worried that it was a "toxic rallying cry for incels"; it won the festival's top prize.
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The prime rule of fantasy is that the top prize must be enough to change your life, transporting you into the next socioeconomic stratum.
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Their concept won a few contests, including the top prize of $750,000 at the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, and grants from the National Science Foundation.
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Delta's "Delta One Suite" took the top prize in the sexy "Cabin Concepts" category, which pit the spacious contender against others from Bombardier and United.
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Delta's "Delta One Suite" took the top prize in the sexy "Cabin Concepts" category, which pit the spacious contender against others from Bombardier and United.
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DeCovan Kadell "Dee" Brown wore these sneakers during the 1991 Slam Dunk Contest, when he famously won the top prize for his no-look dunk.
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The 16-year-old's death comes just two weeks after he won the $250 top prize at the Rip Curl Grom Search in North Carolina.
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Plus, Mirrorball Trophy-winning pros Derek Hough and Cheryl Burke are both returning from an absence from the show – ready to reclaim its top prize.
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Some critics hailed it as a masterpiece, and the jury at the prestigious Venice Film Festival handed the movie its top prize, the Golden Lion.
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He can't get behind awards shows, so he was a no-show at the Grammys even though he was up for the night's top prize.
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For the $654 million Mega Million jackpot — which marks the game's second-largest top prize ever — your chance of winning is 1 in 302.6 million.
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The last time there was a top-prize winner in that game was on March 28, when a Wisconsin man nabbed a $768.4 million jackpot.
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However, with 17-year-old American Nathan Chen capturing the top prize at last month's Four Continents competition, the chasing pack is closing in fast.
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In film, La La Land, Moonlight took the top prize — just one of a huge haul of awards for the winsome song-and-dance spectacular.
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But with the Golden Globe nominations out, what kind of influence do these choices have on film's top prize — the Oscars — in this year's race?
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Yung-sen Wu's photograph of fish underwater won the top prize in the natural world/wildlife category for Taiwan at the Sony World Photography Awards.
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"Green Book" took home the top prize at the 91st Academy Awards Sunday night despite controversy over the film and the conduct of its creators.
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He also explained why he had not attended the Academy Awards in Los Angeles even when he was nominated for the film world's top prize.
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A wearable breathalyzer called the BACTrack Skyn nabbed the top prize at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Wearable Biosensor Challenge this week, Reuters reports.
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Janga, of Austin, Texas, took the youngest champ on record title from Wendy Guey, who won the top prize 20 years ago at age 12.
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Impossible Foods took the top prize at the Consumer Electronics Show in January for the latest version of its burger known for its realistic bleeding.
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If Kim earns a place on the 2018 Women's Olympic snowboarding team, she could become the youngest halfpipe competitor to take home the top prize.
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The Producers Guild of America gave its top prize to "The Big Short" and the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble went to Spotlight.
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The film, directed by Hans Petter Moland, is one of 17 films competing for the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
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And in a welcome change, Underwood was listed among the nominees for the top prize in the traditionally male-dominated entertainer of the year category.
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The star took home the Country Music Association's top prize in Nashville on Wednesday, beating out Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Eric Church and Chris Stapleton.
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In Rio, Biles took the top prize in team, all-around, vault, and floor and tacked on the bronze in balance beam for good measure.
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Mr. Angelopoulos's "Eternity and a Day" won the top prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and will be shown July 24 at 3 p.m.
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Take, for instance, the "Bathroom Olympics," an event that revolved around contestants eating inordinate amounts of food and weighing their shits for the top prize.
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Samantha Alaia, 24, a human resources worker from Staten Island, was hoping to see her favorite breed, the Miniature Pinscher, take home the top prize.
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An Allstate analysis from mid-2017 (before the Mega Millions top prize odds worsened) put the chance of a double-win at 89.63 in 75,648,252,765,957,300.
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But Williamson, an 25-year-old Duke freshman and the top prize in Tuesday night's N.B.A. draft lottery, has been making memorable moments for years.
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Sanders took Tuesday's top prize, winning in California, but Biden has taken the overall delegate lead after winning in states like Texas, Alabama and Virginia.
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With his win in top-prize Michigan and other states on Tuesday, Biden has taken command of the Democratic race, further narrowing Sanders's delegate path.
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Each year around this time, the top prize in the field of economics is awarded to an economist (or economists) of extraordinary influence and prominence.
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Election Day 2017 couldn't have gone much better for the party, which won victories from coast to coast including the day's top prize: Virginia's governorship.
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Das' research won her Regeneron's $250,000 top prize, an award that opens doors for young scientists and counts 13 Nobel Prize winners among its alumni.
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With no one hitting all six numbers in Friday night's drawing, the top prize has surged to $314 million for the next drawing on Tuesday.
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It's trail of honors, moreover, goes back to the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Palme d'Or -- the event's top prize -- last May.
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The jackpot for Friday night's Mega Millions drawing is an estimated $382 million, and the top prize for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing is $307 million.
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Successful participants must spend countless hours memorizing esoteric words like "marocain," which the 2017 champion spelled correctly to take top prize of $40,000 that year.
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Mr. Ruddy was sitting next to Mr. DiCaprio when "Million Dollar Baby," directed by Clint Eastwood, took the top prize instead of "The Aviator" in 22012.
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There, Damien Chazelle claimed the top prize, winning Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for the modern-day musical about two aspiring artists falling in love.
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Despite all of this the PGA still awarded the film with its top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.
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There are currently just five slots in the best director field but up to 10 movies can be nominated for the top prize of best picture.
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It was immediately apparent that one of the biggest stars of the night was Siba, a standard poodle who ended up taking home the top prize.
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There, Damien Chazelle claimed the top prize, winning outstanding directorial achievement in feature film for the modern-day musical about two aspiring artists falling in love.
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However, the unveiling landed with less fanfare than Impossible Foods' new and improved burger, which took the top prize at the Consumer Electronics Show that month.
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All but seven of the DGA winners since 1948 have gone on to win the best director Oscar, and often the top prize of best picture.
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Worst-case scenario Before becoming the top prize in the Iraqi portion of ISIS' self-declared caliphate, Mosul was home to more than 2 million people.
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He was up for the top prize at the Billboard Music Awards, but fellow Canadian Drake beat him out at the awards show earlier in May.
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Dogs from the sporting, working and terrier groups will compete on Tuesday night, with the three victors joining Monday's finalists in the competition for top prize.
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And though no one matched the top prize, there were still 18,555,3000 other winners — with seven people matching five of its numbers and winning $1 million.
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The announcement that Vanderwaal took the show's top prize took the infamously snarky judge back to a moment 14 years ago – before Vanderwall was even born.
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The "All About My Mother" director has never won the top prize at the French cinema festival, where he headed up the jury two years ago.
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Director Mohamed Ben Attia said he was proud his work had been chosen for the honor of competing for the festival's top prize, the Golden Bear.
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The state has once again claimed top prize for the healthiest and happiest state in the U.S., according to Gallup-Healthways' latest annual Well-Being Rankings.
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Likewise, Billfish Classic organizer Robbie Carter told the News Journal that it was sweet to see Reel Addiction and owner Rocky Jones earn the top prize.
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A new map created by a Japanese cartography team recently won Japan's prestigious Good Design Grand Award, the top prize in given for excellence in design.
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Only three soundtracks have won the top prize since 1959: O Brother, Where Art Thou (2002), Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard (1994) and Saturday Night Fever (363).
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And earlier this year, both The Revenant and The Martian emerged triumphant at the Globes — but Spotlight would go on to nab the Oscars' top prize.
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Should Rumor take home the top prize on Tuesday night, she'll be the second German Shepherd to win Best in Show in Westminster's 139-year history.
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Violinist Lindsey Stirling suffered a rib injury two weeks ago but danced through the pain and has remained a serious contender for the show's top prize.
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Rogue Creamery, which took the top prize at the World Cheese Awards with its Rogue River Blue produced in Oregon, has seen sales and interest jump.
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"Tiny Holiday Home," created by Dutch design firm i29 in collaboration with Chris Collaris, took the top prize in the House Interior of the Year category.
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The top prize is a rocket launcher, which is "a direct correlation between the science experiments of youth and nuclear technology of the future," Lee notes.
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Navi, the fifth-highest earning team in all of esports, finished in 16th place, the lowest payout spot and nowhere near the $10 million top prize.
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Black ties and top hats were worn for medal ceremonies, in which it was the silver medal, not a gold one, that was the top prize.
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Last year Gina, 31, took home the top prize for best actress in a television comedy, marking the first time a CW actor snagged the statuette.
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In a Fun Home or Hamilton year, none of this would be enough for the top prize, but when the big competition is Spongebob and Frozen?
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Their 1998 Champions League triumph was the first time they had won Europe's top prize, which they have lifted a record 13 times, in 32 years.
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Winning its top prize, the Palme d'Or, still means something, so the films that compete there tend to be really good, or at least really interesting.
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The Dobermans used by Anne Imhof in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale did not provoke high-profile objections; she won this year's top prize.
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In a welcome change, longtime show host Underwood was among the nominees for the top prize in the traditionally male-dominated entertainer of the year category.
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Which is not to say that this movie, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival last year, is unconcerned with showing what happens.
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Dogs from the sporting, working and terrier groups will compete on Tuesday night, with the three winners joining Monday's finalists in the competition for top prize.
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When Aristophanes' comedy "The Birds" made its premiere, at the Great Dionysia drama festival in Athens, a guy named Ameipsias walked away with the top prize.
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The winner says he plans to use the $250,000 top prize to pay for college tuition -- most likely studying mathematics and computer science at Harvard University.
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This year&aposs Oscar nominations were announced on Monday and nine movies from 2019 will compete against each other for Hollywood&aposs top prize, best picture.
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French startup Joué actually went on to win top prize at our CES pitch-off this year, with its modular MIDI controller of the same name.
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The streaming service's big Oscars bet, "Roma," won best director and best foreign language film on Sunday night, but "Green Book" took home the top prize.
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It was the first time in a decade, since "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008, that the NBR had chosen the eventual winner of the Academy's top prize.
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Now she and her co-stars are nominated for the top prize, outstanding performance by a cast, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27.
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Shoplifters, from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, made its debut earlier this year at Cannes, where the jury awarded it the top prize, the Palme d'Or.
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Deschamps could become only the third to win soccer's top prize as both player and coach, having captained France in their previous triumph 20 years ago.
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After Adele's win, critics pointed out that people of color have been shut out from the top prize since Herbie Hancock took home the award in 2008.
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The winner of the $40,000 top prize will emerge from the finals on Thursday night, with a worldwide audience tuning in to the live broadcast on ESPN.
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The top prize RM 25,000 (around $5,600) in cash alongside five sets of return flights to any AirAsia destination, and 100,000 of the company's "Big" loyalty points.
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American teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $20193 million on Sunday in New York after taking the top prize in a tournament for the popular online video game Fortnite.
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On Sunday, the Doberman Pinscher and his handler Dylan Kipp beat out more than 1,000 other dogs from upwards of 150 breeds to claim the top prize.
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With no top-prize winners in the country's biggest lottery games over the weekend, there's close to a cool $8.823 million in jackpot money now in play.
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Reuters TV Blockbuster hit "Black Panther" takes top prize at the Screen Actors Guild award show on Sunday, boosting its stature ahead of next month's Oscars ceremony.
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Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz made history over the weekend when he won his country its first-ever Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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Last year, Birdman, directed by The Revenant's Alejandro G. I érritu (who won a second consecutive Best Director award this year), took home the evening's top prize.
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Running back Rashad Jennings and his dance partner Emma Slater took home the top prize, with former baseball catcher David Ross and Lindsay Arnold in second place.
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The house sits just outside of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the judges awarded it the top prize because of its "clever use of space" and sustainable materials.
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Yes, "Green Book" already won top prize from the Producers Guild of America, and that would usually cement its front-runner status among other best picture nominees.
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An Australian zoo has launched a competition where you can do just that, allowing for a brown snake named after your former lover as its top prize.
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The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund is often full of surprises: Last time around, for instance, we got the first-ever three-way tie for the top prize.
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But as a wild-card contender in Thursday's contest, he took home the top prize, besting a four-time veteran who was all but favored to win.
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Since its debut a few weeks ago at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the top prize, Todd Phillips's "Joker" has stirred up quite a tempest.
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It won the top prize in Cannes and may well break out of the international film category if the academy's view reaches beyond the parochialism of Hollywood.
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It won the top prize, the Golden Bear, at the Berlin International Film Festival and made its United States premiere at the 2012 New York Film Festival.
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After about two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one matching all six numbers, the top prize has climbed to $21 million for Tuesday night's drawing.
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The Mega Millions jackpot is now $256 million, and the Powerball jackpot, $219.7 million, after drawings this week failed to yield winners for either game's top prize.
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Some wondered whether "Game of Thrones" would come storming back after its sabbatical and reclaim the award after winning the top prize in both 2015 and 2016.
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And now Coixet's film, a black-and-white drama of a lesbian couple in turn-of-the-century Spain, is in the running for the top prize.
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Which is why, every year, people spend so much time trying to predict which movie will go home with the top prize: the title of Best Picture.
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It, like "Spotlight," was widely considered to have a shot at the night's top prize, best picture, so the two came out of the gate neck-and-neck.
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As the Race for the Roses approaches this weekend, people across the county are rushing to bet on which horse will take the top prize at Churchill Downs.
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The film did, however, win the night's top prize, plus the awards for director, adapted screenplay, original score, original song for "Jai Ho," sound mixing, cinematography, and editing.
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The win cemented "Parasite" as the first non-English speaking film in the history of the Academy Awards — now almost a century old — to win the top prize.
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Neither Rudy or Gabby took home the championship's top prize; that honor belongs to Verb the Border Collie, who won his division and title of Master Agility Champion.
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With a top prize of $500,000 and a total of $1.5 million at stake, competitors will have to accurately predict the location of threat objects on the body.
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After more than two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one matching all six numbers, the top prize has climbed to $2326 million for Tuesday night's drawing.
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee is back for the 90th year, with 291 young word wizards between the ages of 6 and 15 going after the top prize.
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In June, the top prize was awarded to Columbus, Ohio, which edged out six other finalists to win $40 million in federal grant money to enact its proposal.
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Drake, Beyonce, Rihanna, Adele, Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, Carrie Underwood and Twenty One Pilots will compete for the top prize of artist of the year.
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This year's contest is in Stockholm, where performers from 42 countries will compete for the top prize — exposure — in semifinals on Tuesday and Thursday and finals on Saturday.
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Gianfranco Rosi's documentary, which won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, contrasts a 12-year-old boy's ordinary life there with the humanitarian agonies around him.
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Movies competing for the top prize include the clothing designer Tom Ford's new movie, "Nocturnal Animals," and "Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez" by the German director Wim Wenders. labiennale.
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The three are determined to take the top prize, of course, but they also don't want to finish their journey together without losing their virginity along the way.
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That "ad" fooled so many members of the public and press that it was awarded the top prize for digital media at the annual Cannes Lions advertising festival.
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And it's an extraordinary feature debut for Diop, who came away from Cannes with the Grand Prix, essentially second place to the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.
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BERLIN — "Touch Me Not" by the Romanian director Adina Pintilie won the Golden Bear for best feature film, the top prize at the 68th annual Berlin Film Festival.
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A Bulgarian soprano, Ms. Yoncheva, 36, has become one of the most sought-after singers in the eight years since she shared the top prize in Operalia 2010.
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The tech entrepreneur, who joined CNN as a political commentator last month, announced his endorsement after Biden won several states on Tuesday, including the top prize of Michigan.
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Reviewers have cheered "Makala" since it won the top prize last year at Cannes in Critics' Week, a parallel festival devoted to first- and second-time feature directors.
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The woman who takes top prize will get "bragging rights and a street named after her on the most rocking block in the country," according to the release.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Korean-language film "Parasite" won the top prize, for best ensemble cast in a motion picture, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday.
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In 1998, the year "Titanic" won the top prize, Mr. De Luca made headlines for outlandish behavior at a preceremony Oscars party hosted by the William Morris Agency.
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When his owners and handlers entered him in the show, no one expected him to perform well, much less win, but he wound up taking home top prize.
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In the last 20 years, there have been only three instances in which the winner of the DGA's top prize did not get the Oscar for best directing.
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Image: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo, ArgentinaEleven-year-old Davy van der Hoeven from the Netherlands won top prize in the Young Astronomy of the Photographer of the Year category.
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"Moonlight" won the top prize at the Academy Awards, but not before an astonishing flub drew gasps from the audience: "La La Land" was announced as best picture.
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No one had won the Powerball's top prize in the twice-a-week drawings since June 10, when a California man won a jackpot valued at $447.8 million.
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Shiffrin, before even racing in the finals this weekend, won the women's World Cup overall title, the sport's top prize, which is a monumental achievement at any age.
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While this Marvel movie was a hit with critics, it's still a superhero film, and industry voters may not be prepared to give that genre its top prize.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New York's Eleven Madison Park nabbed the top prize at the World's 50 Best Restaurants on Wednesday, only the second non-European restaurant to win the gong.
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Biles then excitedly handed her pal sparkly high top Converse sneakers that resemble the top prize for DWTS – Hernandez, 16, even scooted over so Biles could share her seat.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - "La La Land," a musical tale of star-crossed lovers chasing their dreams in Hollywood, won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.
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Director Ken Loach has won the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), for 2006's The Wind That Shakes the Barley and 2016's I, Daniel Blake.
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Several Best Picture winners lately haven't earned much more hardware, either: Moonlight, 12 Years a Slave, and Argo each won only two Oscars in addition to the top prize.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Fox Searchlight's fantasy drama "The Shape of Water" led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 13 nods, including the top prize for best picture.
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Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway looked confused as they opened the card to announce the Best Picture winner, before saying La La Land had taken the top prize.
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They were whittled down by breed then group—hound, sporting, terrier and more—before a seven-year-old Wire Fox Terrier called King scampered off with the top prize.
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The event featured collections from ten emerging designers of all kinds from across the country — each competing for the top prize of $400,000, which will be announced next month.
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Fellow Best Picture nominee Dunkirk scored the second-most nominations at eight, with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — also up for the top prize — just behind with seven nods.
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Netflix and Cuarón ultimately lost the top prize to Green Book, a movie about an Italian-American's journey to becoming slightly less racist while driving through the segregated South.
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"Felicite" a film about a Congolese nightclub singer's struggle to care for her son following a motorcycle accident, by Senegalese director Alain Gomis won the top prize this year.
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When Apple launched its "Shot on iPhone 6" campaign last year, the photographs earned a lot of praise, taking home the top prize at the Cannes Grand Prix Festival.
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During the Monopoly tournament, the haphazard nature of real-life real-estate transactions was lost on the students who focused on the top prize, which amounted to about $2,000.
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It won the top prize, the Golden Lion, and from afar seemed to capitalize on mixed signals concerning corporate architecture, voyeurism, gender fluidity, feminist autonomy and Germany's Nazi past.
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In May, McLaren announced the start of an esports competition with a top prize of a role with the team, working as a development driver on the official simulator.
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Metacritic score: 93 Shoplifters, from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, made its debut earlier this year at Cannes, where the jury awarded it the top prize, the Palme d'Or.
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A teenage writer and director took home the top prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for his tale of an alcoholic preacher in rural Louisiana, festival organizers announced Thursday.
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They will compete for a $40,000 top prize, under the bright lights of ESPN, the cable channel that covers the competition as if it were tennis or skate-boarding.
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In the drama race, it's the Seven Kingdoms versus spies as "Game of Thrones" and "Killing Eve" spar, with the odds on the former to claim the top prize.
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Last year, a wire fox terrier named King won the terrier group and then took "Best of Show," the 15th member of his breed to take the top prize.
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"Missing Link" took home the Golden Globe for best animated feature on Sunday, marking only the fourth time that the top prize did not go to a Disney film.
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The website also says users get "weekly coaching calls" with Paul, and teases a "top prize" of flying out to film a vlog with Paul and his creator squad.
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But most importantly, The Handmaid's Tale took home the award for Outstanding Dramatic Series — making Hulu the first streaming-only network to win the top prize at the Emmys.
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Called "The GRAND Legowelt Nightwind Records Drawing Competition," the top prize is a signed Yamaha PSS 570 FM synthesizer, along with a package of Legowelt music and refrigerator magnets.
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Last year's jury was led by Joel and Ethan Coen and gave the top prize to "Dheepan," about a Sri Lankan immigrant to France, by the French director Jacques Audiard.
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Transport the Soul: Brad Goldpaint (USA)This gorgeous photo by Brad Goldpaint won top prize for the People and Space category and the overall best photo submitted to the competition.
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The Virginian Pilot, which first revealed the news of his recent arrest, reports that he ate eight doughnuts in two minutes at the contest to take home the top prize.
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Both athletes picked up the top prize for the third time, with Williams having previously won it in 2003 and 2010 while Djokovic was also victorious in 2012 and 2015.
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The production company behind "Parasite" was nominated for six awards and won for best director, best original screenplay, best international film and the top prize of the night — best picture.
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Certainly the Academy, especially in the wake of awarding their top prize to the first non-English language film, is cognizant of their role and power in shaping these narratives.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In April 268, Philippe Garrel won the top prize at the Festival du Jeune Cinéma at Hyères for a film called Marie Pour Mémoire.
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And this white marlin is the most expensive billfish in the world: This $2.6 million prize-winning billfish weighed in at 83 pounds, earning Weldor's Ark the tournament's top prize.
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Her opportunity to attend the camp this summer came via an Instagram video contest last year; the top prize was a trip to the Exposure Skate Contest in Encinitas, California.
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But if you look at the list of breeds who have taken home the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, those three are nowhere to be found.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures claimed the prestigious best picture Oscar trophy on Sunday for race relations dramedy "Green Book," denying Netflix Inc the film industry's top prize.
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A panel of scientists, engineers and educators was so impressed with her prototype that she won the $25,000 top prize at the annual Broadcom MASTERS competition in Washington last week.
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Top prize went to Warren Richardson for his photo (above) of a man passing a baby through the fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Röszke on August 28, 2015.
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Google thinks its Pixel device is pretty secure — so secure that it&aposs challenging aspiring hackers to show they can compromise it, and offering $1.5 million as a top prize.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $3 million on Sunday after taking the top prize in a tournament in New York for the popular online video game Fortnite.
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Alysa Liu took home the top prize for women at the U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit on Friday — making history as the youngest champion ever, multiple outlets have confirmed.
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That was sufficiently demonstrated to the Xprize inspection teams, it seems, and the team was this weekend awarded the $1.5 million top prize despite not making it into the finals.
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In 21997, the top prize at each tournament on the PGA Tour — even the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship — is more than Woods earned for winning the 1997 Masters.
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The Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, was awarded Saturday to "Parasite," a ferocious satire and critical favorite from the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho.
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The eight-team, $300,000 Dota2 tournament will conduct its playoff rounds from Friday through Sunday, with the champions of the best-of-three Grand Final earning the $72,000 top prize.
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Bong Joon Ho's darkly funny thriller "Parasite" made history at the Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday in Los Angeles, taking the top prize for best cast in a motion picture.
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Sumo wrestler Tokushoryu thrilled fans with an astounding underdog run at the first big tournament of the year, pulling off an incredible streak of victories to take the top prize.
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This year's top prize goes to support the lifesaving hospital of Edna Adan, a Somali midwife who fights for women's health, trains doctors and empowers women in her native Somaliland.
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The South Korean film Parasite earned the top prize at Sunday's Academy Awards in Hollywood, making Oscar history by becoming the first ever foreign-language film to win Best Picture.
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When Zozibini Tunzi was named Miss Universe on Sunday, it signified the first time that black women had simultaneously held the top prize in four of the major beauty pageants.
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The Swedish dark comedy took home the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year, where it became one of the rare comedies to win the prestigious Palme d'Or.
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"Touch Me Not," which won the Berlin Film Festival's top prize last year, examines the puzzles and paradoxes of sexual pleasure in a spirit of earnest analysis rather than hedonism.
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A stunning photograph of Utah's Badlands—with the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies in the background—captured the top prize of this year's Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
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But don't worry about this hurting the film's chances come Oscar night — just look at these 13 films that went on to Oscar glory without the Screen Actors Guild's top prize.
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And after no one won the the top prize in Friday night's Mega Millions drawing, that haul has surged to a staggering $22.9 billion — the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
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In case you were wondering, to date, just one film has won only Best Picture: 1932's Grand Hotel, which didn't earn a nomination for any category but the top prize.
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Since 1981, in fact, only one film has won Oscar's top prize without a Best Film Editing nomination: 2014's Birdman, a movie designed to look like a single continuous shot.
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ET. (AP) Nobody won the jackpot in the multi-state Powerball last night, pushing the top prize for Saturday night's drawing to $478 million, the eighth-biggest U.S. lottery prize ever.
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The lowest-rated Oscars on record was the 22.13 ceremony hosted by Jon Stewart, which drew 31.8 million total viewers and awarded the top prize to No Country for Old Men.
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Movies from the world's most celebrated auteurs will premiere over the next week and a half, with a number of them competing for the festival's top prize, the coveted Palme d'Or.
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The Mega Millions jackpot rose from $23 million after no one hit the six numbers drawn on Tuesday, extending a winless streak for the top prize that has lasted since July.
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With no one hitting all six winning numbers in Powerball's Wednesday night drawing, the top prize has climbed to $83 million, making it the seventh-biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
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The Mega Millions jackpot rose from $23 million after no one had the six numbers drawn on Tuesday, extending a winless streak for the top prize that has lasted since July.
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The film, which opens in the United States on May 6, was awarded the top prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival by a jury led by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Adam Driver and Kirsten Dunst, the film was shown on Friday at the Berlin film festival, in competition for the festival's top prize, the Golden Bear.
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The winner of the top prize will win seven nights with up to five friends in the beautifully recreated Game Keeper's Cottage at North Shire in North Yorkshire, UK over Christmas.
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The winner will get a 50% bonus if they carry out the hack on a version of Android that&aposs still in developer preview stages, making the top prize $1.5 million.
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In 2011, when he was 20, the Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov took the top prize in two prestigious international piano competitions: the Arthur Rubinstein in Israel and the Tchaikovsky in Russia.
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After it won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in February, at a moment when the arrival of Syrian refugees had been reshaping Germany, institutions began to take notice.
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Uchimura, who also won the team gold two days ago, had to wait until his final performance on the horizontal bar to snatch the top prize with a total of 92.365.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - London-based writer Meg Rosoff received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), a top prize for children and young adult literature, at a ceremony in Stockholm on Monday night.
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Mohammad Rasoulof, whose new movie won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is one of several filmmakers who have grown more outspoken as Iran clamps down on artistic expression.
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In much the same way that transformative acting performances are more likely to take the top prize, cinematography awards typically go to films that evince an element of risk or showmanship.
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The company stops short of calling Jade and Tanner cheaters or any other such accusation, but it's pretty clear ... they found something fishy in the way they won the top prize.
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It's the country's first Oscar nominee in any category and the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or, the top prize at Cannes -- remarkable statistics given Korean cinema's outsized influence.
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For Oscar watchers, the Producers Guild trophy is considered a significant bellwether, including last year, when "Green Book" took the top prize weeks before winning the Academy Award for best picture.
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The idea is so innovative it won them top prize at Kenya's national finals of the Enactus World Cup, an annual solutions competition of 0003,700 university Enactus teams in 37 countries.
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"Hidden Figures," the true story of three black female mathematicians during the 1960s space race, ousted awards front-runners "Manchester By the Sea" and "Moonlight" to claim the night's top prize.
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The film won Bong the Palme d'Or, in a unanimous decision among the jury — and in so doing, it became the first Korean film to ever win the festival's top prize.
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When the lineup of films that will compete for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival next month was unveiled Thursday, one director was half in, half out: Quentin Tarantino.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Hadestown," a folk opera about a young couple's dark trek to the underworld, topped Broadway's Tony awards on Sunday winning eight honors, including the top prize best musical.
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The streaming giant had just won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival for Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, and organizations such as the National Association of Italian Filmmakers voiced their discontent.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's team was awarded the top prize, and will now go on to build an actual pod to race on the under-construction track near SpaceX's Hawthorne, Calif.
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With the Mega Millions jackpot at $11.183 billion and Powerball's top prize at $620 million, that tax bill will be hefty even if the winner employs strategies to reduce their taxable income.
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Sweepee Rambo, the Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix who took home the top prize at the World's Ugliest Dog competition on Sunday, is a champion in the true sense of the word.
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On Wednesday, the ice dancing pair who took gold at the Sochi 2014 Games announced that they will not make another run for the top prize at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Now, after having recovered and claimed her first Grand Slam title, Stephens can also enjoy that top-prize money, something the world has loved seeing her do over the past few days.
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The awards show, which gives out what is considered to be the top prize in comedy, testified to how far-reaching Mr. Chappelle's influence has been by drawing a range of celebrities.
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"I'm honored to be here on a show that meant so much to my father and made him the recipient of many awards," he said before presenting Drake with the top prize.
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Of all the scorpions studied, the death stalker took top prize in terms of its lightning-like efficiency, snapping its tail at nearly three miles per hour, or 130 centimeters per second.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A borzoi, pug, bichon frise and border collie won Monday's group competitions at the 142nd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and will vie for the contest's top prize.
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Between that and Mega Millions' $8.823 million top prize, a whopping $999 million is waiting for winners in the next two drawings: Tuesday night for Mega Millions and Wednesday night for Powerball.
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Despite the Best Picture blunder stealing all the headlines, Moonlight's win at Sunday's Oscars has people talking for a different reason: It's the first LGBTQ film to win the evening's top prize.
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He'd come to believe that he would never win the top prize, but on Sunday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, his name was finally called — and it got emotional.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's team was awarded the top prize, and will now go on to build an actual pod to race on the under-construction track near SpaceX's Hawthorne, Calif. headquarters.
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If Gronkowski comes out on top, the top prize of $100,000 will go to the Gronk Nation Youth Foundation charity, which provides help for young people in both education and physical activities.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Small-town dramedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" led the 2018 Screen Actors Guild nominations on Wednesday with four nods, including the top prize for best ensemble.
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NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - American teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $20193 million on Sunday in New York after taking the top prize in a tournament for the popular online video game Fortnite.
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That error knocked a distraught Kudryavtseva, who was leading at the halfway point of the competition, off the top and allowed Mamun to grab the top prize with a total of 76.483.
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The Powerball jackpot, which was won by a lucky soul in California on Saturday, soared to nearly $448 million, after last week's drawing failed to yield a winner for the top prize.
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VICE talked to Noé at Cannes, where the film recently screened in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs ("Directors' Fortnight") section, and won Noé the Art Cinema Award, the top prize in the section.
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Moviegoers at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday gave the event's top prize, the Grolsch People's Choice Award, to the dark comic drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," starring Frances McDormand.
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That all five are up for the top prize at the Oscars indicates that nonfiction cinema is changing and expanding, with many genres and types of films being considered worthy of recognition.
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The Carpetbagger The monster romance "The Shape of Water" took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, an honor that often predicts the best picture winner at the Oscars.
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The top prize at the event, now in its 24th year, is the Golden Spurtle, named after the dowel-shaped kitchen tool Scots traditionally used to stir porridge without making it gluey.
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By the time Mr. Schrott, a Uruguayan-born bass-baritone, won the top prize in Operalia in 1998, the competition had become the place where leading opera houses looked for new talent.
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In April, a group of eighth graders received a top prize in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow national competition for the design of a football helmet with a sensor that can detect concussions.
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He saw early that Jane Campion was a director worthy of attention and helped put her 1993 film, "The Piano," in position to win the Palme d'Or, the top prize at Cannes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's Stephanie Del Valle was crowned Miss World 2016 on Sunday, winning the top prize in the 66th edition of the pageant held this year in the United States.
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And then there's "Green Book," which recently took the top prize from the Producers Guild of America, the group that has the most sterling record for presaging the ultimate Best Picture winner.
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If "Green Book" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" are nominated for the Oscars' top prize alongside "A Star Is Born" and "Black Panther," the academy will be fielding its most populist slate in years.
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This sophomore feature from the Singaporean filmmaker Siew Hua Yeo won the top prize at last year's Locarno International Film Festival, a Swiss festival with a long history of supporting Asian cinema.
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With the Mega Millions jackpot at $1.6 billion and Powerball's top prize at $620 million, that tax bill will be hefty even if the winner employs strategies to reduce their taxable income. (CNBC)
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Last year's embarrassing envelope mix-up over the best picture winner was turned into a running joke, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway returning for a second year to announce the top prize.
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The BlacKkKlansman director was reported to have stood up and waved his hands in disgust during Sunday's Oscars ceremony, when Julia Roberts announced Green Book as the winner of the night's top prize.
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Doesn't this ceremony seem like more trouble than it's worth, given how rare it is for either the best or the most popular movie in any given year to win the top prize?
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"She expects me to do better than her, and I expect myself to do better than she did," Rob, who finished as a runner-up to the top prize, told PEOPLE in 2011.
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On a day when contenders send hot prospects to struggling teams in return for help in the pennant race, American League West-leading Texas landed a top prize in Milwaukee catcher Jonathan Lecroy.
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In a win for Netflix, Amazon and other internet streaming services, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted not to change its rules for winning an Oscar, Hollywood's top prize.
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They include last year's Netflix contender "Roma," which couldn't beat "Green Book" for the top prize despite the streaming giant spending up to $30 million on its campaign, The New York Times reported.
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Going into the event, it appeared New Zealand's Valerie Adams would be the claim her third consecutive gold in the event after winning the top prize at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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A university student named David Nadlinger has won the top prize in a science photography contest held by UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council after capturing a photo of a single atom.
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The event is expected to draw millions of viewers as top players compete for a collected prize pool of $30 million — solo players will compete for a top prize of $3 million alone.
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WARR Hyperloop from the Technical University of Munich took home the top prize — and set a new record — with their self-propelled pod reaching a top speed of 20133 mph (457 km/h).
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In a gold sequined dress and with a dark beard, she performed "Rise Like a Phoenix," a power ballad fit for the opening credits of a Bond movie, and secured the top prize.
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He doesn't give all that much of a shit about it, now that a crack at the top prize, $22015,22015 and an admirably proportioned trophy, has slipped through his team's fingers and thumbs.
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Liew picked up the top prize for Best Writer/Artist, Best US Edition of International Material - Asia, and Best Publication Design at the annual awards at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday night.
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But in Tapley's aforementioned Twitter thread about how spread out this year's Best Picture race has been, he pointed out that only three movies have won more than one industry guild's top prize.
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Kamala Harris a potentially serious competitor for the presidential nomination in 2020 -- and a pre-eminent contender for the vice-presidency even if she skips the race or doesn't capture the top prize.
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Earlier estimates had the jackpot at an estimated $435 million, after Wednesday's drawing failed to yield a winner for the top prize as no one had matched all the numbers since April 1.
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World champion You Hao and Deng Shudi completed a forgettable Olympics for the Chinese men's gymnastics team as they will leave Rio without a top prize after both finished out of the medals.
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Mr. Angelopoulos recycled the lost-child trope to much lesser effect in "Eternity and a Day," which won the top prize at the 217 Cannes Film Festival, screening July 7183 at 2718 p.m.
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The $3 million top prize at the Fortnite World Cup in New York went to a 16-year-old American, and it might attract more attention to the rapidly expanding field of esports.
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Heading into the downhill, the Norwegians had won four silver medals and a bronze in the last six Olympic downhill races but never the top prize in the sport's most esteemed Olympic race.
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The photographer spent nearly a month tracking the activity of the rocky cone outside Colima, Mexico, and his efforts have earned him the top prize of National Geographic's Travel Photographer of the Year.
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The film's director, Jean Delannoy — whose "Pastoral Symphony" shared the top prize with 10 other films at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 — was more a sturdy craftsman than a flashy auteur.
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Thirty-two competitive gamers who qualified to play via the EA Sports "FIFA 19" Global Series, which features the super popular soccer video game, will go head-to-head for the top prize.
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Erica's portrait will compete for the top prize with Cézar Dezfuli's portrait of a migrant in the Mediterranean Sea and Abbie Trayler-Smith's portrait of a young woman fleeing from the Islamic State.
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This Martin Scorsese crime drama was one of only two best-picture contenders to also be nominated in the directing, acting, editing and screenplay categories, all considered important bellwethers for the top prize.
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Savchenko, who won five world titles with former partner Robin Szolkowy, thought she had a fighting chance of grabbing the top prize with Massot after completing a solid, if not flawless, free skate.
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The 16-team, $500,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will conduct its playoff rounds from Friday through Sunday, with the champions of the best-of-five Grand Final earning the $250,000 top prize.
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The 2000-team, $163,216 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will conduct its playoff rounds from Friday through Sunday, with the champions of the best-of-five Grand Final earning the $22,2500 top prize.
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Director Guillermo del Toro picked up the top prize at Saturday's Directors Guild of America Awards, putting him in good standing to pick up the best director statue at the upcoming Academy Awards.
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It won no prizes there but recently made the shortlist for the foreign-language Academy Award, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, and won every top prize at the European Film Awards.
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The actors were shut out of any individual nominations, but that didn't seem to matter when the cast, led by star Chadwick Boseman, took to the stage to accept the event's top prize.
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The Carpetbagger The awards season leaders whom everyone already knew were awards season leaders became ever more apparent on Thursday when the Directors Guild of America revealed the nominees for its top prize.
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Despite mixed fan and critic reactions to the final season of "Game of Thrones," the eight-season epic took home the top prize in the drama category at the Emmy Awards on Sunday.
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Her primary competition is a first-time nominee, Olivia Colman, who just won Bafta's top prize for playing the queen in "The Favourite" and is fronting one of the night's most nominated films.
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At a time when films directed by women sure seem in short supply, Reichardt, whose Meek's Cutoff won the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival, just keeps churning out quality, minimalist films.
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The plus-size comedian won Argentina's annual "La Chica del Verano," or "The Girl of the Summer," competition, the first of her size to take home the top prize for the beach body battle.
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After it won a bunch of Golden Globes, the top prize at the Directors Guild Awards, and even more prizes from the British Academy, it seemed more and more like the film to beat.
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Dodson's most recent winning "Max-a-Million" scratch-off ticket cost $20 and offers five top prizes of $1 million in total, with odds of 4443 in 1.32 million to win the top prize.
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In the German pavilion, which won the top prize for best national presentation, Anne Imhof has installed a slippery glass floor a few feet above ground level, which is lit a brilliant white (pictured).
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Universally praised by critics, it won the Golden Lion, the top prize at Venice, and it is tipped to appear both in the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film categories at the Oscars.
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Overall Winner: "Superconductivity: The Musical" (Physics) The top prize was nabbed by Pramodh Senarath Yapa, a superconductivity expert at the University of Alberta who won the physics category with the help of his colleagues.
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The Romanian New Wave sounded its first major depth charge when The Death of Mr. Lazarescu screened at Cannes in 2005 as part of the festival's Un Certain Regard, winning that section's top prize.
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Rashida was a standout on season 3 of 'AYTO?' in 2015 with her match, Devin ... and the 2 returned to take home the top prize earlier this year on the show's "Second Chances" spinoff.
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Because SAG awards honor performers, its top prize is designated to "performance by a cast," collectively recognizing a group of actors featured in the same movie, as well as TV drama and comedy series.
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More than 3303,800 dogs in 200 breeds were competing for the top prize in the New York City show, the second-oldest sporting event in the United States behind the Kentucky Derby horse race.
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The winners will be selected by a panel and, in the event that there are multiple submissions of the same winning name, the one with the best supporting argument will take the top prize.
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In 1964, the results—which today impress me as more facile than felt—made him the first American to win the top prize at the Venice Biennale, and, at thirty-nine, the youngest artist.
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When you think about it, it's quite surreal that we just interrupt someone's life, every morning, to deliver the news that they've won a top prize and they're now a millionaire or multi-millionaire.
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He now runs L.A. restaurants Wolf and Beefsteak, and competed on Iron Chef and Cutthroat Kitchen, but despite a return on Top Chef All-Stars, he's yet to take home the show's top prize.
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That will help burnish the film's bid for the top prize, since it's near impossible to win best picture if you don't pick up at least one or two other Oscars along the way.
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After the film was nominated for the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, its producer, Georges de Beauregard, hired Mr. Coutard as a cinematographer for his next project, "Breathless," Mr. Godard's directorial debut.
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That most of us maintain — and effectively are — our own museums is the premise of "The Object Lesson," which picked up the top prize at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and you can understand why.
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Vittorio Taviani, who with his brother Paolo directed films acclaimed in Italy and beyond, including "Padre Padrone," which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, died on Sunday in Rome.
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Choi has been at Bong's side since May — when "Parasite" won the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival — according to The Korea Herald, an English language newspaper in South Korea.
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Romo was a four-time Pro Bowl selection and could have provided veteran leadership to a young team or been the final piece of the puzzle for a team close to the top prize.
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The World War I drama picked up yet another major prize Saturday night in Los Angeles when the Directors Guild of America gave Sam Mendes its top prize for direction of a feature film.
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After winning the top prize at its Tribeca Film Festival debut in April, Burning Cane was acquired for distribution by Ava DuVernay's company Array, and is currently in select theaters and streaming on Netflix.
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At Golden Gate University in San Francisco, which takes the top prize among four-year institutions, a whopping 89 percent of students are over 25, and mean earnings are an even more striking $74,332.
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In 20153, for example, Jain's unit at Berkshire agreed to underwrite a policy for PepsiCo, "offering protection for a sweepstakes that potentially paid out a $1 billion top prize," The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Bruno Mars won the Grammy for album of the year with "24K Magic," squelching hopes that an album by a hip-hop artist would win the Recording Academy's top prize for a third time.
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After taking the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical and adding the top prize from the Producers Guild of America over the weekend, "Green Book" could be considered our best-picture front-runner.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - "The Square", a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
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Damien Chazelle's La La Land had been expected to win Best Picture — and came in with 14 nominations, tied for the most ever, to Moonlight's eight — but Moonlight ultimately walked away with the top prize.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's team walked away with the top prize, with Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands and Auburn University as runners-up; 30 other teams nabbed awards in design, technology, and innovation.
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Lowery, former kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets, took the top prize for the 2018 draft earlier this year, along with this Nick the Kick's Pix teammate Wolfgang Koester of Fireapps.
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And earlier this year, Zhang Lei, a photographer at the Tianjin Daily, won a top prize in the World Press Photo Contest for his image of Tianjin, a city in northern China, shrouded in haze.
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Warner Bros.' hit came smashing through a box office wall just last weekend, but already it's got a golden hunk of hardware to hang in the great tower: Top prize at the Golden Trailer Awards.
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Each team will have a Lockheed Martin "mentor" to guide their progress, and it would be no surprise if the top prize didn't just involve cash from DRL but job offers from Lockheed as well.
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And in his remarks welcoming the Prime Minister earlier Thursday, Obama teased the Canadian about hockey, noting the NHL's top prize of the Stanley Cup currently resides in his home town, with the Chicago Blackhawks.
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"Making films is a very, very difficult thing and often you're left on your own wondering why you're doing what you're doing," said Parker when he took the stage to claim the night's top prize.
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The Damien Chazelle-directed film had been expected to win Best Picture — and came in with 14 nominations, tied for the most ever, to Moonlight's eight — but Moonlight ultimately walked away with the top prize.
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The top prize there is best ensemble, and if "The Big Short" wins it — a big "if," since it's up against "Spotlight," among others — then it would look pretty unstoppable the rest of the way.
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Though Netflix had led the pack this year with a total of eight nominations – even beating out HBO – the streaming service didn't take home the top prize in any of the categories it competed in.
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Australia took top prize as the world's best country for mining investment for the second consecutive year in 2016, based on policy and mineral potential, according to the Fraser Institute's annual survey of 2,700 miners.
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Beyonce dominated the MTV Video Music awards on Sunday, prowling the stage with a 15 minute medley from her powerful "Lemonade" album and taking home eight statuettes, including the top prize - video of the year.
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China's Coal Addiction: Kevin FrayerKevin Frayer of Canada won top prize in the Daily Life category for this photo of Chinese men pulling a tricycle next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "La La Land" continued its domination of the Best Picture category for this awards season by taking the top prize at the 82nd New York Film Critics Circle awards on Tuesday night.
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"I am the president of the jury, not the dictator," del Toro told a news conference in Venice on Wednesday, when asked if he might be tempted to help his friend win the top prize.
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In recent years, they've celebrated by holding an annual pumpkin carving contest in which NASA's best and brightest use their expertise and training to craft elaborate jack-o-lanterns and compete for the top prize.
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PARIS — Abdellatif Kechiche, an acclaimed French director whose film "Blue Is the Warmest Color" won the top prize at Cannes in 2013, is under investigation for sexual assault, the authorities in Paris said on Wednesday.
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On Monday night's (three-hour) Bachelor episode, Victoria Fuller was once again awarded the top prize in a modeling challenge (remember that whole Revolve episode?), but now her modeling past is catching up to her.
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Three finalists were awarded $25,000 each while Protect3d -- a Durham, North Carolina-based 3D scanning and printing technology company -- took the top prize of $50,000 in the "Innovations to Advance Athlete Health and Safety" competition.
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The largest sum awarded to an individual this year in the lottery — known as El Gordo, "The Fat One" — was worth 400,000 euros, a 4 million-euro total top prize shared between 10 ticket holders.
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Yet in the midst of this perfumed opulence, the Cannes judges have for the last few years bestowed the festival's top prize—the Palme d'Or—upon films that display an explicit and uncompromising class consciousness.
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After more than two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one matching all six numbers — your chance of doing so is 1 in about 302 million — the top prize is now at $266 million.
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The premise is simple: Using tools inspired by the show, you identify a series of bones crossing the forensic platform and earn promotions along the way — with the top prize being King of the Lab, naturally.
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The director Gianfranco Rosi's "Fuocoammare," or "Fire at Sea," a documentary about Lampedusa — a tiny Italian island and point of entry to Europe for hundreds of thousands of migrants — won the top prize, the Golden Bear.
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For a game that failed to get off the ground, the promotion efforts were costly, the sources said, noting that one of the tournaments cost $4.5 million and a top prize could be a Tesla car.
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Our experienced TechCrunch editors will review every application — they've been doing this process since 33, and they're experts at finding the best of the best — and then select 15 startups to vie for the top prize.
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Though critical taste is helpful in sifting out the rotten apples, juries can deviate from the media narrative with shocking results (I, Daniel Blake taking the top prize last year was a bold move, for example).
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In September that year, more than 1,200 students competed for the top prize of a 600,000 naira (now worth $1,662) education grant, in the process breaking a world record for the number of students playing Monopoly.
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The Cravings author couldn't contain her excitement over John Legend's contestant Maelyn Jarmon taking the top prize, tweeting multiple times about her husband's big win before being chastised by West Coast viewers for ruining the results.
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This 1969 Best Picture winner is not only the only X-rated film to ever take the top prize (although its rating has been changed to R), but it also centered around a possibly gay character.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "This is America," Childish Gambino's searing indictment of police brutality and racism, scored a breakthrough for rap on Sunday at the Grammy awards, where the top prize went to country artist Kacey Musgraves.
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The Voice's season 9 champ – who famously topped Adele on iTunes before nabbing the show's top prize in December – has scored the No. 2 spot on Billboard's Top 200 chart with his debut album Something Beautiful.
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Working against it: Over the past 20 years, only two summer movies have taken home Oscar's top prize, and "Hollywood" will have to successfully reintroduce itself this winter if voters are to keep it in mind.
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It's hard to know who deserves the top prize: the stay-at-home-mom pig with 25 piglets (Reese Witherspoon), the young gangsta gorilla with daddy issues (Taron Egerton) or one of the other gifted animals.
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Brazil's annual ass competition pageant went down Monday night and 31-year-old Ellen Santana, repping hard for northern Brazil, took the top prize -- but right after she got the winner's sash, the ass attacks began.
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But Fox Searchlight's quirky "Three Billboards," about an angry woman seeking justice for her daughter's murder, has dominated Hollywood's awards season so far, winning the top prize at the influential Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday.
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Critics were left truly stunned by this latest turn of events, though, since snagging the top prize at Venice Film Festival necessarily puts this comic book movie in the conversation as a top Academy Awards contender.
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They long have sought to add the Champions League — club soccer's top prize — to the club's growing haul of domestic trophies, and any effort to bar the team is likely to spark a monumental legal fight.
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I made the switch on a trip to Brazil for our conference and Startup Battlefield competition (which was rad, by the way, a computer vision cattle scale won the top prize) on somewhat of a whim.
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Thor, whose registered show name is GCHG Diamond Gold Majesu Pisko Bulls, bested thousands of other dogs to earn the top prize — and a congratulatory snack — with help from his handler, Eduardo Paris of Houston, Texas.
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Cynthia Erivo, "Harriet"Scarlett Johansson, "Marriage Story"Saoirse Ronan, "Little Women"Charlize Theron, "Bombshell"Renée Zellweger, "Judy"Who will win: Renée Zellweger, "Judy"Renée Zellweger's powerful performance as Judy Garland will earn her the top prize.
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"I think the most important thing is to get that maniac out of the White House," Rapinoe told Reuters on Monday at Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year awards, where she was bestowed the top prize.
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Brazilian singer-songwriter Djavan's "Vidas Pra Contar," Mexican sibling duo Jesse & Joy's "Un Besito Mas" and Colombian singer Fonseca's "Conexion" will be vying for album of the year, the night's top prize, alongside seven other contenders.
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Wang Xiaoshuai's "So Long, My Son" and Wang Quan'an's "Öndög" are both in contention for the Golden Bear award, the festival's top prize, while Lou Ye's "The Shadow Play" is being shown in the Panorama section.
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More than any other Hollywood union, the Directors Guild's top award is heavily predictive of Oscar gold, with nearly 80 percent of all D.G.A. best director winners' pictures going on to land the academy's top prize.
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The team from KAIST won DARPA's top prize ($2 million) in 2015 after the university's robot completed an obstacle course with a perfect score in just 44 minutes and 28 seconds—lightning fast for an untethered robot.
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Mr Haneke may be acclaimed as one of European cinema's most intelligent and formally inventive auteurs: his previous two films, "Amour" and "The White Ribbon", both won the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Festival.
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The most glaring discrepancy between the two groups in recent memory occurred in 2013 when Ben Affleck won the DGA's top prize for his 2012 thriller Argo despite being shut out by the Academy's directors branch altogether.
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The fight to run London - the top prize in the local elections - has pitted Labour's Khan, 45, the son of an immigrant bus driver, against Conservative Zac Goldsmith, 41, the elite-educated son of a billionaire financier.
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OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - Some contestants traced letters on their palms, while other word whizzes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee searched the ceiling for inspiration on Wednesday as they edged closer to the $40,000 top prize.
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He faces Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Childish Gambino and New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Lorde to see whether hip-hop can break a 14-year dry spell and win the top prize of album of the year.
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Efros was born in St. Petersburg; he moved to the United States in 1989, when his father, a winner of the U.S.S.R.'s top prize for theoretical physics, got a job at the University of California, Riverside.
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I could picture herculean athletes hurling the discus, boxing, wrestling or chariot-racing to take home the top prize, a simple crown — olive branches at Olympia, laurel at Delphi, wild celery at Nemea and pine at Isthmia.
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SHANGHAI — As the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival gets underway Saturday, much of the focus among participants is on the 14 contenders for the Golden Goblet, the top prize at the event that runs through June 19.
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Facebook user Ben Gabriel, couldn't resist taking a jab at Nikon's boo-boo which saw the brand mistakenly award the top prize in a photography contest to someone who blatantly photoshopped a plane silhouette onto his photo.
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Konolabs, a company that uses AI and big data to power a virtual assistant to keep you organized and your calendar in check, took the top prize after winning a 10-company pitch competition at the event.
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Curran first conceived of the idea that became Evervault when he was just 17, as the basis of what became his top-prize-winning submission for the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, an annual competition in Ireland.
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She told me that postponing the RITA contest, the US's top prize for romance fiction, until next year is not enough to convince her that the organization is serious about standing up against racism in the industry.
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The poster for the 22015th edition features Claudia Cardinale — a star of "The Leopard," which won the festival's top prize in 19460 — twirling in a skirt, her hair blowing in the wind, the very image of vitality.
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"Parasite," a class warfare satire directed by Bong Joon-ho, made history earlier this month as the first non-English language film to win the top prize at the Oscars in the award show's 92-year run.
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In May, Lithuania's ecologically aware indoor beach opera, "Sun & Sea (Marina)," won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale, making it the second performance in a row to win the top prize for a national pavilion.
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When Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa was named Miss Universe on Sunday, her crowning signified a milestone: the first year that four of the major beauty pageants had simultaneously awarded the top prize to a black woman.
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Looks like "The Shape of Water" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" have all the momentum in the best picture race, but don't be shocked if a dark horse like "Lady Bird" nabs the Oscars' top prize.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Netflix black and white family portrait "Roma" won Best Film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards on Sunday, scooping up the top prize at the star-studded event in London.
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Saturday night in Beverly Hills, the Producers Guild of America gave Peter Farrelly's racial-issues comedy its top prize, a win that opens a clear path for "Green Book" to potentially take the academy's best picture Oscar.
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CANNES, France, May 27 (Reuters) - A movie by an Iranian who was previously sentenced to jail for his work in Iran won the top prize in the "Un Certain Regard" competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
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Ever since 2008's The Dark Knight came thisclose to a Best Picture nomination, no superhero movie has had a better shot at becoming the first ever to earn a nod for Oscar's top prize than Black Panther.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chinese-American director Lulu Wang's movie "The Farewell" won the top prize at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, while Adam Sandler was named best actor and made fun of his exclusion from Sunday's Oscars.
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The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top prize at the first round of Hyperloop's pod design competition last month, but dozens of other teams won in various categories like propulsion, design, levitation, and braking.
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BACtrack, a privately held medical device maker, took the $200,000 top prize in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Wearable Biosensor Challenge on Thursday with its wristband monitor, which measures blood alcohol levels via sweat on the skin.
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I think that's why smaller, nervier films like Spotlight and Moonlight took the top prize over films like The Revenant and La La Land that are more traditionally what we think of when we think of Oscar winners.
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Chicago, despite their so-called "Curse of the Billy Goat", began the season as favorites to win baseball's top prize and the young Cubs proved they have come of age by winning a major league-leading 211 games.
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Kore-eda, who won the top prize at Cannes in 2018 for "Shoplifters" (screening in this series on Friday), returns on March 20 with a film made outside of Japan, "The Truth," starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche.
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Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded its top prize to "Green Book," a feel-good period drama about a white man learning to be less racist through forced interaction with a black man.
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Through blood, sweat, tears, and twisted ankles, these athletes will do whatever it takes to take home top prize at the NCA National Championships in Daytona Beach while also battling the challenges of their sometimes-difficult home lives.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beyonce dominated the MTV Video Music awards on Sunday, prowling the stage with a 15 minute medley from her powerful "Lemonade" album and taking home eight statuettes, including the top prize - video of the year.
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After more than two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one hitting the jackpot, a single ticket purchased in the Tar Heel State matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing to nab the $344.6 million top prize.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cate Blanchett, Sally Field and Bette Midler received acting nominations for Broadway's Tony Awards on Tuesday, while "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" led the pack with 12 nods including the top prize, best musical.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Dear Evan Hansen," the teen-angst driven musical about a high school outsider, won the top prize at Sunday's Tony Awards, Broadway highest honors, while J.T. Rogers' Mideast peace accord drama "Oslo" was named best play.
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History was made at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show where the Chevrolet Bolt EV won the show's award for North American Car of the Year, making it the first time an all-electric vehicle has taken the top prize.
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We may not have been able to attend this year's competition, which took place in Spain on November 16, but the Guild recently published the results publicly, so we at least know which cheese took home the top prize.
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Corona Australis Dust Complex: Mario Cogo (Italy)This stunning photo of nebulas NGC 6726-27-29, dark dust cloud Bernes 157, globular cluster NGC 6723, and other celestial objects, was awarded top prize in the Stars and Nebulae category.
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Developer Epic made the reveal during the solo tournament of the World Cup finals in New York, which pit the 103 best players in the game against each other for the chance to win a $3 million top prize.
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The Souvenir won top prize for dramatic world cinema at Sundance this year, and its first trailer speaks to why: it looks quiet, classic, gorgeous, lovelorn, and awkward, much in the way that Call Me By Your Name was.
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Top prize for this year's contest goes to Tim Laman for this stunning picture of a male orangutan making a 100-foot (30 meter) climb up the thickest root of a strangler fig that's entwined itself around a tree.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - After the German shepherd Rumor won the top prize at last year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, she had her first litter of puppies and retired from competition, like many female show dogs.
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She is among six writers on the shortlist, who are now a step closer to winning the top prize of C$73,000 ($75,746) awarded to the author of the best Canadian novel or short-story collection published in English.
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In competition for the top prize are 20 films, including Ana Lily Amirpour's "The Bad Batch", a black comedy about cannibals in a Texas wasteland, and fashion designer Tom Ford's thriller "Nocturnal Animals", featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams.
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Federer had hoped to shake off the agony of his most recent Wimbledon final, where the top prize slipped through his fingers and into the arms of frequent rival Novak Djokovic after he failed to convert two championship points.
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Twice over the last four years, a situation arose where only one of the best actress nominees fronted a film nominated for best picture, while four of the best actor nominees hailed from movies contending for that top prize.
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They won the top prize at the Hyères fashion festival and were finalists in the LVMH young designer awards, which suggests that Ms. Ricci may now be angling for the cool youth vote as opposed to jolie madame nostalgia.
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Based on the book of the same title by Tammi Sauer, the production focuses on Marge and Lola, chickens who hope to earn the top prize in the local talent show: two tickets to see Elvis Poultry in concert.
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As for Mr. Chazelle, his screenplay has been overshadowed by his "La La Land" directing (collecting the top prize at the bellwether Directors Guild of America Awards) and the strong likelihood that "La La Land" will win best picture.
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After being elected to the academy in 21993, he used his influence to bring attention to Jean Rolin, Emmanuel Carrère and the American-French writer Jonathan Littell, whose 19773 Holocaust novel, "The Kindly Ones," received the academy's top prize.
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But rather than falter, the Team Shuster rose to the occasion, winning three consecutive must-win matches to reach the playoff, and then upsetting Sweden in the gold medal game to take the top prize for the first time.
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However, even winning Best in Show isn't exactly akin to winning the lottery: At the National Dog Show, the top prize comes with a check for around $1,500; Westminster's reward, says the Times, is merely a commemorative pewter bowl.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's first fully organic state won top prize in a U.N.-backed award on Friday, with organizers saying its policies had helped more than 66,000 farmers, boosted tourism and set an example to other countries.
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" Asked at the time if he would return to Cannes, Von Trier, who won the festival's top prize in 2000 for "Dancer in the Dark" replied: "I don't know if I will be allowed in the Palais (festival center) again.
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Greta Gerwig's independent mother-daughter tale "Lady Bird" came away empty-handed while Universal Pictures' racial satire "Get Out" got just one award - for original screenplay - despite speculation that its bold take on modern race relations might take the top prize.
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The photo, titled "The Night Raider," took top prize in the NHM's 2017 Animals in their Environment category, but "after a careful and thorough investigation into the image," the Natural History Museum has decided to disqualify it from last year's competition.
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With reigning Emmy champ "Game of Thrones" ineligible this year for the highest honors in television after it moved its seventh season to this summer, the door opened to five new shows vying for the top prize of best drama series.
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And "Parasite," which won the top prize in Cannes in May and has recently become the rare subtitled release to be mentioned as an Oscar contender beyond the foreign film category, plays out like a parable of contemporary social relations.
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As a result, drivers and crew chiefs have no certain idea what racing with the radically different package will look like when the elite of the Cup series compete for the $123 million top prize on the 1.5-mile intermediate speedway.
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The 10-year-old winner of a Russian spin-off of the popular singing competition The Voice was forced to relinquish the top prize this week after it was determined that her victory was the result of thousands of fraudulent votes.
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But instead, HBO's Game of Thrones came in with the surprise win, taking the top prize even though it had only earned one other award over the course of the evening: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage.
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MILAN (Reuters) - A space odyssey starring Brad Pitt, Steven Soderbergh's financial thriller "The Laundromat", Joaquin Phoenix's stint as "Joker" and Roman Polanski's new movie on the Dreyfus affair will vie for the top prize at next month's Venice film festival.
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But while Williams, who committed suicide in 2014, never got the chance to play the part, his interest in cartoonist John Callahan helped bring the story to the screen, in a biopic competing for the top prize at the Berlin festival.
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Among the top-prize winners was the 29-year-old John Brancy, who filled the Eastman School of Music's Kilbourn Hall with a buttery baritone voice that seemed equally at ease in opera and in music from Broadway's golden age.
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The pro isn't the only competitor from the show to get injured this season — violinist Lindsey Stirling suffered a rib injury two weeks ago but danced through the pain and has remained a serious contender for the show's top prize.
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Ko was only one back after 14th holes but world number 67 Nomura calmly made three consecutive birdie threes from the 15th to pull away from her illustrious opponent and seal the top prize with a 16-under 272 total.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc scored its first nomination for the prestigious best picture Oscar on Tuesday for "Roma," a milestone that will test whether Hollywood's film establishment is ready to award its top prize to a streaming service.
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Working against it: Though the 1933 take on "Little Women" was nominated for best picture, this is a story that has been told numerous times in the movies and on television, and remakes have almost never taken the top prize.
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But the R-rated drama, which is an origin story of the popular Batman foe, has faced controversy for its graphic violence since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, in which it won the festival's top prize, the Golden Lion.
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But once Japan finished on the floor exercise with three dazzling performances, it was clear that the top prize was out of reach for Russia and the silver medal was also in the balance as China were hot on their heels.
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A restaurant in Modena, Italy, won the top prize Monday night as the 22002 edition of the influential World's 250 Best Restaurants list was unveiled at a New York City gathering attended by hundreds of chefs from around the world.
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NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - Cate Blanchett, Sally Field and Bette Midler received best actress nominations in Broadway's Tony Awards on Tuesday, while "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" scored a leading 12 nominations including the top prize, best musical.
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"Star is Born" is the favorite in the close SAG race, but experts say the top prize could go to "Black Panther," the first big-budget superhero movie with a predominantly black cast and the year's second-highest-grossing movie worldwide.
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BROOKLYN PIZZA CREW Nino Coniglio, who won the top prize at the Pizza Expo in Las Vegas in March, is an owner of Williamsburg Pizza, a slice joint that places more emphasis than most on quality ingredients and artisanal techniques.
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Other movies that will compete for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, include "Loving," by the American director Jeff Nichols; the South Korean director Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden;" and "The Neon Demon" by the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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They've won $50,000 on a twins-themed episode of Fear Factor, they've taken home the top prize in a twins-themed episode of Wipeout, and the $123,000 grand prize in the scarcely remembered Jimmy Kimmel-hosted reality show Set For Life.
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The recipient of numerous awards, including the Cristal, the top prize given at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, this emotionally powerful debut is based on meticulous research Do conducted, which included conversations with his mother, a survivor of the regime.
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"Three Billboards," which won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, sees itself as the most topical: It features a woman demanding attention be placed on a sexual predator; red state anger; and commentary about racist policing.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE (I-Vt.) in Michigan's primary, taking the top prize of the six states voting Tuesday.
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It has also scooped up key precursor awards that often culminate in Oscar gold — last weekend, the Directors Guild of America gave the filmmaker Guillermo del Toro its top prize, two weeks after the Producers Guild of America did the same.
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Whatever the strategy, Neon figured out a way to make an unlikely South Korean thriller about class conflict the Best Picture winner in a year when it felt like a giant corporation would waltz to the top prize without much trouble.
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Though it was a box-office hit that grossed more than $100 million domestically, "Hustlers" failed to get much traction this awards season: Even the Golden Globes, with its separate comedy categories, neglected to nominate "Hustlers" for the top prize.
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VENICE (Reuters) - A nearly four-hour long movie about a woman's thirst for revenge and her feelings of forgiveness after 30 years in jail for a crime she did not commit won the Venice Film Festival's top prize on Saturday.
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Heba Khamis was awarded top prize in the Contemporary Issues/Stories category for her images of breast ironing — a traditional practice in Cameroon carried out in the belief that it will delay maturity and help prevent rapes or sexual advances.
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Mr. Shepard wrote or collaborated on screenplays for, among others, the directors Michaelangelo Antonioni ("Zabriskie Point," 1970), Robert Frank ("Me and My Brother," 1969) and Wim Wenders ("Paris, Texas," which won the top prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival).
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Seven of the nine films that were nominated for the top prize, which include "Joker" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," have earned a combined $747.2 million domestically and a total of $1.98 billion globally, according to data from Comscore.
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"I had confidence that I might win one of the STEM category prizes, because I felt like I did well in the engineering category, but once they reached the announcement for the top prize, I was out of hope," Gassler said.
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Along with several other last minute additions - including a four-hour film from a previous winner of the Palme d'Or top prize at Cannes, Abdellatif Kechiche - the film was now in an advanced enough stage to be confirmed, organizers added.
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" He continues: "To be clear, my moral position is not that the well-intentioned photographer should be denied the credit he deserves; rather that I feared we'd be amplifying a terrorist's message through the additional publicity that the top prize attracts.
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These exceptions emerge because of a common rule by which big-jackpot lotteries sweeten the deal: if no one wins the jackpot in a given week, then it "rolls over" to the next week, resulting in an even bigger top prize.
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I think the whole "controversy" is really not a controversy at all, but rather a red herring that distracts from the real polemic: the fact that a superior album did not win the Grammys' top prize because it represents a black woman's perspective.
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Redzepi, of course, is no stranger to the World's 50 Best Restaurants event where he made the announcement, as Noma has taken home the top prize three years in a row from 2010 to 2012, as well as a fourth time in 2014.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A British queen, a group of nerdy kids, a defiant handmaiden and a heart-tugging trio of siblings vie for the top prize on Sunday when the Primetime Emmy Awards will crown the best in a booming era of television.
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Wearing a bizarre Berber-inspired costume, the pop legend was on hand to present a starstruck Cabello with her top prize – but not before, for some reason, she paid "tribute" to the late Aretha Franklin with a long, rambling story about...herself.
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It was past midnight and as excited as everyone was to learn which film took top prize at the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony, plenty of people were also tired, and ready for the three-and-a-half self-congratulatory marathon to end.
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The second event in Jersey featured men's and women's races, with Zaferes following a consistent season on the International Triathlon Union (ITU) circuit by taking home the top prize of $18,000 - a considerable drop from the $100,000 scooped by Murray on Hamilton Island.
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Rosi, who won the top prize for another documentary in Venice in 2013, in this film shows daily life on the small island, mostly through the eyes of a young boy named Samuele who makes slingshots to shoot at birds and cactuses.
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And while "Joker" has more in common with vintage Scorsese films like "Taxi Driver" than with Marvel's "Black Panther" — a best-picture contender last season — it's still a comic-book movie, and that type of film has never taken Oscar's top prize.
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Verniaiev, who came agonizingly close to ending the all around reign of Japan's Kohei Uchimura before missing out on gold by just 0.099 of a point, finally got his hands on the top prize by winning the bars with a score of 16.041.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, long-time collaborators of director Pedro Almodovar, turned up the glamor on the red carpet at Cannes on Friday for the Spaniard's latest outing, a contender for the top prize at the film festival.
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The 28-year-old pop singer won a record fourth artist of the year trophy at the fan-voted American Music Awards, beating rappers Drake and Post Malone, as well as Britain's Ed Sheeran and rock band Imagine Dragons for the top prize.
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Atlantics is an extraordinary feature debut for Diop — who came away from Cannes with the Grand Prix, essentially second place to the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or — and an unforgettable tale of the poor struggling to assert their right to what's theirs.
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LOS ANGELES — In an epic flub that drew gasps of horror — and joy — at the Dolby Theater here, Faye Dunaway mistakenly named "La La Land" best picture at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night, but in reality "Moonlight" won the top prize.
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A new national competition, called the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, seeks to find and develop young songwriters from around the country; the finalists will win a trip to New York to work with professionals in theater and compete for the top prize.
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That said, the Globes have always been in imperfect predictor of Oscar success, and not just because the presentation splits its top prize into "drama" and "musical or comedy," while usually playing pretty loose with what meets the definition of the latter.
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The film, a World War I tale, won the top prize at the Producers Guild of America awards on Saturday night in Los Angeles, adding to an haul that included wins for best drama and best director at the Golden Globes this month.
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Recapitulations of plot are often dull as oats, but this novel, which took top prize at this year's British Book Awards, spills over with so much intrigue that a plot summary can't be helped, nor should potential readers be spared the pleasure.
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Beyoncé's "Lemonade," with its dynamic single "Formation" and accompanying politically and racially charged hourlong art film, represents an edgier hip-hop-infused sound that rarely takes the top prize — Exhibit A for those who contend that the Grammys are perennially out of touch.
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It's an extraordinary feature debut for Diop — who came away from Cannes with the Grand Prix, essentially second place to the top prize of the Palme d'Or — and an unforgettable tale of the poor struggling to assert their right to what's theirs.
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