Hockey musical lands TIFF's opening slot
Posted on July 19, 2010 in Milsuite FX
The Toronto International Film Festival will celebrate one of Canada's favourite pastimes at its outset this year, with organizers announcing that Score: A Hockey Musical has landed the prestigious opening night gig.
Tags: opening, hockey, musical, organizers, year
Sobey Art Award finalists unveiled
Posted on June 19, 2010 in Milsuite FX
Six young contemporary artists have earned a spot on the short list for the prestigious $50,000 Sobey Art Award.
Ottawa violin prodigy to perform at NAC
Posted on May 01, 2010 in Milsuite FX
A 13-year-old Ottawa boy who recently triumphed in one of the world's most prestigious violin competitions takes to the stage of the National Arts Centre next week.
Tags: ottawa, violin, takes, competitions, stage
Blue Met plans tie to Italy's Strega Prize
Posted on April 28, 2010 in Milsuite FX
Montreal's Blue Metropolis literary festival has announced it is teaming with the Institute of Italian Culture to bring the winner of the prestigious Strega Prize to the festival every year.
Tags: blue, festival, prize, strega, prestigious
Pritzker architecture prize goes to Japanese duo
Posted on April 03, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been awarded their profession's most prestigious award
Tags: japanese, awarded, nishizawa, profession, ryue
bHorror/b at the Oscars
Posted on March 05, 2010 in Horror and creature
While the Academy continues to fail to recognize bhorror/b in their prestigious festivities (has it really been 19 years since Silence of the Lambs?), Bloody Disgusting has been tipped off that the 82nd Annual Academy Awards…will feature a ...
Tags: bhorror, academy, disgusting, bloody, tipped
Chinese artist blasts French college censorship
Posted on February 21, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
A Chinese artist has accused the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris of 'fascist control' after the prestigious art school took down her project mocking a 2007 campaign slogan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
National Enquirer accepted into Pulitzer competition
Posted on February 20, 2010 in Milsuite FX
The administrators of the Pulitzer Prize have conceded that the National Enquirer, the U.S. tabloid known primarily for its celebrity coverage, can now compete with mainstream news media for the prestigious journalism award.
Tags: pulitzer, enquirer, national, mainstream, compete
Video of Iranian death wins journalism prize
Posted on February 18, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
A citizen video that captured the death of 26-year-old Neda Aghan-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests has won a prestigious George Polk Award for Journalism.
Tags: journalism, video, death, iranian, won
Jeff Dunham Dummies Up
Posted on January 21, 2010 in Ventriloquist
Once, while visiting The Late Show, David Letterman introduced Jeff Dunham as “a man who has twice won the prestigious bVentriloquist/b of the Year Award,” to which the crowd tittered. However, when Dunham came out with his Walter ...
Tags: dunham, jeff, bventriloquist, prestigious, year
'70s-set New York novel wins U.S. fiction crown
Posted on November 20, 2009 in Milsuite FX
Colum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin, a portait of interconnected relationships on one summer day in 1970s New York, has won the prestigious fiction prize at the 60th annual U.S. National Book Awards gala.
Tags: york, fiction, prize, prestigious, won
McCartney wins Gershwin songwriter prize
Posted on November 19, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Paul McCartney will be honoured with a fledgling but prestigious musical honour, after being named Monday the latest recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Dolan, Tierney films score at international film fests
Posted on October 31, 2009 in Milsuite FX
Canadian movies by emerging young directors scored accolades at international film festivals over the weekend, with a pair of films taking two prestigious prizes.
Tags: film, international, festivals, accolades, scored
London cancer centre wins Stirling architecture prize
Posted on October 22, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
A cancer centre in London designed by Richard Rogers has captured the prestigious Stirling Prize for architecture. The centre was praised for its non-clinical look and feel.
Tags: centre, prize, london, architecture, stirling
Stephen Hawking steps down from Cambridge post
Posted on October 03, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Stephen Hawking is giving up his prestigious position as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Scientists urge more Nobel Prizes
Posted on October 02, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Ten scientists and engineers have written as a group to the Nobel Foundation asking for new categories to be included in the prestigious science prizes.
Tags: scientists, nobel, prizes, categories, science
Precious wins TIFF People's Choice Award
Posted on September 22, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Having already won backing from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Tyler Perry, director Lee Daniel's harrowing coming-of-age story Precious has now captured the Toronto International Film Festival's prestigious People's Choice Award.
Leukemia drug, stem cell research honoured
Posted on September 19, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Researchers who contributed to the development of a life-saving leukemia treatment and advances in reprogramming cells into a more versatile form will receive a prestigious medical research award.
Tags: research, cell, leukemia, versatile, reprogramming
McGill neuroscientist wins $1M research prize
Posted on September 14, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
A world renowned neuroscientist from Montreal is one of four recipients of a prestigious international award.
Tags: neuroscientist, recipients, prestigious, award, montreal