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The 20th annual World Music Awards was held on 9 November 2008 in Monaco. Awards are given based on worldwide sales figures for that year. Awards are given based on worldwide sales figures for that year.
The cut-off date for eligibility in the 2007–08 season was May 7, 2008. The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced eligibility rules for many of the award categories. [3] [4] Two new categories debuted at this ceremony: Best Sound Design of a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Play. [5]
The 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year awards took place on 12 January 2009 at the Zurich Opera House, Zürich, Switzerland, with Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United and Portugal taking the men's award, [1] and Marta of Umeå IK and Brazil taking the women's award for the third consecutive season.
The 2008 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, [1] was awarded on 2 December 2008. [2] Cristiano Ronaldo won the award, being his first of five.
Paul Newman for "Fast Eddie" Felson in The Hustler and The Color of Money ; Al Pacino for Michael Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II ; Peter O'Toole for King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter ; Bing Crosby for Father O'Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's ; and later, Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed ^ "Academy Award Nominee Hal Holbrook". NBC News ...
BlizzCon offered up not one but two, Two, TWO comedians for the price of one at the closing ceremonies. We knew Patton Oswalt would be performing, but were weren't aware he'd have a warm-up act.
The opening ceremony was broadly praised by the international press as spectacular, and as the best ever Olympic opening ceremony. [15] It drew rave reviews despite controversy, [ 16 ] and a worldwide TV audience variously estimated , but likely over a billion.
A 2008 Russian stamp commemorating the championship team. The 2008 IIHF World Championship was played between May 2 and May 18, 2008 in the Canadian cities of Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Quebec City . The two venues were the Halifax Metro Centre and the Colisée Pepsi. The tournament was won by Russia which claimed its first gold medal since 1993