Sentence examples for awards picking from inspiring English sources
It won numerous awards, picking up Best Musical at both the Oliviers and the Tonys.
Sam Smith emerged victorious at this year's Mobo awards, picking up four gongs including best male artist and best album.
Crime drama Metro Manila was the real winner at last night's awards, picking up three gongs for best independent film, best director and best achievement in production.
EastEnders was the big winner at the Inside Soap awards, picking up the prestigious best soap gong as well as three other cast prizes.
Ang Lee's Oscar frontrunner duly came out on top at last night's London Film Critics' Circle awards, picking up gongs for best film and best director.
Detective drama Broadchurch stole the show at the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) awards picking up honours for its creator and one of its stars.
The Costa awards picked up a number of novels whose omission from the Man Booker had left me spluttering.
Reid follows in the footsteps of Douglas Dunn, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney by becoming only the fourth poet to win the overall Costa book of the year award, picking up, in total, a £30,000 prize and an incalculable increase in readership.
BBC Sport asked five journalists to give their expert opinions on the nominees for the BBC Africa Footballer of the Year award, picking one player each and explaining why they would get their vote.
2006 saw Slipknot win their first (and to date only) Grammy Award, picking up the Best Metal Performance award with the single "Before I Forget".
The judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain's top literary award, picked up on this heated ambivalence last month when they said that the novel "Vernon God Little," which won the prize this year and which savagely satirizes American culture, "reflects our alarm but also our fascination with modern America".
