"Oscar, with his personality, athletic prowess and the fact that he was trying to compete in the able-bodied Olympics made him the big breakthrough name, who brought sponsorship in Paralympic sport to the next level, internationally," says Paralympic commentator Tony Garrett, who has known Pistorius since he burst on to the scene in Athens.
Josh Linkner is the New York Times Bestselling author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, named one of the top 10 business books of 2011.
Leveraged effectively, they say, technology can create a world-saving "Breakthrough," as the name of Gates and other billionaires' new $1bn clean energy fund suggests.
(You can see scenes from his arrest here).Mr Gruevski's re-election means, according to one diplomatic source, "no hope of a breakthrough" on the name issue with Greece.
A kind of at-large dealmaker, Mr. Richardson does not specialize in any one region of the world, and he has no landmark achievement — no Dayton Accords or Middle East breakthrough — to his name.
Winners in the British film categories included Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, who were named breakthrough British film-makers for their screenwriting work on Ben Wheatley's comedy horror Sightseers, while Toby Jones was named British actor of the year for psychological thriller Berberian Sound Studio.
He bounded onstage to the beat of "Devil Without a Cause," the track for which his 1998 breakthrough album was named.
But the ballot designers, it seems, had a breakthrough: if lengthier names were broken up across two lines of type, the bigger letters could fit.
Sarah Blasko, who won the best adult alternative album award for Eternal Return, and Montaigne, named breakthrough artist, were also critical of the lockout laws.
Ms. Rees, a slight, boyish 34-year-old with a shy demeanor, was recently named breakthrough director of the year at the Gotham Awards, and the film received two Spirit Award nominations, acknowledgements of good will toward the picture in the independent film world.
"He's turning out to be a man of parts, many parts," Mr. Douglas told the interviewers, as they filled him in on episodes in Dabo's life on the run from Nazis and in breakthrough shows alongside names like Kandinsky and Matisse.
