Dern's much lauded performance (he was named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival) is physically impressive.
Even Sunday's universally lauded performance will only earn him a brief reprieve – six months, perhaps – before he's cast into the fire again.
In the art scene, July was a prolific polymath making lauded performance and video pieces, but when "Me and You and Everyone We Know" came out, she was handed an immediate international identity as a filmmaker.
The Girl Taissa Farmiga, the 17-year-old star of "American Horror Story," TV's scariest new show, got her break earlier this year with a lauded performance under the direction of her big sis Vera in the film "Higher Ground".
Romney's widely lauded performance at the debate in front of almost 70 million viewers appears to have had a particularly favourable impact on several groups that had been assumed to be unassailable strongholds for Obama.
Perhaps a visit to an industrial estate in Hull would not have been the top of the list, but that is where Nick Clegg found himself yesterday as he basked in the glory of his lauded performance in front of the television cameras.
Mr. Affleck's film has a lauded performance from Jeremy Renner and the muscle of a studio, Warner Brothers, behind it, while Ms. Granik's is truly independent, with no stars and a fraction of the budget and viewership (about $6 million at the box office compared with $92 million for "The Town").
Cate Blanchett, honored with a Desert Palm achievement award for her lauded performance in Todd Haynes's Carol, thanked the festival for "reminding all of us honored tonight that if we are not nominated for any other award, not to feel like losers, we had a moment of glory".
In "Legend," Tom Hardy turns in a critically lauded performance as both of the infamous Kray twins, gangsters in the early days of Swinging London.
I assumed that, based on my consistently lauded performance, respect of my coworkers, and excellent relationship with my supervisor, I would be the first choice.
Also among the shows set for the two venues by artistic director Michael Ritchie Samuel Beckettt's "Happy Days," with actress Dianne Wiest reviving her critically lauded performance as Winnie.
