The winners were decided by a panel of critics and journalists.
"Many shows have become big hits without us," he said as part of a panel of critics discussing the 2005-6 season on the CUNY TV program "Theater Talk".
They're voted on by a panel of critics, writers and programmers, and given by the Independent Filmmaker Project, an advocacy organization.
The best jokes were chosen by a panel of critics who sat through an average of 60 comedy performances at the fringe – about 3,600 minutes of material.
Concluded on Sunday, the contest, judged by an international panel of critics, draws competitors from all walks of life, Agence France-Presse reported.
The shortlist was drawn up by a panel of critics, with users of Chortle, a comedy website, voting for the winners.
Surprisingly, the BBC's panel of critics has voted Birth of a Nation, the notorious silent film praising the Ku Klux Klan, into 39th place.
Still, they arise any time you think about the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the noble Dutch institution deemed the world's best orchestra by a panel of critics assembled by Gramophone magazine in 2008.
A panel of critics convened by the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma has come up with its list of the "hundred films for an ideal Cinémathèque," i.e., the hundred best films of all time (i.e., since 1895).
And it's arguably the rise of this stylist class (at least three of whom, by my count, participated in E!'s rotating panel of critics) that's behind all the beautiful but bland dresses on the red carpet.
