Sentence examples for picked up award from inspiring English sources

It has picked up award after award, including a Golden Globe last month for the best foreign language film and the Golden Bear at last year's Berlin film festival.

O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland, driving her into exile; she has since picked up award after award for her novels and short stories.

Released by 20th Century Fox in mid-December, "Avatar" — long advertised as a potential game-changer for the film industry because of its immersive, 3-D technology — quickly picked up award nominations from the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, suddenly making the film a focal point for a Hollywood prize season that for months had seemed to be without a front-runner.

The film has already picked up awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics.

This tense tale of the Stasi era has already picked up awards and acclaim around the world, but it is still a surprise choice over Pan's Labyrinth.

The film has already picked up awards from the National Board of Review and Washington DC critics, suggesting it will be another competitor for honours in February.

Job: editor, Grazia Age: 41 Industry: publishing Circulation: 227,156 (July to December 2008) Staff: 41 2008 ranking: 56 Jane Bruton picks up awards like her readers collect shoes.

It's more that when she picks up awards that she has actually earned at the 2009 awards, it'll be strange, as she's already got one.

Many of the stars who picked up awards were announced as Academy Award nominees last Thursday.

Stars like Ben Whishaw of 'The Hollow Crown' and Olivia Coleman in 'Twenty Twelve' picked up awards.

Mohamed al-Daradji's film has already picked up awards in Berlin and at Sundance.