Now our favourite avant-garde performer "David Davis" hopes to secure plaudits for his latest performance: Bridge to the Future.
Stevenage finished the season having amassed a total of 99 points from 44 games, winning the league by 11 points, with Westley winning many plaudits for the way he had secured promotion despite considerably less resources than a lot of the teams in the division.
The plaudits she has won for her work secured her a place next to Jolie and Hague at last year's summit, but she said that absolutely nothing has changed in the year since.
But he has been winning plaudits for his performances at leadership hustings, has secured the backing of Britain's biggest trade union Unite and is expected to force the centre-right candidate, Liz Kendall, into fourth place.
Stuart Broad will rightly take many of the plaudits for an inspired six-wicket haul that secured the series win on the fourth evening at Durham, but Flower was quick to praise Cook, not least for the decision to restore Tim Bresnan to the attack at a pivotal point of the game.
Norway has been accused of climate hypocrisy in Indonesia, where it has won plaudits for financing forest protection even as its state pension fund allegedly secures even greater revenues from logging, plantations, mining and other environmentally destructive practices.
As Severin Carrell pointed out, he has risen gradually and purposefully through News International's ranks, winning plaudits for his relationship with Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, and his part in securing Premier League football clips for The Sun's website.
Thomas secured his first major professional win at the Tour of Bavaria in May and has since earned plaudits following three top-10 stage finishes in his third Tour de France.
American Pharoah's victory in the Belmont Stakes, securing his place in history as the 12th horse to win the Triple Crown, drew a wide range of plaudits across social media.
When Merrick secured Wellington's equal best finish, fourth in 2014-15 in his second season at the club, the media plaudits focused on the standout season of Nathan Burns, rather than the team structure surrounding him, or in fact that under Merrick Burns was a player reborn.
Stoner appreciates the plaudits.
