Sentence examples for took awards for from inspiring English sources

Sweet Charity took awards for choreography and direction, with Verity Hunt-Ballard winning best female actor in a musical.

The British import "War Horse" won best play and took awards for set, sound design, lighting design and for the two directors who helped bring uncanny life to the hand-made puppets that give the show such visual panache.

Back and Loving It Madonna, below, did plenty of scene stealing, but Green Day won prizes for best rock act and best album, and Coldplay took awards for best act from Britain and Ireland as well as best song ("Speed of Sound") at the MTV Europe Awards transmitted to millions of homes around the world from Lisbon, the BBC reported.

Clean Bandit have scored a double win at the 60th Ivor Novello Awards, with their chart-topping song Rather Be taking awards for best contemporary song and most performed work.

"The Sopranos" won the Emmy for best drama series in its final season, also taking awards for best writing and best directing.

The film also took home awards for Dean DeBlois's direction, feature character design, storyboarding and music.

It debuted earlier this year at Fantasia Film Festival, where it took home awards for best screenplay and best first feature.

She also took home awards for best newcomer and best British act.

She also took home awards for best newcomer and best U.K. act.

She lost both to UK singer-songwriter Sam Smith who took the awards for his song Stay With Me, along with two other awards.

It was Winslet's third Bafta win, after she took home awards for Sense and Sensibility and The Reader in 1996 and 2009 respectively.