Sentence examples for won best performance from inspiring English sources

Juliette Binoche and co-star Daniel Auteuil both won best performance awards at Cannes where Haneke also won best director.

2002 The same year, Lindsay Duncan won best performance by a leading actress in a play for her portrayal of Amanda Prynne in Private Lives.

The Brit pack Tony winners 2011 Mark Rylance won best performance by a leading actor in a play for his role as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem.

Former EastEnder Nigel Harman won best performance in a supporting musical role for evil Lord Farquaad in Shrek the Musical, a role he performed entirely on his knees.

Cush Jumbo won best performance in a play for her starring role in A Doll's House, while Janie Dee won best performance in a musical for Hello Dolly! and Siân Phillips took the best supporting performance for This Is My Family.

(This year, Dennis Cass, the writer of "Head Case," won best performance by an author for "Book Launch 2.0," his send-up of the groveling expected of modern writers).

The RSC's production of Matilda, A Musical, which had its first West End preview last week after transferring from Stratford-upon-Avon, was named best musical production, with Bertie Carvel, who plays headmistress Miss Trunchbull, also winning best performance in a musical.

Joanne Froggatt, winning a best supporting award for her role in "Downton Abbey," spoke directly to the rape survivors who wrote her after her character suffered an attack; Gina Rodriguez, winning best performance by an actress in a television series comedy or musical, said her award represents "a culture that wants to see itself as heroes".

Abhishek Bachchan won best comic performance, Anurag Basu picked up Best Director and Vidya Balan secured Best Leading female.

Birrell, who won best male performance at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland for his performance as Sweeney Todd at the Dundee Rep, is currently playing in repertory at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

Oscar nominee Jonah Hill won best comedic performance for The Wolf of Wall Street, Britain's Will Poulter took breakthrough performance for comedy We're the Millers and Shailene Woodley was named favourite character for her turn as Tris in dystopian tale Divergent.