query: Overwatch is acclaimed.

pos: Overwatch (video game) Overwatch is a team-based online multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment . It was released in May 2016 for Windows , PlayStation 4 , and Xbox One .   Overwatch assigns players into two teams of six , with each player selecting one of 24 pre-defined characters , called heroes , each with unique movement , attributes , and abilities , whose roles are divided into four categories : Offense , Defense , Tank , and Support . Players on a team work together to secure and defend control points on a map or escort a payload across the map in a limited amount of time . Players gain cosmetic rewards that do not affect gameplay , such as character skins and victory poses , as they play the game . The game was initially launched with casual play , with a competitive ranked mode , various ` arcade ' game modes , and a player-customizable server browser subsequently included following its release . Additionally , Blizzard has developed and added new characters , maps , and game modes post-release , while stating that all Overwatch updates will remain free , with the only additional cost to players being microtransactions to earn additional cosmetic rewards .   Overwatch is Blizzard 's fourth major franchise and came about following the 2014 cancellation of the ambitious massively multiplayer online role-playing game Titan . A portion of the Titan team came up with the concept of Overwatch , based on the success of team-based first-person shooters like Team Fortress 2 and the growing popularity of multiplayer online battle arenas , creating a hero-based shooter that emphasized teamwork . Some elements of Overwatch borrow assets and concepts from the canceled Titan project . After establishing the narrative of an optimistic near-future Earth setting after a global crisis , the developers aimed to create a diverse cast of heroes that spanned genders and ethnicities as part of this setting . Significant time was spent adjusting the balance of the characters , making sure that new players would still be able to have fun while skilled players would present each other with a challenge .   Overwatch was unveiled at BlizzCon 2014 in a fully playable state and was in a closed beta from late 2015 through early 2016 . An open beta in May 2016 drew in more than 9.7 million players . The release of the game was promoted with short animated videos to introduce the game 's narrative and each of the characters . Upon official release , Overwatch received universal acclaim from critics , who praised the game for its accessibility , diverse appeal of its hero characters , bright cartoonish art style , and enjoyable gameplay . Considered one of the best games released in 2016 , the game received numerous accolades , including being awarded Game of the Year at The Game Awards , D.I.C.E. Awards , and Game Developers Choice Awards , as well as from numerous publications . Since its release , Overwatch has become recognized as an eSport , where in addition to sponsoring tournaments , Blizzard has announced plans to help support professional league play starting in 2017 .

neg: King of Glory King of Glory is a multiplayer online battle arena published by Tencent Games . The game received a beta release for iOS and Android platforms on November 26 , 2015 . In addition to a PVE adventure mode , the game features PVP multiplayer battles . The game features many similarities to League of Legends which is produced by Riot Games , a company owned by Tencent .   In November 2016 , King of Glory topped the 2016 China pan entertainment festival `` China IP index value list - game list top10 '' .   The game requires either a Tencent QQ account or a WeChat account . However the servers are n't completely in sync , that is , if using same account type on different platform , multiplayer with your WeChat friend is possible however many of games function is disabled ( daily gifting , profile viewing and clan inviting ) . Different account type can not access the other 's matchmaking queue , even on the same platform .

neg: Go ranks and ratings Skill in the traditional board game Go is measured by a number of different national , regional and online ranking and rating systems . Traditionally , go rankings have been measured using a system of dan and kyu ranks . Especially in amateur play , these ranks facilitate the handicapping system , with a difference of one rank roughly corresponding to one free move at the beginning of the game . This system is also commonly used in many oriental martial arts , where it often corresponds with a belt color . With the ready availability of calculators and computers , rating systems have been introduced . In such systems , a rating is rigorously calculated on the basis of game results .

neg: World championship A world championship is generally an international sports competition open to elite competitors from across the world , representing their nations , and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport or contest .   The title is usually awarded through a combination of specific contests or , less commonly , ranking systems ( e.g. the ICC Test Championship ) , or a combination of the two ( e.g. World Triathlon Championships in Triathlon ) . This determines a ` world champion ' , who or which is commonly considered the best nation , team , individual ( or other entity ) in the world in a particular field , although the vagaries of sport ensure that the competitor recognised at the best in an event is not always the ` world champion ' ( see Underdog ) .   Certain sports do not have a world championship . Instead , they may organise a world cup competition , or they may organize both , for example cycling ( UCI World Championships and UCI World Cups ) ) . Often , the use of the term cup or championship in this sense is just a choice of words . Some sports have multiple champions because of multiple organizations , such as boxing , mixed martial arts and wrestling .   Certain sports do not have a world championship or a world cup as such , but may have one or several world champions . Professional boxing , for example , has several world champions at different weights , but each one of them is decided by a `` title fight '' , not a tournament .   A certain number of sports hold world championships or world cups which are overshadowed , in terms of prestige , by the same events in the Olympic Games , the most prestigious multi-sports event .   Still other sports may or may not have a true world championship but may designate the winners of a domestic competition to be `` world champions . '' This is especially true of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada ; world cups and championships exist in all of the major sports , but the domestic U.S. and Canadian leagues are generally recognized as the world professional championships or the equivalent of a world club championship . ( In American football , although an IFAF World Championship exists , the United States is so far above and beyond the other nations it faces that the winner of the U.S.-based Super Bowl , a competition limited to the 32 teams in the National Football League , is commonly recognized as the world champion . )   Finally , certain professional sports do not have a world championship or world cup , but rather hold a series of events recognised as the elite level in their field ( e.g. tennis has a series of four Grand Slam events recognised as the pinnacle of the game , in addition to key team events , world tour finals and the Olympic Games , but no world championship or world cup ) .

neg: Professional Warcraft III competition The expansion to the computer game Warcraft III : Reign of Chaos , known as The Frozen Throne , had an active professional competition scene , particularly in China , Germany , and South Korea . The game was featured at eSports festivals including the World Cyber Games , the Electronic Sports World Cup , the World e-Sports Games , the World Series of Video Games and the International E-Sports Festival . Outside of the professional circuit , the game had many active competitive circuits , with users at Battle.net ranging between the 70,000 and 100,000 at any given moment . In China , in which Warcraft III was extremely popular due to it being easily available through piracy , fans and users often used an alternative client due to the country 's poor internet connections to the outside world . Around 3,000,000 copies of the game were sold in the country . 500,000 Chinese competed in the Chinese qualifiers for the 2006 World Cyber Games . The amount of prize money through the years has been significant with top players winning hundreds of thousands of dollars . As usual in competitive gaming , income for Warcraft 3 professional players flowed from various sources like team salaries from pro-gaming teams and sponsorships usually computer technology related . A famous example was Danish gaming organization known as Meet Your Makers which boasted of paying their players 300,000 on an annual basis . Similar to older games with huge competitive scenes like Starcraft : Brood War and Counter-Strike 1.6 , the popularity of Warcraft 3 steadily declined and towards the end of the previous decade almost all tournaments and players were Chinese . After 2010 , with Starcraft 2 , League of Legends , and Dota 2 being released and becoming popular , Warcraft 3 gave up its position as one of the prime eSports titles .

neg: Machinima Machinima ( -LSB- məˈʃiːnᵻmə -RSB- or -LSB- məˈʃɪnᵻmə -RSB- ) is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production . Most often video games are used to generate the computer animation . Machinima-based artists , sometimes called machinimists or machinimators , are often fan laborers , by virtue of their re-use of copyrighted materials ( see below ) . Machinima offers to provide an archive of gaming performance and access to the look and feel of software and hardware that may already have become unavailable or even obsolete ; for game studies , `` Machinima 's gestures grant access to gaming 's historical conditions of possibility and how machinima offers links to a comparative horizon that informs , changes , and fully participates in videogame culture . ''   The practice of using graphics engines from video games arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s demoscene , Disney Interactive Studios ' 1992 video game Stunt Island , and 1990s recordings of gameplay in first-person shooter ( FPS ) video games , such as id Software 's Doom and Quake . Originally , these recordings documented speedruns -- attempts to complete a level as quickly as possible -- and multiplayer matches . The addition of storylines to these films created `` Quake movies '' . The more general term machinima , a portmanteau of machine cinema , arose when the concept spread beyond the Quake series to other games and software . After this generalization , machinima appeared in mainstream media , including television series and advertisements .   Machinima has advantages and disadvantages when compared to other styles of filmmaking . Its relative simplicity over traditional frame-based animation limits control and range of expression . Its real-time nature favors speed , cost saving , and flexibility over the higher quality of pre-rendered computer animation . Virtual acting is less expensive , dangerous , and physically restricted than live action . Machinima can be filmed by relying on in-game artificial intelligence ( AI ) or by controlling characters and cameras through digital puppetry . Scenes can be precisely scripted , and can be manipulated during post-production using video editing techniques . Editing , custom software , and creative cinematography may address technical limitations . Game companies have provided software for and have encouraged machinima , but the widespread use of digital assets from copyrighted games has resulted in complex , unresolved legal issues .   Machinima productions can remain close to their gaming roots and feature stunts or other portrayals of gameplay . Popular genres include dance videos , comedy , and drama . Alternatively , some filmmakers attempt to stretch the boundaries of the rendering engines or to mask the original 3-D context . The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences ( AMAS ) , a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting machinima , recognizes exemplary productions through Mackie awards given at its annual Machinima Film Festival . Some general film festivals accept machinima , and game companies , such as Epic Games , Blizzard Entertainment and Jagex , have sponsored contests involving it .

neg: Ultimate Soccer Manager Ultimate Soccer Manager or USM is a association football management video game serie for MS-DOS , Commodore Amiga and Windows 95 , produced by Impressions and distributed by Sierra from 1995 to 1999 . The game was a massive hit in Europe ( except in Germany , where it was worse received due to some similarities with managers produced by local software houses such as Software 2000 and Ascaron ) , although it gained little support in Japan .   The series was noted for its micromanagement , where the player had to do the job of the team manager and much of that of the chairman , from player training up to bank balance management . Other well-known features were to bung an opposing team for preferential market treatment , rig or betting on the outcome of the players ' team matches . Interviews after the match where some answers were printed with different interpretations on the next days ' newspaper ( the player could reply a question about the game with `` It was a game of two halves '' , and `` He amazed us after the game by giving us an insight into the rules of football '' would be printed on the newspapers ) .   In all three games , the game always kept the same visual style : the main screen is a bird 's eye view of the stadium facility ( where clicking on the grass brings the squad selection screen or in the stands for the stadium builder ) and all screens are presented like the player was inside an office ( TCM 2004 used a similar interface option ) . To increase the feeling of `` being there '' , tables are accessed via teletext , news from a newspaper and fixtures are available by clicking on a sheet attached on a clipboard .   While improving with each game , most features were the same from the start of the series . The game compared favourably in all areas but AI against its leading competitor , Championship Manager . While similar in name , it has no relations with Ultimate Soccer .

neg: Small Worlds (presentation) Small Worlds was the title of a presentation given by Raph Koster at the Game Developers Conference in 2003 , which was instrumental in defining and justifying many of the conventions used in MMORPG games .   Some of the conclusions reached by the presentation were :   When a new player joins a game , it is important that they should be able to make a large number of weaker acquaintances rather than strong friendships . The reason for this is that strong friendships tend to create social clusters ( if you have strong friendships with two people , there 's a good chance they both know each other too ) , limiting the range of social experience that can be had among those people ; weaker acquaintances tend to connect clusters together and offer a wider range of experiences . ( Koster backed this up with a study showing that in the real world , most people who find a job through a friend find it through a weaker acquaintance . )  Competition ladders should not be displayed publicly , since this would enable a competitor to offer incentives to the high-ranked players to join their game . Since they are likely to be the centre of social clusters , this will significantly damage the social networks on the original game .  Online skill-based games will never achieve significant interest , as a result of the Pareto principle . The few people in the top 20 % of skill will dominate everyone else , tilting the results of matches . If players are able to team up , then people will gravitate towards the teams that contain the most of those top 20 % of players , thus making these teams larger and giving them an even bigger game advantage .  Grinds are an essential part of game design because they offer fair access to game power to all players . Although the Pareto principle will still apply , any player can have the capacity to reach the 20 % of players who have spent most time on the game , which they could not do for ( for instance ) the 20 % of players with fastest reactions .

neg: World of Tanks World of Tanks is a massively multiplayer online game developed by the Belarusian-Cypriot company Wargaming , featuring early to mid-20th century era combat vehicles . It is built upon a freemium business model where the game is free-to-play , but participants also have the option of paying a fee for use of `` premium '' features . The focus is on player vs. player gameplay with each player controlling an armored vehicle , which may be a light , medium or heavy tank , tank destroyer , or self-propelled gun . World of Tanks debuted as an eSports game at the World Cyber Games 2012 .   World of Tanks has been ported to multiple gaming consoles . An Xbox 360 version was developed by Wargaming West studio , called World of Tanks : Xbox 360 Edition . Xbox 360 players use separate servers to those playing the Windows version , and players of each version have separate accounts . The PlayStation 4 version was released in 2016 . World of Tanks has also recently expanded to mobile platforms under the name World of Tanks Blitz , in addition to a board game titled World of Tanks Rush and a collectable card game titled World of Tanks : Generals .

neg: Riot Games Riot Games is an American video game developer , publisher , and eSports tournament organizer established in 2006 . Their main office is based in West Los Angeles , California . They currently have additional offices located in Berlin , Dublin , Hong Kong , Istanbul , Mexico City , Moscow , New York City , St. Louis , Santiago , São Paulo , Seoul , Shanghai , Singapore , Sydney , Taipei , and Tokyo .   The company is primarily known for League of Legends , which was released in North America and Europe on October 27 , 2009 . The company developed a free mobile game called Blitzcrank 's Poro Roundup , which was released on iOS , and Android in August 2015 . Riot is also involved in League of Legendss competitive eSports scene by organizing the League of Legends World Championship and Championship Series for Europe and North America and well as coordinating the filming and broadcasting of those events . They also sanction leagues organized by third parties in other regions across the world .

neg: Word Freak (book) Word Freak is a non-fiction narrative by Stefan Fatsis published in 2001 ( ISBN 0-618-01584-1 ) .   The book is subtitled Heartbreak , Triumph , Genius , and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players . Fatsis , a sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal , introduces the reader to the world of competitive Scrabble through a narrative of his slow transformation from `` a good living room player '' into a player ranked as expert by the National Scrabble Association . Fatsis 's humorous approach and descriptions of fellow competitive Scrabble players are interspersed with game strategies as the reader follows his ascent through the ranks of tournament players . The book also covers the history of the game , how tournaments are run , and the background politics of the Scrabble scene . Word Freak is a New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book .   A 10th anniversary paperback edition of Word Freak came out in August 2011 . The new edition ( 18th printing ) includes a new 30-page afterword about what 's happened to the game in the last decade : where-are-they-now on the main characters , here-they-are-now on the new generation of players , corporate politics , dictionary changes , and much more . The new edition has the same ISBN number as the original , but is distinguished by a `` 10th Anniversary Edition '' logo on the lower right of the front cover .   The documentary film Word Wars ( 2004 ) , while not directly related to the book , includes many of the same players .

neg: StarCraft: Remastered StarCraft : Remastered is a 2017 remastered edition of the 1998 real-time strategy video game StarCraft and its expansion Brood War . It retains the gameplay of the original games but adds remastered ultra-high-definition graphics , re-recorded audio , and Blizzard 's modern online feature suite . The remaster was developed over a year and included playtesting from professional StarCraft players . It is planned for release in second quarter , 2017 .

neg: Red Annihilation Red Annihilation was a Quake competitive eSport event held in May 1997 that was one of the first nationwide video game competition held in the United States . In the final match of the tournament , Dennis `` Thresh '' Fong defeated Tom `` Entropy '' Kimzey of Impulse 9 on the map Castle of the Damned . For winning the event , Fong was awarded John D. Carmack 's 1987 Ferrari 328 GTS cabriolet as the grand prize .   The tournament was created first as Kings of Capture Quake Tournament started by Michael `` Hawthorne '' Shearon , after contacting Intergraph for possible sponsorship the tournament was folded into what became Red Annihilation .   The tournament was then developed and organized by Rob Esterling , executive director overseeing Intergraph Computer Systems 's commercial and consumer graphics group , and his Intergraph team including Jim Terzian , the tournament 's director and Victor Johnson , the team 's Art Director .   In 1996 , Microsoft 's DirectX group hosted game competitions , first at the Computer Game Developers Conference , then as a separate event , selecting the players and flying them in to compete . These Microsoft-hosted competitions might be seen as the first nationwide video game competitions held in the United States , as players came from throughout the country .   When a further Microsoft DirectX-organized event , intended to be held at Naval Air Station Alameda , was cancelled , Intergraph announced it would host a tournament that would be an open , national computer game competition and chose Quake as the game to be played .   Intergraph brought in Quake developer id Software , 3D computer graphics chipset maker Rendition , and online gaming company Mpath Interactive as partners in Red Annihilation . Will Bryant and Frank Cabanski of the Quake ClanRing were selected to operate the game competition because of their prior pioneering experience running large scale gaming tournaments .   The initial phase of the tournament was held on Mpath 's MPlayer network with over 2000 participants from across the United States competing online in one-on-one matches .   The top 16 players were flown to Atlanta , Georgia for the concluding phase of the tournament , where they competed inside the World Congress Center in a gaming arena Intergraph built on the floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ) . This phase of the competition used vQuake , the hardware accelerated version of the game , played on Intergraph PC computers equipped with Rendition V1000-based Intense3D graphics accelerators . Players were able to use their own keyboards , mice and other pointing devices if they wished .   As E3 was at the time an industry exhibition open to the trade only , most spectators watched the final competitions online via in-game cameras orchestrated by Bryant and Cabanski . The final morning of the tournament was also covered from the show floor by NBC 's Today and The Wall Street Journal .   It was discovered during the award ceremony that tournament winner Fong , a student at De Anza College , would not be able to drive his prize as he was not insured for such a vehicle . Carmack agreed to underwrite Fong 's insurance for a year so the latter could enjoy his new car .

neg: List of Final Fantasy media Final Fantasy is a series of role-playing video games developed and published by Square Enix ( formerly Square ) . Its first game premiered in Japan in 1987 , and Final Fantasy games have subsequently been localized for markets in North America , Europe and Australia , on nearly every video game console since its debut on the Nintendo Entertainment System . Final Fantasy is Square Enix 's most successful franchise , having sold over 97 million units worldwide to date . In addition to traditional role-playing games , the series includes tactical role-playing games , portable games , massively multiplayer online role-playing games , and games for mobile phones . Its popularity has placed it as the sixth-best-selling video game franchise , and the series has won multiple awards over the years .   In addition to the 15 games released as part of the main ( numbered ) series and their many spin-offs and related titles , the Final Fantasy series has spawned many works in other media including anime , movies , novels and manga , and radio dramas . Final Fantasy : Unlimited , originally a stand-alone anime series , now has its own sub-franchise which includes video games . Many games , particularly the main series , have soundtrack album releases featuring their music in different arrangements . Square Enix has also consistently released companion books for its games which provide additional backstory and plot information , as well as detailed walkthroughs for the game . Since the announcement of Compilation of Final Fantasy VII , Square Enix has focused on `` polymorphic content '' , expanding each game world with material on many video game platforms , as well as other forms of media .

neg: Myth: The Fallen Lords Myth : The Fallen Lords is a 1997 real-time tactics video game developed by Bungie for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS . Released in November 1997 in North America and in February 1998 in Europe , the game was published by Bungie in North America and by Eidos Interactive in Europe . At the time , Bungie was known primarily as developers of Mac games , and The Fallen Lords was the first game they had developed and released simultaneously for both PC and Mac . It is the first game in the Myth series , which also includes a sequel , Myth II : Soulblighter , set sixty years after the events of the first game , and also developed by Bungie , and a prequel , Myth III : The Wolf Age , set one thousand years prior to the events depicted in The Fallen Lords , and developed by MumboJumbo .   The game tells the story of the battle between the forces of the `` Light '' and those of the `` Dark '' for control of an unnamed mythical land . The Dark are led by Balor and a group of lieutenants ( the titular Fallen Lords ) , whilst the Light are led by `` The Nine '' ; powerful sorcerers known as `` Avatara , '' chief amongst whom is Alric . The game begins in the seventeenth year of the war in the West , some fifty years since the rise of Balor , with the forces of Light on the brink of defeat ; almost the entire land is under the dominion of the Dark , with only one major city and a few smaller towns remaining under the control of the Light . The plot follows the activities of `` The Legion '' , an elite unit in the army of the Light , as they attempt to turn back the tide and defeat Balor .   The Fallen Lords received positive reviews from critics , and is credited as a defining title in the fledging real-time tactics genre . Reviewers praised its plot , graphics , gameplay , level design , online multiplayer mode , and differentiation from traditional real-time strategy games . The most often criticized aspects were the difficulty of the single-player campaign , which many reviewers felt was far too high , even on the lowest setting , and some awkwardness in controlling units . The game went on to win multiple awards , including `` Strategy Game of the Year '' from both PC Gamer and Computer Gaming World , and `` Game of the Year '' from both Computer Games Strategy Plus and Macworld . It was also a commercial success , selling over 350,000 units worldwide across both systems , earning back roughly seven times its budget . At the time , it was Bungie 's most successful game , and served to bring them to the attention of PC gamers and , more specifically , Microsoft , who would purchase the company in 2000 .   The Myth series as a whole , and Soulblighter in particular , supported an active online community for over a decade after the official servers went offline . The first formally organized group of volunteer-programmers was MythDevelopers , who were given access to the game 's source code by Bungie . The most recently active Myth development group is Project Magma , an offshoot of MythDevelopers . These groups have worked to provide ongoing technical support for the games , update them to newer operating systems , fix bugs , release unofficial patches , create mods , and maintain online servers for multiplayer gaming .

neg: Skin gambling In video games , skin gambling is the use of virtual goods , which are most commonly cosmetic elements such as `` skins '' which have no direct influence on gameplay , as virtual currency to bet on the outcome of professional matches or on other games of chance . It primarily has occurred within the player community for the game Counter-Strike : Global Offensive by Valve Corporation , but practice of it exists in other game communities . Valve also runs the Steam marketplace which can be interfaced by third-parties to enable trading , buying , and selling of skins from players ' Steam inventories for real-world or digital currency , though Valve itself condones the gambling practices .   Valve added random skin rewards as part of an update to Counter-Strike : Global Offensive in 2013 , believing that players would use these to trade with other players and bolster both the player community and its Steam marketplace . A number of websites were created to bypass monetary restrictions Valve set on the Steam marketplace to aid in high-value trading and allowing users to receive cash value for skins . Some of these sites subsequently added the ability to gamble on the results of professional matches or in games of chance with these skins , which in 2016 was estimated to handle around $ 5 billion of the virtual goods . These sites , along with Valve and various video game streamers , have come under scrutiny due to ethical and legal questions relating to gambling on sporting matches , underage gambling , undisclosed promotion , and outcome rigging . Evidence of such unethical practices was discovered in June 2016 , and led to two formal lawsuits filed against these sites and Valve in the following month . Valve subsequently has taken steps to stop such sites from using Steam 's interface for enabling gambling , leading to about half of these sites to close down , while driving more of the skin gambling into an underground economy .

neg: Multiplayer online game A multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which can be played via a game server over the internet , with other players around the world . Some prominent examples of this include fighting games ( e.g. Street Fighter IV and Tekken 6 ) , sports games ( e.g. NHL 14 and Grid Autosport ) , older online games ( e.g. Sega Meganet titles ) , first-person shooters ( Battlefield 2 , BZFlag , Call of Duty , Counter-Strike , Quake 3 , Resistance 3 and Unreal Tournament ) , a subgenre of shooter games called hero shooter ( Battleborn , Overwatch and Paladins ) , strategy video games ( e.g. Warcraft 3 and StarCraft or II ) and a subgenre of strategy games called multiplayer online battle arena ( e.g. Defense of the Ancients , League of Legends , Dota 2 and Heroes of the Storm ) .   These games differ from massively multiplayer online game ( MMO ) in that they do not create a persistent world , but create a playing arena for the purpose of a single game or round . In other words , they rely on a game listen server used only for that round , and there can be numerous servers all around the world . MMO games on the other hand , rely on dedicated servers , as these games must be running continuously .

neg: Last Empire-War Z '' `` Last Empire - War Z '' '' is one of the most popular freemium Massively Multiplayer Online strategy game that developed and published by IM30 Studios.It was launched in August 2015 and then it spread all over the world , it became popular among players with a shocking speed , now it has over 80 million downloads and it is available in over 220 countries . It is the Google play `` Best of Game 2016 '' . This is not the first time Google official reward it . '' `` Last Empire - War Z '' '' has been recommended to global twice and to districts for several times . It always takes a high rank in App download list in most countries and it is one of the best strategies games that beloved by players . High rates and good comments mean it attracting more and more worldwide players .

neg: Ogre Battle , sometimes referred to as , is a series of five tactical role-playing and real-time strategy video games developed by Quest Corporation and currently owned by Square Enix . There are five original games in the series , and one remake .

neg: Daily fantasy sports Daily fantasy sports ( DFS ) are a subset of fantasy sport games . As with traditional fantasy sports games , players compete against others by building a team of professional athletes from a particular league or competition while remaining under a salary cap , and earn points based on the actual statistical performance of the players in real-world competitions . Daily fantasy sports are an accelerated variant of traditional fantasy sports that are conducted over short-term periods , such as a week or single day of competition , as opposed to those that are played across an entire season . Daily fantasy sports are typically structured in the form of paid competitions typically referred to as a `` contest '' ; winners receive a share of a pre-determined pot funded by their entry fees . A portion of entry fee payments go to the provider as rake revenue .   In the United States , the daily fantasy sports industry is dominated by two competing services : the New York-based FanDuel , and the Boston-based DraftKings . Both companies were established as venture capital-backed startup companies , received funding from investment firms , sports broadcasters , leagues , and team owners , and became known for the aggressive marketing of their services . As of September 2015 , both companies have an estimated value of at least $ 1 billion , and control 95 % of the U.S. DFS market . The two primarily compete against smaller DFS services , such as Fantasy Aces and Yahoo! Sports . The popularity of the daily fantasy format has been credited to its convenience in comparison to season-length games , as well as the focus on major cash prizes in the promotion of these services . Daily fantasy has also been credited with helping to improve television viewership and engagement with sports .   Daily fantasy sports have faced notable legal challenges , including disputes over whether DFS constitutes gambling . Politicians and other critics have argued that due to their format , players are essentially making proposition wagers on the varying performance of individual athletes in specific games , and not managing the performance of their selections on a week-to-week basis . Proponents have defended DFS as being a game of skill , as the required familiarity with the players and teams , as well as salary cap management , rewards skilled players . Local laws have varying definitions of gambling games , such as whether a game 's elements of chance are predominant over those or skill , or how much control the player has over the outcome of the game .   In the United States , the legality of DFS has been determined on a state-by-state basis based on local gambling laws and other rulings . The federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ( UIEGA ) contains language dictating that fantasy sports are not considered an unlawful wager under the act ; however , the act only prohibits the electronic transfer of funds from unlawful gambling as defined under state laws . A number of state attorneys general have issued opinions concluding that DFS is a form of illegal gambling , while the state of Nevada declared that DFS games must be licensed as a sports pool . The New York State ruling , which resulted from an investigation of DFS services after it was alleged that employees working for DraftKings and FanDuel had used inside information to win cash prizes from each other , spawned retaliatory lawsuits from the companies which alleged that the rulings were the result of a misinterpretation of the nature of their services . The state has since joined other states , such as Massachusetts and Virginia , in choosing to legalize and regulate DFS rather than prohibit it .

neg: List of Game of the Year awards Game of the Year ( abbreviated GotY ) is a title awarded by various gaming publications to a deserving game . Many publications award a single `` Game of the Year '' to a single title that they feel represents the pinnacle of gaming achievement that year . Many games will release a `` Game of the Year '' edition after winning any of these awards , usually containing all the updates , downloadable content ( DLC ) and occasionally other extras such as a soundtrack .


query: Kris Wu has only ever been an American.

pos: Kris Wu Wu Yifan ( , pronounced -LSB- - cmnu2-i4fan4 -RSB- , ; born November 6 , 1990 ) , professionally known as Kris Wu or Kris , is a Chinese-born Canadian actor , singer , and model . He is active as a solo artist and actor in China and has starred in several # 1 box office hits including Mr. Six and Journey to the West : The Demons Strike Back , which are among the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time in China . He made his Hollywood debut in xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) .

neg: Wu Jiani Wu Jiani ( Chinese : 吴佳妮 ; 1966 - ) is a former female Chinese gymnast .   Wu was born in Shanghai . She started gymnastic training in 1973 , and was admitted into Shanghai gymnastic team in 1976 , and Chinese national team in 1977 .   Wu competed at 1984 Olympic Games , and won a bronze medal in Women 's Team competition . She was a five-time Chinese National Champion and a World Championship bronze medalist on beam in 1981 .   Her husband is Li Yuejiu , also a famed gymnast and an Olympic medalist . One of their daughters is Anna Li , who competed for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team during the 2007 through 2010 seasons and at the same Pauley Pavilion where her parents won the Olympic medals . Following the Visa Championships and two selection camps at the Karolyi Ranch in New Waverly , Texas , Anna Li was named to the gold medal winning U.S. 2011 World Championship Team . An injury kept her from competing . In 2012 , she was named an alternate to the 2012 Olympic Games .   Along with their daughter , Wu and Li have been the coaches for several elite athletes , including the Caquatto sisters : World Silver Medalist Mackenzie Caquatto and Pan American Games triple Gold Medalist Bridgette Caquatto .   In April 2009 , they opened Legacy Elite Gymnastics in Aurora , Illinois together to train local gymnasts .

neg: Wu Hsing-kuo Wu Hsing-kuo is a Taiwanese actor of the silver screen and theater , known for both his performance of complex movie roles as much as for his innovative adaptations of Western classics into traditional Peking Opera .   Wu was trained in classical Peking Opera since the age of 11 in Taiwan 's state-run Fu-Hsing Chinese Opera School , specializing in wu sheng ( male martial ) roles . He was admitted with honors into the Theatre Department of Chinese Culture University in Taipei , trained under master Chou Cheng-jung ( Zhou Zheng-rong ) and became leading dancer of Lin Hwai-min 's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre . However , his teacher Chou Cheng-jung ( Zhou Zheng-rong ) considered him as a pretentious student who did n't focus on study and finally abandoned him in 1989 . Since then , Chou Cheng-jung ( died in 2000 ) never met him anymore . In addition , most of the traditional Chinese opera audiences do not recognize him as a qualified actor .   In 1986 , he and a group of enthusiastic friends founded the Contemporary Legend Theatre in Taipei , seeking to revitalize traditional Chinese theatre by adapting Western classical plays to the style and techniques of Peking Opera . He was the leading actor and director of four Shakespeare adaptations , including the critically acclaimed Kingdom of Desire , an adaptation of Macbeth , and King Lear , in which Wu plays all the parts .   In 1992 , Wu was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New York with Richard Schechner . That year , he also won the Hong Kong Film Award for best new actor .   Wu is currently artistic director of the Contemporary Legend Theatre , and continues to take on challenging roles in both the modern theatre and Chinese Opera . He crosses the fields of traditional opera , dance , modern theatre , cinema , and television .

neg: Live Like We're Dying `` Live Like We 're Dying '' is a song written by Danny O'Donoghue , Andrew Frampton , Mark Sheehan , and Steve Kipner . It appeared as a bonus track on The Script 's self-titled debut studio album , as well as a B-side for some of the album 's singles . It is better known for being performed by American recording artist Kris Allen . The song serves as the lead single from his self-titled major label debut album . It was released for digital download on September 21 , 2009 .   The song received positive reviews , peaking at eighteen in the United States , and also charting on other U.S. charts , including the top ten of the Pop Songs . It also charted abroad in Canada and New Zealand . The song 's accompanying music video , which takes place in a desert and features a countdown clock in conjunction with the song 's meaning , was also received warmly , and according to critics , was an end to the low-budget , storyline-centered , debut music videos from previous American Idol alumni .

neg: Kris Zimmerman Kris Zimmerman Salter ( born 1958 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American voice and casting director in the animation and video game industry . Her major works include the Metal Gear Solid series . In the cartoons , she has directed episodes for Ben 10 , The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest , Regular Show and Fish Hooks .

neg: The American Side The American Side is a 2016 film starring Greg Stuhr and Matthew Broderick .

neg: Empress Wu (1984 TV series) Empress Wu is a 1984 Hong Kong television serial based on the biography of Wu Zetian ( Cantonese : Mou Zak-tin ) , the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of `` Empress Regnant '' , starring Petrina Fung as the title character . The serial was produced by ATV and was first aired in Hong Kong on ATV Home from 6 August to 28 September 1984 .   It was shown with English subtitles in Australia on SBS from 1987 to 1990 .   A dubbed English version of the serial was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in sixty-five weekly 30-minute episodes from 4 October 1987 to 21 January 1989 .

neg: Lee Ann Kim Lee Ann Kim is a first-generation Korean American who was an anchor and general assignment reporter for KGTV Channel 10 , the San Diego , California ABC television affiliate . She worked at KGTV from 1996 to 2008 . She is also the executive director of Pacific Arts Movement ( formerly the San Diego Asian Film Foundation ) , which presents the annual San Diego Asian Film Festival , an event she founded in 2000 with the Asian American Journalists Association of San Diego . She has been married to Louis Song since 1997 , with whom she has two sons .

neg: Jade Wu Jade Wu ( born January 5 , 1953 ) is an Asian American actress , playwright , producer , director , editor and accomplished figure of the arts . She is the granddaughter of critically acclaimed Chinese actor and director , Yuanlong Wang famous for his work in Hong Kong , China and Taiwan . Throughout the course of her career , Wu has notably worked for the ABC daytime drama series General Hospital and One Life to Live while also working as a fellow writer for Disney . She has scripted and directed many documentary films that have screened at the IFP Market , Asian American International Film Festival , Sundance Producers Conference , and the Anthology Film Archives in New York City . As a writer she has also had her own plays read at prestigious outings and settings such as the Santa Clara Experimental Theater Festival and La Jolla Studio Stage . Proving herself to be rather multi talented , Wu has also served as a National Endowment for the Arts Panelist , New York State Council on the Arts , Individual Artist Grant Panelist and has served as an international Emmy Awards Juror , as well .

neg: Ty Pak Ty Pak ( born Tae-Yong Pak in 1938 ) is a writer and speaker on Korean/Asian American affairs and literature .

neg: Kristiaan Yeo Kristiaan Yeo is a television journalist currently employed by CCTV News for CCTV America , as the network 's Toronto correspondent .   He is the first and only English-language resident correspondent to cover Canada for Chinese state television .

neg: Wu Dawei Wu Dawei ( -LSB- u tAuei -RSB- , ; born 1946 ) is the special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People 's Republic of China .

neg: William Kristol William `` Bill '' Kristol ( born December 23 , 1952 ) is an American conservative political analyst and commentator . He is the founder and editor at large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard and a political commentator on several networks .   Kristol is associated with a number of prominent conservative think tanks . He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005 . In 1997 , he co-founded the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ) with Robert Kagan . He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research , a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center , and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative . He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe , a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame , and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List .

neg: Sung Jun Huh Sung Jun Huh ( born 13 June 1992 ) is an American former football player who played for the Samsung Frankfurt Universe in the German Football League . He played at outside linebacker . He is possibly the only professional American football player , who is of Korean descent , besides Hines Ward .

neg: Wu-Syndicate Wu-Syndicate is a group from Virginia consisting of Joe Mafia , Napoleon , and Myalansky ( who named himself after the gangster Meyer Lansky ) . They were originally called Crime Syndicate but changed their name to Wu-Syndicate when they signed to Wu-Tang Records and became Wu-Tang Clan affiliates . After debuting on the compilation Wu-Tang Killa Bees : The Swarm in 1998 , their self-titled debut album Wu-Syndicate was released in 1999 on both Wu-Tang Records and their own label Slot Time Records . The album was , like most releases from Wu-Tang Clan affiliates during this time enjoyed moderately successful sales with the single `` Where Wuz Heaven '' going gold . Soon after the release there was a dispute of an unknown origin between the group and Wu-Tang Records and the group briefly changed their name to The Syndicate until 2009 with eventual reconciliation and the release of their second official album Grimlenz , produced mostly by Antagonist Dragonspit of Virginia Beach , VA. . Both Myalansky and Napoleon continue to work with Joe Mafia but have refused to work with each other since the release of their first album . In an interview Napoleon stated that though they have always clashed , `` Mya is still my dude though regardless '' . The group has maintained ties with various members of the Wu-Tang Family . Napoleon is currently working on a project with fellow Wu-Tang alumni Solomon Childs , Shaka Amazulu , and Dexter Wiggle called `` Illuminati Network '' . Joe Mafia released his debut solo album This One in 2002 and founded his own label called 58 West Diamond Street Records . Napoleon released his first solo album , Kingpin Wit Da Inkpen in 2007 and a mixtape titled Mark of the Beast in 2011 . Myalansky released his first solo album , Drastic Measures in 2008 and a mixtape a few years later in 2011 AMW.Com . Myalansky has also been working with California rapper Mitchy Slick and has released two more volumes of his AMW.Com mixtape series . In 2013 Myalansky and Joe Mafia featured on the song `` Golden Age Rapper '' by CHG Unfadable .

neg: Kongo Kong Steven Wilson ( born August 10 , 1979 ) is an American professional wrestler who wrestles under the ring name Kongo Kong .

neg: Kris Travis Kris Travis ( 16 December 1983 -- 31 March 2016 ) was an English professional wrestler . He was a staple of UK and European Independent Wrestling scenes , working for companies such as PROGRESS Wrestling , Insane Championship Wrestling , Preston City Wrestling , Premier British Wrestling , Revolution Pro Wrestling , Westside Xtreme Wrestling , British Championship Wrestling , One Pro Wrestling , Total Nonstop Action ( One appearance ) , Frontier Wrestling Alliance and others , until his death in 2016 .

neg: Orlando Jordan Orlando Mason Jordan ( born April 21 , 1974 ) is an American-Australian semi-retired professional wrestler . He is best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , where he was a one-time United States Champion . He is also known for his stint with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) .

neg: Chinese Americans Chinese Americans , which includes American-born Chinese , are Americans who have full or partial Chinese ancestry . Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans , which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans . Many Chinese Americans are immigrants along with their descendants from mainland China , Hong Kong , Macau , Taiwan , as well as from other regions that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora , especially Southeast Asia and some Western countries like Canada , United Kingdom , Australia , New Zealand , and Brazil .   The Chinese American community is the largest overseas Chinese community outside of Asia . It is also the third largest in the Chinese diaspora , behind the Chinese communities in Thailand and Malaysia . The Chinese American community comprises the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans , comprising 25.9 % of the Asian American population as of 2010 . Americans of Chinese descent , including those with partial Chinese ancestry constitute 1.2 % of the total U.S. population as of 2010 . According to the 2010 census , the Chinese American population numbered approximately 3.8 million . In 2010 , half of Chinese-born people living in the United States resided in the states of California and New York .

neg: Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance 한인타운 노동연대 ( KIWA , pronounced kee-wah ) , also known under its past name Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates 남가주 한인 노동 상담소 , is a multi-ethnic immigrant worker civil rights membership organization based in the Los Angeles Koreatown area .   KIWA was founded in 1992 by progressive minded Korean activists who saw class as the basic contradiction of the immigrant communities in Koreatown . It has since been involved in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest , campaigns to improve working conditions and immigrant worker empowerment in various Korean ethnic industries , the living wages campaign , and Koreatown 's multi-ethnic community developments .   KIWA is perhaps best known recently for its long campaign against Assi Market , the largest ethnic Korean-owned supermarket of the United States , located in Koreatown . Started in the late 1990s , KIWA demands that Assi management rehire dozens of fired Latino and Korean workers who were fired for trying to organize a trade union .   Although initially staffed mostly by ethnic Koreans , KIWA grew to encompass Asian-Pacific American and Latino organizers and members . The Spanish language `` Alianza de trabajadores inmigrantes del Barrio Coreano '' had been in common use since the early 2000s ; however the English language name was officially changed in March 2006 from Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates to Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance . The Korean language '' 한인노동상담소 '' ( Korean Worker 's Center ) has been changed to 한인타운 노동연대 to signify its geographical focus rather than on an ethnic group .   KIWA is a member organization of MIWON ( Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Alliance ) , an alliance of four ( formerly five ) immigrant workers ' centers in the Los Angeles area , and ENLACE , a U.S.-Mexico network of workers ' centers .

neg: Han Ye-seul Han Ye-seul ( born Leslie Kim on 18 September 1981 ) is an American-born South Korean actress . She made her acting debut in the sitcom Nonstop 4 ( 2003 ) , and has since played leading roles in television dramas such as Couple or Trouble ( 2006 ) , Tazza ( 2008 ) , and Birth of a Beauty ( 2014 ) , as well as the films Miss Gold Digger ( 2007 ) and Penny Pinchers ( 2011 ) .


query: Kenneth Branagh was nominated for an award.

pos: Kenneth Branagh Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( -LSB- ˈbrænə -RSB- born 10 December 1960 ) is a Northern Irish actor , director , producer , and screenwriter originally from Belfast . Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in London , and in 2015 succeeded Richard Attenborough as its President . He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare 's plays , including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ) , Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ) , Othello ( 1995 ) , Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ) , Love 's Labour 's Lost ( 2000 ) , and As You Like It ( 2006 ) .   Branagh has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ) , Woody Allen 's Celebrity ( 1998 ) , Wild Wild West ( 1999 ) , The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ) , Conspiracy ( 2001 ) , Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ) , Warm Springs ( 2005 ) , Valkyrie ( 2008 ) , The Boat That Rocked ( 2009 ) , Wallander ( 2008 -- present ) , and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Sir Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ) . He has directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) , in which he also starred , Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ) , Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) in which he also starred , The Magic Flute ( 2006 ) , Sleuth ( 2007 ) , the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ) , the action thriller Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit ( 2014 ) in which he also co-stars , and Cinderella ( 2015 ) .   He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries ' Walking with Dinosaurs ( starred in 1999 ) ( as well as The Ballad of Big Al ) , Walking with Beasts ( 2001 ) and Walking with Monsters ( 2005 ) . Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards , five Golden Globes , and has won three BAFTAs , and an Emmy . He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012 .

neg: British Academy Television Awards 2010 The 2010 British Academy Television Awards were held on 6 June 2010 . The nominations were announced on 10 May .  This year new awards were added including the award for Best Actor/Actress in a Supporting Role . Graham Norton hosted the ceremony . Winners are in bold .

neg: Political Film Society Award for Democracy The Political Film Society Award for democracy is given out each year to a film that promotes , educates , and raises the awareness level of the public in the specific areas of democracy and freedom . This award has been handed out by the Society since 1988 . Depending on the number of movies that qualify , sometimes only one film is nominated for this award , but as many as seven have been nominated in years past .   The film that first won this award was The Milagro Beanfield War in 1988 that was directed by Robert Redford . The only other award nominated in 1988 against The Milagro Beanfield War was Stand and Deliver . The award , as with any other Political Film Society Award , can go to a mainstream film , independent film , or even an international film . The Political Film Society looks at a broad selection of movies before it nominates them for an award .

neg: List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has had occurrences of actors and actresses nominated for two different Academy Awards in acting categories in a single year , with the first instance in 1938 . Provided that they receive enough votes from the Academy in both categories to earn a nomination , there are no restrictions on actors being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor or actresses being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in any given year . The sole rule with regard to multiple nominations is that an actor or actress can not receive multiple nominations for the same performance . This rule was introduced in 1944 after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor nomination and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way .   As of 2015 , 11 actors and actresses have been nominated for two different Academy Awards in the same year . The first of these actors and actresses was Fay Bainter , who received nominations for her performances in White Banners and Jezebel at the 11th Academy Awards . The most recent occurrence was during the 80th Academy Awards , in which Cate Blanchett received nominations for Elizabeth : The Golden Age and I 'm Not There . Seven of these actors and actresses received an Academy Award in one of the categories they were nominated in , and none have won two Academy Awards in the same year . Four did not receive an Academy Award in either category : Sigourney Weaver ( nominations for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl ) , Emma Thompson ( nominations for The Remains of the Day and In the Name of the Father ) , Julianne Moore ( nominations for Far from Heaven and The Hours ) , and Cate Blanchett ( nominations for Elizabeth : The Golden Age and I 'm Not There ) .

neg: 2013 British Academy Television Awards The 2013 British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 9 April 2013 . The award ceremony was held at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 12 May 2013 .

neg: 11th Irish Film & Television Awards The 11th Irish Film & Television Awards took place on Saturday 5 April 2014 in Dublin . The nominations were announced on 27 February 2014 . The Awards Ceremony took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Burlington Road Dublin , and was broadcast on RTÉ One at 9.45 pm .  The Annual Irish Film & Television Awards are the highlight of Ireland 's entertainment and cultural calendar celebrating the very best of Irish screen talent across film and television . Guests in attendance included Michael Fassbender , Colin Farrell , Jamie Dornan , Steve Coogan , Will Forte , Jeremy Irons , Fionnula Flanagan , Brendan Gleeson , Neil Jordan , Amy Huberman , Colm Meaney , Jack Reynor , Killian Scott , Eva Birthistle , Victoria Smurfit and Outstanding Contribution Honorary Award Winner President Michael D Higgins .   Simon Delaney and Laura Whitmore co-hosted the event .   The President of Ireland , Michael D. Higgins , received an honorary award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Irish film and television industry .   The big winners on the night were the films Calvary , Byzantium and Philomena which all picked up three awards each . Calvary took the highest accolade , Best Film , along with Best Actor for Brendan Gleeson and Best Script for its writer-director John Michael McDonagh . Touching true story Philomena won the award for Best International Film and Actress ( for Judi Dench ) along with Costume Design for Consolata Boyle . Philomena Lee , whose true life story inspired the film was in attendance at the Ceremony . Vampire horror Byzantium 's awards included the prestigious Best Director for Neil Jordan , Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan and Makeup & Hair .

neg: Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television The following is a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Actor on Television ( formerly Best Genre TV Actor ) .   The award is presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction , Fantasy and Horror Films , honoring the work of actresses in science fiction , fantasy , and horror fiction on television .   ( NOTE : Year refers to year of eligibility , the actual ceremonies are held the following year . )   The winners are listed in bold .

neg: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2003 16th CFCA Awards  January 21 , 2004   Best Film :  The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King   The 16th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards , honoring the best in film for 2003 , were presented in 2004 . The awards were originally going to be cancelled because the 2003 screener ban but when a judge ruled against it and the studios started to send out screeners again the awards were held after all .   Peter Jackson 's final part of `` The Lord of the Rings '' trilogy `` The Return of the King '' and Sofia Coppola 's `` Lost in Translation '' both won three awards .

neg: Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts Each year since 1988 The Critics ' Circle has presented an award for Distinguished Service to the Arts , voted for by all members of the Circle , embracing Dance , Drama , Film , Music , Visual Arts and Architecture .   This performing arts Award takes the form of an engraved crystal rose bowl , presented at a celebratory luncheon . The recipients were :   1988 Sir Peter Hall  1989 Dame Ninette de Valois  1990 Sir Michael Tippett  1991 Sir David Lean  1992 Sir John Mills  1993 Sir Peter Ustinov  1994 Sir John Drummond  1995 Sir Peter Wright  1996 Sir Richard Eyre  1997 Dame Judi Dench  1998 Sir Edward Downes  1999 Harold Pinter  2000 Dame Alicia Markova  2001 Paul Scofield  2002 Sir Alfred Brendel  2003 Sir Ian McKellen  2004 Mike Leigh  2005 Alan Bennett  2006 Dame Helen Mirren  2007 Sir Tom Stoppard  2008 Peter Brook  2009 Sir Alan Ayckbourn  2010 Ken Loach  2011 Stephen Sondheim  2013 Grayson Perry  2014 Sir Nicholas Hytner  2015 Dame Maggie Smith   Category : Performing arts awards

neg: List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film The 66th Academy Awards , which were held on March 21 , 1994 , saw 35 countries submit films for competition in the Best Foreign Language Film category . The Academy had initially invited 57 countries to send their best films , and the submission deadline was set on November 22 , 1993 . While the rules were basically unchanged , the applications for the 66th Academy Awards included a new form requesting information about the nationalities of the film 's creative team , due to the controversy that had led to the disqualification of A Place in the World at the 65th Academy Awards .   The bolded titles were the five nominated films , which came from Hong Kong , Spain , Taiwan , the United Kingdom and Vietnam . It was the first time that the majority of the nominees in this category came from outside Europe ( it happened again in 1997 , 2006 and 2011 ) and is the only time when there have been three Asian nominees . Vietnam made history by becoming the only Southeast Asian country ever to be nominated in this category ( accurate as of 2013 ) . The prize was ultimately awarded to Spain for the romantic comedy , Belle Epoque .

neg: Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre . The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976 , and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Laurence Olivier .   The award was originally entitled Play of the Year but was later renamed in 2001 .

neg: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre . The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976 , and , renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier . The Olivier Awards are the most prestigious theatrical awards in the United Kingdom and are the UK equivalent of the Tony Awards .   Until 2015 , the Olivier Awards did not honour supporting musical performances separately and was therefore a unisex category , honouring both male and female actors . Starting with the 2015 ceremony , the awards have been separated into Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical and Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical

neg: Best Actor Award (Locarno International Film Festival) The Leopard for Best Actor ( Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile ) is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival . It was first awarded in 1946 .

neg: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre . The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976 , and , renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier .   The award was first given in 1977 but in the years following was often given as a singular award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role .

neg: List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956 . The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue . The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films . Nine shortlisted contenders will be revealed a week before the announcement of the Oscar nominations .   The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2011 , and 30 September 2012 .   On 8 October 2012 , the Academy announced the final list of eligible submissions , with a record number of 71 films . Nine finalists were announced in December 2012 , which were shortlisted in January , with the final five nominees announced on 10 January 2013 . The Austrian entry Amour directed by Michael Haneke was the eventual winner .   Kenya submitted its first film in the Foreign Language category with Nairobi Half Life . Cambodia made its first submission in 18 years ( and its second overall ) with Lost Loves .

neg: 1986 Laurence Olivier Awards The 1986 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1986 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre .

neg: BAFTA Award for Best Film The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards . It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards , representing the best films of 1947 , but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source . It is possible for films from any country to be nominated , although British films are also recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best British Film and ( since 1983 ) foreign-language films in BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language . As such , there have been multiple occasions of a film being nominated in two of these categories .   There has been one tie for the Best Film award when , in 1962 , Ballad of a Soldier tied with The Hustler for Best Film from any Source . Until 1981 , the award was given to the director , except in 1976 and 1977 , when it was given to the producers . From 1981 to 1985 , it was given solely to the producers , and then in 1986 , it was shared between the Director and Producer . In 1998 , it was once again given to only the producers .   In the following lists , the titles and names in bold with a dark grey background are the winners and recipients respectively ; those not in bold are the nominees . The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released , not the year of the ceremony , which always takes place the following year .

neg: London Film Critics Circle Awards 2010 31st London Film Critics Circle Awards  11 February 2011   Film of the Year :  The Social Network   British Film of the Year :  The King 's Speech   The 31st London Film Critics Circle Awards , honouring the best in film for 2010 , were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 11 February 2011 .

neg: César Award for Best Original Screenplay The César Award for Best Original Screenplay ( César du meilleur scénario original ) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma . It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985 , and then awarded again in 2006 , when the original category ( César Award for Best Writing ) was split into two awards , the other being César Award for Best Adaptation .

neg: Black Reel Awards The Black Reel Awards , or `` BRAs '' , is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film ( FAAAF ) to recognize excellence in African-American , as well as those of African diaspora 's cinematic achievements in the around the world film industry as assessed by the Academy 's voting membership . The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette , officially called the Black Reel Award . The awards , first presented in 2000 in Washington , DC , are overseen by FAAAF .   The awards ceremony was initially awarded online their first two years before the first live show in 2002 . The awards have broadcast to radio since 2014 . Currently , the Black Reel Awards is the oldest cinema-exclusive awards ceremony for African-Americans .   The 16th Annual Black Reel Awards ceremony was held on February 18 , 2016 . A total of 315 Black Reel Awards have been presented since the inception of the award through the 16th .

neg: 25th Academy Awards The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19 , 1953 . It took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood , California , and the NBC International Theatre in New York City .   It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised , and the first ceremony to be held in Hollywood and New York City simultaneously . It was also the only year that the New York ceremonies were to be held in the NBC International Theatre on Columbus Circle , which was shortly thereafter demolished and replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center .   A major upset occurred in the category of Best Picture . The heavily favored High Noon lost to Cecil B. DeMille 's The Greatest Show on Earth , eventually considered among the worst films to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture . The American film magazine Premiere placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine Empire rated it # 3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners . It has the lowest spot on Rotten Tomatoes ' list of the 81 films to win Best Picture . Of all the films nominated for the Oscar this year , only High Noon and Singin ' in the Rain would show up 46 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the 20th Century . For a film that only received two nominations , Singin ' in the Rain went on to be named as the greatest American musical film of all time and in the 2007 American Film Institute updated list as the fifth greatest American film of all time , while High Noon was ranked twenty-seventh on the same 2007 list , as well .   The Bad and the Beautiful won five awards , the most wins ever for a film not nominated for Best Picture . It was also the second Academy Awards in which a film not nominated for Best Picture received the most awards of the evening , excluding years where there were ties for the most wins . The only other film to do this was The Thief of Bagdad at the 13th Academy Awards ; as of the 87th Academy Awards , it has not happened since .   Until Spotlight won only Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards , this was the last year in which the Best Picture winner won just two Oscars . It was also the second of three years to date in which two films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner ( The Bad and the Beautiful and Hans Christian Andersen , both with six ) . This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards .   Shirley Booth also became the last person to win an Oscar in a Leading Role to be born in the 19th century . She also holds the distinction of being the first woman in her 50s to win the award , at the age of 54 ( the second woman in her 50s to win , Julianne Moore , was 54 when awarded at the 87th Academy Awards ) .   John Ford 's fourth win for Best Director set a record for the most wins in this category that remains unmatched to this day .   For the first time since the introduction of Supporting Actor and Actress awards in 1936 , Best Picture , Best Director , and all four acting Oscars went to six different films . This has happened only three times since , at the 29th Academy Awards for 1956 , the 78th for 2005 , and the 85th for 2012 .


query: Ty Cobb's place of birth is in Georgia.

pos: Ty Cobb Tyrus Raymond Cobb ( December 18 , 1886 -- July 17 , 1961 ) , nicknamed The Georgia Peach , was an American Major League Baseball ( MLB ) outfielder . He was born in rural Narrows , Georgia . Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers , the last six as the team 's player-manager , and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics . In 1936 Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot , receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes ( 98.2 % ) ; no other player received a higher percentage of votes until 1992 . In 1999 , editors at the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb 3rd on their list of `` Baseball 's 100 Greatest Players '' .   Cobb is widely credited with setting 90 MLB records during his career . He still holds several records as of the end of the 2016 season , including the highest career batting average ( .366 or .367 , depending on source ) and most career batting titles with 11 ( or 12 , depending on source ) . He retained many other records for almost a half century or more , including most career hits until 1985 ( 4,189 or 4,191 , depending on source ) , most career runs ( 2,245 or 2,246 depending on source ) until 2001 , most career games played ( 3,035 ) and at bats ( 11,429 or 11,434 depending on source ) until 1974 , and the modern record for most career stolen bases ( 892 ) until 1977 . He still holds the career record for stealing home ( 54 times ) and for stealing second base , third base , and home in succession ( 5 times ) , and as the youngest player ever to compile 4,000 hits and score 2,000 runs . Cobb ranks fifth all-time in number of games played and committed 271 errors , the most by any American League ( AL ) outfielder .   Cobb 's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly temperament and aggressive playing style , which was described by the Detroit Free Press as `` daring to the point of dementia . '' Cobb himself wrote shortly before his death , `` In legend I am a sadistic , slashing , swashbuckling despot who waged war in the guise of sport . '' Cobb was notorious for sliding into bases feet first , with his spikes high .   Cobb 's legacy , which includes a large college scholarship fund for Georgia residents financed by his early investments in Coca-Cola and General Motors , has been tarnished by allegations of racism and violence , largely stemming from a couple of biographies that were released following his death . Cobb 's reputation as an extremely violent man was fanned by his first biographer , sportswriter Al Stump , whose stories about Cobb have been discredited as sensationalized , and in some part proven to be entirely fictional , while Cobb 's views on race evolved and mellowed after his retirement from baseball .

neg: Cobb Galleria Centre The Cobb Galleria Centre is a meeting and convention center and a shopping center in the Cumberland/Galleria district of Cobb County , northwest of Atlanta , Georgia , in the United States . It is also located next to a cluster of mid-rise office buildings , the Cumberland Mall and the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre . It has hosted over 15,000 events and millions of guests . The venue operates under the direction of the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority and is located at the intersection of three major highways : Interstate 75 , Interstate 285 , and Cobb Parkway ( U.S. 41 ) just northwest of the city . The Galleria Specialty Mall , which pre-dates the convention center , is located downstairs , with meeting halls upstairs .

neg: Garry Cobb Garry Wilbert Cobb ( born March 16 , 1957 in Carthage , North Carolina ) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League and current radio and television personality on FOX-29 and WPEN in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . He was the Republican nominee for Congress in the House election for New Jersey 's 1st congressional district .

neg: Rooney L. Bowen Rooney L. Bowen , Jr. ( July 25 , 1933 -- March 3 , 2016 ) was an American politician in the state of Georgia .   Born in Dooly County , Georgia , Bowen graduated from Unadilla High School and then attended the University of Georgia . He was an automobile dealer , farmer , and funeral director . Bowen lived in Cordele , Georgia . Bowen served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1963 to 1973 . He then served in the Georgia State Senate from 1980 to 2005 . Bowen was a member of the Democratic Party . In 2002 , Bowen switched to the Republican Party . He died in Cordele , Georgia in 2016 .

neg: Senoia, Georgia Senoia ( the historical and local pronunciation is `` Suh-noy '' ) is a city in Coweta County , Georgia , United States . It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area . Its population was 4,073 in 2015 .

neg: Opera in Atlanta Opera in Atlanta has a long and uneven history . The first shows performed in Atlanta predate the American Civil War and were primarily performed in makeshift facilities modified for the operatic arts . The main company for the region is the Atlanta Opera , founded in 1979 , which produces mainstage opera productions and arts education programs for all ages . The Atlanta Opera is based at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre .

neg: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta The Archdiocese of Atlanta is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of Georgia . Its ecclesiastical territory comprises Georgia 's northern counties , including the capital of Atlanta . It is led by a prelate archbishop , currently Wilton D. Gregory , who is also pastor of the mother church , the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta . The Cathedral is the metropolitan see of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta , which covers Georgia , South Carolina , and North Carolina . As of 2014 , there were 100 parishes and missions in the Archdiocese . There were 900,000 registered Catholics in the Archdiocese as of 2010 .

neg: Dodge County, Georgia Dodge County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia . As of 2010 , the population was 21,796 . The county seat is Eastman . Dodge County lies in the Historic South and Black Belt region of Georgia , an area that was devoted to cotton production in the antebellum years . It has significant historic buildings and plantations , has a substantial African-American population , and shows cultural aspects of the South .

neg: Tybee Post Theater Tybee Post Theater is a movie theatre located on Tybee Island , Georgia , United States .

neg: Colquitt County, Georgia Colquitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia . As of the 2010 census , the population was 45,498 . The county seat is Moultrie . The county was created February 25 , 1856 and is named for Walter Terry Colquitt , a U.S. senator .   Colquitt County comprises the Moultrie , GA Micropolitan Statistical Area .   It is the hometown of former U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss . Colquitt County is the home of the Colquitt County Packers and is home to the 1994 Class AAAA and the 2014 and 2015 AAAAAA State Championship Football teams , along with the 1997 and 2003 State Champion Baseball teams .

neg: Atlanta Ballet Atlanta Ballet is a ballet company , located in Atlanta , Georgia . It is the longest continuously performing ballet company in the United States and the State Ballet of Georgia .

neg: Sweat Mountain Sweat Mountain is a low mountain in far northeastern Cobb County , Georgia , in the suburbs north of Atlanta . The exact GNIS location of its summit is , and it has an official ( USGS ) elevation of 1688 ft above mean sea level . It is the second-highest point in the county behind Kennesaw Mountain , and second in the core metro Atlanta area , behind Kennesaw Mountain , which is also in Cobb County . It is fifth if the exurban counties further north are considered .   This height has made the mountain very attractive for radio , having several transmitters , radio towers , and antennas , for pagers , cellphones , broadcasting , and amateur radio . The fact that Stone Mountain and Kennesaw Mountain are both protected as parks has led to a proliferation of technology at the top . At the same time , both the antenna farm and the densely packed houses detract from the view of the mountain from surrounding areas of northeast Cobb , south-southeast Cherokee ( including much of Woodstock ) , and western Roswell .   Sweat Mountain is also a part of the ridge that divides the Chattahoochee River basin to the south and southeast , from the Lake Allatoona ( Etowah River ) basin to the north and northwest . From Sweat Mountain , this runs west-southwest through Cobb to Kennesaw Mountain and Lost Mountain .

neg: WTTY WTTY 97.7 is a commercial radio station licensed in the US to TyTy , Georgia . Wtty is part of a group of South Georgia Radio Stations playing Classic Hits , and is owned by Victor M. Vickers .

neg: Statesboro, Georgia Statesboro is the largest city and county seat of Bulloch County , Georgia , United States , located in Southeast Georgia .  A college town , Statesboro is best known as the home of Georgia Southern University , a Carnegie Doctoral-Research University .   As of 2015 , the Statesboro Micropolitan Statistical Area , which consists of Bulloch County , had an estimated population of 72,651 . The City itself had a population of 28,422 in the 2010 census . The City had an estimated 2015 population of 30,721 .   The city was chartered in 1803 , starting as a small trading community providing the basic essentials for surrounding cotton plantations . This drove the economy through the 19th century , both before and after the American Civil War .   In 1906 , Statesboro and area leaders joined together to bid for and win the First District A&M School , a land grant college that eventually developed as Georgia Southern University in 1990 . In 1908 , Statesboro sold more cotton bales than did Savannah , Georgia , but the boll weevil infestation of the 1930s required a shift to tobacco as a crop . Statesboro inspired the blues song `` Statesboro Blues '' , written by Blind Willie McTell in the 1920s , and covered in a well-known version by The Allman Brothers Band .

neg: Stone Mountain, Georgia Stone Mountain is a city in DeKalb County , Georgia , in the United States . The population was 5,802 at the 2010 census . Stone Mountain is located in the eastern part of Dekalb County and is a suburb of the Atlanta metropolitan area . It lies near to but does not include the geological formation Stone Mountain .

neg: Cobb's Legion Cobb 's Legion ( also known as the Georgia Legion ) was an American Civil War unit that was raised on the Confederate side from the State of Georgia by Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb during the summer of 1861 . A `` legion '' consisted of a single integrated command , with individual components from the infantry , cavalry , and artillery . When it was originally raised , the Georgia Legion comprised seven infantry companies , four cavalry troops , and a single battery . The concept of a multiple-branch unit was fine in theory , but never was a practical application for Civil War armies and , early in the war , the individual elements were assigned to other organizations .

neg: Tanner, Georgia Tanner is a place in Washington County , Georgia , United States .

neg: Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton is a city located in western Georgia , United States . It resides in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains . As of the 2010 census , the city had a population of 24,388 . The city is the county seat of Carroll County .   Historically , Carrollton has been a commercial center for Carroll County and many other counties in Georgia and Alabama . It is the home of the University of West Georgia .

neg: Film industry in Georgia (U.S. state) The film industry in Georgia was , in 2015 , the third largest among U.S. states , eclipsed only by California and New York State . The industry in Georgia was boosted substantially by tax incentives introduced in 2002 and strengthened in 2008 . The state government claims $ 770 million in economic impact to Georgia ( 2009 ) , while industry sources claim that the tax subsidy costs the state $ 141 million ( 2010 ) . Atlanta is the center of the film industry in Georgia with Turner , Tyler Perry and EUE/Screen Gems studios located there . There were 348 productions shot in the state in 2009 . Films shot in Georgia include Tyler Perry 's Meet the Browns ( 2008 ) , Life as We Know It ( 2010 ) , and Contagion ( 2011 ) . Atlanta has been called the `` Hollywood of the South '' .

neg: Monroe, Georgia Monroe is a city in and the county seat of Walton County , Georgia . It is located east of Atlanta and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area . The population was 13,234 at the 2010 census .