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Gibson and Penn were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Penn was nominated as Best Director, and both Bancroft (portraying Sullivan) and Duke (portraying Keller) won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
The Rachel Maddow Show has been nominated twice by the Television Critics Association for the Outstanding Achievement in News and Information category and the show took home a GLAAD award in 2010. Maddow was named an MSNBC political analyst in January of 2008.