And Wales legend Gareth Edwards says Wales are becoming even more difficult to beat.
Wales rugby icon Gareth Edwards and former Ryder Cup skippers Ian Woosnam and Sam Torrance also met the team.
Elsewhere in south east Wales, former Cardiff scrum half Gareth Edwards receives a CBE for services to sport and rugby.
He is in the process of creating paintings of more Welsh celebrities such as Catherine Zeta Jones and former Welsh rugby player Gareth Edwards.
Then there is the Welsh rugby side of the 1970s, an era-defining collective which included Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Gerald Davies and Phil Bennett.
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Former Wales rugby legend Gareth Edwards and BBC Radio Wales presenters Roy Noble and Frank Hennessy were among those who gathered for the ceremony.
Gareth Edwards' sci-fi film Monsters has six nominations as do Never Let Me Go, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel, and The Arbor, a documentary about the life of troubled Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
The Lions enjoyed their most successful period in the early 1970s with the 1971 team -- inspired by the Welsh half-back pairing of Gareth Edwards and Barry John -- triumphing against the All Blacks in New Zealand.
Morgan Stoddart claimed two of them, while there was one each for Jonathan Edwards and Gareth Maule.
When news broke of the airspace shutdown on Thursday, a rapid travel plan was put together for the four-strong team of commentator Gareth Charles, pitch-side reporter Phil Steele, director Rhys Edwards and TV co-ordinator Gareth Gronow.
Machynlleth mayor Gareth Jones and mayoress Eirwen Edwards accepted a slate plaque on behalf on the town.
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There's the Edwards clan - after Gareth, of course - the Quinnells - enough said there too - the Williamses - JPR - and the Joneses - Stephen.
The first comedy night is on Thursday 4 March 2010 with Paul B Edwards headlining with Scott Denyer, Gareth Brand and MC David Whitney.
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