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Awards in 2009


Nobel 2009

Person
Category
Barack Obama
peace
Australian American Researcher Elizebeth Blackburn
Carol Greider
Jack Szostak of US
Medicine
Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom (both Americans)
Economics
Herta Mueller a member of Romanias ethnic German Minority
Literature
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Tamil Nadu born Indian Scientist,
American scientist Thomas Steitz
Israeli Ada Yonath
Chemistry
Charles K Rao
Williard S boyle
George E Smith
Physics


Kushwant singh (writer & Journalist)
National Amity Award 26th sep 2008.
Shekhar Gupta(editor-in-chief Indian Express )
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for National Intergration 2006-2007 on 27 sep 2008.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
1995 Jawarlal Nehru Award  on Nov 18'08.
13  journalist
management Guru C.K Prahalad
Surinam's President Sardjoe
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman. (Jan' 09)
Arunachal Governor JJ Singh (Retired).
Mother Teresa Award (Life Time Achievement Award)
Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (MD)
Biacon Pharma Got the Nikkei Asia Prize 2009.
Dr.A P J abdul Kalam
Hover Medal Award. +honorary doctorate of laws by Queens University (Belfast).
Suu Kyi
Mahatma Gandi Peace Award 2009.
Gujrat's Water and Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO)
UN Public service award 2009.
Major Mohit Sharma ( Para Special Forces)
Major D Sreeram
Asoka Chakra
Deep Joshi(Social Activist)
Magsaysay Awards 2009.(5 others apart from him)
Nirmala Deshpande (Posthumously)
Paksitan President conferred the Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) the third highest award of Pakistan
Gautam Bhai(Pawanar Ashram Wardha,Maharastra)
17th Rajiv Gandhi Natinal Sadbhavana Award.
Dalai Lama
International Freedom Award (by National Civil Rights Museum, USA)
Oscar Fernandes (congress)
Nelson Mandela Award



Padma Awardees in Jan 2009-

  1. Dr Anil Kakodkar(Chief of Atomic Energy Department)
  2. G Madhavan Nair(ISRO Chairman)
  3. Sister Nirmala(Missionary)
  4. Sunder Lal Bahuguna (Environmentalist)

Indira Gandhi Peace Price

Director General of IAEA Mohamed Elbardei
nov 19'08.
Bill Gates
july 25'09.

12th Rajiv Gandhi Awards

Krishna Patil
(2nd youngest Indian Girl to scale Mt Everest) Woman Achiever
G Madhavan Nair
(ISRO chief)Super Achiever
Supernani Rajshree Birla
(Social Worker Social Entrepreneur 
Sam Pitroda (Father of Yellow Revolution In India)
Global Indian Award
Rohit Kocchar (Owner of a Law firm)
The Youngl Entrepreneur
Abhinav Bindra
Sports
Avika Gor (Balika Vadhu)
Youngest Prodigy
Ramesh Chandra Agarwal(Chairman Dainik Bhaskar)
Journalism
Vineet Jain (Owner Times Group)
Industrial
Katrina Kaif
Best Actress
Sahid Kapoor
Best Actor

Beauty Queens

Ms Nikkitasha Marwaha
Miss India Worldwide 2009.
Rupal Lakhani(Gujrati origin)
Miss India Canada in Toronto.
Stefania Fernandez
Miss universe 2009 title.

Journalism Related

Delhi Union of Journalist
Appan Menon Memorial Award.
PTI
News agency of the year by UK based Magazine.
Nirupama Subramaniam Islamabad Correspondent of The Hindu and Vinita Desmukh Editor Intelligent Pune.
Chameli Devi Jain Award for oustanding women medai person 2008-09

books

Abhishek Mazumdar(Harlesden High Street)
Metro Plus Playwright Award 2008
Christos Tsiolkas (Australias author)
best Book Prize at the prestigious commonwealth Writers Award in Auckland.2009
Liu Xiaobe (44.Chinese Dissident and writer, house arrest since dec 2008 )
2009 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith freedom to write award
Lakshinandan Bora and Mannu Bhandari
saraswati Samman and Vyas samman 2008 by Loksabha Speaker Meira Kumar
Hillary Mantel(Wolf Hall)
Manbooker prize 2009
Alice Munro(Canadas Short story writer)
Manbooker International.

Businessmen

Lakshmi Mittal
Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award





Films

Movies & Music

Zakir hussain (Tabla Maestro)
+ three musician jointly for his music album Global Drum Project
Grammy Awards 2009
A.R Rahman(1st Indian & also double Oscar winner)
1.    Golden Globe Award for best original music score.
2.    B4U outstanding Achievement trohy at the UK Asian Music Award.
3.    grassroot Grammy in US.
4.    Honorary Doctorate by Aligarh Muslim University
Director Paresh Mokashi
(film Harish Chandrachi Factory in Marathi.)
Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial foundation Award for best debutant director

55th Natinal Film Awards 2007 (given on Sep 2009)

Best Feature Film
Kanchivaram (Tamil Percept picture company/Priyadarshan)
Best Film for wholesome Entertainment
Chal De Aditya Chopra/Shimit amin
Indira Gandi Award for Best First Film
Frozen Hindi,Shivajee Chandrabhushan
Best Director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan for naalu Pennungal(Tamil)
Best Film on Family Welfare
Taare Zameen Par Hindi Aamir Khan
Best Scren Play
Gandhi My Father Hindi Feroz shah Abbas
Nargis Dutt Award for best feature film on National Integration
Dharm Hindi Sheetal Talwar/Bhavna Talwar
Best Actor
Prakash Raj for Kanchivaram (Tamil)
Best Actress
Umashree for Gulabi Talkies(Kannada)
Best Supporting Actor
Darshan Jariwala for Gandhi my Father
Best Supp actress
Shefali Shah for the Last Lear (Eng)
Best Playback Singer Male
Shanker mahadevan For Taare Zameen Par
Best Playback singer Female
Shreya Ghosal fro Jab We Met
Best Music
Ouseppachan for Ore Kadal (Malayalam)

Dadasaheb Phalke Award

 

Manna Dey
Dadasaheb Phalke Award

*** will add previous years winners later






Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award 2009

Phalke Ratna Award
Manoj Kumar
Phalke Legend Actor Award
Shammi kapoor
Phalke Golden Singer Award
Shamshad Begum
Phalke Kalptaru Award
Prithvi Raj kapoor(Posth)
Phalke Memorable Commercial Film Award
Ashutosh Gowariker
Phalke Academy for the senior most producer of India
Surendra Kapoor

Theatre / Drama

Valayapatti AR Subramaniam(Thavil Maestro)
Sangita Kalanidhi title of the Music Academy Chennai.
Ebrahim Alkazi (veteran theatre director)
Hindiratna Samman awarded every year to non hindi speaking individual who has made distinctive contribution to various aspects of hindi language

The 62nd Cannes festival 2009

info.

·       May 13-24 2009 in Cannes France.
·       The Pixars Film "UP" opened the festival.
·       first time that an animated film opened the festival.(3D)

List of Winners

Palme d'Or (Golden Palm)
The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (Austria).
Grand Prize
A Prophet by Jacques Audiard (France)
Jury Prize
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold (Britain and Thirst by Park Chan wook (S. Korea)
Special Prize
Alain Resnais
Best Director
Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay)(The Phillippines)
Best Actor
Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds (US)
Best Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg for Anarchist (Denmark)
Best Screenplay
Feng Mei for Spring Fever (China)
Camera d'Or (First time director)
Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton (Australia)
Best Short Film
Arena by Joao Salaviza (Portugal)

Misc

Global Leadership Award conferred on
Sabana Azmi.
Tamil Film Mudhal varai has won the award for
Best Drama Feature in the Best Feature film (International)-Genre Awards category at the New York International Independent Film Video Festival
Carrier Underwood (lyricist and pop singer)
44th Academy Country Music Awards ceremonyEntertainer of the Year Award.
Pandit Jasraj (Hindustani Classical Vocalist )
Saraswati Samman by Saraswati Music College

Ending words

1.    if you’re reading this & come across new awards and names, do post them on this thread so I can update this ebook
2.    This award list was compiled by Vandna Jain of IO Forum
3.    These colorful tables / document / pdf created by Mrunal Patel.
Award List for GS Current Affairs by Vandana Jain

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