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-
- Dr Anil Kakodkar(Chief of Atomic Energy Department)
- G Madhavan Nair(ISRO Chairman)
- Sister Nirmala(Missionary)
- 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 ceremony, Entertainer 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
Award List for GS Current Affairs by Vandana Jain
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