[GKmojo] LIST OF AWARDS AND THEIR FIELDS

Art and science etc awards:-

• Magsaysay Award- Public Service, Leadership, Journalism, Literature and creative arts
and international understanding
• Man Booker prize: Authors of Novels
• Pulitzer – Journalism and Literature
• Bowelay – Agriculture
• Right Livelihood Award: Field of environment and social justice
• Kalinga – Science
• Dhanwantri – Medical science
• Bhatnagar – Science
• Nobel prize – Peace, Literature, Economics, Physics, Chemistry, Medical science
• Abel award -Maths
• Kalidas Samman- Classical Music, Classical Dance and Arts
• Vyas Samman- Literature
• Merlin-Magic
• Bharat ratna-Art, Science, Public services, Sports
• Bhartiya Jnanpith Award: Literary
• Sahitya Akademi Award: Literary
• Dhanvantri Award: Medical Sciences
• R.D. Birla Award: Medical sciences
• Lenin Peace Prize: Peace and Friendship
• Juliet Curie Award: Peace
• Sahitya Akademi Award- Books in Indian Languages and English
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award- Science and Technology
• Sangeet-Natak Akademi Award- Music, dance and Drama
• Lalit Kala Akademi Award- Art

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Military awards:-
Wartime gallantry awards

Param Vir Chakra (PVC)

Maha Vir Chakra (MVC)

Vir Chakra (VrC)

Peacetime gallantry awards

Ashok Chakra (AC)

Kirti Chakra (KC)

Shaurya Chakra (SrC)

SPORTS AWARDS:-

• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: Players

• Dronacharya Award: Sports Coaches
• Dhyan Chand- Sports
• Arjuna Award: Sport

FILM AWARDS:-

• Oscar/ academy awards – Film

• Dada sahib Phalke – Film
• BAFTA Awards- Television, Films, Video Games and Animation
• Grammy – Music
• Tansen Award- Music
• IIFA Awards: Films

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Awards 2017:-

• 69th Emmy awards (honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming)
Outstanding Drama Series: The handmaid’s tale

• Right livelihood award 2017 (widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’): Robert
Bilott (USA) “for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution, winning long-
sought justice for the victims, and setting a precedent for effective regulation on
hazardous substances.”

• India’s official entry to Oscars 2018: Newton

• Nobel prize 2017

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 • Hindi Writer Krishna Sobti awarded Jnanpith award 2017

• Javed Akhtar awarded 2017 Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award

• US author George Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel
“Lincoln in the Bardo”

• Israeli Author David Grossman wins Man Booker International Prize for his novel “A
Horse Walks into a Bar“.

• TM Krishna wins 2015-16 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration

• Gauri Lankesh becomes first Indian to win Anna Politkovskaya Award

• Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail receives 2016 Saraswati Samman, He was awarded
for his novel “Hawthan ” that captures cultural lives of traditional potter community in
Goa

• Hollywood Actor Emma Watson bags first ever ‘genderless’ award

• Bhubaneswar: First Indian city to win Pierre L’enfant Awards-2017

• Colson Whitehead wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize for ‘Underground Railroad’

• French mathematician Yves Meyer wins 2017 Abel Prize

• Hindi Scholar and writer Surendra Verma selected for 2016 Vyas Samman award

National sports awards 2017

• 2017 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award: Devendra (Para Athletics), Sardar Singh
(Hockey)
• 2017 Dhyan Chand Award: Bhupender Singh (Athletics), Syed Shahid Hakim
(Football), Sumarai Tete (Hockey)

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 • 2017 Dronacharya Award: Dr. R. Gandhi (Athletics), Heera Nand Kataria (Kabaddi),
G.S.S.V. Prasad (Badminton), Brij Bhushan Mohanty (Boxing), P.A. Raphel (Hockey),
Sanjoy Chakraverthy (Shooting) and Roshan Lal (Wrestling

74rd Golden Globe Awards 2017

• Best Picture (Drama) – Moonlight

• Best Picture (Musical of Comedy) – La la land
• Best Director in Motion Picture-Drama: Damien Chazelle for La La Land.
• Best Actor in Motion Picture-Drama: Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea.
• Best Actress in Motion Picture-Drama: Isabelle Huppert for Elle

Academy Awards - 2017 (Oscars)

• Best Picture : Moonlight

• Best Actor : Casey Affleck for Manchester by the sea
• Best Actress : Emma stone for La la land
• Best Director : Damien Chazelle for La la land
• Best Foreign Language Film : The salesman (Iran)
• Best Animated Film : Zootopia

70th BAFTA Awards 2017

• Best Film: La La Land

• Best Director: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
• Best Actor: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
• Best Actress: Emma Stone (La La Land)
• Best Supporting Actor: Dev Patel (Lion)

64th National Film Awards 2017

• Best Feature Film: Kasaav (Marathi)
• Best Hindi Feature Film: Neerja
• Best Direction: Rajesh (Ventilator)
• Best Actor: Akshay Kumar (Rustom)
• Best Actress: Surabhi Lakshmi

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2017 Laureus World Sports Awards

• Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year – Usain Bolt
• Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year – Simone Biles

Padma Vibhushan 2017

Awardee Field of Prominence

Sharad Pawar Public Affairs

Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs

P.A. Sangma (posthumous) Public Affairs

Sunder Lal Patwah (posthumous) Public Affairs

K.J.Yesudas Art - Music

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Others - Spiritualism

Udipi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering

All the best by GKmojo

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