Famous Awards

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Booker Prize (British Literary Award)

·        Alternative Titles: Booker McConnell Prize, Booker Prize for Friction, Man Booker Prize.

·        Booker Prize, in full Man Booker Prize, formerly Booker McConnell Prize, prestigious British award given annually to Full-length Novel in English.

·      Booker McConnell, a multinational company, established the Award in 1968 to provide a counterpart to the Prix Goncourt in France. Initially, only English-language writers from the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland. In 2013, however, it was announced that the prize would be open to English language writers worldwide from 2014.

·    Rushdie won the Booker (1993) and the best of the Booker (2008) prize when they are given in celebration of the prize’s 25^th and 40^th anniversaries, respectively.

·      The award was administered by the Book Trust until 2002, when oversight passed to the Man Group PLC, an investment management firm.

·     Well-known recipients of the prize include V.S. Naipaul, Iris Murdoch, Kingsley Amis, Kiran Desai and Hilary Mantel.

·    In 1992 the Booker Russian Novel Prize was set up to reward contemporary Russian authors, to stimulate wider knowledge of modern Russian friction, and to encourage translation and publication of Russian friction outside Russia. The Russian prize was disassociated from the other booker in 1999, after which sponsorship was provided by several Russian companies.

·  The biennial Man Booker Prize International Prize was established in 2005 as a lifetime achievement award. From 2016 it was awarded annually to the writer of the novel or short-story collection in English translation.

·         The annual Man Asian Prize was established in 2007; the Man group announced in 2012 that it was withdrawing its sponsorship of the prize.

Indian winners of Booker Prize

1.       V.S. Naipaul

2.       Salman Rushdie

3.       Arundhati Roy

4.       Kiran Desai

5.       Arvind Adiga

In 1969 and 1970 the prize was awarded to a novel published in the previous year to that in which the prize was given. In 1971 the prize was awarded to a novel published that same year, b/w January and November. Because the rule changed precluded eligibility for novel publication in 1970, the one of lost man booker prize was devised in 2010 to honour such a novel. The winner, decided by public vote, was troubles by J.G. Farrell.

  Grammy Award (American Music Award)

·         Grammy Award, any of a series of awards presented annually in the United States by the national academy of recording art & science (NARAS; commonly called the Recording Academy) or the Latin Academy of Recording and Science (LARAS; commonly called Latin Recording Academy) to recognize achievement in the music industry.

·         The famous Sitar maestro a reputed name in Hindustani classical music Pt. Ravi Shankar received Grammy Award for the first time, in 1967 for the “west meet east” in “Best chamber music performance” category.

·         The Grammy Award was the first presented by NARAS in Los Angeles in 1959, when 28 prizes were given. Winners included Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and the Kingston Trio.

·     Winners are selected from more than 25 fields and in total more than 75 Award are presented. The honourees received a golden statuette of a gramophone.

·         The number of awards has increased as musical genres have emerged. Rock was first recognized as a genre by the academy at 1980 ceremony and Rap at the 1989 presentation. An award for the best music video was first handed out in 1982 to acknowledge the glowing influence of the medium.

·         In 2011 NARAS radically restructured the Grammy category system and reduce the total number of Award from 109 to 78. Gender based category were eliminated, as were those that distinguished between solo and group efforts. Award recognize genres such as Hawaiian music, Native American Music, and Zydecowere folded into a single category, dubbed “regional roots music” and instrumental categories were drastically scaled back

Pt. Ravi Shankar

·      He was the first Indian to Grammy Awards.

·      He was nominated 10 times and won 4 Grammy Awards in 1967, 1972, 2001, and 2012 respectively.

·         He is the Indian with maximum Grammy Awards (4 Grammy +1 Life time achievement award in 2013 = Total 5 award from Grammy.

Years	Annual Grammy Awards	Category	For the Album
1967	10th	Best chamber music performance	West Meets East
1972	15th	Album of the year	The concert for Bangladesh
2001	44th	Best world music album	Full Circle-Carnegic Hall 2000
2013	56th	Lifetime achievement Award	__

Oscar/Academy Award (Motion-Picture Award)

History

·    The academy was founded in 1927, the award committee was only one of several that had been formed by the new organization.

·        In May 1928 the academy approved the committee’s suggestion to present academy award of merit in 12 categories.

·      The first award covers films that had been released between 1^st August, 1927 and July 31, 1928. The awards were presented in May 16, 1929, in a ceremony at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

·     By the time of second annual award ceremony, on April 3, 1930, the number of categories was reduced to seven.

·     The Academy Awards were first televised in the United States in 1953, and since 1969 they have been broadcast internationally. By the late 20^th century, the ceremony had become a major happening, viewed by millions.

·         Notable hosts over the years included Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal. Red-carpet interview also became an integral part of the event, with much attention focused on the attendees’ ensembles.

Oscar statuette

·         The design for the award statuette – a knight standing on a reel of a film and holding a sword – is credited to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) art director Cedric Gibbons. Sculptor George Stanley was commissioned to create the original statuette based on Gibbon’s design.

·       For many years the statuette were cast in bronze, with 24-karat gold plating. During World War II the statuette were made of plaster because of metal shortage. They are now made gold plated britannium.

·       The design, however, has remained unchanged, with the exception of the pedestal base, the height of which was increased in 1945. The statuette stands 13.5 inches tall and width 8.5 pounds.

·       ‘Mother India’ came close to winning the academy award, but lost to ‘Night of Caribia’ by a single vote.

·    Bhanuathaiya is the first Indian to get Oscar for costume designing in Richard Attenborough’s internationally acclaimed film “Gandhi”.

·   Satyajit Ray was the first Indian to get Honorary Academy Award in 1992 for his outstanding contribution in cinema.

·         Gulzar became the first Indian lyricist to receive an academy award for penning “Jai ho”.

·       Famous music director A.R. Rehman receive Oscar for “best original score” and jointly receive the award with Gulzar for “best original music” in “Slumdog Millionaire” in 2009.

·      Resul Pookutty received the academy award in 2009 for “best sound mixing” in the film “Slumdog Millionaire”.

Ramon Magsaysay Award

·         The Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s premier prize and highest honour, celebrates greatness of sprit and transformative leadership in Asia. In past five decades, the award has been bestowed on over 300 outstanding men, women and organization whose selfless service has offered their societies, Asia and the world successful solutions to some of the most intractable problems of human development.

·     The trustees of Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation annually select the awardees. Awardees are presented with a certificate and a medallion with and embossed image of Ramon Magsaysay facing right in profile. The award is presented to them in formal ceremonies in Manila, Philippines on august 31^st, the birth anniversary of the much esteemed Philippines President whose ideals inspired the award’s creation in 1957.

·       The awards were given in six categories, five of which were discontinued effectively in 2009. The six categories are:

       1.       Government service

       2.       Public service

       3.       Community leadership

       4.       Journalism, literature and creative communication arts

       5.       Peace and international understanding

       6.       Emergent leadership

Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner (India)

1.       VinobhaBhave

2.       Mother Teresa

3.       Jayaprakash Narayan

4.       Satyajit Ray

5.       Arvind Kejriwal

The Pulitzer Prize

·      This award is given for the achievement in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition in the United States.

·      It was established in 1917 by provision in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Colombia University in the New York City.

·   Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty categories, each winner receive a certificate and a U.S.$15,000 cash award.

·         The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.

Gandhi Peace Award

·      The Gandhi Peace Award is regarded as one of the most prestigious American peace prizes.

·  Recipients are distinguished by having made, over a period of years, a significant contributionto the promotion of an enduring international peace founded on justice, self-determination, diversity, compassion and harmony, achieved through cooperative and non-violent means in the Spirit of Gandhi.

·        The prize has been awarded since 1960 by promoting enduring peace.

List of Award Winner

1.       Eleanor Roosevelt

2.       Edwin T. Dahlberg

3.       Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath

4.       John Haynes Holmes

5.       Linus C. Pauling