2016 Awards (Jan-Aug)
2016 Awards (Jan-Aug)
2016 Awards (Jan-Aug)
2016 Awards(Jan-Aug)
Name of the Awards
January
Name of the Persons
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Washington
Lionel Messi
Kullu folk dance Nati
Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
Indra Nooyi
David Beckham
Subhashini Vasanth
Suket Dhir
Amazing Indians Awards 2016
Incredible Innovators
Chintakindi Mallesham
Young Indians, Big Achievements
Damini Sen
Young Indians, Big Achievements
Malavath Poorna
Ordinary Indians, Extraordinary Achievements
Murugan S
Energising India
Mathews K Mathew
Indian at Heart
Timothy
Global Indians
Yashraj Khaitan
Grassroots Soldier
Late Kallen Pokkudan
Grassroots soldier
Popatrao Pawar
Educators of India
Ruma Roka
Stree Shakthi
Sunita Aralikar
Unstoppable Indians
S Ramakrishnan
Lorenzo Natali Media Prize
Ankita Anand
Guinness Book of World Records
Amritsar
Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Anuradha Roy
61st Britannia Filmfare Awards 2015
Best Film
Bajirao Mastani
Best Director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male)
Ranveer Singh
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female)
Deepika Padukone
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Anil Kapoor
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Priyanka Chopra
Best Playback Singer (Male)
Arijit Singh
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shreya Ghoshal
Best Costume
Anju Modi and MaximaBasu
Best Choreography
Pt Birju Maharaj
Prof MV Pylee Award
Dr Jancy James
The Hindu Prize, 2015
Easterine Kire
9th Annual Cinema Eye Honours
The Look of Silence
National Bravery Awards 2015
25 Childrens
Gov Award new Category
Most Film Friendly State/UT
2nd most followed Indian on Twitter
PM Modi
National Award for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals 2015-16
Innovation in Polymeric Material
Industry
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Ester Industries Ltd
Academic and R&D Institution
IIT Guwahati
Innovation in Polymeric Products
Industry
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
Innovation of Polymer processing Machinery & Equipments
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Gallantry Awards 2016
Ashok Chakra
Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami
Shaurya Chakra
1. Colonel Santosh Yashwant Mahadik
(Posthumous)
2. Sepoy Dharma Ram (Posthumous)
3. Major Praphul Kumar Bhardwaj
4. Lieutenant Harjinder Singh
5. Naik Kheem Singh Mehra
6. Major Anurag Kumar
7. Major Sandip Yadav
8. Naik Satish Kumar
Order of Australia
Sajeev Koshy
Russian Order of Friendship
Ramayah Shanmuga Sundar
Jananpiths Navlekhan Award
Amlendu Tiwari & Om Nagar
2015 Prince Mahidol Award
Morton Mower, Michael Marmot
K Veeramani Award for Social Justice 2015
Nitish Kumar
Honored by ISSF
Abhinav Singh Bindra
Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016
Henri Tiphagne
V Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award
Naresh Bedi
William E Colby award
Midnights Furies Nisid Hajari
Allan Border Medal 2016
One Day International Player of the Year
Glenn Maxwell
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year
Alex Ross
State Player of the Year
Adam Voges
Womens International Cricketer of the Year
Ellyse Perry
(Belinda Clark Award)
2016 Yash Chopra Memorial Award
Actress Rekha
February
Aryabhata Award
EEPC Star Performer Award
Green Bond Award
worlds most valuable company
Best First Foreign Film Award French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 2016 (FSCC)
First chancellors award
Kerala University
Golden Conch Award
Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Best Debut Film of a Far From Home
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Chhaya
Agli Baar
Going Home
Maestro Pandit Ram Narayan
Keralas She-Taxi
RBI
UNESCO Medals
Professor Isamu Akasaki
Japan
Professor Lei Jiang
China
Professor Philippe Pernod
France
Professor Nicholas Kotov
USA
Academician Gennady Krasnikov
Russia
Professor Igor Ashurbeyli
Russia
Doctor Mikhail Dubina
Russia
Doctor Natalya Mikhaylova
Russia
IFPI Best-Selling Artist of 2015
Adele
Most Push-Ups in Minute Worls record
KJ Joseph
EY Entrepreneur Award
Lupins CEO and MD - Vinita Gupta,
Nilesh Gupta
Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Year award
Anirban Lahiri
La Liga player of the month award
Lionel Messi
Pride of Kerala award
Vidya Balan
2016 BAFTA Awards
Academy Fellowship
Sidney Poitier
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Angels The Costumiers
EE Rising Star Award
John Boyega
Best Film
The Revenant
Best Documentary
Amy
Best Animated Film
Inside Out
Best Short Film
Operator
Best Film Not in the English Language
Wild Tales Argentina
Best Director
Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Brie Larson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mark Rylance
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kate Winslet
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)
Outstanding British Film
Brooklyn
Best Original Music
The Hateful Eight
Best Sound
The Revenant Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek,
Martin Hernndez, Frank A. Montano, Jon Taylor,
and Randy Thom
Best Costume Design
Mad Max: Fury Road Jenny Beavan
Best Makeup and Hair
Mad Max: Fury Road Damian Martin and Lesley
Vanderwalt
Best Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road Margaret Sixel
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or
Naji Abu Nowar (Writer/Director) and Rupert Lloyd
Producer
(Producer) Theeb
Golden Beaver Award
Nagaland is changing. But
58th Grammy awards 2016
General
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Greater Mumbai
Allahabad,
Uttar Pradesh
Nagpur, Maharashtra
Visakhapatnam, Pradesh Andhra
Odisha
Imphal , Manipur
Professor David Shulman
Ishaan Patel
Actress Rekha
Sameer Anjaan - 3,524 songs
Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Kolkata
Karnataka Bank Ltd
Manish Arora
Vikram Shyam ,Milind Kulkarni ,Kiran
Musunuru ,Shwetak Patel, Rahul Mangharam,Sachin
Patel
Warren Richardson
Tendulkars autobiography -Playing It My Way
Robin Chaurasia (Top 10)
Malayalam film Ottaal
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Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Direction
Best Original Song
Best Original Score
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Supporting Actor
Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Short
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Best Film Editing
Best Cinematography
Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Best Adapted Screenplay
First Asian to get Global Reel Award
3.Kata Noi(Thailand)
Oscar Awards 2016
Spotlight
Leonardo DiCaprio
Brie Larson
Alejandro G Inarritu for The Revenant
Writings on the Wall from Spectrex
Ennio Morricine for The Hateful Eight
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
for Stutterer
Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees for Amy
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for A Girl In the River:
The Price of Forgiveness
Mark Rylance
Pete Doctor and Jonas Rivera for Inside Out
Gabriel Osorio Pato Escala for Bear Story
Andrew Whiteburst, Paul Norris, Mark
Ardington andAra Bennett for Ex Machina
Chris Jenkins, Greg Rudloff and Ben Osmo for
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mark Mangini and David White for Mad Max: Fury
Road
Margaret Sixel for Mad Max: Fury Road
Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian
Martinfor Mad Max: Fury Road
Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson for Mad Max:
Fury Road
Jenny Beavan for Mad Max Fury Road
Alicia Vikander
The Big Short for Charles Randolph and Adam
McKay
Resul pookutty
March
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M.Sukumaran
Pallava Bagla
Ratan Thiyam
NTPC Ltd
Sonakshi Sinha
Knight of the Legion of Honour - France
Professor Rakesh Bhatnagar of Jawaharlal Nehru
University
The Visitors Award for Research 2016
Molecular Parasitology Group of Jawaharlal Nehru
University
Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship
India and US(New award)
Golden City Gate Award
Kerala Tourism
2016 Global Teacher Prize
Palestinian Hanan Al Hroub
IAA Editor of the Year
Sanjay Gupta
Brand Endorser of the Year
Varun Dhawan, a Bollywood actor
TV Anchor of the Year award
Rajat Sharma of India TV
Media Person of the Year
Raj Nayak of Colors
CEO of the year
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Abdulqadir Rashik
First Prize in UN #LinksSDGs Data Visualization
Challenge
2016 Abel Prize - Nobel prize of Mathematics
Sir Andrew wiles
Forbes 2016 Worlds Billionaires List
Top 3
1.Bill Gates (60)
2.Amancio Ortega (79)
3.Warren Buffett (85)
Indians
36
Mukesh Ambani (58)
44
Dilip Shanghvi (60)
55
Azim Premji (70)
88
Shiv Nadar (70)
133
Cyrus Poonawalla (74)
135
Laxmi Mittal (65)
184
Uday Kotak (56)
196
Kumar Birla (48)
219
Sunil Mittal (58)
Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize
Tim Bliss, Graham Collingridge and Richard Morris
Windham-Campbell Prizes
Drama
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (United States)
Hannah Moscovitch (Canada)
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EnnuNinteMoideen)
Nanak Shah Fakir
Late Kishore TE (Visaaranai)
JuhiChaturvedi (Piku) and Himanshu Sharma (Tanu
Weds Manu Returns)
JuhiChaturvedi (Piku) and Himanshu Sharma (Tanu
Weds Manu Returns)
SudeepChaterjee (BajiraoMastani)
Monali Thakur (MohMohKeDhage)
TanviAzmi (BajiraoMastani)
Samuthirakani (Visaaranai)
RinkuRajguru (Sairat)
Jayasurya (Su SuSudiVathmeekam&LukkaChuppi)
Ritika Singh (IrudhiSuttru)
Duronto
ValiyaChiraKullaPakshikal
Nirnayakam
Nanak Shah Fakir
NeerajGhaywan (Masaan)
April
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May 2016
A.R Rahman
Richard Gere, George Clooney, Salma Hayek
Prime Minister Narendra Modis mother Heeraben
Scholastic Asian Book Award
Telangana governmentshouse-to-house survey
Arnab De
Rishi Nair
Pankaj Parakh
Madhya Pradesh Tourism
Manvendra K Singh
Revathi Balakrishnan
American mission in India
Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling
Mukesh Ambani
Nandini Bhandaru
South Korean Novelist Han Kangfor his Novel The Vegetarian
Rakesh K Jain
Syamantak Payra
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JK Rowling
Rupa Iyer
Priyanka Chopra,
Malala Yousafzai, Kim Jong Un, Mark Zuckerberg, Prince
William, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Rafael Nadal, Sonita
Alizadeh and Mhairi Black.
Forbes - list of 40 of the most powerful people in the financial world
Uday Kotak, Chief of Kotak Mahindra 33rd R( Only one Indian)
Bank
Blackstone Groups CEO Stephen
Firs Rank
Schwarzman
UN poster contest on N-disarmament
First
Second
Third
International Cricketer of the Year
International Batsman of the Year
International Bowler of the Year
Test Cricketer of the Year
ODI Cricketer of the Year
T20 Player of the Year
Indian Cricketer of the Year
Domestic Cricketer of the Year
Young Player of the Year
Special Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Hindi Film
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Entertainment Programme
Drama Series
Single Documentary
Mini-series
Current Affairs
Factual
News Coverage
Live Event
Female Performance in a Comedy
Programme
Sport
International
Male Performance in a Comedy
Programme
Single Drama
Supporting Actor
Reality & Constructed Factual
Comedy and Comedy Entertainment
Programme
Specialist Factual
Soap & Continuing Drama
Features
Scripted Comedy
Entertainment Performance
Leading Actress
Leading Actor
BAFTA TV Fellowship Recipients
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Palme dOr
Grand Prix
Jury Prize
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Camera dOr
Queer Palm (Feature)
Queer Palm (Short)
June 2016
Dr. R Seetharaman
V.O.Chidambaranar Port
G. D. Birla Award
UN honour for Corporate
Sustainability Initiative
Honorary Fellowship by an Indian
students wing in the UK
Honoris Causa Doctor of Science
degree
Queens Young Leaders Award
Sudarsan Pattnaik
N Ramachandran from IOC
Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya
Ban Ki-moon
Akhil Sharma
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July 2016
2008-Awardees
Mammen Chandy
Prof. Rajeshwar Dayal
Rohit V. Bhatt
Neelam Mohan
Prof. Mohan Kameswaran
Harsha Jauhari
Gopal H. Badlani
Yash Gulati
Sudarsan Pattnaik
Dipa Karmakar
$40,000 Odisha Gov
Shuttler Saina Nehwal
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Radhika Menon
Nimi Sunilkumar
Srinivasan K. Swamy
Aditya Puri, HDFC Bank
Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Raghuveer Chaudhari
1.Taylor swift
2.One Direction
3.James Patterson
Indians among these 40 in the list are
1.Vineet and Anupama Nayar, founders of the Sampark
Foundation,
2.Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India,
3.Bain India CEO Amit Chandra and his wife Archana
Chandra,CEO of Jai Vakeel Foundation
Emirates
S R Nathan
Didi Akinyelure, Nigeria
Advay Ramesh, Chennai
Kerala Tourism
1.Composer-singer Bappi Lahiri.
2.Paran Bandyopadhyay and Jishu Sengupta best actor (male)
awards while
3.Sohini Sarkar Best actor (female) award
Kanyakumari first woman violinist
Dakshayani 86 yr
T.M. Krishna and Bezwada Wilson
Milkha Singh
Amlendu Tiwari
Balram Kawant
11th Navlekhan award
Om Naagar
Tasneem Khan
UNESCO Heritage List
Khangchendzonga National Park Sikkim
National Tourism Awards 2014-2015
Madhya Pradeshfollowed by Gujarat and Karnataka
Best state for comprehensive development of
respectively
tourism
Rajasthans Sawai Madhopur railway station
Best Tourist Friendly railway station award
Mumbais Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Best Airport award
Telanganas Warangal
Best Heritage City award
Monuments of Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh.
Best maintained and disable-friendly monument
Taj Exotica, Salcette, Goa
Best hotel award under the five star deluxe category
Fateh Prakash Palace in Udaipur, Coconut Lagoon at Best heritage hotel awards in three different
Kumarakom in Kottayam and Gajner Palace in
categories
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