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June 2024 Awards and Honors
| Award and honors | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Pen Pinter Prize 2024 | Arundhati Roy |
| Best Conduct of Business Regulator by The Asian Banker | SEBI |
| World Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 award | Vellayan Subbiah (VC of Tube Investments of India) |
| Vishwa Hindi Samman | Dr. Usha Thakur |
| Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award | Vinod Ganatra (Filmmaker) |
| Land Hero by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) | Siddhesh Sakore (Argo Rangers) |
| Risk Manager of the Year Award 2024 by Central Banking based in London | Reserve Bank of India (RBI) |
| Dilip Bose award for lifetime achievement | Nar Singh |
| Best Actress award at New York Indian Film Festival 2024 | Sanya Malhotra for “Mrs” |
| Gudleppa Hallikeri Award | Siddhalinga Pattanashetti (Poet) |
| Hindi Sahitya Bharati Award | Krishna Prakash |
| Sustainable Governance Champion Award | Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) |
| V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award | Subbiah Nallamuthu (Filmmaker) |
May 2024 Awards and Honors
| Award and honors | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Whitley Gold Award (Green Oscar) | Dr. Purnima Devi Barman (a wildlife biologist from Assam) |
| UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World 2024 Press Freedom Prize | Palestinian journalists for covering Gaza crisis |
| UNICEF India Ambassador | Kareena Kapoor Khan |
| Honorary doctorate from Manipal Academy of Higher Education | K.V. Kamath |
| Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Awards 2024 | Gina Justus (High School teacher in UAE) |
| International News Media Association (INMA) Global Media Awards | Sana (AI based news anchor) of India Today Group |
| Shaw Prize in Astronomy | Srinivas R. Kulkarni |
| Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award | Arti |
| Grand Prix award at 77th Cannes film festival | Payal Kapadia’s film ‘All We Imagine as Light‘ |
| The Economic Times HR World Future Ready Organization Award 2024-25 | NHPC |
United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award 2023 | Major Radhika Sen, Indian military peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) |
| Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize | Bhavi Mehta for The Book Beautiful |
| Global Pride of Sindhi Award 2024 | Pawan Sindhi |
| PSU Samarpan Award | Hemant Khatri ((C&MD) of Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL)) |
| Global Excellence Award 2024 | Chandrakant Satija (Founder/CEO of Chandra Admission Consultants) |
| Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | Ruskin Bond |
| Goldman Environment Prize 2024 (Green Nobel Prize) | Alok Shukla (protection of Hasdeo Arand Forest, Chhattisgarh) |
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April 2024 awards and honors
| Award and honors | Recipient |
|---|---|
| International Culture Award 2024 | Professor Meena Charanda, Kalindi College , Delhi University |
| Exchange4Media News Broadcasting Awards (ENBA) Lifetime Achievement Award | Vineet Jain (Times Group) |
| Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award | Randeep Hooda |
| National Fame Awards 2024 | Dr. Kommuri (Dental Specialist) |
| Freedom Prize of the Media from German forum, the Ludwig Erhard Summit | Aleksei Navalny and his wife, Yulia Navalnaya |
| SKOCH ESG Award 2024 in the ‘Renewable Energy Financing’ category | REC Limited |
| John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award 2024 | Dr. Gagandeep Kang |
| Best Scientific Poster Award | Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital’s research team |
| Aryabhatta Award by Aeronautical Society of India. (ASI) | Pavuluri Subba Rao (founder- Ananth Technologies) |
| KISS Humanitarian Award 2021 | Ratan Tata |
| World Press Photo of the Year award | Mohammed Salem, Palestinian (working for Reuters) Palestinian woman named Inas Abu Maamar, 36 years old, holding the dead body of her 5 year old niece Saly. |
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March 2024 awards and honors
96th Oscars 2024
- Host: Jimmy Kimmel
- Venue: Dolby Theater in Los Angeles
- Oppenheimer: 13 Nominations (maximum)
- Everyone is a Hero (2023), Malayalam film was official entry of India to Oscars, directed by Jude Anthany Joseph
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best Picture | Oppenheimer |
| Best Actor | Cillian Murphy, (Oppenheimer) |
| Best Actress | Emma Stone, (Poor Things) |
| Best Director | Christopher Nolan, (Oppenheimer) |
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron |
| Award and honors | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Diana Memorial Award | Manasi Gupta and Uday Bhatia |
| Aviation Week Laureates Award | ISRO, for Chandrayaan 3 mission |
| Sangita Kalanidhi (Oscar of Carnatic music) | Thodur Madabusi Krishna |
| 1st Global Inequality Research Award | Bina Agarwal and James Boyce |
| 33rd Saraswati Samman 2023 (given by K.K. Birla Foundation) | Prabha Varma (Kerala) for Novel: Roudra Sathwikam (Malayalam poet and author) |
| Abel Prize 2024 (For research in mathematics) | Michel Talagrand (probability theory and functional analysis) |
| Maharashtra Gaurav Award | Dr. Uma Rele |
| Order of the Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan’s highest civilian award) | PM Narendra Modi (1st non-Bhutanese) |
| Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards | Delhi Airport (best airport) |
| Erasmus Prize 2024 | Amitav Ghosh for his theme “imagining the unthinkable” |
| Pritzker Architecture Prize 2024 | Riken Yamamoto (Japanese) |
| Honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Mauritius | President Droupadi Murmu |
| PV Narasimha Rao Memorial Award | Ratan Tata |
| Bob Jones Award | Tiger Woods (golfer) |
| India-UK Achievers’ awards | Asma Khan (British Indian chef) Zoya Akhtar (filmmaker) |
| Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2024 | Dr. Pradeep Mahajan |
| National Youth Parliament Festival, 2024 | Yatin Bhaskar Duggal from Haryana |
| Measles and Rubella Champion Award | India |
| Chameli Devi Jain Award 2024 (outstanding women media person of the year award) | Greeshma Kuthar – Independent Journalist Ritika Chopra – Indian Express |
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February 2024 awards and honors
| Award and honors | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 | Alex Dawson (Swedish) for ‘Whale Bones‘ |
| 58th Jnanpith Award 2023 | Gulzar & Jagadguru Rambhadracharya (Sanskrit scholar and spiritual leader) |
| 2023 GD Birla Award | Dr. Aditi Sen De (for quantum computing technologies) |
| Aegis Graham Bell Awards | Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) |
| Jeevan Raksha Padak | Sh. Shashikant Kumar (constable of the Railway Protection Special Force |
| Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur’ (Knight of the Legion of Honour), France’s highest civilian honour | Shashi Tharoor |
| Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award | Nima Sarikhani (British) for capturing a polar bear asleep on an iceberg titled ‘Ice Bed’ |
| 9th GovTech Prize (World Government Summit 2024, held in UAE) | India |
| Romain Rolland Book Prize | Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee (for translation of Jean-Daniel Baltassat’s “Le Divan de Staline” into Bengali, titled “Staliner Divan.) |
| Water Warrior city by Union Water Ministry | Noida (for water conservation and management) |
| Maha Gaurav 2024 | Nikhil Mukund Wagh |
| K.P.P. Nambiar Award | S. Somanath (ISRO Chairman) |
| Golden Visa by the United Arab Emirates government | Anand Kumar (founder of Super 30) |
| Lakshminarayana International Award | Pyarelal Sharma (Music Composer) |
| Shankar Smriti Award | Ishwari Prasad Namboodiri (chief priest Badrinath Dham) |
69th Filmfare Award
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best Film | 12th Fail |
| Best Actor (Male) | Ranbir Kapoor (Animal) |
| Best Actor (Female) | Alia Bhatt (Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani) |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | David Dhawan |
70th Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2024
| Category | winner |
|---|---|
| Best Film | Jawan |
| Best Actor (Male) | Shah Rukh Khan (Jawan) |
| Best Actor (Female) | Rani Mukerji (Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway) |
| Best Director | Sandeep Reddy Vanga (Animal) |
| Best International Feature Film | Oppenheimer |
2024 Bharat Ratna Awards
| Recipient | Notes |
|---|---|
| Karpoori Thakur | known as Jan Nayak, was pioneer in providing the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) with the benefits of reservation. |
| MS Swaminathan | Father of India’s Green Revolution |
| P.V. Narasimha Rao | 9th Prime Minister of India. 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments Acts were enacted during his tenure. |
| Lal Krishna Advani | 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India (1999-2004) |
| Chaudhary Charan Singh | 5th prime minister of India. He led Uttar Pradesh in abolishing the zamindari system |
January 2024 awards and honors
| Award and honors | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Best Airport of the Year (Wings India Award) | Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi and Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru |
| Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award | Ravi Shastri |
| Assam Baibhav award | Ranjan Gogoi (former Chief Justice of India) |
| Platinum certification by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) | National Institute of Construction Management and Research |
| International Sports Personality of the Year award | Gianni Infantino (FIFA President) |
| Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar 2023 | Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Bengali writer) |
| Best Environment Officer Award | Deepa Bhandare (Shri Datta Cooperative Sugar Factory) |
| Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award | Savita Kanswal |
| M.S. Swaminathan Award | Prof. B.R. Kamboj (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University) |
| CII National Award for Excellence in Water Management | Hero MotoCorp |
81st Golden Globes Awards
Venue– The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California,
USA
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best Film (Drama) | Oppenheimer |
| Best Film (Musical or Comedy) | Poor Things |
| Best Actor (Drama) | Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) |
| Best Actress (Drama) | Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) |
| Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) | Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) |
| Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) | Emma Stone (Poor Things) |
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron |
| Best Non-English Language Film | Anatomy of a Fall |
| Best Director | Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) |
75th Emmy Awards 2024
Host– Anthony Anderson
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Comedy Series | The Bear |
| Drama Series | Succession |
| Lead Actor (Drama Series) | Kieran Culkin (Succession) |
| Lead Actress (Drama Series) | Sarah Snook (Succession) |
| Lead Actor (Comedy Series) | Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) |
| Lead Actress (Comedy Series) | Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) |
FIFA Football Awards 2024
- Men’s Player of the Year- Lionel Messi (Argentina)
- Women’s Player of the Year- Aitana Bonmati (Spain)
- Puskas Award– Guilherme Madruga