Winners of TOIFA Awards 2013

The Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA) held in Vancouver, British Columbia from April 4-6, this year. The awards will be annually held at diverse international destinations, thus, taking the charm of Hindi cinema overseas. Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan unveiled The Times Of India Film Awards (TOIFA) and its trophy at a grand ceremony in Mumbai on Tuesday night.

Best Actor – Negative Role
Rishi Kapoor, Agneepath

Best Debut – Female
Ileana D’Cruz, Barfii

Best Debut – Male
Ayushman Khurana, Vicky Donor

Best Actress – Supporting Role
Dolly Ahluwalia, Vicky Donor

Best Actor – Supporting Role
Annu Kapoor, Vicky Donor

Best Actor – Comic Role
Abhishek, Bol Bachchan

Best Playback Singer– Female
Shalmali Kholgade, Ishaqzaade

Best Playback Singer – Male
Sonu Nigam, Agneepath

Best Lyrics
Gulzar, Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Best Music Director
Ajay Atul Agneepath

Best Debut Director – Critics
Gauri Schinde, English Vinglish

Best Film – Critics
Gangs of Wasseypur

Best Actor Female – Critics
Deepika, Cocktail

Best Actor Male – Critics
Irfaan Khan, Paan Singh Tomar

Best Director – Popular
Anurag Basu, Barfii

Best Film – Popular
Barfii

Best Actor – Female
Priyanka Chopra, Barfii

Best Actor – Male
Ranbir Kapoor, Barfii

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Name List of Padma Awardees 2013

There are total 108 personalities from various fields have been awarded By the Presidident of India, ‘Mr. Pranab Mukharjee’ for the Padma Awards 2013 this year.These name were announced on the eve of the country’s 64th Republic Day. Among them 4 personalities awarded with Padma Vibhushan, 24 personalities awarded with Padma Bhushan and other 80 personalities awarded Padma Shri awards. Following is the list of the recipients:

Padma Vibhushan Awardees:

1. Raghunath Mohapatra, Art, Orissa


2. S Haider Raza, Art, Delhi


3. Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh


4. Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering, Karnataka

Padma Bhushan Awardees:

1. Dr Ramanaidu Daggubati, Art, Andhra Pradesh


2. Sreeramamurthy Janaki, Art, Tamil Nadu


3. Dr (Smt) Kanak Rele, Art, Maharashtra


4. Sharmila Tagore, Art, Delhi


5. Dr (Smt) Saroja Vaidyanathan, Art, Delhi


6. Abdul Rashid Khan, Art, West Bengal


7. Late Rajesh Khanna, Art, Maharashtra


8. Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Art, Punjab


9. Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, Public Affairs, Maharashtra


10. Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai, Science, Engineering Delhi


11. Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Science and Engineering, Delhi


12. Dr Ashoke Sen Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh


13. B N Suresh, Science and Engineering, Karnataka


14. Prof Satya N Atluri, Science and Engineering, USA


15. Prof Jogesh Chandra Pati, Science and Engineering, USA


16. Ramamurthy Thyagarajan, Trade and Industry, Tamil Nadu


17. Adi Burjor Godrej, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra


18. Dr Nandkishore Shamrao Laud, Medicine, Maharashtra


19. Mangesh Padgaonkar, Literature and Education, Maharashtra


20. Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Literature & Education USA


21. Hemendra Singh Panwar, Civil Service, Madhya Pradesh


22. Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Civil Service, Delhi


23. Rahul Dravid, Sports, Karnataka


24. H Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, Sports, Manipur

Padma Shri Awardees:

1. Gajam Anjaiah, Art, Andhra Pradesh


2. Swami G C D Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu, Art, Chhattisgarh


3. B Jayashree, Art, Karnataka


4. Sridevi Kapoor, Art, Maharashtra


5. Kailash Chandra Meher, Art, Orissa


6. Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, Art, Maharashtra


7. Vishwanath D Patekar alias Nana Patekar, Art, Maharashtra


8. R Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji, Art, Andhra Pradesh


9. Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju, Art, Tamil Nadu


10. Jaymala Shiledar, Art, Maharashtra


11. Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar, Art, Maharashtra


12. P Madhavan Nair alias Madhu, Art, Kerala


13. Apurba Kishore Bir, Art, Maharashtra


14. Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan, Art, Assam


15. Hilda Mit Lepcha, Art, Sikkim


16. Sudha Malhotra, Art, Maharashtra


17. Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Art, Jammu and Kashmir


18. Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy, Art, Maharashtra


19. Mahrukh Tarapor, Art, Maharashtra


20. Balwant Thakur, Art, Jammu and Kashmir


21. Puran Das Baul, Art, West Bengal


22. Rajendra Tikku, Art, Jammu and Kashmir


23. Pablo Bartholomew, Art, Delhi


24. Shri S Shakir Ali, Art, Rajasthan


25. S K M Maeilanandhan, Social Work, Tamil Nadu


26. Nileema Mishra, Social Work, Maharashtra


27. Reema Nanavati, Social Work, Gujarat


28. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, Social Work, Bangladesh


29. Late Dr Ram Krishan, Social Work, Uttar Pradesh


30. Late Manju Bharat Ram, Social Work, Delhi


31. Prof Mustansir Barma, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra


32. Avinash Chander, Science and Engineering, Delhi


33. Sanjay Govind Dhande, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh


34. Prof (Dr) Sankar Kumar Pal, Science, Engineering, West Bengal


35. Deepak B Phatak, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra


36. Dr Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju, Science and Engg, Andhra Pradesh


37. Prof Ajay K Sood, Science and Engineering, Karnataka


38. Prof Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan, Science & Engg, Karnataka


39. Dr Manindra Agrawal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh


40. Dr Jayaraman Gowrishankar, Science & Engineering, Andhra Pradesh


41. Prof Sharad Pandurang Kale, Science & Engineering, Maharashtra


42. Vandana Luthra, Trade and Industry, Delhi


43. Rajshree Pathy, Trade and Industry, Tamil Nadu


44. Hemendra Prasad Barooah, Trade and Industry, Assam.


45. Milind Kamble, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra


46. Kalpana Saroj, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra


47. Dr Sudarshan K Aggarwal, Medicine, Delhi


48. Dr C Venkata S Ram alias Chitta, Venkata Sundara Ram, Medicine, Andhra Pradesh


49. Dr Rajendra Achyut Badwe, Medicine, Maharashtra


50. Dr Taraprasad Das, Medicine, Orissa


51. Prof (Dr) T V Devarajan, Medicine, Tamil Nadu


52. Prof (Dr) Saroj Chooramani Gopal, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh


53. Dr Pramod Kumar Julka, Medicine, Delhi


54. Dr Gulshan Rai Khatri, Medicine, Delhi


55. Dr Ganesh Kumar Mani, Medicine, Delhi


56. Dr Amit Prabhakar Maydeo, Medicine, Maharashtra


57. Dr Sundaram Natarajan, Medicine, Maharashtra


58. Prof Krishna Chandra Chunekar, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh


59. Dr Vishwa Kumar Gupta, Medicine, Delhi


60. Prof (Capt) Dr M Sharaf-eAlam, Literature & Education, Bihar


61. Dr Radhika Herzberger, Literature & Education, Andhra Pradesh


62. J Malsawma, Literature and Education, Mizoram


63. Devendra Patel, Literature & Education, Gujarat


64. Dr Rama Kant Shukla, Literature & Education, Delhi


65. Prof Akhtarul Wasey, Literature & Education, Delhi


66. Prof Anvita Abbi, Literature & Education, Delhi


67. Nida Fazli, Literature & Education, Madhya Pradesh


68. Surender Kumar Sharma, Literature & Education, Delhi


69. Dr Jagdish Prasad Singh, Literature & Education, Bihar


70. Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi, Literature & Education, West Bengal.


71. Prof Noboru Karashima, Literature & Education, Japan


72. Christopher Pinney, Literature & Education, UK


73. Premlata Agrawal, Sports, Jharkhand


74. Yogeshwar Dutt, Sports, Haryana


75. Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha, Sports, Karnataka


76. Subedar Major Vijay Kumar, Sports, Himachal Pradesh


77. Ngangom Dingko Singh, Sports, Maharashtra


78. Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar, Sports, Rajasthan


79. Ritu Kumar, Fashion Designing, Delhi


80. Dr Ravindra Singh Bisht, Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh.

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World’s Richest Academic Prize for Life Science of 2013

The award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, was established by four Internet titans led by Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist who caused a stir last summer when he began giving physicists $3 million awards.

1. Cornelia I. Bargmann, who investigates the nervous system and behaviour at Rockefeller University.


2. David Botstein of Princeton University, who maps disease markers in the human genome.


3. Lewis C. Cantley of Weill Cornell Medical College, who discovered  family of enzymes related to cell growth and cancer.


4. Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands, who has studies how processes in adult stem cells can go wrong and cause cancer


5. Napoleone Ferrara of the University of California San Diego, whose work on tumour growth has led to therapies for some kinds of cancer and eye disease.


6. Titia de Lange, who works on telemeres, the protective tips on the ends of chromosomes, at Rockefeller University.


7. Eric S. Lander of the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a leader of the Human Genome Project.


8. Charles L. Sawayers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who has investigated the signaling pathways that drive a cell to cancer.


9. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, who discovered a protein that suppresses the growth of tumours and devised model for the progression of colon cancer that is widely used in colonoscopy.


10. Robert A. Weinberg of MIT, who discovered the first human oncogene, a gene that when mutated causes cancer.


11. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, who has done groundbreaking work in developing stem cells.

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63rd Berlin International Film Festival 2013

The 63^rd Berlin International Film was held in February 2013. The top prize of the 63^rd Berlin International Film Festival went to Romanian drama ‘Child’s Pose’ Best Director award was awarded to U.S Filmmaker David Gorden Green for his work on comedy ‘Prince Avalanche’, a remake f Icelandic film ‘Either Way’. Best Actress prize was handed to Chile actress, Paulina Garcia for her title role in ‘Gloria’ Gus Van Sant-directed movie about shale gas drilling ‘Promised Land’ were among the Special Mentions.

1. Golden Bear for Best Film- ‘Child’s Pose’ by Calin Peter Netzer (Romania)


2. Silver Bear for Best Director- David Gorden Green for ‘prince Avalanche’


3. Jury Grand prix-‘An Episode in the life of an Iron Picker’ by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia)


4. Silver Bear for Best Actress-Paulina Garcia for ‘Gloria’


5. Alfred Bauer Prize-‘Vic+Flo Saw a Bear’ by Denis Cote (Canada)


6. Silver Bear for Best Screenplay-‘Closed Curtain’ Jafar Panachi (Iran)


7. Silver Bear for Artistic Contribution-Aziz Zhambakiyev for cinematography on ‘Harmony Lessons’


8. Special Mention-‘Promised Land’ by Gus Van Sant


9. Special Mention-‘Layla Fourie’ By Pia Marais


10. First Feature Award-‘The Rocket’ Kim Mourdant (Australia)

Best Short

1. Golden Bear-‘The Runway jean-Bernard Marlin (France)


2. Silver Bear-‘Remains Quiet’ Stefan Kriekhaus (Germany)


3. First Feature Award-‘The Rocket’ Kim Mourdant (Australia)

Teddy Awards

1. Best Feature Film-‘In the Name of…’by Malgoska Szumowska (Poland)


2. Best Documentry Film-‘Bambi’ by Sebastie Lifshitz (France)


3. Best Short Film-‘Undress Me’ Victor Lindgrem (Sweden)


4. Special Jury Award-‘Concussion’ by Stacie Passon (U.S.)

Crystal Bears for Generation 14 plus

1. Best Film-‘Baby Blues’ by Kasia Roslaniec (Poland) Special Mention-‘Pluto’ by Shin Su-won (South Korea)


2. Best Short Film-‘Rabbitland’ by Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak (Serbia)


3. Special Mention-’Traffit’ by Jenni Toivoniemi (Finaland)

Crystal Bears for Generation K plus

1. Best film-’The Rocket’ by kim Mordaunt (Australia)


2. Special Mention-‘Satellite Boy’ by Catriona McKenzie (Australia)


3. Best Short Film-‘The Amber Amulet’ by Matthew Moore (Australia)


4. Special mention-‘Hedgehogs and the City’ by Evalds Lacis (Latvia)


5. Dialogue en perspective Prize-‘Two Mothers’ by Anne Zohra Berrached (Germany)

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The National Film Awards 2013

The National Film Awards: It is the most popular, an annual film award ceremony in Indian film Industry which honor the best films made across India of the last year, to encourage the Indian art and culture. It is presented in two categories as: (I) Feature Films and (II) Non-Feature films. It was established in 1954. Its’ other administered are the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama. It is supported by Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.The ceremony is held in New Delhi and the President of India presents the awards every year. In the National Film Festival, the award-winning films are screened for the public. The Awards are considered to be the equivalent of the American Academy Awards.

This year, National film Awards announced on 18th March 2013 which is a 60th National Film Award to honor the best films of year 2012. Mostly awards went to two movies, Paan Singh Tomar and Vicky Donor. And for some important categories, Malayalam and Marathi movies also win some awards.

Category: Award Winner
Best Film: Paan Singh Tomar
Best Director: Shivaji Lotan Patil for Marathi Movie ‘Dhaag’
Best Actor: Irfaan Khan (Paan Singh Tomar) and Vikram Gokhle (Marathi Movie ‘Anumati)
Best Actress: Usha Jadhav for Marathi Movie ‘Dhaag’
Best Supporting Actor: Annu Kapoor for ‘Vicky Donor”
Best Supporting Actress: Dolly Ahluwalia for ‘Vicky Donor’ and Kalpana for ‘Thanichallanjan’ a Malyalam Movie
Best Lyrics: Gangs of Wasseypur’, Dekh Indian circus, and ‘Talaash’ all for Hindi movies
Best Choreography: Birju Maharaj for ‘Vishwaroopam’ for Tamil Movie
Special Jury Award: Nawazuddin Siddiqui for ‘Kahaani’, ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, ‘Talaash’, and ‘Dekh Indian Circus’
Best Child Artist: Virendra Pratap for ‘Dekh Indian Circus’ and ‘Minon for 101 Chodiyangal (Malyalam)’
Best Playback Singer(M): Shankar Mahadevan for ‘Bolo Na’ from Chittagong
Best Playback Singer(F): Samhita for ‘Palakein Naa Moondon’ from ‘Aarti Anklekartikekar’ (Marathi)
Best Screenplay Writer(Original): Sujoy Ghosh for ‘Kahaani’
Best Screenplay Writer(Adapted): Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla for ‘Oh My God’
Best Dialogue: Anjali Menon for ‘Ustad Hotel’ (Malayalam), Prasoon Joshi for ‘Chetangadha’ (Bengali) and ‘Kahaani’
Best Popular Film: Vicky Donor’ (Hindi) and ‘Ustad’ (Malayalam)
Best Animation Film: Delhi Safari
Best Children’s Film: Dekh Indian Circus
Best Film on Environment Presentation: Black Forest (Malayalam)
Best Film on Social Issues: Spirit (Malayalam)
Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration: Thanichallanjan (Malayalam)
Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director: Chittagong (Hindi) and 101 Chodiyangal (Malayalam)
Best Editing: Namrata Rao for ‘Kahaani’
Best Production Design: Boontawee ‘Thor’ Taweepasas and Lalgudi N.Ilayaraja for ‘Vishwaroopam (Tamil)
Best Costume Design: Poornima Ramaswamy for ‘Paradesi’ (Tamil)
Best Make-up Artist: Raja for Vazakkuenn (Tamil) and Rituparno Ghosh for ‘Chitragandha’ (Bengali)
Best Special Effects: Eega (Telegu)
Best Sound Designer: Anirban Sengupta and Dipankar Chaki for ‘Shabdo’ (Bengali)
Best Location Sound Recordist: Radhakrishnan S. for ‘Annayum Rasoolum’ (Malayalam)
Best Re-recordist of the final mixed track: Alok De, Sinoy Joseph and Shreejesh Nair for ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’
Best Cinematography: Sudheer Palsane for ‘KO:YAD (Mising)
Best Assamese Film: Baandhon
Best Bengali Film: Shabdo
Best Gujarati Film: The Good Road
Best Hindi Film: Filmistan
Best Kannada Film: Bharath Stores
Best Malayalam Film: Celluloid
Best Manipuri Film: Leipaklei
Best Marathi Film: Investment
Best Punjabi Film: Nabar
Best Tamil Film: Vazakkuenn 18/9
Best Telgu Film: Eega
Best Urdu Film: Harud
Best English Film: Lessons Forgetting
Best Mising Film: KO:YAD

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More Awards in 2013 for the Year 2012

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD:

British writer Hillary mantel made literary history as she won the prestigious Costa Book of the Year award for her second book, Bring Up The Bodies, in her trilogy on Thomas Cromwell. Mantel, who became the first woman to win the Booker prize twice, has now become the first writer to win both the Costa Book of the year Award and the Booker prize in the same Year. Mantel was a bookie favourite to win the overall Prize.

PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR AWARD:

A photo by Paul Hansen of Sweden for Degens Nyheter wins the 2013 World Press photo of the year. It shows two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and her three-year-old brother Muhammad, who were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father Fouad was also killed and their mother was put in intensive care. In the Picture, Fouad’s brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher in Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, on November 20, 2012.

SKODA ART PRIZE 2012:

Karnataka-born artist L.N. Tallur, whose works depict majorly the underbelly of India, has won the Rs1 million skoda Prize 2012 for contemporary art, from among a shortlist of four artist-including an artist collective.

THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE:

Journalist-author Jerry Pinto bagged The Hindu Literary Prize 2013 for His novel Em and the big Hoom. The book, published by Aleph Book co, is Mr. Pinto’s first work of fiction and is set in Mahim, Mumbai which revolves around how a four-member family copes with the mother’s and her suicidal ideation.

INDIRA GANDHI PEACE PRIZE:

Ela Bhatt was on February 18 awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for peace, Disarmament and Development 2011 by the President for lifetime achievements in empowering women through grassroots entrepreneurship.

SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD PRESENTED:

Sahitya Akademy president Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari presented the Sahitya Akademy Award-2012 to Jeet Thayil at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi on February 18.

VYAS SAMMAN:

The Vyas Samman award instituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation recognizing outstanding literary works, has been conferred on Dr Narendra Kohli, a well-known Hindi writer for his novel Na Bhooto Na Bhavishayti for the Year 2012. Na Bhooto Na Bhavishayti, Published in 2004, is a historical novel that portrays swami Vivekanand and the era he belongs to. It provides and account of the incredible impression that Swami cast on the history of the country.

SPELL BEE INDIA SPELL 2013:

The battle of words finally came to an ecstatic end with 14-year-old Vaswati Das from Guwahati emerging as the winner and Atreyee Hosal (14) from Bangalore being the runner-up at the national finals of HDFC Life Spell Bee India Spell 2013, powered by the Times of India. The winner and runner-up, along with other participants, were felicitated by Soha Ali khan in an event at a south Mumbai hotel on February 25.

BERLIN FILM FEST:

The 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival held in Berlin on February 16. Romanian film Child’s Pose directed by Calin Peter Netzer and produced by Ada Soloman won the Golden Bear for best film.

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Mirchi Music Awards 2013

The 85^th Stag Mirchi Music Awards ceremony held in Mumbai to felicitate the best and brightest talents in the music world across 22 categories. The winners are:

• Album of the year: Agneepath;


• Song of the year: Abhi Mujh mein Kahin (Agneepath);


• Male vocalist of the Year: SOnu Nigam-Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin (Agneepath);


• Female vocalist of the Year: Shreya Ghoshal-Chikni Chameli (Agneepath);


• Lyricist of the Year: Javed Akhtar – Jee Le Zara (Talaash);


• Upcoming female vocalist of the Year: Neeti Mohan – Jiya Re (Jab Tak Hai Jaan);


• Upcoming music composer of the Year: Ayushmann Khurrana and Rochak Kohli-Pani Da Rang (Vick Donor);


• Upcoming lyricist of the Year: Ayushmann Khurrana and Rochak Kohli-Pani Da Rang (Vick Donor);


• Raag inspired song of the Year: Bolo Na (Chittangong);


• Song of the Year represented Sufi tradition: O Saaiyan (Agneepath);


• Indippo song of the Year: Satyameva Jayate;


• Worldwide listeners’ choice song of the Year: Radha (Student of the Year);


• Technical song recording/sound engineering of the year: Vijay Dayal – Deva Shree Ganesha (Agneepath);


• Technical Background score of the Year: Clinton Cerejo (Kahaani);


• Technical Programmer and arranger of the Year: DJ Phukan and Hyacinth D’souza – Dil mera Muft Ka (Agent Vinod);


• Jury award for outstanding contribution to Hindi film music: Bablu Chakravarty;


• Best album of the Goldern Era: Baiju Bawra (1952);


• Mirchi Hall of Fame award: Asha Bhosle ;


• Rayal stag Make It Lerge award: Vishal Bhardwaj;


• Living legend with a Golden voice: Amitabh Bachchan.

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Grammy Awards 2013

Sitar legend Ravi Shankar was on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles posthumously awarded the best world music album trophy at the 55^th Grammy for ‘The Living Room Sessions Part 1’ pipping his daughter Anoushka, a day after being given Lifetime Achievement award. The winners of the main categories are:

• Best World Music Album: The Living Room Sessions Part 1 (Ravi Shankar);


• Album of the year: Babel (Mumford & Sons);


• Song of the Year: We are Young (Fun);


• Best New Artist: Fun;


• Best Rock Song: Lonely Boy (The Black Keys);


• Best R & B Song: Adorn (Miguel);


• Best R & B Performance: Climax (Usher);


• Best Pop Performance, Solo: Set Fire to The Rain (Live) (Adele);


• Best Pop Vocal Album: Stronger (Kelly Clarkson);


• Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Kisses on the Bottom (Paul McCartney);


• Best Rap Song: Ni**as in Paris (Jay-z & Kanye West);


• Best Rap Album: Take Care (Drake);


• Best Country Song: Blown Away (Carrie Underwood);


• Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance: Love Bites (So Do I) (Halestorm);


• Best New Age Album: Echoes of love (Omar Akram).


• Record of the Year: Somebody that I Used to know Gotye.

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Bafta Awards 2013

Bafta Awards ceremony was held in London on February 10. The main awardees are:

• Best Film: Argo


• Best Director: Ben Affleck (Argo);


• Outstanding British Film: Skyfall;


• Original Music: Skyfall;


• Leading Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln;


• Leading Actress: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour);


• Supporting Actor: Christoph waltz (Django Unchained);


• Supporting Actress: Anne Hathway (Les Miserables);


• Animated Film: Brave;


• Film not in the English Language: Amour;


• Cinematography: Life of pi;


• Special Visual Effects: Life of Pi.

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Golden Camera Awards 2013

The 85^th Golden Camera Awards were presented in Berlin on February 2. The winners are:

• Best International Actress: Sigourney Weaver;


• Best International Actor: Clive Owen;


• International Lifetime Achievement Awards: Al Pacino;


• Lifetime Achievement Music: Joe Cocker;


• Best International Music Artist: Lang Lang;


• National Lifetime Achievement: Dieter Hallervorden;


• Best National Music Act: Unheiling;


• Best German Actress: Claudia Michelsen for Der Turm (The Tower);


• Best German Actor: Charly Hubner for Unter Nachbarn (Between Neighbours);


• HORZU young Talent Awards: Max von der Groeben;


• Best German Television Films: Das Ends einer Nacht (The End of a Night);


• Best Information Program: Claus Kleber for Heute Journal (Today Show).

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The Laureus Awards 2013

Here we are providing a brief knowledge about a sport award, ‘The Laureus World Sport Award’ that is the famous name in world of sports are awarded annually to sports persons, who have been outstanding during the previous year. It was established in 1999 by Founding Patrons Daimler and Richmond and is supported by its Global Partners. The first award ceremony was held on May 25, 2000 in Monte Carlo.

The Laureus award this time was given to the well known Olympic champion of Jamaica, Usain bolt and Britain’s Heptathlon Athletic Jessica Ennis. Usain bolt win this Laureus world sportsman of the year award third time. Here is the complete list of the all winners of the Laureus world sports award.

Sr. Category- Winner(Country)- Sports

1. Sportsman of the year- Usain Bolt (Jamaica)- Athletics
2. Sportswoman of the year- Jessica Ennis (Britain)- Athletics
3. Team of the year- European Ryder Cup Team (Europe)- Golf
4. Comeback of the year- Felix Sanchez (Dominican Republic)- Athletics
5. Sportsperson with a disability- Daniel Dias (Brazil)- Swimming
6. Breakthrough of the year- Andy Murray (Britain)- Tennis
7. Action Sportsperson of the year- Felix Baumgartner(Austria)- Adventure
8. Life Achievement award- Sebastian Coe (Britain)- Athletics
9. Exceptional Achievement award- Michael Phelps (America)- Swimming

Here is another list of the Laureus world sports award of the year 2012.

Sr. Category- Winner (Country)- Sport

1. Sportsman of the Year- Novak Djokovic (Serbia)- Tennis
2. Sportswoman of the Year- Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya)- Athletics
3. Team of the Year- FC Barcelona (Spain)- Football
4. Comeback of the Year- Darren Clarke (Britain)- Golf
5. Sportsperson with a Disability- Oscar Pistorius (South Africa)- Athletics
6. Breakthrough of the Year- Rory McIlroy (Britain)- Golf
7. Action Sportsperson- Kelly Slater (America)- Surfing
8. Lifetime Achievement Award- Sir Bobby Charlton (Britain)- Football
9. Sport for Good Award- Raí (Brazil)- Football

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The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2013

The Golden Globe Award is an honor which is awarded for film and television. The members of Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) bestow for excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. It ranks as the third most-watched awards show behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. The awards are presented each year with the Academy Awards. The 1st Golden Globe Awards were held in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The HFPA donates to entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals. It is awarded at the same place and on same date (14 Jan.) every year where they have been held annually since 1961.

On January 14, 2013, the 70th Golden Globe Awards were presented, honoring the best in film and television for 2012, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California (USA).

Best Actor for Motion Picture (Drama)	Deniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress for Motion Picture (Drama)	Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Actor for Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy)	Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)
Best Actress for Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy)	Jennefer Lawrence (Silver Lining Playbook)
Best Motion Picture (Drama)	Agro
Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy)	Les Miserables
Best Director	Ben Affleck (Agro)
Best Supporting Actor (Motion Picture)	Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress (Motion Picture)	Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Best Screenplay	Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Best Original Score	Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
Best Original Song	Skyfall (from Skyfall)
Best Foreign Language Film	Amour (Michael Haneke’s)
Best Animated Feature Film (Since 2006)*	Brave
Cecil B. De Mille Award for Life time Achievement(Motion Picture)**	Jodie Foster

*This award was introduced in the year 2006.

** In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish a special honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Because, the first award was presented to Cecil B. De Mille(Director and Producer) the official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. De Mille Award.

 

Television awards (since 1956):

Best Drama Series	Homeland
Best Comedy Series	Girls
Best Actor in a Television Drama Series	Damian Lewis for “Homeland”
Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series	Don Cheadle for “House of Lies”
Best Actress in a Television Drama Series	Claire Danes for “Homeland”
Best Actress in a Television Comedy Series	Lena Dunham for “Girls”
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television	Game Change
Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television	Kevin Costner for “Hatfields & McCoys
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television	Julianne Moore for “Game Change”
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture (TV)	Ed Harris for “Game Change”
Best Supporting Actress in a Series ,Mini-Series or Motion Picture (TV)	Maggie Smith for “Dwonton Abbey”

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The 85th Oscar Awards 2013

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony (referred to as The Oscars), honoring the best films of 2012 in the United States, took place on February 24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California (USA). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) presented the annual Academy Awards to the winners. Life of Pi won the four awards (the most for the evening) including Best director for Ang Lee (see photo on cover), and Argo won three awards including Best Picture. Les Miserable also won three awards: Django Unchained, Lincoln and Skyfall won two awards each. Here is the list of the Oscar awards and their winners for film for the academic  year 2012. In this 85th ceremony awards presented on 24th February. It ranks Ist in the all awards.

Categories of Awards	Award Winners
Best Director Award	Ang Lee for “Life of Pi”
Best Actor Award	Deniel Day Lewis for “Lincoln”
Best Actress Award	Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Lining Playbook
Best Supporting Actor Award	Christoph Waltz for “Django Unchained”
Best Supporting Actress Award	Anne Hathaway for “Les Miserables”
Best Picture Award	Ben Affleck for “Argo”
Best Animation Picture Award	Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman for “Brave”
Best Animated Short Film Award	John Kahrs for “Paperman”
Best Foreign Language Film Award	Michael Haneke for “Amour”
Best Film Edditing Award	William Goldenburg for “Argo”
Best Documentory Short Subject Award	Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for “Inocente”
Best Documentory Feature Award	Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn for “Searching for Sugar Man”
Best Live-Action Short Film Award	Shawn Christensen for “Curfew”
Best Visual Effects Award	Guillaume Rocheron, Bill Westenhofer, Donald R. Elliott and Erik-jan De Boer for “Life of Pi”
Best Cinematography Award	Claudio Miranda for “Life of Pi”
Best Costume Design Award	Jacqueline Durran for “Anna Karenina”
Best Make Up & Hair Style Award	Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for “Lesmiserable”
Best Music-Original Score Award	Mychael Danna for “Life of Pi”
Best Music-Original Song Award	Adele Adking & Pual for Skyfall of “Skyfall”
Best Production Design Award	Kristen Stewart and Rick Carter for “Lincoln”
Best Sound Editing Award	Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for “Skyfall”
Best Original Screenplay Award	Quentin Tarantino for “Django Unchained”

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The List of Winners at 58th Film Fare Awards

The List of Winners at 58th Film Fare Awards

Best Actor	Ranbir Kapoor (Barfi!)
Best Actress	Vidya Balan ( Kahaani)
Best Film	Barfi!
Best Director	Sujoy Ghosh (Kahaani)
Best Dialogue	Anurag Kashyap, Akhilesh Jaiswal, Sachin K Ladia, Zeishan Qadri (Gangs of Wasseypur)
Best Screenplay	Sanjay Chouhan & Tigmanshu Dhulia (Paan Singh Tomar)
Best Story	Juhi Chaturvedi (Vicky Donor)
Best Supporting Actor (Male)	Annu Kapoor (Vicky Donor)
Best Supporting Actor (Female)	Anushka Sharma (Jab Tak Hai Jaan)
Best Music Director	Pritam (Barfi!)
Best Lyrics	Gulzar (Challa), Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Best Playback (Male)	Ayushmann Khurrana (Paani Da Rang) (Vicky Donor)
Best Playback (Female)	Shalmali Kholgade (Pareshaan) ( Ishaqzaade)
RD Burman Award For Upcoming Talent In Music	Neeti Mohan (Jiya Re) (Jab Tak Hain Jaan)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Yash Chopra
Sony Trendsetter Of The Year	Barfi!
Best Debut (Male)	Ayushmann Khurrana (Vicky Donor)
Best Debut (Female)	Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!)
Best Debut (Director)	Gauri Shinde (English Vinglish)
CRITICS AWARDS
Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Male)	Irrfan Khan (Paan Singh Tomar)
Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Female)	Richa Chadda (Gangs of Wasseypur)
Critics’ Award for Best Film	Gangs of Wasseypur
FILMFARE TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Action	Sham Kaushal (Gangs Of Wasseypur)
Best Cinematography	Setu (Kahaani)
Best Editing	Namrata Rao (Kahaani)
Best Production Design	Rajat Podar (Barfi!)
Best Sound Design	Sanjay Maurya & Allwin Rego (Kahaani)
Best Costume Design	Manoshi Nath & Rushi Sharma ( Shanghai)
Best Choreography	Bosco-Caesar (Aunty Ji – Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu)
Best Background Score	Pritam (Barfi!)

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List of Padma Awardees 2013

On the eve of the country’s 64th Republic Day, President Pranab Mukherjee approved the conferment of108 Padma awards, including 4 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri Awards. While 24 of the awardees are women, the list also includes 11 persons in the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and posthumous Awardees.

Padma Vibhushan awardees

1. Raghunath Mohapatra, Art, Orissa
2. S Haider Raza, Art, Delhi
3. Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh
4. Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering, Karnataka

Padma Bhushan

Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile

1. Dr. Ramanaidu DaggubatiArt,Andhra Pradesh

2.Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki Art,Tamil Nadu

3. Dr. (Smt.) Kanak ReleArt,Maharashtra

4.Smt. Sharmila TagoreArt,Delhi

5. Dr. (Smt.) Saroja VaidyanathanArt, Delhi

6.Shri Abdul Rashid KhanArt,West Bengal

7. Late Rajesh KhannaArt,Maharashtra #

8. Late Jaspal Singh BhattiArt,Punjab #

9.Shri Shivajirao Girdhar Patil Public Affairs, Maharashtra

10. Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu PillaiScience and Engineering,Delhi

11. Dr. Vijay Kumar SaraswatScience and Engineering,Delhi

12. Dr. Ashoke SenScience and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh

13. Dr. B.N. SureshScience and Engineering, Karnataka

14.Prof. Satya N. AtluriScience and Engineering,USA *

15.Prof. Jogesh Chandra PatiScience and Engineering, USA

16. Shri Ramamurthy ThyagarajanTrade and Industry Tamil Nadu

17.Shri Adi Burjor GodrejTrade and Industry, Maharashtra

18. Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao LaudMedicine,Maharashtra

19.Shri Mangesh PadgaonkarLiterature & Education, Maharashtra

20. Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakLiterature & Education, USA*

21. Shri Hemendra Singh Panwar Civil Service, Madhya Pradesh

22. Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan Civil Service, Delhi

23. Shri Rahul Dravid Sports,Karnataka

24. Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary KomSportsManipur

Padma Shri

Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile

1.Shri Gajam AnjaiahArt,Andhra Pradesh

2. Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu Art,Chhattisgarh

3. Ms. B. JayashreeArt,Karnataka

4.Smt. Sridevi KapoorArt,Maharashtra

5.Shri Kailash Chandra MeherArt,Orissa

6.Shri Brahmdeo Ram PanditArt,Maharashtra

7. Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar Art,Maharashtra

8. Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji Art,Andhra Pradesh

9.Shri Lakshmi Narayana SathirajuArt,Tamil Nadu

10.Smt. Jaymala ShiledarArt,Maharashtra

11.Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar Art,Maharashtra

12.Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu Art,Kerala

13.Shri Apurba Kishore BirArt,Maharashtra

14.Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan Art,Assam

15. Smt. Hilda Mit LepchaArt,Sikkim

16. Smt. Sudha MalhotraArtMaharashtra

17.Shri Ghulam Mohammad SaznawazArt, Jammu and Kashmir

18. Shri Ramesh Gopaldas SippyArt,Maharashtra

19. Ms. Mahrukh TaraporArt,Maharashtra

20. Shri Balwant Thakur Art, Jammu & Kashmir

21.Shri Puran Das Baul Art, West Bengal

22.Shri Rajendra Tikku Art, Jammu &Kashmir

23.Shri Pablo Bartholomew Art Delhi

24.Shri S. Shakir AliArt Rajasthan

25.Sh. S.K.M MaeilanandhanSocial Work Tamil Nadu

26. Ms. Nileema MishraSocial Work Maharashtra

27. Ms. Reema Nanavati Social Work Gujarat

28. Ms. Jharna Dhara ChowdhurySocial Work Bangladesh *

29. Late Dr. Ram KrishanSocial Work Uttar Pradesh

30. Late Manju Bharat RamSocial Work Delhi

31. Prof. Mustansir Barma Science and Engineering Maharashtra

32.Shri Avinash Chander Science and Engineering Delhi

33.Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

34. Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal Science and Engineering West Bengal

35.Prof. Deepak B. Phatak Science and Engineering Maharashtra

36. Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh

37.Prof. Ajay K. SoodScience and Engineering Karnataka

38.Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan Science and Engineering, Karnataka

39. Dr. Manindra Agrawal Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh

40. Dr. Jayaraman GowrishankarScience and Engineering Andhra Pradesh

41. Prof. Sharad Pandurang KaleScience and EngineeringMaharashtra

42.Smt. Vandana LuthraTrade and Industry Delhi

43. Ms. Rajshree PathyTrade and Industry Tamil Nadu

44. Shri Hemendra Prasad BarooahTrade and Industry Assam

45.Shri Milind Kamble Trade and Industry Maharashtra

46. Ms. Kalpana Saroj Trade and Industry Maharashtra

47. Dr. Sudarshan K. AggarwalMedicineDelhi

48. Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram MedicineAndhra Pradesh

49. Dr. Rajendra Achyut BadweMedicineMaharashtra

50. Dr. Taraprasad DasMedicineOrissa

51.Prof. (Dr.) T.V. DevarajanMedicineTamil Nadu

52.Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani GopalMedicineUttar Pradesh

53. Dr. Pramod Kumar JulkaMedicineDelhi

54. Dr. Gulshan Rai KhatriMedicineDelhi

55. Dr. Ganesh Kumar ManiMedicineDelhi

56. Dr. Amit Prabhakar MaydeoMedicine Maharashtra

57. Dr. Sundaram Natarajan Medicine Maharashtra

58.Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar Medicine Uttar Pradesh

59. Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta Medicine Delhi

60. Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-eAlam Literature & Education Bihar

61. Dr. Radhika Herzberger Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh

62.Shri J. MalsawmaLiterature & Education Mizoram

63.Shri Devendra PatelLiterature & Education Gujarat

64. Dr. Rama Kant ShuklaLiterature & Education Delhi

65.Prof. Akhtarul Wasey Literature & Education Delhi

66. Prof. Anvita AbbiLiterature & Education Delhi

67.Shri Nida FazliLiterature & EducationMadhya Pradesh

68. Shri Surender Kumar Sharma Literature & Education Delhi

69. Dr. Jagdish Prasad SinghLiterature & Education Bihar

70. Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi Literature & Education West Bengal #

71.Prof. Noboru KarashimaLiterature & Education Japan *

72.Shri Christopher PinneyLiterature & EducationUK *

73.Smt. Premlata AgrawalSportsJharkhand

74.Shri Yogeshwar DuttSportsHaryana

75.Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda GirishaSportsKarnataka

76.Subedar Major Vijay KumarSportsHimachal Pradesh

77.Shri Ngangom Dingko SinghSportsMaharashtra

78. Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal TakharSportsRajasthan

79. Ms. Ritu Kumar Fashion Designing Delhi

80. Dr. Ravindra Singh BishtArchaeologyUttar Pradesh

 

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A complete list of 2013 SAG Grammy Award Winners

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are being handed out on Sunday in Los Angeles.

LL Cool J is once again hosting the ceremony.

Check out the FULL LIST of winners below!

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Babel, Mumford and Sons

RECORD OF THE YEAR

“Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye Feat. Kimbra

BEST NEW ARTIST

Fun.

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

Uncaged, Zac Brown Band

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION

“No Church in the Wild,” Kanye West and Jay-Z, Feat. Frank Ocean and The-Dream

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM

Stronger, Kelly Clarkson

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE

“Lonely Boy,” The Black Keys

BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM

Channel Orange, Frank Ocean

SONG OF THE YEAR

“We Are Young,” Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Fun. Featuring Janelle Monáe)

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE

“Blown Away,” Carrie Underwood

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE

“Set Fire to the Rain,” Adele

BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE

“Somebody That I Used To Know,” Gotye Feat. Kimbra

BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM

Impressions, Chris Botti

BEST DANCE RECORDING

“Bangarang,” Skrillex Feat. Sirah

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM

Bangarang, Skrillex

BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM

Kisses On The Bottom, Paul McCartney

BEST HARD ROCK/METAL PERFORMANCE

“Love Bites (So Do I),” Halestorm

BEST ROCK SONG

“Lonely Boy,” Dan Auerbach, Brian Burton & Patrick Carney, songwriters (The Black Keys)

BEST ROCK ALBUM

El Camino, The Black Keys

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM

Making Mirrors, Gotye

BEST R&B PERFORMANCE

“Climax,” Usher

BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE

“Love on Top,” Beyoncé

BEST R&B SONG

“Adorn,” Miguel

BEST R&B ALBUM

Black Radio, Robert Glasper Experiment

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE

“N****s in Paris,” Jay-Z and Kanye West

BEST RAP SONG

“N****s in Paris,” Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis & Kanye West, songwriters (W.A. Donaldson, songwriter) (Jay-Z & Kanye West)

BEST RAP ALBUM

Take Care, Drake

BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE

“Pontoon,” Little Big Town

BEST COUNTRY SONG

“Blown Away,” Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)

BEST NEW AGE ALBUM

Echoes of Love, Omar Akram

BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO

“Hot House,” Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists

BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM

Radio Music Society, Esperanza Spaulding

BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM

Unity Band, Pat Metheny Unity Band

BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM

Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You), Arturo Sandoval

BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM

¡Ritmo!, The Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band

BEST GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

“10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord),” Matt Redman

BEST GOSPEL SONG

“Go Get It,” Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary)

BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN SONG (Tie)

“10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord),” Jonas Myrin & Matt Redman, songwriters (Matt Redman)

“Your Presence Is Heaven,” Israel Houghton & Micah Massey, songwriters (Israel & New Breed)

BEST GOSPEL ALBUM

Gravity, Lecrae

BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC ALBUM

Eye On It, TobyMac

BEST LATIN POP ALBUM

MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition, Juanes

BEST LATIN ROCK, URBAN OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM

Imaginaries, Quetzal

BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC ALBUM (Including Tejano)

Pecados Y Milagros, Lila Downs

BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM

Retro, Marlow Rosado Y La Riqueña

BEST AMERICANA ALBUM

Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt

BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM

Nobody Knows You, Steep Canyon Rangers

BEST BLUES ALBIM

Locked Down, Dr. John

BEST FOLK ALBUM

The Goat Rodeo Sessions, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile

BEST REGIONAL ROOTS ALBUM

The Band Courtbouillon, Wayne Toups, Steve Riley & Wilson Savoy

BEST REGGAE ALBUM

Rebirth, Jimmy Cliff

BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM

The Living Room Sessions Part 1, Ravi Shankar

BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM

Can You Canoe?, The Okee Dokee Brothers

BEST SPOKEN-WORD ALBUM

Society’s Child: My Autobiography, Janis Ian

BEST COMEDY ALBUM

Blow Your Pants Off, Jimmy Fallon

BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM

Once: A New Musical, Steve Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, composers/lyricists) (Original Broadway Cast With Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti & Others)

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA

Midnight In Paris, (Various Artists)

BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers

BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA

“Safe & Sound” (From The Hunger Games), T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring The Civil Wars)

BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION

“Mozart Goes Dancing,” Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Gary Burton)

BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT

“How About You,” Gil Evans, arranger (Gil Evans Project)

BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALISTS

“City Of Roses,” Thara Memory & Esperanza Spalding, arrangers (Esperanza Spalding)

BEST RECORDING PACKAGE

Biophilia, Michael Amzalag & Mathias Augustyniak, art directors (Björk)

BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE

Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Fritz Klaetke, art director (Woody Guthrie)

BEST ALBUM NOTES

Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles, Billy Vera, album notes writer (Ray Charles)

BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM

The Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set), Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson & Dennis Wolfe, compilation producers; Mark Linett, mastering engineer (The Beach Boys)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL

The Goat Rodeo Sessions, Richard King, engineer; Richard King, mastering engineer (Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile)

BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL

Promises (Skrillex & Nero Remix), Skrillex, remixer (Nero), Joseph Ray, Skrillex & Daniel Stephens, remixers

BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM

Modern Cool, Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Michael Friedman, surround producer (Patricia Barber)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL

Life & Breath – Choral Works By René Clausen, Tom Caulfield & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Charles Bruffy & Kansas City Chorale)

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL

Blanton Alspaugh

BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE

“Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride In A Fast Machine,” Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

BEST OPERA RECORDING

“Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen,” James Levine & Fabio Luisi, conductors; Hans-Peter König, Jay Hunter Morris, Bryn Terfel & Deborah Voigt; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE

“Life & Breath – Choral Works By René Clausen,” Charles Bruffy, conductor (Matthew Gladden, Lindsey Lang, Rebecca Lloyd, Sarah Tannehill & Pamela Williamson; Kansas City Chorale)

BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

“Meanwhile,” Eighth Blackbird

BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENT SOLO

“Kurtág & Ligeti: Music For Viola,” Kim Kashkashian

BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLO

“Poèmes,” Renée Fleming (Alan Gilbert & Seiji Ozawa; Orchestre National De France & Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)

BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM

“Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis,” Antoni Wit, conductor; Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin, producers

BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION

“Hartke, Stephen: Meanwhile – Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays,” Stephen Hartke, composer (Eighth Blackbird)

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL

Dan Auerbach

BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL

“Promises (Skrillex & Nero Remix)” Skrillex, remixer (Nero) Joseph Ray, Skrillex & Daniel Stephens, remixers

BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO

“We Found Love,” Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris, Melina Matsoukas, video director; Juliette Larthe, Ben Sullivan, Candice Ouaknine & Inga Veronique video producers

BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO

“Big Easy Express,” Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine Show Emmett Malloy, video director; Bryan Ling, Mike Luba & Tim Lynch, video producers

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Dadasaheb Phalke Award and Recipients

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest award in Indian cinema industry. It is given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema, to a prominent personality from the Indian film industry for significant contributions to Indian cinema. A committee consisting eminent personalities from the Indian film industry is appointed to evaluate the award.
Introduced in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, who is considered as the father of Indian cinema, award is given to the film personalities for the development of Indian Cinema and for distinguished contribution, growth and promotion. The award for a particular year is given during the end of the following year along with the National Film Awards. The award comprises a Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) medallion, a cash prize of 10 million (increased from 2006) and a shawl.

Following table illustrates the cash prize’s varied amount over the years:

Year (Period)	Cash Prize
1969 – 1972	A Plaque, a Shawl and 11,000
1973 – 1976	A Gold medal, a Shawl and 20,000
1977 – 1983	A Gold medal, a Shawl and 40,000
1982 – 2002	Swarna Kamal, a Shawl and 1,00,000
2003 – 2005	Swarna Kamal, a Shawl and 2,00,000
2006 – (till date)	Swarna Kamal, a Shawl and 10,00,000

Here is a table of the recipients from the year 1969:

Year	Recipients	Occupation/Field
2012	To be announced
2011	Soumitra Chatterjee	Actor
2010	K. Balachander	Director
2009	D. Rama Naidu	Producer
2008	V.K. Moorthy	Cinematographer
2007	Manna De	Playback Singer
2006	Shayam Benegal	Director
2005	Brij Bhushan Chaturvedi	Director
2004	Adoor Gopalkrishnan	Director
2003	Mirinal Sen	Director
2002	Dev Anand	Director, Producer, Actor
2001	Yash Chopra	Director, Producer
2000	Asha Bhonsle	Playback Singer
1999	Hrishikesh Mukharjee	Director
1998	Ravi Chopra	Director, Producer
1997	Kavi Pradeep	Lyricist
1996	Shivaji Ganeshan	Actor
1995	Dr. Rajkumar	Actor
1994	Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)	Actor
1993	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lyricist
1992	Dr. Bhupen Hazarika	Director
1991	Bhalchandra Govind Pendhakar	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
1990	Akkineni Nageshwar Rao	Actor
1989	Lata Maneshkar	Playback Singer
1988	Ashok Kumar	Actor
1987	Rajkapoor	Actor, Director
1986	B. Nagi Reddi	Producer
1985	V. Shantaram	Director, Producer, Actor
1984	Satyajit Ray	Dirctor
1983	Durga khote	Actress
1982	L.V. Prasad	Actor, Dirctor, Producer
1981	Naushad Ali	Music Director
1980	P. Jairaj	Actor, Director
1979	Sohrab Modi	Actor, Director, Producer
1978	Ray Chandra(R.C.) Boral	Music Director, Director
1977	Nitin Bose	Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
1976	Kanan Devi	Actress
1975	Dhiren Ganguli	Actor, Director
1974	B.N. Reddi	Director
1973	Sulochana (Rubi Myers)	Actress
1972	Pankaj Mallick	Music Director
1971	Prithivi Raj Kapoor (Posthumously)	Actor
1970	Birendra Nath Sircar	Producer
1969	Devika Rani Roerich	Actress

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Noble Prizes of 2012

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The Nobel Foundation was founded as a private organization on 29 June 1900, to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.

The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organization but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Each recipient receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided by the Nobel Foundation, yearly. As of 2012, each prize was worth 8 million SEK. The prize is not awarded posthumously; however, if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize may still be presented. Though the average number of laureates per prize increased substantially during the 20th century, a prize may not be shared among more than three people. The Nobel Foundation is exempt from all taxes in Sweden (since 1946) and from investment taxes in the United States (since 1953).

The recipient of the noble prizes (2012):

Medicals – Yamanaka and Gardan

(For the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent)

Physics – Serge Haroche of France, David Wineland of USA

(For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems)

Chemistry – Robert J. Lefkowitz & Brian K. Kobilka (Both of USA)

(For the studies of G-protein-coupled receptors)

Literature – Mo Yan (China)

(He with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary)

Peace Prize – European Union

(For the contribution to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe for over six years)

Economic – Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley

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Shaurya Chakra Awards (Jan.26, 2012)

Awardee’s List for 66th Shaurya Chakra awards:

S. No.	Awardee’s Name and Detail
1	IC-60963W MAJOR RAVINDRA KUMAR GURANG, REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY / 33RD FIELD REGIMENT
2	IC-67407H MAJOR SHALENDER, 4TH BATTALION THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT (SPECIAL FORCES)
3	JC-413091F SUBEDAR MANJEET SINGH, 4TH BATTALION THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT (SPECIAL FORCES)
4	JC-460294W NAIB SUBEDAR MENGARE SHANKAR GANPATI, 15TH BATTALION THE MARATHA LIGHT INFANTRY
5	JC-470388F NAIB SUBEDAR LAL SINGH KHICHI, SENA MEDAL, RAJPUTANA RIFLES / 57TH BATTALION THE RASHTRIYA RIFLES (POSTHUMOUS)
6	14433512W NAIK SUMER SINGH, REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY / 18TH BATTALION THE RASHTRIYA RIFLES (POSTHUMOUS)
7	15143280N NAIK SANKAR TARAFDAR, REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY / 33RD FIELD REGIMENT
8	4192242N LANCE NAIK BRIJ KISHORE DHAMI, 19TH BATTALION THE KUMAON REGIMENT
9	5048550P RIFLEMAN TEJ BAHADUR GURUNG, 1ST GORKHA RIFLES / 15TH BATTALION THE RASHTRIYA RIFLES
10	LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROHITH MOHANDAS NAMBIAR (05622-A)
11	WING COMMANDER FELIX PATRICK PINTO (23569), FLYING PILOT
12	NO. EX GS-184959F OEM SAMSHER SINGH, BORDER ROADS ORGANISATION (POSTHUMOUS)
13	GS – 166845N OEM-2 KANHAYA PRASAD, BORDER ROADS ORGANISATION (POSTHUMOUS)
14	SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR SINGH, ASSISTANT COMMANDANT, CENTRAL RESERVE POLICE FORCE
15	CAPTAIN SHAKUL TYAGI, PAWAN HANS HELICOPTER LIMITED
16	SHRI BARKET ALI, SPO, VILLAGE-GOURI BINOLA, TEHSIL-THATHRI, DISTRICT-DODA, JAMMU AND KASHMIR

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Awards & Honours Nonel Prize-2012

The winners in different field are: Physics: Serge Haroche (Frence) and David J. Wineland (USA) “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum system”.

Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian k. Kobilka (both from USA) “for studies of G-Protein-Coupled receptors”.Medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon (UK) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”.

Literature: Mo Yan of China for “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”. Peace: European Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. “Economic Sciences: Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley (both from USA) “for the theory of stable allocation and the practice of market design.”

 Man Booker Prize: Hilary Mantel scored a Booker double in London on October 16 with Bring UP the Bodies, the second book in her Tudor trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell, becoming the first women and the first Briton to win the Booker Prize twice. Mantel had won her first Booker for Wolf Hall, the first book of her trilogy, in 2009.

 London Film festival: American director and composer Benh Zeitlin won the prestigious Sutherland award for his Beasts of the Southern Wild. The Best film award went to French-Belgian production Rust and Bones, directed by Jacques Audiard.The Best British newcomer award went to Directed and Screen-writer Sally El Hosaini for her first film My Brother the Devil. Directed and screen-writer Alex Gibney won the Grierson Award for best documentary for his study of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Mea Maxima Culpa, Silence in the House of God.

Best Film Award In Filji: Director Sujoy Ghosh’s Film, Kahaani, Starring actor Vidya Balan, has been named the best film at the International Film Festival in Fiji held in Lobasa and other cities in mid-October. Among the other awards, the Best Director award was given to director Rajkumar Hirani for his film 3 Idiots, a special Julry Best Film award to director Girish kasarawalli’s Kumavatara, and best Documentary Film award to Urban Ox by A.K. Bir. In the short Film category, the award was given to Nirvana & Beyond, directed by Juhi Sinha. The Festival featured many international and local film entries including French, Russian, Middle Eastern films, Bollywood blockbusters and Bengali classics.

 Mumbai Film Festival: Musa Sayeed’s film Valley of Saints bagged the special Jury award in the international competition section at the 14^th Mumbai Film Festival which concluded on October 25.Veteran actor Waheeda Rehman was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.In the International competition category for first feature films, the award was won by Aqui Y Alla (Here and There) directed by Antonio Mendes Esparza. It also won the award for best direction.The Juri award for technical excellence went to Pankaj Kumar for ship of Theseus directed by Anand Gandhi. In the newly introduced competition section for Indian feature films, Miss Lovely directed by Ashim Ahluwalia bagged the best film awards.

 Israel Prez Award : India-born music composer Zubin Mehta 76, was on October 15 in Jerusalem honoured with the Israeli Presidential Award of Distintion for his contribution to the society through the language of music. Mehta, the 1^st non-Jew to receive such and award, joins and elite group of Henry Kissinger, Judith Feld Carr etc.

 Sakharov Prize : Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh of Iran have won the European Parliament’s Sakharov rights prize.The Iranian pair were chosen for the prestigious 50,000-euro ($65,000) award ahead of the jailed members of Russian all-girl punk band Pussy Riot and Belarus dissident Ales Beliatsky.The shortlist for the prize, which recognize those who promote human rights and democratic values, was notable in that all the nominees but Mr Panahi are Currently behind bars.

 Indira Gandhi Award: The 27^th indira Gandhi award for national integration is given to the 75-year-old lyricist and writer, noted poet and filmmaker Gulzar for his contribution to promoting and preserving the sprit of national integration.The award carries a cash prize of Rs5 lakh.

 Sangeet Natak Akademy Fellowship & Awards: Eleven eminent persons in the field of music, dance and theatre were bestowed with the Akademy fellowship for 2011 on October 9 new Delhi by Prez Pranav Mukherjee which included Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, Santoor exponent Shivkumar Sharma and Flute legend Hariprasad Chaurasia. Besides this, 36 eminent personalities and artists, including well-known film and television actor Vikram Gokhle, were conferred the Sangeet natak Akademy Award.

 Top French Honour: Ebrahim Alkazi, the grand old man of Indian theatre, has been conferred France’s highest cultural award-knight of the order of Arts and Letter (Chevalier dans I’Ordre des Arts et des Letters)-for his contribution in nurturing and presenting modern theatre in India and preserving the treasures of Photography and other art forms for posterity on September 28 in new Delhi.

 ‘Pride of India’ Award: Trilochan Singh Sahni, an ex-Indian diplomat-turned-entrepreneur, has been presented with the ‘Pride of India’ award on October 6 in London for his outstanding services to India and Britain.

 Shastri Award:  Tessy Thomas, the key defence scientist in the Agni series of Missiles, was conferred the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award by President Pranav Mukherjee on October 1,, for her outstanding contribution for making Indian self-reliant in the field of missile technology. The award carries a Rs5 lakh purse, a plaque and a citation.

 The Economist crossword Book award-2011-Aman Sethi The Hindu’s Correspondent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was on October 19 declared the winner of ‘The Economist Crossword Book Award 2011’ in the Indian non-fiction category for his book A Free man.

 First Prize At Taiwan Quiz: The Indian team took top honours at the Taiwan Excellence smartest!2012 on October 16, winning the first prize and $30,000 in a competition that lasted three months and involved over 36,000 contestants. The event was organized by the Taiwanese Bureau of Foreign Trade and its Ministry of Economic Affairs, and implemented by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to promote Taiwanese companies and their products in India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia.

 Spanish Honour: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was conferred with a Spanish honour in New delhi on October 11 while Union Minister farooq Abdullah was honoured with the Great Cross of Civil Merit decoration.

National Kishore Kumar Award:  Legendary screenplay writer Salim Khan has been bestowed with the Madhya Pradesh government’s Prestigious National Kishore Kumar Award on October 13.

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