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This type can be used for all kinds of awards and prizes.  This type should only be applied to specific awards (e.g., the The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Nobel Peace... more

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry     Pulitzer Prize  
The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.
NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award   Sports League Award Type    
The National Basketball Association Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1969 NBA Finals. The award is decided by a panel of 9 media members, who cast vote after the conclusion of...
NBA Most Valuable Player Award   Sports League Award Type    
The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1955–56 NBA season. The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named in honor of the first...
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress     BAFTA Award    
Chicago International Film Festival Career Achievement Award          
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero Award        
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero Award is given on an annual basis to a sportsperson who has made a substantive, yet unrecognised contribution to sport. The award was first given in 2003. Winners:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Vant Hoff   Nobel Prize  
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prize established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in...
Nobel Peace Prize Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize Location Nobel Prize  
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of five Nobel Prize bequeath by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall...
Award Presenting Organization
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature medal. Original design ®© The Nobel Foundation   Nobel Prize  
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency" ...
Nobel Prize in Physics Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995), winning the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]   Nobel Prize 1901
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prize established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Emil Adolf von Behring, Entdecker der Antitoxine und damit der humoralen Immunabwehr   Nobel Prize 1901
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute. It is one of the five Nobel Prize established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for...
Nobel Prize in Economics     Nobel Prize 1968
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an award for outstanding...
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album     Grammy Award  
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes: Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.
Arthur C. Clarke Award       1987
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in...
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award      
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." The award is named for Irving Thalberg,...
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director     New York Film Critics Circle Awards  
The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking. In the last three (1970s, 1980s and 1990s) decades the New York Film Critics...
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay          
César Award for Best Foreign Film        
César Award for Best Foreign Film: Adapted from the article César Award for Best Foreign Film, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Foreign film
Academy Award for Best Director     Academy Awards  
The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to director working in the motion picture industry. While nominations for Best Director...
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture     Golden Globe Awards  
This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, since its institution in 1943. The organizer, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), is an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States...
César Award for Best European Film          
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film     BAFTA Award    
BAFTA Award for Best Film     BAFTA Award  
This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for each year, in addition to the retired earlier versions of those...
Academy Award for Best Picture     Academy Awards  
The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category...
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay     Academy Awards  
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were...
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Statuette (78th Academy Awards)   Academy Awards  
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion...
American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award          
Academy Award for Best Cinematography CharlesRosher   Academy Awards  
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture. In its first year, 1927-28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a...
Order of Lenin      
The Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest national order of the Soviet Union. The Order was bestowed for the following: Those who were awarded the Hero of the...
James Tiptree, Jr. Award   Namesake    
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction ("SF") or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by SF authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler,...