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Important Awards & Honours – CUET GK 2025

Major Awards & Fields

  • Nobel Prize – Six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine (Physiology or Medicine), Literature, Peace, Economics (added in 1969).

  • Academy (Oscar) Awards – Excellence in cinema (since 1929).

  • Bharat Ratna – India’s highest civilian award (art, literature, science, public service).

  • Param Vir Chakra – India’s highest military decoration.

  • Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna – India’s highest sporting honour.

  • Miss Universe – Global beauty pageant title.

Other Prestigious Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize – Journalism (since 1917).

  • Kalinga Prize – Science (since 1952).

  • Booker Prize – Literature (since 1969).

  • Grammy Awards – Music (since 1958).

  • Ramon Magsaysay Award – Public service, journalism, literature, etc.

  • Dadasaheb Phalke Award – Indian cinema (since 1969).

  • Dronacharya Award – Excellence in sports coaching.

  • Arjuna Award – Outstanding performance in sports.

  • Dhanwantri Award – Excellence in medical science (since 1971).

Nobel Prize Highlights:

Nobel Prize Highlights

  • Founded by: Alfred Nobel, 1895; First awarded in 1901.

  • Peace Prize: Awarded in Norway; others in Sweden.

  • Notable Winners:

    • Malala Yousafzai – Youngest (Peace, 2014)

    • John B. Goodenough – Oldest (Chemistry, 2019)

    • Marie Curie – Only person to win in two fields (Physics & Chemistry)

    • Rabindranath Tagore – Literature, 1913 (First non-European winner)

    • Mother Teresa – Peace, 1979

    • Kailash Satyarthi – Peace, 2014 (Child rights)

    • Amartya Sen – Economics, 1998

    • Abhijit Banerjee – Economics, 2019

    • C.V. Raman – Physics, 1930

    • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Physics, 1983

    • Har Gobind Khorana – Medicine, 1968

    • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Chemistry, 2009

Nobel Prize 2024 Winners

  • Peace: Nihon Hidankyo – Anti-nuclear advocacy

  • Economics: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson – Institutional impact on prosperity

  • Physics: John J. Hopfield & Geoffrey Hinton – AI/Neural networks

  • Chemistry: David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper – Protein design and structure prediction

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Oscar Awards (Academy Awards):

  • First Ceremony: May 16, 1929

  • Most Wins (11): Titanic, Ben-Hur, Return of the King, Everything Everywhere All at Once

  • Most Oscar Wins (Individual): Walt Disney (22 competitive + 4 honorary)

  • Youngest Winner: Tatum O’Neal (10 years)

  • Oldest Winner: Anthony Hopkins (83 years)

Oscar Winners 2025

  • Best Picture: Anora

  • Best Director: Sean Baker (Anora)

  • Best Actor: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)

  • Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

  • Best Actress: Mikey Madison (Anora)

  • Best Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

India at the Oscars:

  • 🏆 1983 – Bhanu Athaiya won the Best Costume Design Oscar for the film Gandhi (1982), becoming the first Indian to win an Oscar.

  • 🏆 1992 – Satyajit Ray received an Honorary Academy Award for his outstanding contribution to world cinema.

  • 🏆 2009 – India achieved major success with Slumdog Millionaire:

    • A. R. Rahman won Best Original Score.

    • A. R. Rahman & Gulzar won Best Original Song for “Jai Ho”.

    • Resul Pookutty won Best Sound Mixing.

  • 🏆 2019 – The documentary Period. End of Sentence, produced by Indian women’s rights activist Guneet Monga, won the Best Documentary (Short Subject).

  • 🏆 2023 – India won two Oscars:

    • The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga, won Best Documentary Short.

    • “Naatu Naatu” from RRR, composed by M. M. Keeravani with lyrics by Chandrabose, won Best Original Song — the first Indian song to win an Oscar.

Miss Universe:

  • Founded: 1952

  • Current Owner: JKN Global Group (was Donald Trump: 1996–2015)

  • Motto: Confidently Beautiful

  • Most wins: USA (9 titles)

  • Indian Winners:

    • Sushmita Sen (1994): First Indian to win

    • Lara Dutta (2000): Record highest score (9.99/10)

    • Harnaaz Sandhu (2021): Third Indian to win, after 21 years

Miss World:

  • Founded: 1951 | HQ: London, UK

  • Motto: Beauty with a Purpose

  • First Indian Winner: Reita Faria (1966), also the first doctor to win

  • Indian Winners:

    • Reita Faria (1966)

    • Aishwarya Rai (1994)

    • Diana Hayden (1997)

    • Yukta Mookhey (1999)

    • Priyanka Chopra (2000)

    • Manushi Chhillar (2017)

  • India & Venezuela: Most wins in Asia (6 each)

Bharat Ratna – India’s Highest Civilian Award:

  • Established: 1954

  • Fields: Art, Literature, Science, Public Service, Sports

  • Presented by: President of India

  • Total Recipients (till now): 53

2024 Awardees:

  • Karpoori Thakur – Former CM of Bihar

  • L. K. Advani – Former Deputy PM

  • P. V. Narasimha Rao – 9th Prime Minister of India

  • Charan Singh – 5th PM of India

  • M. S. Swaminathan – Father of Green Revolution

Awarded Both Nobel & Bharat Ratna

  • C. V. Raman – Nobel (1930, Physics), Bharat Ratna (1954)

  • Mother Teresa – Nobel (1979, Peace), Bharat Ratna (1980)

  • Amartya Sen – Nobel (1998, Economics), Bharat Ratna (1999)

    Sportsperson

    Sachin Tendulkar – First & only sportsperson to receive Bharat Ratna (2014); also youngest recipient at age 40

  • Arts & Cinema

    • Satyajit Ray – Only Bharat Ratna recipient in Cinema (1992)

    • Lata Mangeshkar – Playback singing (2001)

    • M. S. Subbulakshmi – Carnatic singer (1998)

    • Pandit Ravi Shankar – Sitar maestro (1999)

    • Ustad Bismillah Khan – Shehnai maestro (2001)

    • Pandit Bhimsen Joshi – Hindustani vocalist (2009)

    • Bhupen Hazarika – Posthumous (2019)

  • Prime Ministers Honoured

    • Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)

    • Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966, posthumous)

    • Indira Gandhi (1971) – Also first female recipient

    • Morarji Desai (1991)

    • Rajiv Gandhi (1991, posthumous)

    • Atal Bihari Vajpayee (2015)

    • Charan Singh (2024)

    • P. V. Narasimha Rao (2024)

  • Presidents Honoured

    • Dr. Rajendra Prasad – 1st President (1962)

    • Dr. S. Radhakrishnan – Philosopher & 2nd President (1954)

    • Dr. Zakir Husain – 3rd President (1963, posthumous)

    • Dr. V. V. Giri – 4th President (1975)

    • Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy – 6th President (1997)

    • Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – 11th President (1997)

    • Pranab Mukherjee – 13th President (2019)

  • Other Notable Recipients

    • Madan Mohan Malaviya – 2015

    • Gulzarilal Nanda – 1997

    • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – 1991

    • B. R. Ambedkar – 1990

    • Vinoba Bhave – 1983

    • J. R. D. Tata – 1992

  • Bharat Ratna Fast Facts

    • First Recipients (1954):

      • Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

      • C. Rajagopalachari

      • Dr. C. V. Raman

    • First Non-Indian: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)

    • First Posthumous Awardee: Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)

    • Only Two Non-Indians: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Nelson Mandela (1990

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