87 Academy Awards Winners : Oscar Awards

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

The Academy Awards (commonly referred as Oscars) were presented in twenty four categories. They are

• Best Picture -  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).
• Best Actor -  Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything).
• Best Actress - Julianne Moore (Still Alice).
• Best Supporting Actor - J. K. Simmons (Whiplash).
• Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette (Boyhood).
• Best Director - Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).
• Best Original Screenplay - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).
• Best Adapted Screenplay - The Imitation Game.
• Best Original Song - Glory (Selma).
• Best Original Score - The Grand Budapest Hotel.
• Best Production Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel.
• Best Editing - Whiplash.
• Best Cinematography - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).
• Best Sound Editing - American Sniper.
• Best Sound Mixing - Whiplash.
• Best Foreign Language Film - Ida (Poland).
• Best Documentary Feature - CitizenFour.
• Best Documentary Short Subject - Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1.
• Best Live Action Short Film - The Phone Call.
• Best Visual Effects - Interstellar.
• Best Animated Feature Film - Big Hero 6.
• Best Animated Short Film - Feast.
• Best Makeup and Hairstyling - The Grand Budapest Hotel.
• Best Costume Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Most awards: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (Both received 4 awards).

Most nominations in 87th Academy Awards- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (both 9 nominations)

Economist Amartya Sen awarded inaugural John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015

Eminent Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Senhas been awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015.

He was chosen for this award for his ground-breaking work that has profound impact on the formation of development policy worldwide and outstanding contribution to society.

Amartya Sen will receive £7,500 to commission a work of art. He will also give the annual Charleston-EFG Keynes Lecture on the topic The Economic Consequences of Austerity at the Charleston Festival on 23 May 2015.

About Amartya Sen

1. Amartya Sen was born on 3 November 1933 in Manikganj district in British India (Now in Bangladesh).
2. He is regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in the field of famine, poverty, social choice and welfare economics.
3. He was teacher and a research scholar in the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, West Bengal.. Currently, he is a Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
4. His has authored more than 100 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Awards: 

• He has won many prestigious awards. Few of them are
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.
• Bharat Ratna- India’s highest Civilian Award in 1999.
• National Humanities Medal in 2012.

About Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize

It is an international award, instituted in the memory and spirit of British Economist John Maynard Keynes’ work, life and legacy.

The aim of this prize is to honour individuals from around the world who continue to embody Keynes’ extraordinary attributes.

Pranab Mukherjee Announced Padma Awards 2015

President Pranab Mukherjee has announced the names of Recipients of this year’s Padma awards. He approved conferment of 104 Padma Awards.

• Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three Categories viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

• This years list comprises 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees. Among these awardees 17 are women and equal number are in category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs. While, 4 are posthumous awardees.

The Awards are given in various disciplines- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

2015 Padma Vibhushan Awards

It is the second highest civilian award. It is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service.

Sr No	Name of the Awardee	Discipline	State/Domicile
1	L. K. Advani	Public Affairs	Gujarat
2	Amitabh Bachchan	Art	Maharashtra
3	Prakash Singh Badal	Public Affairs	Punjab
4	Dr.D.Veerendra Heggade	Social Work	Karnataka
5	Dilip Kumar	Art	Maharashtra
6	Swami Rambhadracharya	Others	Uttar Pradesh
7	Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan	Science & Engineering	Tamil Nadu
8	Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal	Public Affairs	Delhi
9	Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner)	Trade & Industry	France/UK

2015 Padma Bhushan Awards

It is the third highest civilian award. It is awarded for distinguished service of high order.

Sr No	Name of the Awardee	Discipline	State/Domicile
1	Jahnu Barua	Art	Assam
2	Dr. Vijay Bhatkar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
3	Swapan Dasgupta	Literature & Education	Delhi
4	Swami Satyamitranand Giri	Others	Uttar Pradesh
5	N. Gopalaswami	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
6	Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap	Public Affairs	Delhi
7	Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj	Art	Madhya Pradesh
8	Dr. Ambrish  Mithal	Medicine	Delhi
9	Sudha Ragunathan	Art	Tamil Nadu
10	Harish Salve	Public Affairs	Delhi
11	Dr. Ashok Seth	Medicine	Delhi
12	Rajat Sharma	Literature & Education	Delhi
13	Satpal	Sports	Delhi
14	Shivakumara Swami	Others	Karnataka
15	Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
16	Prof. Manjul Bhargava(NRI/PIO)	Science & Engineering	USA
17	David Frawley (Vamadeva)(Foreigner)	Others	USA
18	Bill Gates(Foreigner)	Social Work	USA
19	Melinda Gates (Foreigner)	Social Work	USA
20	Saichiro Misumi(Foreigner)	Others	Japan

2015 Padma Shri Awards

It is the fourth highest civilian award. It is awarded for distinguished service in any field.

Sr No	Name of the Awardee	Discipline	State/Domicile
1	Dr. Manjula Anagani	Medicine	Telangana
2	S. Arunan	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
3	Kanyakumari Avasarala	Art	Tamil Nadu
4	Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer	Literature & Education	Jammu & Kashmir
5	Naresh Bedi	Art	Delhi
6	Ashok Bhagat	Social Work	Jharkhand
7	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Art	Maharashtra
8	Dr. Lakshmi Nandan Bora	Literature & Education	Assam
9	Dr. Gyan  Chaturvedi	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
10	Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Kumar Chawla	Medicine	Chandigarh
11	Jayakumari Chikkala	Medicine	Delhi
12	Bibek Debroy	Literature & Education	Delhi
13	Dr. Sarungbam Bimola  Kumari Devi	Medicine	Manipur
14	Dr. Ashok Gulati	Public Affairs	Delhi
15	Dr.  Randeep  Guleria	Medicine	Delhi
16	Dr. K. P. Haridas	Medicine	Kerala
17	Rahul Jain	Art	Delhi
18	Ravindra Jain	Art	Maharashtra
19	Dr. Sunil Jogi	Literature & Education	Delhi
20	Prasoon Joshi	Art	Maharashtra
21	Dr. Prafulla Kar	Art	Odhisa
22	Saba Anjum	Sports	Chhattisgarh
23	Ushakiran Khan	Literature & Education	Bihar
24	Dr. Rajesh Kotecha	Medicine	Rajasthan
25	Prof. Alka Kriplani	Medicine	Delhi
26	Dr. Harsh Kumar	Medicine	Delhi
27	Narayana Purushothama Mallaya	Literature & Education	Kerala
28	Lambert Mascarenhas	Literature & Education	Goa
29	Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan	Social Work	Madhya Pradesh

30	Veerendra Raj Mehta	Social Work	Delhi
31	Tarak Mehta	Art	Gujarat
32	Neil Herbert Nongkynrih	Art	Meghalaya
33	Chewang Norphel	Others	Jammu & Kashmir
34	T. V. Mohandas Pai	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
35	Dr.Tejas Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
36	Jadav Molai Peyang	Others	Assam
37	Bimla Poddar	Others	Uttar Pradesh
38	Dr. N. Prabhakar	Science & Engineering	Delhi
39	Dr. Prahalada	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
40	Dr. Narendra Prasad	Medicine	Bihar
41	Ram Bahadur Rai	Literature & Education	Delhi
42	Mithali Raj	Sports	Telangana
43	P. V.  Rajaraman	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
44	Prof.  J. S. Rajput	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
45	Kota Srinivasa Rao	Art	Andhra Pradesh
46	Prof. Bimal Roy	Literature & Education	West Bengal
47	Shekhar Sen	Art	Maharashtra
48	Gunvant Shah	Literature & Education	Gujarat
49	Brahmdev Sharma (Bhaiji)	Literature & Education	Delhi
50	Manu Sharma	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
51	Prof. Yog Raj Sharma	Medicine	Delhi
52	Vasant Shastri	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
53	S. K. Shivkumar	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
54	P. V. Sindhu	Sports	Telangana
55	Sardara Singh	Sports	Haryana
56	Arunima Sinha	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
57	Mahesh Raj Soni	Art	Rajasthan
58	Dr.Nikhil Tandon	Medicine	Delhi
59	H. Thegtse Rinpoche	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
60	Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi	Medicine	Gujarat
61	Huang Baosheng(Foreigner)	Others	China
62	Prof. Jacques Blamont(Foreigner)	Science & Engineering	France
63	Late Shri Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin(Posthumous)	Others	Maharashtra
64	Jean-Claude Carriere(Foreigner)	Literature & Education	France
65	Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty(NRI/PIO)	Trade & Industry	USA
66	George L. Hart(Foreigner)	Others	USA
67	Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja(NRI/PIO)	Others	Portugal
68	Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta (Posthumous)	Social Work	Rajasthan
69	Tripti Mukherjee(NRI/PIO)	Art	USA
70	Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori(NRI/PIO)	Medicine	USA
71	Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti(NRI/PIO)	Medicine	USA
72	Dr. Saumitra Rawat(NRI/PIO)	Medicine	UK
73	Prof. Annette Schmiedchen(Foreigner)	Literature & Education	Germany
74	Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran(Posthumous)	Art	Delhi
75	R. Vasudevan(Posthumous)	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu

These Padma Awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan around March/ April every year

All you need to know about the Bharat Ratna

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Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award instituted in 1954, is given in recognition of exceptional service, performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for this award.

The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President. The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.

On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion. The award does not carry any monetary grant. The award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name.

A list of Bharat Ratna recipients:

1) C. Rajagopalachari (1954)

2) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954)

3) C.V. Raman (1954)

4) Bhagwan Das (1955)

5) Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1955)

6) Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)

7) Govind Ballabh Pant (1957)

8) Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958)

9) Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961)

10) Purushottam Das Tandon (1961)

11) Rajendra Prasad (1962)

12) Zakir Hussain (1963)

13) Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963)

14) Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)

15) Indira Gandhi (1971)

16) V.V. Giri (1975)

17) K Kamaraj (1976)

18) Mother Teresa (1980)

19) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983)

20) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)

21) M.G. Ramachandran (1988)

22) B.R. Ambedkar (1990)

23) Nelson Mandela (1990)

24) Rajiv Gandhi (1991)

25) Vallabhbhai Patel (1991)

26) Morarji Desai (1991)

27) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1992)

28) JRD Tata (1992)

29) Satyajit Ray (1992)

30) Gulzarilal Nanda (1997)

31) Aruna Asaf Ali (1997)

32) APJ Abdul Kalam (1997)

33) M.S. Subbulakshmi (1998)

34) Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998)

35) Jayaprakash Narayan (1999)

36) Amartya Sen (1999)

37) Gopinath Bordoloi (1999)

38) Pandit Ravi Shankar (1999)

39) Lata Mangeshkar 2001)

40) Ustad Bismillah Khan (2001)

41) Bhimsen Joshi (2009)

42) C.N.R Rao (2014)

43) Sachin Tendulkar (2014)