AWARDS MAY 2015
- Cannes 2015 awards for French director Jacques Audiard
A French thriller spotlighting the plight of traumatized refugees building newlives, "Dheepan", captured the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on 24th May. As countries around the world grapple with an influx of people fleeing global crises, a jury led by Hollywood filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen chose the gritty picture about Sri Lankan asylum-seekers by acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard among 19 international contenders.
The harrowing Holocaust drama "Son of Saul" by Hungarian newcomer Laszlo Nemes, offering unflinching depictions of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, claimed the Grand Prize, runner-up for best picture. "The Lobster", a surreal, pitch-black comedy about modern love by Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos, bagged the third-place Jury Prize. Best director honors went to Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-Hsienf or the visually lush, slow-burn martial arts film "The Assassin".
The nine-member panel handed the best-actress trophy to two winners: US star Rooney Mara and France's Emmanuelle Bercot. In a strong night for the host country, France's Vincent Lindon won best actor for his moving turn as a job-seeker standing up for his dignity in "The Measure of a Man". Mexican director Michel Franco clinched best screenplay for "Chronic" starring British actor Tim Roth as a nurse caring for dying patients. After nearly two weeks of stirring, sleek and thought-provoking movies, the Cannes Film Festival closed. - CEAT Awards for cricketers
Ranji Trophy champion Karnataka’s captain, fast bowling spearhead and inspiration, Vinay Kumar, was named CEAT Domestic Cricketer of the Year for 2014-15
Test batsman Ajinkya Rahane was chosen Indian Cricketer of the Year, while Kapil Dev was chosen for the Lifetime Achievement Award. Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara was named the International Cricketer of the Year.
Mumbai Indians’ skipper Rohit Sharma, who was given a Special Award for his record-breaking 264 against Sri Lanka in an one-dayer at Kolkata
The annual awards honours players for performances in international and domestic cricket across all formats. Sunil Gavaskar is Chief Adjudicator of CEAT Cricket Rating, which identifies achievers based on points accumulated in various categories.
The RPG Group chairman, Harsh Goenka, announced the launch of cricket gear and named Aussie pacer Brett Lee as the brand ambassador.
The award winners:- International Cricketer of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara;
- Domestic Cricketer of the Year: R. Vinay Kumar;
- Indian Cricketer of the Year:Ajinkya Rahane;
- T20 Player of the Year:Dwayne Bravo ;
- International Batsman of the Year: Hashim Amla;
- International Bowler of the Year: Rangana Herath;
- Popular Choice award: Kieron Pollard;
- Special Award: Rohit Sharma;
- Young Player of the Year:Deepak Hooda.
- C.S. Santosh
He became the first Indian to compete in and complete the Dakar Rally, was declared the Motorsport Man of the Year at the FMSCI’s awards ceremony for 2014 on 25th May.
The Bengaluru rider was presented the Raymond Gautam Singhania Rolling Trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakh for his efforts at Dakar and other cross-country events. The FMSCI honoured 54 national champions of the 2014 motorsport season, across nine categories.
Arjun Maini, who has impressed with his performances on the European F4 and F3 single-seater racing circuits, was declared the Motorsport Star of the Future. FMSCI chairman Vijay Mallya was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to motorsports in India. - UNESCO Chair at UoH to work in Africa
The UNESCO Chair on Community Media at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been awarded a prestigious grant by UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) for a unique inter-regional initiative in East Africa.
The Chair, the only one of its kind in the world, headed by Prof. Vinod Pavarala, was set up at the Department of Communication, UoH in 2011 by UNESCO to promote the cause of community media through research, advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge dissemination.
The IPDC grant of 9,500 (Nine thousand five hundred) US dollars to the Chair will support a joint project with the East African Community Media Network to build capacities for continuous improvement and sustainability of the community radio sector in the region. The work to be taken up later this year will involve the adaptation and application of the Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit (CRCIT), developed by the UNESCO Chair team. - Birubala Rabha
In Assam, social activist Birubala Rabha has been named for the 12th UN Brahma soldier of Humanity Award. Rabha through her Mission Birubala is working against the evil practice of society. It said her movement against witch hunting needs to be carried forward to the arena of wider world. - Anand Kumar:
Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar on 29 May 2015 was honoured by Legislature of British Columbia in Canada at Toronto University for his pioneering work in the field of education. Anand is a native of Bihar who in 2010 won the Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puraskar, the highest award given by the Government of Bihar. Mathematical Spectrum and Mathematical Gazette of the UK has published a number of papers of Anand Kumar. During graduation, Kumar submitted papers on Number Theory, which were published in Mathematical Spectrum and The Mathematical Gazette. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai:
Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai was presented with the Man Booker International Prize for 2015 at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on 20th May.
The literary prize, worth £60,000 (around Rs. 60 lakh), is given to a living author of any nationality who has published fiction either in English or in English translation.
Unlike the annual Man Booker Prize for fiction, the international prize, given once in two years, is in recognition of a writer’s body of work and overall contribution to fiction rather than of a single novel.
Mr. Krasznahorkai’s novels are known to be complex and demanding — a single sentence can run to a page — and deal with dystopian and apocalyptic themes in which an impending civilisational crisis threatens the world. His novels include Satantango (1985, English translation 2012), The Melancholy of Resistance (1989, English translation 1998), and Seiobo Down Below (2008, English translation 2013). - Shashi Kapoor: Veteran actor-filmmaker Shashi Kapoor was on 10th May conferred the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award at the landmark Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley.
In the presence of his illustrious family and who’s who of the Hindi family industry, veteran Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor on Sunday received the prestigious Award.
The Kapoor clan who received this award for the third time after his father Prithviraj Kapoor and his elder brother Raj Kapoor. - Agnes Vard: French director Agnes Varda will be honoured with the prestigious Palme d’Or at the upcoming Cannes International Film Festival for the global impact of her body of work. The 86-year-old becomes the first woman to be selected for this distinction.
- Sitara-e-Pakistan: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced award of Sitara-e-Pakistan to the deceased ambassadors of Norway and Philippines and deceased wives of ambassadors of Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Neel Mukherjee: Kolkata-born writer Neel Mukherjee's "The Lives of Others" has won the UK's Encore Award for the best second novel. The 10,000 pounds prize, first awarded in 1990, fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes by celebrating the achievement of outstanding second novels, often neglected in comparison to the attention given to promising first books.
- Sivanadane Mandjiny: An Indian-American Professor at the University of North Carolina in US has won a $ 12,500 award for excellence in teaching. Chemistry professor Sivanadane Mandjiny was named UNC Pembroke's recipient of the UNC Board of Governors 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching. Mandjiny's studied in three languages; Tamil, English and French, and he taught himself Hindi.
- President confers Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil
President Pranab Mukherjee on 14th May conferred the Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil for the years 2011-12 and 2012-13 on scholars for their outstanding contribution to the development of Classical Tamil language and literature.
The Tolkappiyar Award for lifetime achievement in Classical Tamil was given to SV Shanmugam for 2011-12 and R Krishnamurthi for 2012-13. Eva Maria Wilden of Germany was honored with Kural Pitam Award for 2011-12. - Syed Vicaruddin: The Palestinian government has decided to confer its highest civilian award, Star of Jerusalem, on Syed Vicaruddin, chief editor of Rahnuma-e-Deccan and chairman, Indo-Arab League. The award, which is in recognition of his four decades of relentless struggle for the Palestine cause
The Palestinian president, Mahmood Abbas, has sent a high level delegation led by his special advisor Mahmoud Siddiq Al Habash, Palestine Ambassador Adnan Abu Alhaijaa and Minister of Embassy of Palestine in Delhi, Saleh Fhied Mohammed, to do the honours coinciding with the ‘Youm-ul-Quds’ (Jerusalem Day). - Anurradha Prasad: Anurradha Prasad, the Editor-in-Chief of News 24 Channel, on 15 May 2015 was conferred with the Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award for Journalism, Writing and Social Services. He was conferred with the award by Vice- President Hamid Ansari in New Delhi.
Mazen Darwish:The UN's cultural body on 2nd May awarded its annual press freedom prize to Mazen Darwish, a Syrian journalist and rights activist who has been jailed by the regime for more than three years. Darwish was arrested on February 16, 2012 along with Hani Zaitani and Hussein Ghreir, his colleagues at the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. They are accused of "promoting terrorist acts".
Darwish is one of the founders of syriaview.net, an independent news site banned by Syrian authorities in 2006 -- a move he said at the time was part of the state's "repression which targets free expression and democratic activists".
UNESCO awarded its prize to Darwish "in recognition of the work that he has carried out in Syria for more than 10 years at great personal sacrifice, enduring a travel ban, harassment, as well as repeated detention and torture."- Hebdo: The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has received a controversial freedom of speech award at the PEN Literary Gala in New York on on 6th May.
- National awards presented
Actress Kangna Ranaut has been awarded with the best actress for her Hindi film Queen while Actor Vijay Kumar B got the best actor award for his Kannada film Nanu Avanalla Avalu.
President Pranab Mukherjee presented the 62nd National Film Awards at a function in New Delhi on 2nd May. Veteran film actor Shashi Kapoor, who was selected for prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for his outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian Cinema, could not attend the function due to health reasons. He will be given the award later.
The Best feature film award was bagged by the Marathi film Court, while the award for best popular film for providing wholesome entertainment was given to Hindi film Mary Kom. Srijit Mukherji received best director award for his Bengali film Chotushkone.
Best Children's film award was jointly bagged by Tamil Film Kaakkaa Muttai and Marathi film Elizabeth Ekadashi. A total of 21 awards were given in the non-feature film category and 45 in feature film category.
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