1)Maharashtra Bhushan Award (2011-12) - Anil Kakodkar
2) National Awards Winners for 2012:
A. Best Film – Kannada film ‘Byari’ and Marathi film ‘Deool’
B. Best Hindi Film – I Am
C. Best Actor – Girish Kulkarni (Marathi film ‘Deool’)
D. Best Actress – Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
F. Salman Khan’s Chillar Party team won 3 National awards including Best Children’s film.
3)Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2011 - Soumitra Chatterjee (Bengali actor)
4) Saraswati Samman (2011) - Dr AA Manavalan
5)Vyas Samman (2011) - Hindi writer Ramdarash mishra for his work “aam ke patte”
6) Life time achievement award at 8th Dubai International film festival – A.R. Rahman
7) V. Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award - filmmaker Mike Pandey
8) Kalidas Samman (2009-10) - Dr. N. Rajam and Saroja Vaidyanathan
9) Lata Mangeshkar Award (2011) by the Madhya Pradesh government - Rajesh Roshan
10) National Medals of Arts and Humanities award USA (2011)- Amartya Sen
11) Templeton Prize (2012)- Dalai lama
12) 54th Grammy Awards- 2012
A) Album of the Year: "21," Adele
B)Record of the Year: "Rolling in the Deep" Adele
C)Song of the Year: "Rolling in the Deep" Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
D)Best new Artist:Bon Iver
13) 84th Oscar Awards 2012 (ALSO K/A ACADEMY AWARDS)
A)Best Picture - The Artist
B) Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius
C)Best Actor - Jean Dujardin
D) Best Actress - Meryl Streep (Film - The Iron Lady)
14) 65th BAFTA award – 2012
A) Best film - The Artist
B) Best Actor - Jean Dujardin (Film - The Artist)
C)Best Actress - Meryl Streep (Film - The Iron Lady)
D) Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius (Film - The Artist)
15) 69th Golden Globe award – 2012
A)Best Film in Drama - The Descendants
B)Best Film In Comedy or Musical - The Artist
C) Best Actor in Drama - George Clooney (Film -The Descendants)
D)Best Actor in Comedy or Musical - Jean DuJardin (Film - The Artist)
E)Best Actress in Drama - Meryl Streep (Film - The Iron Lady)
F)Best Actress in Comedy or Musical - Michelle Williams (Film - My Week With Marilyn)
16)Laureus award in sports - 2012
A)Sports man of the year - Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
B)Sports woman of the year – Vivian Cheruiyut (Kenya)
17) Best Football player male (FIFA) 2011– Lional Messi ( Barcelona player)
18) Best Football player female (FIFA) 2011- Homare Sawa (Japan)
19) Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation - Dalai Lama
20) Banker’s of the year by business standard – Rana kapoor MD of Yes bank
21) Person of the year by TIME Magazine – The Protester
22) Best Indian Football player AIFF 2011 – Sunil Chhetri
23)Man Booker 2011---Julian Barnes
24)Dutch Award---Kiran bedi
25)Kalidas Samman---Anupam ker
26)Dhanwantari award---M.K Mani
27)Indira Gandhi Prize 2011---Ela Bhatt
28)WTA Player of the year----petra kvitova
29)Latamangeshkar award---Rajesh Roshan
30)Pride of India award---Mallikarjun kharge
31)Sahitya Akademi Award - Samala Sadasiva
32)Chameli Devi Jain Award 2012 - Tusha Mittal of Tehelka's Kolkata News Bureau
33)ICC cricket hall fame----sunil gavaskar
34)21st vyas samman----Ramdarsh mishra
35)National communal haromony award 2011---Mr. khamlina,Mr. Abdu Bari.
36)Pravasa Bharatiya Samman--Kamala Prasad bissessar
37)AIFF Player of the year 2011--sunil chetri
38)C. K Nayudu life time achievement award 2010-11---Ajit Wadekar
39)Company of the year 2011---Bajaj Auto
40)PADMA AWARDS 2012:
These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 women among the awardees.
Padma Vibhushan ( 5 Awards ):-
A) Mario Miranda ( Cartoonist )
B) Bhupen Hazarika ( Musician )
C) K G Subramanyam ( Art )
D) Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti ( Medicine )
