84th Academy Awards (Oscar)
84th
Academy Awards in Hollywood held in California on February 25, 2012. The award
winners were
Best Picture: - The
Artist
Actor in a leading role: - Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Actress in a leading role: - Meryl
Streep (The Iron Lady)
Actor in a supporting role: - Christopher Plummer
(Beginners)
Actress in a supporting role: - Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Best Direction: - The Artist (Michel
Hazanavicius)
Best Foreign Language Film: - A Separation (Country-Iran)
National Film Awards
The prestigious 59th National Film Awards
were announced in New Delhi on March 8, 2012.
The award winners are
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Best Film
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Kannada Film `Byarr’ and
Marathi Film `Deoor’
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Best Hindi Film
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I Am
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Best Actor
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Girish Kulkarni (Marathi Film
‘Deool')
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Best Actress
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Vidhya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
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Best Director
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Gurvinder Singh (Punjabi Film
'Anhe Ghore Da Daan')
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Best Children Film
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Chillar Party
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Best Child Actor
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Partho Gupte (Stanley Ka Dabba)
and Chillar Party Kids
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Sahitya Akademi Awards
For the year 2011, the awards were presented
on February 14, 2012 in New Delhi.
Among 23 authors, famous poets honored with
the awards are (late) Kabir Phukan (Assamese), Manindra Gupta (Bengali),
The well known novelists Kashinath Singh (Hindi),
Gopalakrishna Pai (Kannada),
also received the awards.
Lalit Magotra (Dogri), Grace (Marathi) and
Samala Sadasiva (Telugu) got the awards for their books of essays.
Ramachandra Gula (English) for his book of
Narrative History, Mohan Parmar (Gujarati) for his book of short stories, MK
Sanu for his book of biography and Mohan Gehani (Sindhi) for his book of plays
have been honored.
Lata
Mangeshkar Award
Hindi film music composer Veteran Rajesh
Roshan was honoured with Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Madhya Pradesh government
on February 8, 2012. The award for 2010-11 contained 2 lakh in cash and a
scroll of honor.
Vyas
Samman
Ramdarash Mishra, noted Hindi writer and
professor, has been selected for the 21st Vyas Samman for his poetry collection
Aam Ke Patte' published in 2004.
Padma
Awards
The Padma Awards for the year 2012 were
announced on the eve of India's 63rd Republic Day. The President approved 109
awards including one two case and 14 in the category of Foreigners INRs PIOs
Posthumous. The
award 2012 comprised of 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77
Padma Shri Awards. There were 19 women among the awardees.
Awardees
of Padma Vibhushan
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NAME
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DISCIPLINE
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STATE/DOMICILE
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Sh
KG Subramanyam
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Art
(Painting and Sculpture)
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Paschim
Banga
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Late
Sh Mario De Miranda
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Art
(Cartoonist)
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Goa
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Late
Dr. Asom Bhupen Hazarika
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Art
(Vocal Music)
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Asom
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Dr
Kantilal Hastimal
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Medicine(Orthopedic)
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Maharashtra
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TV
Rajeshwar
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Civil
Service
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Delhi
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Saraswati
Samman
Eminent Kannada author SL Bhyrappa was
presented with 20th Saraswati Samman in literature for 2010, for his epic novel
‘Mandra' On November 16, 2011.
Stevenson
Prize
A 23 year old girl from Kolkata has become
only the third Indian after Amartya Sen and Sir Partho Dasgupta to win one of
Cambridge University's highest honors Stevenson Prize.
Mahima Khanna a resident of Alipore who
works in Mumbai as a trade analyst has topped the 2010-11 M Phil class of
economics at the University.
The
Ashok Chakra
President of India Pratibha Patil conferred
the Ashok Chakra on Lt. Navdeep Singh (posthumous) on the 63rd Republic Day in
New Delhi. Lt Singh laid down his life fighting terrorists during an anti
infiltration operation along LOC in Cruez sector on August 20, 2011.
Green
Globe Awards
Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan received
Green Globes for outstanding efforts for a greener future. He received the
award from noted environmentalist RK Pachauri.
Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman
Former Singapore President SR Nathan on
April 29, 2012 has received the most prestigious award by the Indian Government
to overseas people of Indian origin.
