Year Ender 2024: Here's a List of Important Awards and Honours with Recipient Names for this Year

The year 2024 is now coming to an end, and the global community has seen remarkable achievements and contributions that have left an indelible impact across various domains. Individuals from various sectors and organizations have been honored for their outstanding work, setting new benchmarks of excellence. Let us look at the highlights of 2024 with the most important awards and honors, featuring the luminaries who have inspired us with their dedication and brilliance.

Pulitzer Prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes have been given by Columbia University since 1917, which honors excellence in journalism and the arts. Annually, they recognize outstanding achievements in 23 categories, including newspaper, magazine, and online journalism; literature; and musical composition. The winners for the 2024 edition, as per Pulitzer.org, include:

Category	Awardee	Awarded For
Public Service	ProPublica	Awarded for investigative reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court, revealing ethical concerns and potential conflicts of interest.
Editorial Writing	David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post	Honored for distinguished editorial writing that influences public opinion in the right direction.
Fiction Novel	Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips	A profound exploration of the challenges faced by Black workers in Boston during the Civil War era
Biography	King: A Life by Jonathan Eig	A distinguished biography documenting the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Academy Awards (Oscars)

The 96th Academy Awards was held on March 10, 2024, celebrating outstanding achievements in the film industry. The ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and honored a diverse range of films and talent. Below is the list of some of the winners from well categories:

Category	Awardee
Best Picture	Oppenheimer -Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan
Best Director	Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
Best Actor	Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
Best Actress	Emma Stone for Poor Things

Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prizes honor individuals and organizations for exceptional contributions to humanity in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Below is the list of the 2024 laureates as per NobelPrize.org.

Category	Recipient Name	Awarded For
Literature	Han Kang	Recognized for intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
Peace	Nihon Hidankyo	Honored for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons
Physics	John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton	Awarded for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Chemistry	David Baker Demis Hassabis and John Jumper	Recognized for computational protein design. Honored for protein structure prediction.
Medicine	Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun	Awarded for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Economics	Daron Acemoglu	Awarded for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.

Grammy Awards

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards, held on February 4, 2024, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, celebrated outstanding achievements in the music industry. Some of the notable winners this year include:

Category	Winner
Album of the Year	Midnights by Taylor Swift
Song of the Year	What Was I Made For? From the Movie Barbie awarded to Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell
Record Of the year	Flowers by Miley Cyrus
Best New Artist	Victoria Monét

National Honors

In India, the Padma Awards are among India's highest civilian honors that are annually announced on Republic Day to recognize exceptional contributions across various fields, including art, social work, public affairs, science, engineering, etc. In 2024, the President of India approved 132 Padma Awards. The awards are categorized into three levels that include Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri. Below is the list of some of the winners for the 2024 edition.

Award	Name	Field
Padma Vibhushan	Vyjayantimala Bali	Art
	M. Venkaiah Naidu	Public Affairs
	Konidela Chiranjeevi	Art
	Bindeshwar Pathak	Social Work
	Padma Subrahmanyam	Art
Padma Bhushan	Usha Uthup and	Art
	Kundan Vyas	Literature & Education
	M. Fathima Beevi	Public Affairs
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Padma Shri	Khalil Ahamad	Art
	Parbati Baruah	Social work
	Narayan Chakraborty	Science & Engineering
	Joshna Chinappa	Sports
Check out all the 110 winners