Honors & Awards: 66th National Film Awards

Honors & Awards
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna • Bajrang Punia – Wrestling • Deepa Malik - Para Athletics
Dronacharya Award (regular category for coaches) • Vimal Kumar – Badminton • Sandeep Gupta - Table
tennis • Mohinder Singh Dhillon – Athletics
Dronacharya Award (lifetime category) • Sanjay Bhardwaj - cricket

• Rambir Singh Khokar - kabaddi • Mezban Patel – hockey
Dhyan Chand Award

• Manoj Kumar (wrestling), • C Lalremsanga (archery), • Arup Basak (table tennis), • Nitten Kirrtane (tennis)
and • Manuel Fredricks (hockey).
66th National Film Awards

• Ayushmann Khurrana and Vicky Kaushal shared the Best Actor national film award and Uri Director Aditya
Dhar won the Best Director award.
• The 66th National Film awards were announced by Rahul Rawail, head of the Jury for feature films.
List of winners –
• Best Director: Aditya Dhar for Uri : The Surgical Strike
• Best Feature Film: Hellaro a Gujarati film directed by Abhishek Shah • Best Actor: Ayushmann Khuranna for
Andhadhun and Vicky Kaushal for Uri : The Surgical Strike
• Best Actress: Keerthy Suresh for Mahanati • Best Supporting Actor - Swanand Kirkire for Chumbhak • Best
supporting actress - Surekha Sikri for Badhaai Ho • Best Action Direction: KGF Chapter I • Best Choreography:
Padmaavat for Goomar • Best Film for National Integration - Ondalla Eradalla (Kannada) • Best Popular Film:
Badhaai Ho • Best film on Environment issues - Paani • Best Debut Film of a Director: Naal (Marathi) • Best
film on Social Issues: Padman • Best Children's Film: Sarkari Hiriya Prathamika Shaale Kasaragod • Special
Jury Award: Award shared by Sruthi Hariharan, Joju George for Joseph, Savithri for Sudani From Nigeria,
Chandrachood Rai.
Bharat Ratna Award 2019 • President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, presented
Bharat Ratna Awards to Nanaji Deshmukh (posthumously), Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (posthumously) and
Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika were conferred the award posthumously.
• The Bharat Ratna has been conferred after a gap of four years.
• Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and founder of Banaras Hindu University Madan Mohan
Malviya were given the award by the government in 2015.
About Bharat Ratna • It is highest civilian award of Republic of India. It was

instituted in 2 January 1954. • First recipients of Bharat Ratna award (1954)- C.
Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and C. V. Raman.
• Limits: Maximum of 3 nominees can be awarded per year.
Longest documentary “100 Years of Chrysostum” will receive Guinness Award – A biographical documentary
“100 Years of Chrysostum” will receive Guinness Award in the category of longest documentary.
ISRO Chairman K. Sivan honoured with A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award – Tamil Nadu government has
awarded K. Sivan with its Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award.
• K. Sivan is currently serving as the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be honoured with “Order of Zayed” – The United Arab Emirates will honour
the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the “Order of Zayed“, the highest civilian award of the country.
Pulitzer Prize 2019 – • For Fiction - “The Overstory” by Richard Powers • For Drama - “Fairview” by Jackie
Sibblies Drury • For Poetry - “Be With” by Forrest Gander • For Music - Prism, by Ellen Reid.
About Pulitzer Prize • The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in

newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
• It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had
made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
64th Filmfare Awards - Winners of the 64th Filmfare Awards were announced at Jio Garden, BKC, Mumbai.
List of winners is as follows:
• Best Film – Raazi directed by Meghna Gulzar • Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) - Alia Bhat
for film ‘Raazi’ • Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) - Ranbir
Kapoor for film ‘Sanju’ • Best Director - Meghna Gulzar for film Raazi • Critics' Award for Best Film:
AndhaDhun • Best Short Film (Fiction): Rogan Josh • Best Short Film (Non-Fiction): The Soccer City
Swachh Survekhshan-2019 Awards - President Ram Nath Kovind has presented Swachh Survekhshan-2019
Awards in New Delhi. List of awards –
• India’s cleanest city– Indore (MP) bagged award for the for third straight year Note: The second and third
positions were clinched by Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh and Mysore in Karnataka.
• Cleanest big city - Ahmedabad has been named the cleanest big city with a population of more than ten lakh.
• Cleanest medium city - Ujjain has been awarded cleanest medium city having a population between 3 lakh to
10 lakh.
• Cleanest Small city - New Delhi Municipal Council area was given the “Cleanest Small City” award.
• Best Ganga Town - Uttarakhand’s Gauchar was adjudged the “Best Ganga Town”.
 Cleanest capital - Bhopal has been named the cleanest capital.
 Fastest Moving big city - Raipur won the ‘Fastest Moving Big City’.
 Fastest Moving medium city - MathuraVrindavan
Pritzker Prize 2019 - Japanese Architect Arata Isozaki has received the Pritzker Prize 2019.
Oscar Awards 2019 announced: The 91st Academy

Awards (Oscars) has been announced at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, the USA. Complete list of winners
• Best Picture - Green Book, directed by - PetFarrelly
• Best Actress in a Leading Role - Olivia Colmanfilm - The Favourite
• Best Actor in a Leading Role - Rami Malek forfilm - Bohemian Rhapsody
• Best Director - Alfonso Cuarón for Roma • Best Foreign Language – Roma (Alfonso Cuar
Roma from Mexico has won Best Foreign language)
• Best Documentary Short film - Period. End ofSentence Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa BertoNote:
• India-based Period End of Sentence has won Documentary Short at 91stOscars Academy Awards.
The film talks about the stigma of menstruation in India.
It is directed by Rakya Zehtabchi.
Padma Awards 2019 • The government on 25th January 2019 announced names of the Padma awardees 2019
on the eve of the 70th Republic Day. This year 112 recipients have been selected for the prestigious awards.
This includes 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri awards.

• The Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; Padma Bhushan for distinguished
service of high order and Padma Shri for distinguished service in any field.
list of Padma awardees 2019:
Teejan Bai Art-Vocals-Folk (Chhattisgarh) Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner) Public Affairs (Djibouti)
Anilkumar Manibhai Naik Trade & Industry-Infrastructure (Maharashtra) Balwant Moreshwar Purandare Art-
Acting-Theatre (Maharashtra)
Padma Bhushan:
1.John Chambers (Foreigner) Trade & Industry Technology USA

2. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa Public affairs Punjab 3. Pravin Gordhan (Foreigner) Public affairs South Africa
4. Mahashay Dharam Pal Gulati Trade & Industry- Food Processing Delhi 5. Darshan Lal Jain Social Work Haryana
6. Ashok LaxmanraoKukade Medicine- Affordable Healthcare Maharashtra 7. Kariya Munda Public Affair
Jharkhand
8. Budhaditya Mukherjee Art-Music-Sitar West Bengal 9. Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair Art-Acting-Film Kerala 10. S
Nambi Narayan Science & Engineering-Space Kerala 11. Kuldip Nayar (Posthumous) Literature & Education
(Journalism) Delhi
12. Bachendri Pal Sports (Mountaineering) Uttarakhand 13. V K Shunglu Civil Service Delhi
14. Hukumdev Narayan Yadav Public Affairs Bihar
Padma Shri:
Rajeshwar Acharya Art-Vocal-Hindustani Uttar Pradesh

BangaruAdigalar Spiritualism Tamil Nadu
Illias Ali Medicine-Surgery Assam Manoj Bajpayee Art-Acting-Films Maharashtra
Uddhab Kumar Bharali Science & Engineering-Grassroots Innovation Assam
Omesh Kumar Bharti Medicine (Rabies) Himachal Pradesh
Pritam Bhartwan Art-Vocals-Folk Uttarakhand
Jyoti Bhatt Art-Painting Gujarat
Dilip Chakravarty Archaeology Delhi
Mammen Chandy Medicine (Hematology) West Bengal
Swapan Chaudhuri Art-Music-Tabla West Bengal
Kanwal Singh Chauhan Agriculture Haryana
Sunil Chhetri Sports (Football) Telangana
Dinyar Contractor Art-Acting-Theatre Maharashtra
Muktaben Pankaj Kumar Dagli Social Work (Divyang Welfare) Gujarat
Babulal Dahiya Agriculture Madhya Pradesh
ThangaDarlong Art-Music-Flute Tripura Prabhu Deva Art-Dance Karnataka
Rajkumari Devi Agriculture Bihar
Bhagirathi Devi Public Affairs Bihar
Baldev Singh Dhillon Science and Engineering
(Agriculture) Punjab
Harika Dronavalli Sports (Chess) Andhra Pradesh
Godawari Dutta Art-Painting Bihar
Gautam Gambhir Sports (Cricket) Delhi
Nobel Prize Winners 2018

1. Physiology or Medicine – James P. Allison (USA), TasukuHonjo (Japan)
• Field - For their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
2. Physics - Gérard Mourou (France), Arthur Ashkin (USA), Donna Strickland (Canada)
• Field - For their method of generating highintensity,ultra-short Optical pulses in The field of laser physics.
3. Chemistry - George Smith (USA), Frances Arnold (USA), Greg Winter (UK)
• Field - For control of evolution and used it for purposes that bring the greatest benefit to humankind.
4. Peace - Denis Mukwege (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Nadia Murad (Germany).
• Field - For their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
5. Economic Sciences – William Nordhaus (US), Paul Romer (US)

• Field - For work on climate change, and the endogenous growth theory.
6. Alternative Nobel Literature Prize - Maryse Conde

Note: • Maryse Conde, one of the Caribbean's most
renowned authors, has won an award created to replace this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
• The Nobel Prize for Literature was suspended after a crisis over its handling of allegations against Frenchman
Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of one of the academy's members.

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Honors & Awards

Dronacharya Award (lifetime category) • Sanjay Bhardwaj - cricket

Dhyan Chand Award

66th National Film Awards

About Bharat Ratna • It is highest civilian award of Republic of India. It was

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About Pulitzer Prize • The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in

Oscar Awards 2019 announced: The 91st Academy

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1.John Chambers (Foreigner) Trade & Industry Technology USA

Rajeshwar Acharya Art-Vocal-Hindustani Uttar Pradesh

Nobel Prize Winners 2018

5. Economic Sciences – William Nordhaus (US), Paul Romer (US)

6. Alternative Nobel Literature Prize - Maryse Conde

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