Winners by year

Major prize winners of 2016

1. 2016Abel Prize: Andrew WilesHis proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
2. 2016Academy Award for Best Picture: Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael SugarSpotlight (2015 film, 88th Academy Awards)
3. 2016Ballon d'Or: Cristiano RonaldoMen's Ballon d'Or, playing for Real Madrid
4. 2016Booker Prize: Paul BeattyThe Sellout
5. 2016Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Taylor Swift1989 (58th Annual Grammy Awards)
6. 2016International Booker Prize: Han Kang (author), Deborah Smith (translator)The Vegetarian, translated from Korean
7. 2016Kyoto Prize: Takeo KanadeAdvanced Technology, field of Information Science
8. 2016Kyoto Prize: Tasuku HonjoBasic Sciences, field of Life Sciences and Medicine
9. 2016Kyoto Prize: Martha Craven NussbaumArts and Philosophy, field of Thought and Ethics
10. 2016Laureus World Sports Awards: Novak DjokovicLaureus World Sportsman of the Year
11. 2016Laureus World Sports Awards: Serena WilliamsLaureus World Sportswoman of the Year
12. 2016Nobel Peace Prize: Juan Manuel SantosResolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50 year long civil war to an end
13. 2016Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart, Bernard L. FeringaDesign and synthesis of molecular machines
14. 2016Nobel Prize in Literature: Bob DylanHaving created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
15. 2016Nobel Prize in Physics: David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, J. Michael KosterlitzTheoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
16. 2016Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Yoshinori OhsumiDiscoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
17. 2016Pritzker Architecture Prize: Alejandro AravenaPritzker Architecture Prize laureate
18. 2016Prix Goncourt: Leïla SlimaniChanson douce
19. 2016Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Viet Thanh NguyenThe Sympathizer (Grove Press)
20. 2016Right Livelihood Award: Syria Civil DefenceRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
21. 2016Right Livelihood Award: Mozn Hassan / NAZRARight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
22. 2016Right Livelihood Award: Svetlana GannushkinaRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
23. 2016Right Livelihood Award: CumhuriyetRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
24. 2016Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Oliver Hart, Bengt HolmströmContributions to contract theory
25. 2016Templeton Prize: Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksRabbi