Awards Record

Winners by year

Major prize winners of 2018

  1. 2018Abel Prize: Robert LanglandsA visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory
  2. 2018Academy Award for Best Picture: Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles DaleThe Shape of Water (2017 film, 90th Academy Awards)
  3. 2018Ballon d'Or: Luka ModrićMen's Ballon d'Or, playing for Real Madrid
  4. 2018Booker Prize: Anna BurnsMilkman
  5. 2018Fields Medal: Caucher BirkarProof of the boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program
  6. 2018Fields Medal: Alessio FigalliContributions to optimal transport and its applications
  7. 2018Fields Medal: Peter ScholzeTransforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields
  8. 2018Fields Medal: Akshay VenkateshSynthesising analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology and representation theory
  9. 2018Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Bruno Mars24K Magic (60th Annual Grammy Awards)
  10. 2018International Booker Prize: Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator)Flights, translated from Polish
  11. 2018Kyoto Prize: Karl DeisserothAdvanced Technology, field of Biotechnology and Medical Technology
  12. 2018Kyoto Prize: Masaki KashiwaraBasic Sciences, field of Mathematical Sciences
  13. 2018Kyoto Prize: Joan JonasArts and Philosophy, field of Arts
  14. 2018Laureus World Sports Awards: Roger FedererLaureus World Sportsman of the Year
  15. 2018Laureus World Sports Awards: Serena WilliamsLaureus World Sportswoman of the Year
  16. 2018Nobel Peace Prize: Denis Mukwege, Nadia MuradEfforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
  17. 2018Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, Gregory P. WinterArnold for the directed evolution of enzymes, Smith and Winter for phage display of peptides and antibodies
  18. 2018Nobel Prize in Literature: Olga TokarczukA narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. The 2018 prize was announced and presented in 2019
  19. 2018Nobel Prize in Physics: Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna StricklandAshkin for optical tweezers, Mourou and Strickland for a method of generating high intensity, ultra short optical pulses
  20. 2018Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: James P. Allison, Tasuku HonjoDiscovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
  21. 2018Pritzker Architecture Prize: Balkrishna DoshiPritzker Architecture Prize laureate
  22. 2018Prix Goncourt: Nicolas MathieuLeurs enfants après eux
  23. 2018Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Andrew Sean GreerLess (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown)
  24. 2018Right Livelihood Award: Thelma Aldana and Iván VelásquezRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  25. 2018Right Livelihood Award: Tony RinaudoRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  26. 2018Right Livelihood Award: Abdullah al-Hamid, Waleed Abu al-Khair and Mohammad Fahad al-QahtaniRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  27. 2018Right Livelihood Award: Yacouba SawadogoRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  28. 2018Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: William D. Nordhaus, Paul M. RomerNordhaus for integrating climate change, Romer for integrating technological innovation, into long run macroeconomic analysis
  29. 2018Templeton Prize: King Abdullah II of JordanReigning monarch