Awards Record

Winners by year

Major prize winners of 2019

  1. 2019Abel Prize: Karen UhlenbeckPioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems
  2. 2019Academy Award for Best Picture: Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick VallelongaGreen Book (2018 film, 91st Academy Awards)
  3. 2019Ballon d'Or: Lionel MessiMen's Ballon d'Or, playing for Barcelona
  4. 2019Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine EvaristoThe Testaments (Atwood) and Girl, Woman, Other (Evaristo), a joint award
  5. 2019Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Kacey MusgravesGolden Hour (61st Annual Grammy Awards)
  6. 2019International Booker Prize: Jokha Alharthi (author), Marilyn Booth (translator)Celestial Bodies, translated from Arabic
  7. 2019Kyoto Prize: Ching W. TangAdvanced Technology, field of Materials Science and Engineering
  8. 2019Kyoto Prize: James GunnBasic Sciences, field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  9. 2019Kyoto Prize: Ariane MnouchkineArts and Philosophy, field of Theater, Cinema
  10. 2019Laureus World Sports Awards: Novak DjokovicLaureus World Sportsman of the Year
  11. 2019Laureus World Sports Awards: Simone BilesLaureus World Sportswoman of the Year
  12. 2019Nobel Peace Prize: Abiy Ahmed AliEfforts to achieve peace and international cooperation
  13. 2019Nobel Prize in Chemistry: John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, Akira YoshinoDevelopment of lithium ion batteries
  14. 2019Nobel Prize in Literature: Peter HandkeInfluential work that with linguistic ingenuity explored the periphery and specificity of human experience
  15. 2019Nobel Prize in Physics: James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier QuelozPeebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, Mayor and Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar type star
  16. 2019Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: William Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe, Gregg L. SemenzaDiscoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
  17. 2019Pritzker Architecture Prize: Arata IsozakiPritzker Architecture Prize laureate
  18. 2019Prix Goncourt: Jean-Paul DuboisTous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon
  19. 2019Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Richard PowersThe Overstory (W.W. Norton)
  20. 2019Right Livelihood Award: Aminatou HaidarRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  21. 2019Right Livelihood Award: Guo JianmeiRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  22. 2019Right Livelihood Award: Greta ThunbergRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  23. 2019Right Livelihood Award: Davi Kopenawa / Hutukara Yanomami AssociationRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  24. 2019Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael KremerAn experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
  25. 2019Templeton Prize: Marcelo GleiserTheoretical physicist studying the cosmos