Awards Record

Winners by year

Major prize winners of 2020

  1. 2020Abel Prize: Hillel Furstenberg, Grigory MargulisPioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics
  2. 2020Academy Award for Best Picture: Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon HoParasite (2019 film, 92nd Academy Awards)
  3. 2020Booker Prize: Douglas StuartShuggie Bain
  4. 2020Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Billie EilishWhen We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (62nd Annual Grammy Awards)
  5. 2020Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership: Mahamadou IssoufouIbrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership
  6. 2020International Booker Prize: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (author), Michele Hutchison (translator)The Discomfort of Evening, translated from Dutch
  7. 2020Laureus World Sports Awards: Lewis Hamilton and Lionel Messi (joint)Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
  8. 2020Laureus World Sports Awards: Simone BilesLaureus World Sportswoman of the Year
  9. 2020Nobel Peace Prize: World Food ProgrammeEfforts to combat hunger and to better conditions for peace in conflict affected areas
  10. 2020Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. DoudnaDevelopment of a method for genome editing
  11. 2020Nobel Prize in Literature: Louise GlückAn unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
  12. 2020Nobel Prize in Physics: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea GhezPenrose for showing black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity, Genzel and Ghez for a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
  13. 2020Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles M. RiceDiscovery of Hepatitis C virus
  14. 2020Pritzker Architecture Prize: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamaraPritzker Architecture Prize laureate
  15. 2020Prix Goncourt: Hervé Le TellierL'Anomalie
  16. 2020Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Colson WhiteheadThe Nickel Boys (Doubleday)
  17. 2020Right Livelihood Award: Nasrin SotoudehRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  18. 2020Right Livelihood Award: Ales Bialiatski / ViasnaRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  19. 2020Right Livelihood Award: Lottie Cunningham WrenRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  20. 2020Right Livelihood Award: Bryan StevensonRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  21. 2020Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. WilsonImprovements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
  22. 2020Templeton Prize: Francis CollinsGeneticist and physician