Awards Record

Winners by year

Major prize winners of 2022

  1. 2022Abel Prize: Dennis SullivanGroundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense
  2. 2022Academy Award for Best Picture: Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick WachsbergerCODA (2021 film, 94th Academy Awards)
  3. 2022Ballon d'Or: Karim BenzemaMen's Ballon d'Or, playing for Real Madrid
  4. 2022Booker Prize: Shehan KarunatilakaThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  5. 2022Fields Medal: Hugo Duminil-CopinSolving long standing problems on phase transitions in statistical physics
  6. 2022Fields Medal: June HuhApplying Hodge theory to combinatorics
  7. 2022Fields Medal: James MaynardAdvances in analytic number theory on the structure of primes and Diophantine approximation
  8. 2022Fields Medal: Maryna ViazovskaProving that the E8 lattice gives the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions
  9. 2022Goldman Environmental Prize: Chima WilliamsGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
  10. 2022Goldman Environmental Prize: Niwat RoykaewGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
  11. 2022Goldman Environmental Prize: Marjan MinnesmaGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
  12. 2022Goldman Environmental Prize: Julien VincentGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
  13. 2022Goldman Environmental Prize: Nalleli CoboGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
  14. 2022Goldman Environmental Prize: Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez TrujilloGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
  15. 2022Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Jon BatisteWe Are (64th Annual Grammy Awards)
  16. 2022International Booker Prize: Geetanjali Shree (author), Daisy Rockwell (translator)Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi
  17. 2022Kyoto Prize: Carver MeadAdvanced Technology, field of Electronics
  18. 2022Kyoto Prize: Bryan T. GrenfellBasic Sciences, field of Biological Sciences
  19. 2022Kyoto Prize: Zakir HussainArts and Philosophy, field of Music
  20. 2022Laureus World Sports Awards: Max VerstappenLaureus World Sportsman of the Year
  21. 2022Laureus World Sports Awards: Elaine Thompson-HerahLaureus World Sportswoman of the Year
  22. 2022Nobel Peace Prize: Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, Center for Civil LibertiesRepresenting civil society and documenting war crimes, human rights abuses and abuse of power
  23. 2022Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, K. Barry SharplessDevelopment of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
  24. 2022Nobel Prize in Literature: Annie ErnauxThe courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots and restraints of personal memory
  25. 2022Nobel Prize in Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, Anton ZeilingerExperiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
  26. 2022Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Svante PääboDiscoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
  27. 2022Pritzker Architecture Prize: Diébédo Francis KéréPritzker Architecture Prize laureate
  28. 2022Prix Goncourt: Brigitte GiraudVivre vite
  29. 2022Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Joshua CohenThe Netanyahus (New York Review Books)
  30. 2022Right Livelihood Award: CecosesolaRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  31. 2022Right Livelihood Award: Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO)Right Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  32. 2022Right Livelihood Award: Oleksandra Matviichuk / Center for Civil Liberties (CCL)Right Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  33. 2022Right Livelihood Award: Fartuun Adan and Ilwad ElmanRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
  34. 2022Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip H. DybvigResearch on banks and financial crises
  35. 2022Templeton Prize: Frank WilczekTheoretical physicist and author