Winners by year

Major prize winners of 2024

1. 2024Abel Prize: Michel TalagrandGroundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis
2. 2024Academy Award for Best Picture: Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher NolanOppenheimer (2023 film, 96th Academy Awards)
3. 2024Ballon d'Or: RodriMen's Ballon d'Or, playing for Manchester City
4. 2024Booker Prize: Samantha HarveyOrbital
5. 2024Goldman Environmental Prize: Sinegugu Zukulu and Nonhle MbuthumaGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
6. 2024Goldman Environmental Prize: Alok ShuklaGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
7. 2024Goldman Environmental Prize: Teresa VicenteGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
8. 2024Goldman Environmental Prize: Murrawah Maroochy JohnsonGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
9. 2024Goldman Environmental Prize: Andrea VidaurreGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
10. 2024Goldman Environmental Prize: Marcel GomesGoldman Environmental Prize recipient
11. 2024Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Taylor SwiftMidnights (66th Annual Grammy Awards)
12. 2024International Booker Prize: Jenny Erpenbeck (author), Michael Hofmann (translator)Kairos, translated from German
13. 2024Kyoto Prize: John PendryAdvanced Technology, field of Materials Science and Engineering
14. 2024Kyoto Prize: Paul F. HoffmanBasic Sciences, field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics
15. 2024Kyoto Prize: William ForsytheArts and Philosophy, field of Theater, Cinema
16. 2024Laureus World Sports Awards: Novak DjokovicLaureus World Sportsman of the Year
17. 2024Laureus World Sports Awards: Aitana BonmatíLaureus World Sportswoman of the Year
18. 2024Nobel Peace Prize: Nihon HidankyoEfforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, and witness testimony that they must never be used again
19. 2024Nobel Prize in Chemistry: David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John M. JumperBaker for computational protein design, Hassabis and Jumper for protein structure prediction
20. 2024Nobel Prize in Literature: Han KangIntense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
21. 2024Nobel Prize in Physics: John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey HintonFoundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
22. 2024Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Victor Ambros, Gary RuvkunDiscovery of microRNA and its role in post transcriptional gene regulation
23. 2024Pritzker Architecture Prize: Riken YamamotoPritzker Architecture Prize laureate
24. 2024Prix Goncourt: Kamel DaoudHouris
25. 2024Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jayne Anne PhillipsNight Watch (Knopf), set at a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War
26. 2024Right Livelihood Award: Forensic ArchitectureRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
27. 2024Right Livelihood Award: Anabela Lemos / Justiça Ambiental!Right Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
28. 2024Right Livelihood Award: Issa Amro / Youth Against SettlementsRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
29. 2024Right Livelihood Award: Joan CarlingRight Livelihood Award laureate (country or region as listed by the foundation)
30. 2024Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. RobinsonStudies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
31. 2024Templeton Prize: Pumla Gobodo-MadikizelaPsychologist and researcher