prakharkanpur
Prakhar Srivastava
OSCAR Winners :
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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Adrien Brody
THE PIANIST
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Chris Cooper
ADAPTATION
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Nicole Kidman
THE HOURS
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Catherine Zeta-Jones
CHICAGO
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
SPIRITED AWAY
Hayao Miyazaki
ART DIRECTION
CHICAGO
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ROAD TO PERDITION
Conrad L. Hall
COSTUME DESIGN
CHICAGO
Colleen Atwood
DIRECTING
THE PIANIST
Roman Polanski
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
TWIN TOWERS
Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
FILM EDITING
CHICAGO
Martin Walsh
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
NOWHERE IN AFRICA
Germany
Directed by Caroline Link
MAKEUP
FRIDA
John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
MUSIC (SCORE)
FRIDA
Elliot Goldenthal
MUSIC (SONG)
8 MILE
'Lose Yourself'
Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyric by Eminem
BEST PICTURE
CHICAGO
Martin Richards
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
THE CHUBBCHUBBS!
Eric Armstrong
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
THIS CHARMING MAN (DER ER EN YNDIG MAND)
Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen
SOUND
CHICAGO
Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee
SOUND EDITING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins
VISUAL EFFECTS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE PIANIST
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
TALK TO HER
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
HONORARY AWARD
HONORARY AWARD
Peter O'Toole
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Nobel Prize Winners :
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Prize: PEACE
Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute
And the winner is...
Shirin Ebadi (Iran)
for her efforts for democracy and human rights
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Prize: ECONOMICS
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
And the winners are...
Robert F. Engle
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"
and
Clive W. J. Granger
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"
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Prize: CHEMISTRY
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
And the winners are...
"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
Peter Agre
"for the discovery of water channels"
and
Roderick MacKinnon
"for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
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Prize: PHYSICS
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
And the winners are...
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg,and Anthony J. Leggett
"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
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Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute
And the winners are...
Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield
"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
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Prize: LITERATURE
Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy
And the winner is...
John Maxwell Coetzee
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
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Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES
Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research
And the winners are:
ENGINEERING
The late John Paul Stapp, the late Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and George Nichols, for jointly giving birth in 1949 to Murphy's Law, the basic engineering principle that "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it" (or, in other words: "If anything can go wrong, it will").
REFERENCE: "The Fastest Man on Earth," Nick T. Spark, Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 9, no. 5, Sept/Oct 2003.
PHYSICS
Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia, for their irresistible report "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."
PUBLISHED IN: Applied Ergonomics, vol. 33, no. 6, November 2002, pp. 523-31
MEDICINE
Eleanor Maguire, David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University College London, for presenting evidence that the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens.
PUBLISHED IN: "Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 97, no. 8, April 11, 2000, pp. 4398-403. Also see their subsequent publications.
PSYCHOLOGY
Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome, and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities."
PUBLISHED IN: Nature, vol. 385, February 1997, p. 493.
CHEMISTRY
Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.
LITERATURE
John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin School of Business, New York City, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about specific annoyances and anomalies of daily life, such as: What percentage of young people wear baseball caps with the peak facing to the rear rather than to the front; What percentage of pedestrians wear sport shoes that are white rather than some other color; What percentage of swimmers swim laps in the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end; What percentage of automobile drivers almost, but not completely, come to a stop at one particular stop-sign; What percentage of commuters carry attaché cases; What percentage of shoppers exceed the number of items permitted in a supermarket's express checkout lane; and What percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.
REFERENCE: 86 of Professor Trinkaus's publications are listed in "Trinkaus -- An Informal Look," Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 9, no. 3, May/Jun 2003.
ECONOMICS
Karl Schwrzler and the nation of Liechtenstein, for making it possible to rent the entire country for corporate conventions, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings.
REFERENCE: xnet and rent a village - Weindorf - Veranstaltungsort - Groveranstaltung
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, for their inevitable report "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans."
PUBLISHED IN: Human Nature, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 383-9.
PEACE
Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
BIOLOGY
C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
REFERENCE: "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" C.W. Moeliker, Deinsea, vol. 8, 2001, pp. 243-7. Photographs can be viewed at http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm
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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Adrien Brody
THE PIANIST
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Chris Cooper
ADAPTATION
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Nicole Kidman
THE HOURS
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Catherine Zeta-Jones
CHICAGO
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
SPIRITED AWAY
Hayao Miyazaki
ART DIRECTION
CHICAGO
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ROAD TO PERDITION
Conrad L. Hall
COSTUME DESIGN
CHICAGO
Colleen Atwood
DIRECTING
THE PIANIST
Roman Polanski
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
TWIN TOWERS
Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
FILM EDITING
CHICAGO
Martin Walsh
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
NOWHERE IN AFRICA
Germany
Directed by Caroline Link
MAKEUP
FRIDA
John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
MUSIC (SCORE)
FRIDA
Elliot Goldenthal
MUSIC (SONG)
8 MILE
'Lose Yourself'
Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyric by Eminem
BEST PICTURE
CHICAGO
Martin Richards
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
THE CHUBBCHUBBS!
Eric Armstrong
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
THIS CHARMING MAN (DER ER EN YNDIG MAND)
Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen
SOUND
CHICAGO
Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee
SOUND EDITING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins
VISUAL EFFECTS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE PIANIST
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
TALK TO HER
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
HONORARY AWARD
HONORARY AWARD
Peter O'Toole
*******************************************************************************************************
Nobel Prize Winners :
---------------------
Prize: PEACE
Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute
And the winner is...
Shirin Ebadi (Iran)
for her efforts for democracy and human rights
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prize: ECONOMICS
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
And the winners are...
Robert F. Engle
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"
and
Clive W. J. Granger
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prize: CHEMISTRY
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
And the winners are...
"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
Peter Agre
"for the discovery of water channels"
and
Roderick MacKinnon
"for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prize: PHYSICS
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
And the winners are...
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg,and Anthony J. Leggett
"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute
And the winners are...
Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield
"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prize: LITERATURE
Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy
And the winner is...
John Maxwell Coetzee
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES
Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research
And the winners are:
ENGINEERING
The late John Paul Stapp, the late Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and George Nichols, for jointly giving birth in 1949 to Murphy's Law, the basic engineering principle that "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it" (or, in other words: "If anything can go wrong, it will").
REFERENCE: "The Fastest Man on Earth," Nick T. Spark, Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 9, no. 5, Sept/Oct 2003.
PHYSICS
Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia, for their irresistible report "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."
PUBLISHED IN: Applied Ergonomics, vol. 33, no. 6, November 2002, pp. 523-31
MEDICINE
Eleanor Maguire, David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University College London, for presenting evidence that the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens.
PUBLISHED IN: "Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 97, no. 8, April 11, 2000, pp. 4398-403. Also see their subsequent publications.
PSYCHOLOGY
Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome, and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities."
PUBLISHED IN: Nature, vol. 385, February 1997, p. 493.
CHEMISTRY
Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.
LITERATURE
John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin School of Business, New York City, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about specific annoyances and anomalies of daily life, such as: What percentage of young people wear baseball caps with the peak facing to the rear rather than to the front; What percentage of pedestrians wear sport shoes that are white rather than some other color; What percentage of swimmers swim laps in the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end; What percentage of automobile drivers almost, but not completely, come to a stop at one particular stop-sign; What percentage of commuters carry attaché cases; What percentage of shoppers exceed the number of items permitted in a supermarket's express checkout lane; and What percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.
REFERENCE: 86 of Professor Trinkaus's publications are listed in "Trinkaus -- An Informal Look," Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 9, no. 3, May/Jun 2003.
ECONOMICS
Karl Schwrzler and the nation of Liechtenstein, for making it possible to rent the entire country for corporate conventions, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings.
REFERENCE: xnet and rent a village - Weindorf - Veranstaltungsort - Groveranstaltung
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, for their inevitable report "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans."
PUBLISHED IN: Human Nature, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 383-9.
PEACE
Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
BIOLOGY
C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
REFERENCE: "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" C.W. Moeliker, Deinsea, vol. 8, 2001, pp. 243-7. Photographs can be viewed at http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm