List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 Important Awards and Honours April 2021 S. No. Awardee Award
1. Ashutosh Bhardwaj Devishankar Awasthi Award 2020
2. Suman Chakraborty 30th GD Birla Award for Scientific Research
3. Lawrence Gussman Professor Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, Emeritus of Computer Science, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of computing. Alfred V. Aho
4. Andhra Pradesh Governor Kalinga Ratna Samman Biswabhusan Harichandan
5. Actor Rajinikanth 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award Important Awards and Honours March 2021 1. The Hindu Group South Asian Digital Media Awards by WAN IFRA (World Association of News Publishers), being named as ‘Champion Publisher of the Year’
2. Amitabh Bachchan 2021 Film Archive Award by The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
3. Mahamadou Issoufou 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership (President of Niger)
4. Ravichandran Ashwin (India) ICC Men’s Player of the Month for February 2021
5. Tammy Beaumont (England) ICC Women’s Player of the Month for February 2021
6. Koneru Humpy (Indian Chess BBC Indian Sportswoman of the year award Player)
7. Anju Bobby George (Indian BBC Lifetime Achievement award Athlete)
8. Manu Bhaker (Indian Shooter) BBC Emerging Player-of-the-Year award
9. Indian Council of Agricultural King Bhumibol World Soil Day 2020 Award by Food and Agriculture Research(ICAR) Organisation (FAO)
10. Gowsalya Shankar International Woman of Courage Award 2021 11. Anne Lacaton and Jean- Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021 Philippe Vassal
12. NTPC Ltd 'Role Model' Award’ at the 11th CII National HR Excellence Awards 2020-21
13. For 2019 Late Sultan Qaboos Gandhi Peace Prize bin Said Al Said of Oman
14. For 2020 Bangabandhu Sheikh Gandhi Peace Prize Mujibur Rahman
15. Prof. Sharad Pagare Vyas Samman 2020
16. Asha Bhosle Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2020
17. IIT Kharagpur CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 6.0
18. ESAF Small Finance Bank ‘Great Place to Work’ by the Great Place to Work Institute
19. Carmen Maria Machado Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 for her book titles as ‘ In the Dream House: A Memoir’
20. HDFC Bank ‘India’s Best Bank for SME’s’ at the Asiamoney Best Bank Awards
21. 30th Bihari Puraskar 2020 Mohankrishna Bohara 22. Golden Globe Awards 2021 Winners in the Film category: Best Film – Drama: Nomadland Best Film – Musical/Comedy: Borat Subsequent Movie film Best Director: Chloe Zhao for Nomadland Best Actress – Drama: Andra Day for The United States vs. Billie Holiday Best Actor – Drama: Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Best Actress – Musical/Comedy: Rosamund Pike for I Care A Lot Best Actor – Musical/Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat Subsequent Movie film Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster for The Mauritanian Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya for Judas And The Black Messiah Best Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for The Trial of the Chicago 7 Best Foreign Language Film: Minari Best Animated Feature: Soul Best Original Score: Soul Best Original Song: ‘Io Si (Seen)’ from The Life Ahead Winners in the Television category: Best TV Series – Drama: The Crown Best TV Series – Musical/Comedy: Schitt’s Creek Best Limited Series, Anthology or TV Film: The Queen’s Gambit Best Actress – Drama: Emma Corrin for The Crown Best Actor – Drama: Josh O’Connor for The Crown Best Actress – Musical/Comedy: Catherine O’Hara for Schitt’s Creek Best Actor – Musical/Comedy: Jason Sudeikis for Ted Lasso Best Supporting Actress: Gillian Anderson for The Crown Best Supporting Actor: John Boyega for Small Axe Best Actress (Limited Series, Anthology or TV Film): Anya Taylor-Joy for The Queen’s Gambit Best Actor (Limited Series, Anthology or TV Film): Mark Ruffalo for I Know This Much Is True Important Awards and Honours February 2021 1. AR Rahman (Music Composer) 4th edition of Alert Being Icon Awards and Saidapet Hari Krishnan (Social Activist)
2. Robert Irwin 1st prize in Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award Contest
3. ‘Koozhangal’ 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021
4. Bangalore International Airport Airports Council International World’s ‘Voice of the Customer’ award Limited’s (Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru)
5. Dr Shobhna Kapoor, Dr Antara Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Women Excellence Banerjee, Dr Sonu Gandhi and Award 2021 Dr Ritu Gupta
6. S. Theodore Baskaran Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020 by Sanctuary Nature Foundation
7. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Skoch Chief Minister of the Year Award
8. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau 5th Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2020 under the (WCCB) Innovation category by UNEP
9. Manasa Varanasi VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020
10. Union Bank of India ‘Best Service Provider’ in HR and ‘Best Institution’ for ‘Excellence in Learning and Development’ at the 29th Global HRD Congress Awards
11. Anjali Bharadwaj International Anti-Corruption Champions Award 12. PM Narendra Modi ‘CERA Week Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award’ Important Awards and Honours January 2021 1. V K Yadav ‘Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2020’
2. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Sahitya Gaurav Samman 2021
3. Pandit Satish Vyas 96th Tansen Music Festival, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
4. Anhinav Kala Parishad 96th Tansen Music Festival, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
5. Dr Raghu Ram Pillarisetti Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth II’s 2021 New Year’s Honours List
6. Ministry of Tribal Affairs SKOCH Challenger Award for Best performance in e-governance category
7. Ministry of Panchayati Raj SKOCH Challenger Award for Best performance in e-governance category
8. AIIMS Bhubaneswar Kayakalp Award
9. Biswajit Chatterjee ‘Indian Personality of the Year’ award at IFFI
10. Nikhil Srivastava 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize
11. Dr Rajendra Kumar Bhandari Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2021
12. Ram Temple Tableau of Uttar First prize in Republic Day 2021 Pradesh
13. Meghalaya National Award for Best Electoral Practices 2020