Dear Readers, List of Awards and Honours that conferred in the month of March 2018 was given here. Candidates those who are preparing for Bank PO/Clerk, SSC and Upcoming competitive exams 2018 can use these GK materials.
AWARDS AND HONORS
| Awards | Winners |
|
Lifetime achievement award in the United Kingdom |
Shatrughan Sinha |
| Pritzker Prize | Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi |
| Best Exhibitor Award At ITB- Berlin | India |
| ‘Godavari Gaurav’ award | Amol Palekar |
| Wax statue at Madame Tussauds wax museum of London | Sathyaraj |
| 2017 Kochon Prize | The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
for building a tradition of excellence in Tuberculosis (TB) research |
| G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for year 2017 | Dr Rajan Sankaranarayanan. |
| Grand Prix de Montreal at the gala. | Halkaa |
| Best of India Short Film Festival in Los Angeles, US | Jackie Shroff’s short film ‘Shunyata’ |
| India’s Most Admired Brand 2017-18” Award by White Page International (WPI) | ARTH Ayurveda |
| World’s 1st Trusted Digital Repository | National Cultural Audiovisual Archives (NCAA) |
| Pavilion at 105th Indian Science Congress | National Highways Authority of India |
| Abel Prize | Robert Langlands |
| ‘Most Improved Airport’ | The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmadabad . |
| The National ‘Water Digest Award’ for Water Conservation-Diversion | Chhattisgarh |
| G.K. Reddy Award | Journalist Karan Thapar |
| Frederick Pincott Award for 2017 | South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF) |
| Commonwealth Youth Awards | Mirnalini Dayal and Yogesh Kumar |
| Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list | Anushka Sharma And P V Sindhu |
| J.C. Daniel Award | Sreekumaran Thampi |
| Shekhar Kapur | Head jury for 65th National Film Awards |
World’s 1st hand-painted film nominated for Oscars 2018:
- ‘Loving Vincent’, the world’s first hand-painted feature film, has been nominated in the ‘Animated Feature Film’ category at Oscars 2018.
- The paintings used to make the film, which has 65,000 frames, are in the distinct style of painter Vincent Van Gogh.
Oscars Awards 2018
| S. No. | Category | Winner |
| 1. | Best Picture | The Shape Of Water |
| 2. | Best Director | Guillermo del Toro, The Shape Of Water |
| 3. | Best Actress | Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 4. | Best Actor | Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour |
| 5. | Best Supporting Actress | Allison Janney, I, Tonya |
| 6. | Best Supporting Actor | Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 7. | Best Original Screenplay | Get Out |
| 8. | Best Adapted Screenplay | Call Me By Your Name |
| 9. | Best Animated Feature Film | Coco |
| 10. | Best Foreign Language Film | A Fantastic Woman, Chile |
| 11. | Best Original Score | The Shape Of Water |
| 12. | Best Original Song | Remember Me, Coco |
| 13. | Best Documentary Feature | Icarus |
| 14. | Best Documentary Short | Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 |
| 15. | Best Live Action Short | The Silent Child |
| 16. | Best Animation Short | Dear Basketball |
| 17. | Best Sound Editing | Dunkirk |
| 18. | Best Sound Mixing | Dunkirk |
| 19. | Best Production Design | The Shape Of Water |
| 20. | Best Cinematography | Blade Runner |
| 21. | Best Makeup And Hair | Darkest Hour |
| 22. | Best Costume Design | Phantom Thread |
| 23. | Best Film Editing | Dunkirk |
| 24. | Best Visual Effects | Blade Runner |
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