An award is the endorsement of brilliance. An award is given to a man or association or group of individuals for their greatness in a specific fields. Award may convey money related prize given to the beneficiary. For example the Nobel Prize for the commitments to the Society and Pulitzer for the literary accomplishments.

Below are the list of international awards and honours. Padma Awards, 2015:

• Padma Awards, one of the most civilian Awards of the nation, are presented in three classes, to be specific, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
• The awards are announced on the event of Republic Day every year. The award was set up on 2 January 1954 by the president of India.
• It is honoured to perceive recognized administration of a high order to the country, in any field. As of December 2015, 1230 people have up to this point got the award.

Padma Vibhushan:

• The Padma Vibhushan is the second-most civilian of the Republic of India. Organized on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "outstanding and recognized administration", without refinement of race, occupation, position.
• The honour criteria include "administration in any field including administration rendered by Government servants" including doctors and scientists, however avoids those working with general society part endeavours.
• As of 2016, the honour has been offered on 294 people, including 6 posthumous and 19 non-national recipients.

Padma Bhushan:

• The Padma Bhushan is the third-most civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, yet preceding the Padma Shri.
• It is announced on the event of Republic Day of India every year. It is presented by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan at sometime around March or April.

Padma Shri: Padma Shri is the fourth most civilian in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Awarded by the Government of India, it is declared each year on India's Republic Day. Films Awards: A Honour given in acknowledgement of an achievement in the film industry. The movie has effectively won several international film awards. The Oscars:

• The Academy Awards, or "The Oscars", is a yearly American honours function facilitated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to perceive greatness in cinematic accomplishments in the United States film industry as surveyed by the Academy's voting enrollment.
• The different class winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, formally called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its epithet "Oscar." The awards, initially displayed in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are regulated by AMPAS.
• The award ceremony was first communicate to radio in 1930 and broadcast in 1953. It is currently seen live in more than 200 countries.

1. Best Picture: Nominees The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Spotlight - Award Winner
2. Best Actor: Nominees Bryan Cranston, Trumbo Matt Damon, the Martian Leonardo Dicaprio, the Revenant - Award Winner Michael Fassbinder, Steve jobs Eddie Redmayne, the Danish Girl
3. Best Actress: Nominees Cate Blanchett, Carol Brie Larson, Room - Award Winner Jennifer Lawrence, Joy Charlotte Rampling, 45 years Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
4. Best Supporting Actor: Nominees Christian Bale, The big Short Tom Hardy, The Revenant Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies - Award Winner Sylvester Stallone, Creed
5. Best Supporting Actress: Nominees Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight Rooney Mara, Carol Rachel McAdams, Spotlight Alicia Vikander, the Danish Girl - Award Winner Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
6. Best Animated Feature Film: Nominees Anomalisa Boy and the World Inside Out - Award Winner Shaun the Sheep Movie When Marnie Was There
7. Best Cinematography: Nominees Carol The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant - Award Winner Sicario
8. Best Costume Design: Nominees Carol Cinderella The Danish Girl Mad Max: Fury Road - Award Winner The Revenant
9. Best Directing: Nominees The Big Short Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant - Award Winner Room Spotlight
10. Best Documentary Feature: Nominees Amy - Award Winner Cartel Land The Look of Science What Happened, Miss Simone? Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s fight for freedom
11. Best Documentary(Short Subject): Nominees Body Team 12 Chau, beyond the Lines Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoeh A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Award Winner Last Day of Freedom
12. Best Film Editing: Nominees The big Short Mad Max: Fury Road - Award Winner The Revenant Spotlight Star Wars: The Force Awakens
13. Best Foreign Language Film: Nominees Embrace of the Serpent Mustang Son of Saul - Award Winner Theeb A War
14. Best Makeup and Hair Styling: Nominees Mad Max: Fury Road - Award Winner The 100 year old man who climbed out The Window and Disappeard The Revenant
15. Best Music(Original Score) : Nominees Bridge of Spies Carol The Hateful Eight - Award Winner Sicario Star Wars: The Force Awakens
16. Best Music(Original Song): Nominees “Earned It”, Fifty shades of Grey “Manta Ray”, Racing Extinction “Simple Song #3”, Youth “Til It Happens To You”, The Hunting Ground “Writing’s on the wall”, Spectre - Award Winner
17. Best Production Design: Nominees Bridge of Spies The Danish Girl Mad Max: Fury Road - Award Winner The Martian The Revenant
18. Best Short Film(Live Action): Nominees Ave Maria Day One Everything will be Okay(Alles wird Gut) Shok Stutterer - Award Winner
19. Best Short Film(Animated): Nominees Bear Story - Award Winner Prologue Sanjay’s Super Team We Can’t Live without Cosmos World of Tomorrow
20. Best Sound Editing: Nominees Mad Max: Fury Road - Award Winner The Martian The Revenant Sicario Star Wars: The Force Awakens
21. Best Sound Mixing: Nominees Bridge of Spies Mad Max: Fury Road - Award Winner The Martian The Revenant Star Wars: The Force Awakens
22. Best Visual Effects: Nominees Ex Machina - Award Winner Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Star Wars: The Force Awakens
23. Best Writing(Adapted Screenplay): Nominees The Big Short - Award Winner Brooklyn Carol The Martian Room
24. Best Writing (Original Screenplay): Nominees Bridge of Spies Ex Machina Inside Out Spotlight - Award Winner Straight Outta Compton

Cannes Film Awards:

• The Cannes Festival was founded in 1946, named until 2002 as the International film Festival and known in English as Cannes Film Festivals, is an Annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from around the world.
• The 2016 Cannes film festivals took place between 11 to 22 May 2016. Australian film director George Miller was the president of the Jury.

Palme d’Or: Ken Loach, “I, Daniel Blake” Grand Prix: Xavier Dolan, “It’s Only the End of the World” Jury Prize: Andrea Arnold, “American Honey” Best Actress: Jaclyn Jose, “Ma Rosa” Best Actor: Shahab Hosseini, “The Salesman” Best Director: Olivier Assayas, “Personal Shopper” & Cristian Mungiu, “Graduation”. Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, “The Salesman” Camera d’Or: “Divines”, Houda Benyamina Queer Palm (Feature): “Les Vies de Therese”, Sebastien Lifshitz Queer Palm (Short): “Gabber Lover”, Anna Cazenave-Cambet National Film Awards:

• National film Awards was established in 1954. National film Awards Awarded for the excellence in Cinematic achievements in Indian Films.
• Every Year the Award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India Presents the Awards. The National film Awards are declared for films produced in the previous year across the country.
• They hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian Cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region.
• The awards were announced on 28 March 2016 and the ceremony was held on 3 May 2016.

Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music:

• The Pulitzer Prize is an honour for accomplishments in daily paper, magazine and online news coverage, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
• It was set up in 1917 by arrangements in the will of American, Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a daily paper distributer, and is directed by Columbia University in New York City.
• Prizes are recompensed yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, every winner receives a testament and a US$10,000 cash award. The victor out the general population administration category of the journalism competition is honoured a gold medal.

International Literature Awards: This is for literary award that have no language, locale, nation, or other outline, which are interested in the whole world. This is for awards that recognize honoures from multi-nation regions. Man Booker International Prize 2015: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Hungarian writer. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015: Ms. Ali Smith for her novel How to be both. James Tait Black Prize 2015: Zia Haider Rahman for his first novel in the Light of What we know. National Literature Awards:: Sahitya Akademi’s Bhasha Samman Awards: K. Meenakshi Sundaram (Classical and Medieval Literature, Southern), Acharya Munishwar Jha (Classical and Medieval Literature (Eastern)), Charu Chandra Pande and Mathuradutt Mathpal(Enrichment of Kumauni) 19th Navlekhan Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith: M.Babusha Kohli (Prem Gilhari Dil Akhrot) and Upasana (Ek Zindagi Ek Ek Script Bhar) Saraswathi Samman: Dr. M. Veerappa Moily (MP, Lok Sabha) for his epic Sri Ramayana Mahanveshanam. Bharat Bharti Literary Award: Hindi Litterateur Mr. Kashinath Singh for one of his most famous novels Kaashi Ka Assi International Music & Arts Awards:

• The International Music Awards is a worldwide honouurs show established in 1989 under the high support of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and is situated in Monte-Carlo.
• Honours are introduced to the world's top rated artists in the different categories and to the smash hit specialists from each major territory.

Grammy Awards Record of the year: Sam Smith – Stay with Me (Darkchild Version) Song of the Year: Sam Smith – Stay with Me (Darkchild Version), James Napier, William Philips & Sam Smith, Song Writer. Album of the Year: Beck – Morning Phase Best New Artist: Sam Smith Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera – Say Something Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Cheek To Cheek Best Pop Solo Performance: Pharrell Williams – Happy Best Rock Album: Beck – Morning Phase Best Rock Song: Paramore – Ain’t It Fun, Hayley William’s & Taylor York, Song writers Best Rap Song: Kendrick Lamar – “I” Best R&B Performance: Beyonce Featuring Jay Z – Drunk In Love International Peace & Humanism: International Peace and humanism awards is for outstanding performance in humanism and Peace. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize: Helena Ndume (Namibia) and Jorge Sampaio (Portugal) Colombia’s Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar Award: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Sunhak Peace Prize: Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta for his Pioneering work in the blue revolution with president of Kiribati Islands Mr. Anote Tong. Solidarity Award: Ms. Zhanna Nemtsova for her Contribution in the field of democratic and human rights. Freedom of Expression Prize: Edward Snowden by Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression for shining a critical light on the US surveillance of its citizens and others. Science & Technology Awards: Below are the awards for their outstanding performance in Science and technology. International: William Harvey Award, 2015: Saeedul hasan, Arif Kafeel Akhtar, Ms. Shagufta Qadri, Suhailur Rahman. 2015 Space Pioneer Award: The Indian Space Research Organization was Presented this award in recognition ISRO’s efforts in accomplishing Mars Orbiter Mission In very first attempt. Royal Society Copley Medal: Prof. Peter Higgs for his fundamental contribution to particle physics and his pioneering work on the theory of higgs Boson that explains the origin of mass in elementary Particles. National: G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014: Prof. Sanjeev Galande Ramanujan Prize: Amalendu Krishna for his outstanding contributions in the area of algebraic cycles, algebraic K-theory and the theory of motives. Nobel Prizes 2015

• The Nobel Prize is an arrangement of yearly international awards presented in various categories by Swedish and Norwegian boards of trustees in acknowledgment of academic, cultural and scientific advances.
• Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) established the Nobel Prize “for the greatest benefit to mankind”. The Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901.
• In between the 1901 and 2015, the Nobel Prize in economic sciences was awarded 573 times to total of 900 people and organizations.

Economic Sciences Prize 2015: Angus Deaton “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”. Peace Prize 2015: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to the building of pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”. Literature Prize 2015: Svetlana Alexievich “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. Chemistry Prize 2015: Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”. Physics Prize 2015: Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald “for the discovery of Neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. Physiology or Medicine 2015: William c. Campbell and Santoshi Omura “for their discoveries concerning a novel theraphy against infections caused by roundworm parasites” and Youyou Tu “for her discoveries concerning a novel theraphy against Malaria”.

1. Which of the following award if first highest civilian award? A. Padma Bhushan B. Bharat Ratna C. Padma Vibhushan D. Padma Shree Answer-B 2. In which year the Padma awards was established? A. 1954 B. 1964 C. 1974 D. 1984 Answer-A 3. Amitabh Bachchan got the Padma Vibhushan Award for which discipline? A. Literature and Education B. Social Work C. Public Affairs D. Art Answer-D 4. When the Oscar film festival was established? A. 1919 B. 1929 C. 1939 D. 1949 Answer-B 5. Which Picture got the Best Picture Oscar award for the year 2016? A. Brooklyn B. Room C. Spotlight D. The Revenant Answer-C 6. Which Actress got the Best Actress Award in Cannes Film Festival for the year 2016? A. Jaclyn Jose B. Rooney Mara C. Emmanuelle Bercot D. Kangana Ranaut Answer-A 7. When the Cannes Film Awards was founded? A. 1946 B. 1956 C. 1966 D. 1976 Answer-A 8. Which Film won the Best Featured Film Award in National Film Awards for the year 2016? A. Piku B. Tanu weds Manu C. Baahubali D. Bajrangi Bhaijaan Answer-C 9. Which film got the best featured Hindi film in National film awards 2016? A. Baahubali B. Bajrangi Bhaijaan C. Dum Laga ke Haisha D. Bhaajirao Mastani Answer-C 10. In which year the Nobel Prize was awarded first time? A. 1910 B. 1905 C. 1901 D. 1890 Answer-C