Entertainment Awards (Television)

S.No.	Awards & Honours	Purpose/Objective	First Held in country/year	Name of Body/Institution/ Government
1	British Academy Television Awards	Awarded for the best in television	1954	British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
2	Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award)	German award for television programming	1999	German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1
3	Edward Murrow Award	For best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs.	1978	Overseas Press Club of America
4	Emmy Award	Awarded for Excellence in Television	1949	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
5	Gemini Awards	Awarded for Best television productions in Canada	1986	Presented by Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
6	GLAAD Media Award	Awarded for Outstanding representations of the LGBT community in media	1990	Presented by Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
7	Golden Bell Awards	Awarded for best in television production	1965	Presented by Government Information Office, Republic of China
8	Golden Globe Award	Awarded for Excellence in film and television	1944	Presented by Hollywood Foreign Press Association
9	GOLDENE KAMERA Award (held annually)	Awarded for German film and television.	1965	Presented by Television magazine HÖRZU in Germany
10	Humanitas Prize	Awarded for Film and television writing promoting human dignity, meaning and freedom.	1975	---
11	Logie Awards	Awarded for Excellence in Australian television	1959	Presented by TV Week
12	National Television Awards	"Most Popular" among the Television are awarded	1995	Presented by Eamonn Holmes (1995) Trevor McDonald (1996-2008) Dermot O'Leary (2010-present)
13	Peabody Award	Awarded for Recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by television and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals and the World Wide Web.	1940	Presented by Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia
14	Telly Award	Awarded for Excellence in local, regional, cable, TV commercials, Non-Broadcast Video, TV Program	1980	Presented by "The namesake", New York City-based organization
15	Young Artist Award	Awarded for Excellence of young performers in motion pictures, television, theatre, and music.	1979	Young Artist Foundation, a non-profit organization

Entertainment Awards (Comic Books)

S.No.	Awards & Honours	Purpose/Objective	First Held in country/year	Name of Body/Institution/ Government
1	Adamson Awards (held annually)	Awarded to notable cartoonists	1965	Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA).
2	Alley Award	It is a series of comic book fan awards	1962	---
3	Doug Wright Award (held annually)	It helps in honouring excellence in works published in English.	2004	Jury of five Canadians who have made significant contributions to national culture, based on shortlisted selections provided by a nominating committee of five experts in the comics field.
4	Eagle Award	Awards for comic book titles and creators.	1977	---
5	Eisner Award	It is given for creative achievement in American comic books.	1988	The nominations in each category are generated by a five-member panel, then voted on by comic-book professionals, and presented at the annual Comic-Con International convention held in San Diego, California, usually in July or August. Jackie Estrada has been the award administrator since 1990.
6	Joe Shuster Awards (given annually)	Given for outstanding achievements in the creation of comic books, graphic novels and webcomics.	2005	Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association
7	Jack Kirby Award	Given for achievement in comic books.	1985 (last given in 1987)	Amazing Heroes magazine
8	Kodansha Manga Award (awarded annually)	Awarded for best cartoon serials in four categories.	1977	Publisher Kodansha
9	Lulu Awards	To promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry.	1994	Friends of Lulu, a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States.
10	The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame	Honours significant life-long contributions to the art of cartooning in Canada.	2005	---
11	Prix Saint-Michel	Mainly focused Franco-Belgian comics	1971	City of Brussels
12	Urhunden Prizes	It is given for Best Swedish Album of the year, Best foriegn Album of the year and 'urhunden' comics of the year.	1987	Svenska Seriefrämjandet (Swedish Comicbook Association)

Entertainment Awards (Advertisement)

S.No.	Awards & Honours	Purpose/Objective	First Held in country/year	Name of Body/Institution/ Government
1	Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (held yearly)	To celebrate the best of creativity in brand communication, discuss industry issues and network with one another.	Venice, Itlay, 1954	International Advertising Festival, the team behind Cannes Lions, Dubai International Advertising Festival and Spikes Asia
2	Clio Awards (held annually)	to reward innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design and communication.	1960	Prometheus Global Media
3	Design and Art Direction (D & AD)	Benchmarking and rewarding great ideas that are well executed and appropriate	1963	---
4	Effie Award	To honor the most effective marketing communications ideas	1968	Effie Worldwide, Inc., a non-profit organization
5	The Advertising Club of New York Award	focuses efforts on advertising industry self-regulation, professional training and good fellowship.	1915	The Advertising Club of New York
6	Summit International Awards	This award is for the pioneers who are leaders, innovators and visionaries in this exciting new realm of advertising.	----	SIA Organization
7	OBIE Awards (annual awards)	creative excellence in the world of advertising.	1956	The Village Voice newspaper
8	Cresta Awards	To honor an absolute standard of creative excellence in the international advertising and marketing communications industry.	1993	Creative Standards International, in partnership with the International Advertising Association

Business And Management Awards

S.No.	Awards & Honours	Purpose/Objective	First Held in country/year	Name of Body/Institution/ Government
1	Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards	To enhance the awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship amongst the general public and in turn, stimulate the growth of local and regional brands and enterprises both locally and regionally.	Malayasia	Kuala Lumpur-based regional NGO, Enterprise Asia
2	Deming Prize For Quality	To reward companies for major advances in quality improvement	Japan, 1950	Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE)
3	E. H. Harriman Award (Presented annually)	To encourage safe operating practices and safety enhancements.	1913	E.H. Harriman Memorial Awards Institute
4	European Business Awards	To recognise and promote excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community.	First awarded in 2007, launched in 2006	HSBC
5	European IST Grand Prize	For groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation in Information Society Technologies.	2006	Euro-CASE
6	Henry Laurence Gantt Medal	For distinguished achievement in management and service to the community.	1929	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
7	Jake Award (Presented annually)	To recognize outstanding safety achievements in the short line railroad industry, which had gone unrecognized before.	1995	Rail transport industry group American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
8	Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award	To recognize U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence.	1987	President of the United States
9	Railroader of the Year (Awarded annually)	To recognize the railroads' commitments to customer service and innovation in the industry.	1964	Trade journal Railway Age
10	Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership	To recognize companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities.	1997	The Conference Board, a non-profit organization
11	Train Operator of the Year	To recognize excellence among train operating companies of the United Kingdom	1997	As part of the HSBC Rail Business Awards
12	Woodrow Wilson Awards (Awarded annually)	Awarded to those who have shown an outstanding commitment to President of the United States Woodrow Wilson's dream of integrating politics, scholarship, and policy for the common good.	----	Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

List of Jnanpith Award Winners (1965–2014)

Jnanpith Award is being given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The Award is the brain-child of late Smt. Rama Jain, the first President of and the moving spirit behind the Bharatiya Jnanpith since its inception. It has become the most prestigious literary award of the country. This awards inlude sum of Rs. 5 lakhs including citation.

Year : Name – Works (Language)
1965 : G. Sankara Kurup – Odakkuzhal [Flute] (Malayalam)
1966 : Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya – Ganadevta (Bengali)
1967 : Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) – Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Kannada)
1967 : Umashankar Joshi – Nishitha (Gujarati)
1968 : Sumitranandan Pant – Chidambara (Hindi)
1969 : Firaq Gorakhpuri – Gul-e-Naghma (Urdu)
1970 : Viswanatha Satyanarayana – Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu [A resourceful tree:Ramayana] (Telugu)
1971 : Bishnu Dey Smriti – Satta Bhavishyat (Bengali)
1972 : Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' – Urvashi (Hindi)
1973 : Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre – Nakutanti [Naku Thanthi (Four Strings)] (Kannada)
1973 : Gopinath Mohanty – Paraja (Oriya)
1974 : Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar – Yayati (Marathi)
1975 : P. V. Akilan – Chitttrappavai (Tamil)
1976 : Ashapurna Devi – Pratham Pratisruti (Bengali)
1977 : K. Shivaram Karanth – Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Mookajjis dreams] (Kannada)
1978 : Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' – Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar [How many times in many boats?] (Hindi)
1979 : Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya – Mrityunjay [Immortal] (Assamese)
1980 : S. K. Pottekkatt – Oru Desathinte Katha [Story of a land] (Malayalam)
1981 : Amrita Pritam – Kagaj te Canvas (Punjabi)
1982 : Mahadevi Varma – Yama (Hindi)
1983 : Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar – Chikkaveera Rajendra [Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra] (Kannada)
1984 : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai – Kayar [Coir] (Malayalam)
1985 : Pannalal Patel – Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (Gujarati)
1986 : Sachidananda Rout Roy (Oriya)
1987 : Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) – Natsamrat (Marathi)
1988 : Dr.C. Narayana Reddy – Vishwambhara (Telugu)
1989 : Qurratulain Hyder – Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar (Urdu)
1990 : V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) – Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi (Kannada)
1991 : Subhas Mukhopadhyay – Padati (Bengali)
1992 : Naresh Mehta (Hindi)
1993 : Sitakant Mahapatra – "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92" (Oriya)
1994 : U. R. Ananthamurthy – for his contributions to (Kannada) literature (Kannada)
1995 : M. T. Vasudevan Nair – Randamoozham [Second Chance] (Malayalam)
1996 : Mahasweta Devi – Hajar Churashir Ma (Bengali)
1997 : Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu)
1998 : Girish Karnad – "for his contributions to (Kannada) literature and for contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)" (Kannada)
1999 : Nirmal Verma (Hindi)
1999 : Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)
2000 : Indira Goswami (Assamese)
2001 : Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati)
2002 : D. Jayakanthan (Tamil)
2003 : Vinda Karandikar – Ashtadarshana (poetry) (Marathi)
2004 : Rahman Rahi – Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz (Kashmiri)
2005 : Kunwar Narayan (Hindi)
2006 : Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani)
2006 : Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit)
2007 : O. N. V. Kurup (Malayalam)
2008 : Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' (Urdu)
2009 : Amar Kant (Hindi)
2009 : Shrilal Shukla (Hindi)
2010 : Chandrashekhara Kambara – for his contributions to Kannada literature (Kannada) 

2011 : Pratibha RayYajnaseni (Oriya)

2012 : Ravuri Bharadhwaja - For his notable contribution to Telugu literature (Telugu)

2013 :   Kedarnath Singh - For his notable contribution to Hindi literature. ‘Abhi bilkul abhi’ and ‘Yahan se dekho’ are among his prominent works (Hindi)

2014 : Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade (Marathi)

‘Abhi bilkul abhi’ and ‘Yahan se dekho’ are among his prominent works - See more at: http://www.onlinegk.com/current-affairs/current-affairs-june-2014#sthash.QTmHJyfr.dpuf