All the list of awards and honours 2022-2021
Current Affairs is an integral part of the General Awareness section of most of the competitive exams. The awards and honours are one of the important topics of all the Competitive exams. In this section, questions related to the awards, are asked in Government exams.
Aspirants preparing for the upcoming Government exams like UPSC, Railway exam, SSC, etc. can find this article helpful for the current affairs section. This article contains the list of awards and honours for the year 2022, 2021 and 2020.
National and Padma Awards
Bharat Ratna
It is the India’s highest-civilian award given for the for the exceptional service to the advancement of art, literature and science, and in recognition of public service of the highest order. This award was started on 2 January 1954
The first three recipients of the Bharat Ratan award were Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari and Dr. C.V. Raman while Khan Adbul Ghaffar Khan was the first foreigner to be honoured with this award in 1987.
The latest Bharat Ratan Award of 2019 were given to:
- Pranab Mukherjee
- Nanaji Deshmukh
- Bhupen Hazarika
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields. Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in the beginning. The first distribution of the prizes took place on 10 December 1901, since then every year on the 10 of December these awards are given. In 1968, a sixth prize was established in the field of Economic Sciences.
These awards are given in the name of Alfred Nobel and are given by the Nobel Foundation, Sweden.
Nobel Prize for 2021
Nobal Prize | Awardee |
Nobel Prize in Peace 2021 | Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov : For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in |
Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
Nobal Prize in Ecomomic 2021 | David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens For research on the labour market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education, and for creating the scientific framework to allow conclusions to be drawn from such studies that can’t use traditional methodology. |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 | Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan |
Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 | Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 | David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian For their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. |
Nobel Prize for 2020
Nobal Prize | Awardee |
Nobel Prize in Peace 2020 | World Food Programme (WFP) |
Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 | Louise Gluck |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. |
Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 | Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. The other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy. |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 | Harvey J. Alter(America), Charles M. Rice (America) and Michael Houghton (Britain) for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. |

Awards given on the field of Movies
List of awards given in BAFTA 2022
- Best Film: The Power of the Dog
- Best Actress in Leading Role: Joanna Scanlan, After Love
- Best Actor in Leading Role: Will Smith, King Richard
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2022
- Film of the Year Award: Pushpa: The Rise
- Best Film Award: Shershaah
- Best Actor Award: Ranveer Singh for film 83
- Best Actress Award: Kriti Sanon for film Mimi
List of Awards and honour given in 2022
Awards | Awards received by |
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Karolina Bielawska | Miss World 2021 |
Rizwana Hasan | US International Women of Courage Award 202 |
Deepak Dhar | Has become the first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal given in field of Physics |
PR Sreejesh | World Games Athlete of the Year award for 2021 |
Daryl Mitchell | ICC Spirit of Cricket Award 2021 |
Neeraj Chopra | Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award 2022 |
Zishaan A Latif Ramnath | Goenka Award in the Photo Journalism |
Dr. Satish Adiga | Indian Council of Medical Research National Award |
Clive Lloyd | Knighthood by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle |
Sushmita Sen | International Association of Working Women Award at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) 2021 |
Prajakta Koli | India’s First-ever ‘Youth Climate Champion’ by UNDP |
Shinzo Abe | Netaji Award 2022 |
Neeraj Chopra | Param Vishisht Seva Medal |
Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (Tamil Nadu) | TX2 award for doubling the population of wild tigers |
Ratan Tata | Assam government’s highest civilian award (Assam Baibhav) |
V Praveen Rao | Dr. M S Swaminathan Award for 2017-19 |
Anju Bobby Georg | Woman of the Year Award by the World Athletics |
Harshaali Malhotra | Dr Ambedkar Award 2022 |
Neena Gupta | Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians |
Important awards and honour list for 2021
Award | Award Received by |
Miss Universe 2021 | Harnaaz Sandhu |
Highest civilian honour of Bhutan, Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo | Narendra Modi |
Knighthood award from Bristish Government | Lewis Hamilton |
Time magazine’s 2021 Athlete of the Year | Simone Biles |
56th Jnanpith Award | Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr |
57th Jnanpith Award | Konkani novelist Damodar Mauzo |
FIFA Ballon d'Or award | Lionel Messi |
Basavashree award 2021 by Karnataka | Puneeth Rajkumar (Kannada actor) |
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2020 | Priyanka Mohite |
2021 JCB prize for Literature, for his book "Delhi: A Soliloquy" | M Mukundan |
International Children’s Peace Prize for recycling household waste and tackling pollution | Vihaan and Nav Agarwal |
12th Manipur State Award for Literature 2020 | Beryl Thanga |
Indian Film Personality of the Year award at the International Film Festival of India 2021 | Hema Malini and Prasoon Joshi |
Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 by the Badminton World Federation | Prakash Padukone |
Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 | Anita Desai |
Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 | Pratham NGO |
1st Indian to be honoured with the Knighthood of Parte Guelfa | Dr. S K Sohan Roy |
Right Livelihood Award 2021 | Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) |
US India Business Council (USIBC) for the 2021 Global Leadership Award | Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan |
Satyajit Ray Award 2021 | B Gopal |
Aryabhata Award by the Astronautical Society of India | Dr. G Satheesh Reddy |
22nd Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence | Dr. Randeep Guleria |
CK Prahlad award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership 2021 | Satya Nadella |
UNESCO’s Martial Arts Education Prize 2021 | Kung Fu Nuns |
Earth Guardian Award instituted by the NatWest Group India | Parambikulam Tiger Conservation Foundation |
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2021 | Tsitsi Dangarembga |
Behler Turtle Conservation Award 2021 | Shailendra Singh |
Swami Brahmanand Award 2021 | Anand Kumar |
Florence Nightingale Award 2021 | Bhanumati Gheewala |
National Florence Nightingale Award 2020 | Brigadier SV Sarasvati |
Global Goals Awards 2021 | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka |
Changemaker Award 2021 | Fairooz Faizah Beether |
Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2021 | Dr Cyrus Poonawalla |
Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games | Muhammad Yunus |
International Dublin Literary Award 2021 for her novel ‘Lost Children Archive’ | Valeria Luiselli |
International Business Book of the Year Award 2021 | Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind |
International Booker Prize 2021 for ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’ | David Diop |
Nature TTL Photography Awards 2021 | Thomas Vijayan |
“Order of Rising Sun” by the Japanese Government | Shyamala Ganesh |
World Press Freedom Prize | Maria Ressa |
Best Actor Award for his performance in a short film named ‘Happy Birthday’ at New York City International Film Festival | Anupam Kher |
World Food Prize 2021 | Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted |
International Invincible Gold Medal 2021 | Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank |
Prestigious Etienne Glichitch Award 2021 | Hockey India |
Spain’s top Princess of Asturias Award in the social sciences category, the Spanish prize foundation | Amartya Kumar Sen |
Saraswati Samman 2020 | Dr Sharankumar Limbale |
Awards and honours for 2020
Award | Award Received by |
Kalinga Ratna Samman | Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan |
51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Rajinikanth |
2021 Film Archive Award by The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) | Amitabh Bachchan |
Padma Vibhushan | Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan |
BBC Indian Sportswoman of the year award | Koneru Humpy |
BBC Lifetime Achievement award | Anju Bobby George |
World Soil Day 2020 Award | Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR) |
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021 | Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal |
Gandhi Peace Prize 2020 | Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 | Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said |
Vyas Samman 2020 | Prof. Sharad Pagare |
Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2020 | Asha Bhosle |
Global Teacher Prize 2020 | Ranjitsinh Disale |
Golden Globe Awards 2021 Best Film | Nomadland |
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 | Robert Irwin |
Skoch Chief Minister of the Year Award | YS Jagan Mohan Reddy |
Miss India World 2020 | Manasa Varanasi |
International Anti-Corruption Champions Award | Anjali Bharadwaj |
CERA Week Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award | PM Narendra Modi |
Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2020 | V K Yadav |
Sahitya Gaurav Samman 2021 | Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank |
96th Tansen Music Festival award, given by MP | Satish Vyas |
First prize in Republic Day 2021 | Ram Mandir, Tableau of Uttar Pradesh |
JCB Prize in Literature for 2020 | S Hareesh |
Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 | Ruskin Bond |
International Children’s Peace Prize 2020 | Sadat Rahman |
Booker Prize for Fiction 2020 | Douglas Stuart |
Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Puraskar 2020 | Naseeruddin Shah |
Gandhi Award 2020 | Sanjay Singh |
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award 2020 | Aishwarya Sridhar |
UN Global Climate Action Award 2020 | Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) of India |
Dayton Literacy Peace Prize’s 2020 | Margaret Atwood |
Lata Mangeshkar Award 2020-21 | Usha Mangeshkar |
SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award | Sonu Sood |
International Booker Prize 2020 for her debut novel ‘The Discomfort of Evening’ | Marieke Lucas Rijneveld |
National Award to Teachers 2020 | Sudha Painuli |
Mental Calculations World Cup (MCWC) | Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash Jonnalagadda |
P C Mahalanobis Lifetime Achievement Award | C Rangarajan |
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 | Kritika Pandey |
Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2020 | Kezang D Thongdok |
Von Karman Award 2020 | K Sivan |
Global Humanitarian Award 2020 | Sachin Awasthi |
President’s Award for Nurse in Singapore | Kala Naryanasamy |
Premier League Golden Boot Football Award | Jamie Vardy |
EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 | Kiran Mazumdar Shaw |
Richard Dawkins Award 2020 | Javed Akhtar |
World Food Prize 2020 | Rattan Lal |
German Book Trade for 2020 Peace Prize | Amrtya Sen |
e-Panchayat Puraskar-2020 | Himachal Pradesh |
‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA India | Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik |
Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Men | Ben Stokes |
Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Women | Ellyse Perry of Australia |
MS Swaminathan Award | V Praveen Rao |
Central Banker of the Year 2020’ for the Asia-Pacific region | Shaktikanta Das |
1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award | Vinod Kumar Shukla |
Lifetime Achievement Award by International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) | Pullela Gopichand |
Miss Diva Universe 2020 | Adline Castelino |
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award | Lewis Hamilton and Footballer Lionel Messi |
Kalinga Literary Award | Manoj das |
Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 | Jadav Payeng |
‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award for Excellence’ | Dr M S Swaminathan |
World Games Athlete of the Year’ Award | Rani Rampal |
Miss Teen International 2019 | Aayushi Dholakia |
29th Saraswati Samman | Vasdev Mohi |
Tyler Prize 2020 | Pavan Sukhdev |
Miss Universe for the year 2019 | Zozibini Tunzi |