February One Liner : Awards

1. 2016 Oscar Best Film won by - Spotlight

Note: The film, directed by Tom Maccarthy.

Winner of OSCAR Awards –

• Best Picture – ‘Spotlight’
• Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio for ‘The Revenant’
• Best Actress– Brie Larson for ‘Room’
• Best Directing – Alejandro G. Inarritu for ‘The Revenant’
• Best Short Film (Animated) – Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala for ‘Bear Story’
• Best Animated Feature Film – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera for ‘Inside Out’
• Best Documentary (Short Subject) – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’
• Best Documentary (Feature) – Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees for ‘Amy’

1. Who has been chosen for the Dinanath Mangeshkar award – Ranveer Singh & Sanjay Leela Bhansali
2. Winner of the 47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2015 – Manoj Kumar
3. Winner of 2015 Bihari Puraskar - Bhagwati Lal Vyas

Note: The renowned poet Dr.Bhagwati Lal Vyas has been chosen for the 2015 Bihari Puraskar for his anthology of Rajasthani poems “Katha Sun Aawe Hai Sabad

1. Who has been chosen for Innovation Award 2016 for developing laterite based arsenic water filter - Sirshendu De
2. Winner of the 2015 Krutitava Smagra Samman - Padma Sachdev
3. Winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell in the fiction category - Jerry Pinto
4. Who will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement honour at the 2016 Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) - Ratan Thiyam
5. Best sound award at the 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards 2016 - Resul Pookutty

Note: The Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty has bagged the best sound award for documentary “India’s Daughter” at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards.

1. Winner of the Aryabhata Award 2013 - Avinash Chander
2. Who has been conferred with the Germany’s prestigious ‘Cross of the Order of Merit’ - Goverdhan Mehta
3. Winner of the Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards in the category of Best Environment-Friendly Project - GVK Biosciences

Note: The Hyderabad-based GVK Biosciences has received the Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards in the category of Best Environment-Friendly Project for its “Go Green, Grow Green” plantation drive

1. Who honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival of Prayag (IFFP) - Sagar Sarhadi (The well-known scriptwriter)
2. Which film has bagged the 2016 Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear award – Fuocoammare (Italian documentary film)
3. Which film has won the Remi Award at the 2016 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival - Kanavu Variyam
4. Indian film has won the Best Children’s Film award at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival – Ottal
5. Lyricist to enter the Guinness Book of World Records - Sameer Anjaan

Note: The well-known Indian lyricist Sameer Anjaan has been officially recognised by Guinness Books of World Records for composing the 3,524 songs for 650 Bollywood movies.

1. Name the Indologist who awarded with prestigious Israel Prize for religious studies - David Shulman
2. Best actor award at the 2016 BAFTA awards - Leonardo DiCaprio (for film The Revenant)
3. Grammy award in the Best Music Film section - Asif Kapadia
4. Who has conferred with the Knight of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest civilian honour - Manish Arora
5. Winner of the first world Sanskrit Award - Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
6. Winner of K Veeramani Social Justice Award - Nitish Kumar (Bihar CM)
7. Winner of 2016 William E. Colby Award for best military book - Nisid Hajari

Note: He has won the award for his book “Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition”.

1. Indian who conferred with “Order of Friendship” award by Russia, recently is – R S Sundar

Note: He is a Director of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (NPP) construction site.

The NPP Kudankulam is under construction in India with Russian assistance in accordance with Intergovernmental agreement of 1988.

1. Indian film has bagged the Best First Foreign Film Award by the 2016 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics (FSCC) – Titli

Note: Kanu Behl is the Director of the film.

1. Who has been chosen for Bhimsen Joshi Classical Music Award for 2015-2016 - Pandit Ram Narayan
2. Film won the Golden Conch Award for the best documentary at Mumbai International Film Festival 2016 - Manipuri documentary film ‘Phum Shang’
3. Winner of Global Filmmaking award at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 - Geetu Mohandas

Note: He won the award for his upcoming film ‘Insha Allah’