A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize.

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

Scientists have genetically engineered several organisms, including some mammals, to include green fluorescent protein ( GFP ) for medical research purposes ( Chalfie, Shimoura, and Tsien were awarded the Nobel prize in 2008 for GFP ).

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at MOJO Awards 2008, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at the 2008 MOJO Awards, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

In January 2009, Robyn won a Swedish Grammis Award for Best Live Act 2008 ; in her acceptance speech, she said that Madonna was to thank for the prize.

On January 14, 2008, Davenport surpassed Steffi Graf in career prize money earned on the women's tour, garnering a total of US $ 21, 897, 501.

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

In 2008, he was awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness at the Variety Club Awards.

In November 2008, GSN and Meow Mix presented a special entitled Think Like a Cat, hosted by Chuck Woolery, with a top prize of $ 1, 000, 000, one of the few times a game show on cable TV has had that amount as a grand prize.

* Luigi Lo Cascio's multimedia adaptation La Caccia ( The Hunt ) won the Biglietto d ' Oro del Teatro prize in 2008.

Winning the KNVB Cup had been somewhat of a consolation prize, ending the club's trophy drought which had lasted since 2008.

This event is known as the " World Human Powered Speed Challenge " On September 18, 2008, Whittingham established a new record of, thereby winning the. decimach prize for going one tenth the speed of sound ( with adjustments for slope and elevation ).

The team captured the sport's highest prize, The SportsQuest Cup, in 2008, 2009 and 2011. The team also won the Kessler prize in 2012.

François Hollande awarded the first prize on 29 February 2008 in Tulle.

It was awarded the " Booker of Bookers " Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.

It also was awarded the Best Of The Booker prize twice, in 1993 and 2008 ( this was an award given out by the Booker committee to celebrate the 25th and 40th anniversary of the award ).

It is not a regular contesting band, but won first prize in the unregistered section at their first contest at Hardraw Scar in September 2007, repeating the accomplishment in 2008.

The total prize money for the 2008 tournament was $ 7, 500, 000, with $ 1, 350, 000 going to the winner.

In December 2008, NS & I dropped significantly the interest rate ( and therefore the odds of investors winning a prize ) due to the corresponding significant drop in the Bank of England base rate during the " credit crunch ", leading to strong criticism from Members of Parliament, financial experts, and holders of premium bonds ; many claimed that Premium Bonds were now " worthless ", and somebody with the maximum £ 30, 000 invested who has " average luck " would win only 10 prizes per year compared to 15 in the previous year.

In December 2008, Bernard Madoff was arrested for running a US $ 50 billion Ponzi scheme which was thought to be a hedge fund, and several feeder hedge funds, of which the largest was Fairfield Sentry, channelled money to it.

Hedge funds posted disappointing returns in 2008, but the average hedge fund return of − 18. 65 % ( the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index return ) was far better than the returns generated by most assets other than cash or cash equivalents.

Most foreign and domestic corporate debt indices also suffered in 2008, posting losses significantly worse than the average hedge fund.

According to Lipper, the average US domestic equity mutual fund decreased 37. 6 % in 2008.

In August 2008, IKEA also announced that it had created IKEA GreenTech, a € 50 million venture capital fund.

" In 2008 Libya established a fund to compensate victims of these three terrorist acts ( and the 1986 US bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi ).

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

* In July 2008, Mozambique and Portugal have signed an agreement to set up a fund to support investments worth USD124 million in the Mozambican energy sector.

However the fund failed to meet the required target of £ 100, 000 by the end of December 2008, having received just over £ 33, 000 in pledges, and the plan was abandoned.

As an Egyptian with links to Scotland, Al-Fayed was intrigued enough to fund a 2008 reprint of the 15th century chronicle Scotichronicon by Walter Bower.

However, the 2008 financial crisis and the instability of Iraq and Afghanistan made fund raising impossible.

“ While there had been sound economic growth in years prior to 2008, there were still sizable fund balance drawdowns in both 2006 and 2007 ,” Fitch wrote.

In April 2008, Robertson pleaded with the MP3tunes user group to help fund the legal defense regarding the EMI lawsuit.

On April 7, 2008, Goodyear's city council unanimously approved a memorandum to fund a new $ 33 million baseball spring training complex for Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians.

In July 2008, a Japanese government body said it would fund a joint project of leading firms, which is to develop a key technology to produce large, energy-saving organic displays.

Total mutual fund assets fell in 2008 as a result of the credit crisis of 2008.

Hunter contributes to many charities, including the " Torii Hunter Project Education Initiative ," which provides college scholarships to students in California, Arkansas, Nevada and Minnesota, the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, a partnership with Major League Baseball to help maintain and improve baseball diamonds in inner cities, the Big Brothers and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and in addition, Hunter helped fund construction of a youth softball field in Placentia, California in 2008.

In the year of 2008, while VC fundings were still majorly dominated by U. S. money ($ 28. 8 billion invested in over 2550 deals in 2008 ), compared to international fund investments ($ 13. 4 billion invested elsewhere ), there has been an average 5 % growth in the venture capital deals outside the USA, mainly in China and Europe.

In May 2012, The Sunday Times reported how the Prince had received £ 320, 000 ($ 514, 000 ) during a six-year period from 2002 to 2008 into a family business owned by the prince's secretary, from a fund controlled by Berezovsky in which 56 payments of between £ 5, 000 and £ 15, 000 were sent through offshore companies.

In July 2008, the Alberta government announced a C $ 2 billion fund to support sequestration projects in Alberta power plants and oil sands extraction and upgrading facilities.

In April 2008, it was reported that KPCB was raising funds for a $ 400 million growth-stage clean-technology fund.

In May 2008, KPCB announced the formation of its most recent fund, KPCB XIII.