The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.

Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 pm on the night of the awards.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

Although initially excluded and even though they did not directly participate in the engagement, Troubridge and his men were given equal shares in the awards after Nelson personally interceded for the crew of the stranded Culloden.

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

The songwriters ( Sager, Ingram, and Clif Mangess ) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Parton and Ingram performed the song on the awards telecast.

* Among the first awards of the Distinguished Service Medal for service in World War I, were those to the Commanding Officers of the Allied Armies:

More than 2, 000 awards were made during World War I, and by the time the United States entered World War II, approximately 2, 800 awards had been made.

From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2, 800 further awards were made.

The other five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966 – 1974, and this record is closely followed by a select group of players who have won two of the awards ( either Gold and Silver or Gold and Bronze, or Silver and Bronze ).

Title awards under the original regulations were subject to political concerns.

The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $ 120, 000 in prizes every year to aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.

They were awarded an Ivor Novello Award for " Outstanding Contribution to British Music " in 1977, as well as a " Lifetime Achievement Award " at the 42nd Annual Ivor Novello awards ceremony in 1997.

Beria's awards were rescinded after his execution.

In the 2010 – 2011 academic year, 1, 161 bachelor of science ( abbreviated SB ) degrees were granted, the only type of undergraduate degree MIT now awards.

Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four of his novels ; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded " Retro Hugos "— awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded.

Heinlein's four Hugo awards were all for books written before this period.

The following were some important Syrian awards: Order of Umayyads, Medal of Military Honor, the War Medal, Medal for Courage, Yarmuk Medal, Wounded in Action Medal, and Medal of 8 March 1963.

They were honored at several ceremonies in Washington, D. C., including a White House ceremony where then-President George H. W. Bush presented awards to each school.

The letterman's awards were the first to make the change.

Spence's designs were appreciated in the architecture community, with many of the buildings on the University's campus winning awards.

Allegations of vaccine injuries in recent decades have appeared in litigation in the U. S. Some families have won substantial awards from sympathetic juries, even though most public health officials have said that the claims of injuries were unfounded.

, a total of 2, 809 Oscars have been given for 1, 853 awards.

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

Some of the major awards in Computer science are given jointly by ACM and the IEEE – CS.

Organized cheerleading competitions began to pop up with the first ranking of the " Top Ten College Cheerleading Squads " and " Cheerleader All America " awards given out by the International Cheerleading Foundation in 1967.

This early post, on August 7, 1985, describes the awards as being, " given posthumously to people who have made the supreme sacrifice to keep their genes out of our pool.

The Science Fiction Achievement awards, given to various works each year by vote of the members of the World Science Fiction Society, are named the " Hugos.

The opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians ( ICM ) is where the awards are presented: Fields Medals ( two to four medals are given since 1936 ), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize ( since 1986 ), the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize ( since 2006 ), and the Chern Medal Award ( since 2010 ).

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism ( or gentle satire ), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in " science education " to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair.

The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences ( AMAS ), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting machinima, recognizes exemplary productions through Mackie awards given at its annual Machinima Film Festival.

* Photo City Sagamihara, awards for photography given annually by the Japanese town of Sagamihara

Stanford has been affiliated with over 50 Nobel laureates, as well as 19 recipients ( 22 if visiting professors and consulting professors included ) of the Turing Award, the so-called " Nobel Prize in computer science ", comprising one third of the awards given in its 44-year history.

Cash awards are also given at many of the major competitions for breaking records.

High level awards are often given with the consultation of the other people who have received the award, such as peerages and consulting orders.

Formal awards for best actor and best actress have been given since 1934.

In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses.

The awards are given annually by the editors of R & D Magazine to the most innovative ideas of the year.

Also known as the “ Oscars of invention ”, the awards are given each year for the development of cutting-edge scientific and engineering technologies with commercial potential.

Each year, the APA recognizes top psychologists with the " Distinguished Contributions " Awards ; these awards are the highest honors given by the APA, and among the highest honors that a psychologist or psychology researcher can receive.

They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, which were first given for the year 1958.

Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video.