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.

On 14 September 2012 Brian Lara was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

In 2005, the National Secular Society held the inaugural " Secularist of the Year " awards ceremony.

" In Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc., the Court held that " n light of the reduced constitutional value of speech involving no matters of public concern ... the state interest adequately supports awards of presumed and punitive damages – even absent a showing of ' actual malice.

In 2009 the inaugural Governors Awards were held, at which the Academy awards the Academy Honorary Award and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

The awards have been held since 2002.

The first awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1947, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.

National Film awards are presented in functions held in Thimphu to encourage Bhutanese film making.

These awards, however, were handed out on a discretionary rather than a regular basis ( no award was given at the 26th Academy Awards held in 1954 ), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year.

The ceremonies associated with these awards are held separately from the induction of the members of the Hall of Fame.

The Osseo Marching Band Festival and awards ceremony held afterwards in the High School Stadium is free for the public to attend.

On July 18, 2011, the town held a ceremony to dedicate a Carolina blue historical marker downtown in front of City Hall, listing Marion as the birthplace of Coach Williams, as well as his many awards and accomplishments.

NME Awards is an awards show held every year to celebrate the best new music of the past year.

There were no awards held in 1979, due to a decision by the Gospel Music Association to move the awards from autumn to spring.

In 1986, the station held a listener contest to rename the awards, which were re-dubbed the CASBY Awards, for " Canadian Artists Selected By You ".

The event is held every summer, where awards are presented to Canadian musicians who have won the most votes from listeners.

As part of an opening act for the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards held on on September 18, 2005 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles the band once more collaborated up with the The Black Eyed Peas and this was first time a musical artist had opened at the annual awards show.

The awards ceremony was held on the same day as the 11 September attacks on the United States and Harvey was on tour in Washington, D. C., one of the affected cities, when she won the prize.

More recently in history, Tommie Smith and John Carlos held up their leather glove-clad fists at the awards ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympics.

These awards are usually given at a dinner and ceremony held on an evening before the Academy Awards broadcast and are usually not also broadcast on television.

Starting in 2010, these awards are presented at a symposium and dinner held on the Illinois Institute of Technology's campus.

On the 52nd Grammy Awards ceremony, which held in January, 2010 they won 3 awards out of 6 nominations.

Sleepless in Seattle received two nominations for awards in the 66th Academy Awards ( held in 1994 ), but did not win either of them.