New Zealand rockers The Datsuns won best live band and Australian group The Vines - who had six nominations going into the ceremony - only went home with the prize for best single, for their UK top 30 hit Get Free.
The late Marvin Hamlisch, who died last August, was also honoured with the inaugural prize for best original music for his score for the 2002 Broadway musical Sweet Smell of Success, which received its UK premiere at London's Arcola Theatre.
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The roster of recently born awards (see table, next page) expanded last month with the first Prize for Civil Courage, a creation of John Train, a 72-year-old New York investment counsel, and his Northcote Parkinson Fund.
Organiser Michael Eavis was also honoured with the outstanding contribution prize for his work over the last 30 years.
Tracey Shelton of GlobalPost was honored with the video reporting prize for her work showcasing the human impact of the conflict.
Projects operating in Afghanistan and the Philippines were honoured with the awards of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, with a programme in Bhutan receiving an Honourable Mention.
The Xbox 360 is no exception to this rule, with JoyTech bagging the prize for being the first to make the Xbox 360 "portable", and our crafty in-house modder Ben Heckendorn undeniably creating the most effective solution with the Xbox 360 laptop.
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The event began last year as a way of celebrating Spain's National Book Day, but it also coincides with the award of the Cervantes Prize for Literature, the Spanish-speaking world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
When I was eight years old, I told everyone the new mud flap with the rhinestone on my Schwinn was the prize for winning the biking competition at the Knights of Columbus.
David O Russell was rewarded with the best adapted screenplay prize for Silver Linings Playbook, but hotly tipped Oscar contender Jennifer Lawrence and her co-star Bradley Cooper missed out in the acting categories.
The channel also won best drama serial for Top Boy, the popular factual and features prize for Hugh's Big Fish Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the best daytime programme for Deal Or No Deal Live.
No cash or other substitution may be made, except by the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute a prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the prize is not available for any reason as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion.
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Greider, 48, along with her mentor Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard scientist Dr. Jack Szostak, were given the Nobel Prize for their work with telomeres, which are the bits of repeating DNA at the end of our chromosomes.
My favorites were finding find out who sends the most emails flagged with the high alert exclamation point, and who takes the prize for lengthy emails.
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The USTA does not plan to pay for the higher prize money with a similar leap in ticket prices.
The USTA says it does not plan to pay for the higher prize money with a similar leap in ticket prices.
The USTA says it doesn't plan to pay for the higher prize money with a similar leap in ticket prices.
Since his interview with Wanniski, Mundell won the Nobel Prize for economics and honchoed the creation of the euro.
"Amour, " about an aging couple dealing with dementia and death, won the prize for best foreign film, as was expected.
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First staged in 1921, O'Neill's play about a former prostitute reuniting with her sailor father won the Pulitzer Prize for drama the following year.
While the biggest prizes are usually given to the groups with the fastest times, the festivals also usually offer at least one prize for the most creative outhouse.
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He won the Nobel Peace Prize for signing the 1993 Oslo Accords, formalizing relations with Israel and creating a nascent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Nadine Gordimer gets away with it, but she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The latter, best known for his collaborations with Anthony Minghella, received his prize from the late director's widow Carolyn Choa and French actress Juliette Binoche.
So why then was a British conglomerate eager to pay five times sales and compete in a bidding war with German Pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG for the prize of the lumbering Schiff Nutrition?
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One of the laser sensors may find its way onto a craft vying for Google's X Prize, with the results used to determine where vessels can touch down whilst keeping a safe distance from Apollo landing sites.
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Expect the Russians to go for other utilies like Centrica, along with some of the most prize industrial assets of Europe.
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