General Awareness Updates – April 2010

Awards / Honours:

82^nd Academy (Oscar) Awards

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Achievement in Direction: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock (left), The Blind Side

Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’nique, Precious

Best Animated Feature Film: Up

Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret In Their Eyes

Berlin Film Festival Award

Golden Bear for the Best Film: ‘Bal’ (Honey) by Semih Kaplanoglu

Silver Bear for Best Director: Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer

Silver Bear for Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima in Caterpillar

Silver Bear for Best Actor: Grigori Dobrygin (Ex Aequo) and Sergei Puskepalis for Kak Ya Provel Etim Letom (How I Ended This Summer)

World Statesman Award for 2010

The Appeal of Conscience Foundation has chosen India’s Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as the recipient of the World Statesman Award for the year 2010. Among the past recipients of this prestigious award include British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2009), French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2008), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2007) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2006).

The Appeal of Conscience Foundation was founded by Rabbi Arthur Schneier in 1965. It has worked on behalf of religious freedom and human rights throughout the world. This interfaith coalition of business, religious and foreign policy leaders promotes peace, tolerance and ethnic conflict resolution. It also provides a voice of conscience to protect minorities at a time of increasing ethnic conflict in many regions of the world.