Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

La Bola Negra wins TIFF's People's Choice Award

It is the first Netflix film to win the Toronto festival's top prize.

27 September 2026 · Source: Deadline

Awards and Honours

Quebec duo Angine de Poitrine win the Polaris Music Prize

The masked band won for their second album, Vol. II, and took the Song Prize too.

27 September 2026 · Source: Exclaim!

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Lasker Awards honour sleep science, haemophilia and Michael J. Fox

The discovery of orexin and a bispecific antibody for haemophilia A win America's top medical prizes.

27 September 2026 · Source: Lasker Foundation

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Nobel Prize week dates confirmed

The six announcements run from 5 to 12 October, starting with Physiology or Medicine.

27 September 2026 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Mokyr, an economic historian, explained how scientific knowledge fuelled lasting growth, while Aghion and Howitt developed a theory of how new technologies replace old ones.

13 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Machado is a leader of the democratic opposition in Venezuela, and has been living in hiding after the disputed presidential election of 2024.

10 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Hungarian writer is known for long, dark novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, both made into films by the director Béla Tarr.

9 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks are materials full of tiny holes that can capture gases such as carbon dioxide or pull water from desert air.

8 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

In experiments in the 1980s, the three physicists showed that quantum effects can be seen in an electrical circuit large enough to hold in the hand.

7 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The three scientists discovered regulatory T cells, the immune system's "security guards" that stop it attacking the body's own tissues.

6 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize