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History
Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948. Gandhi was also known, though, to have made—at times shocking, at times controversial—pronouncements of life's statements and personal philosophy that bordered on extreme idealism and racial judgments. Decades later, though, the Nobel Committee publicly declared its regret for the omission. The Nobel Committee may have tacitly acknowledged its error, however, when in 1948 (the year of Gandhi's death), it made no award, stating "there was no suitable living candidate". Similarly, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi". The official Nobel e-museum has an article discussing the issue.
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Persons
Jean-Paul Sartre and Lê Ðức Thọ are the only two people to have declined the Nobel prize that they were awarded. The former declined the Literature prize in 1964, stating that he had always refused official honors. The latter declined the 1973 Peace prize - jointly awarded to him and Henry Kissinger - on the stated grounds that Vietnam was not yet at peace.
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Film
Alfred (1995): directed by Vilgot Sjöman and starring Sven Wollter. Plot Outline: The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel Prizes.
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Numbers
As of October 2006, a total of 787 Nobel Prizes have been awarded, 768 to individuals (33 of these to women) and 19 to organizations.
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Things
The Razzies (Golden Raspberry Awards) were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to complement the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. Current awards are voted upon by the membership of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (GRAF). Traditionally, nominations are announced one day before the Motion Picture Academy announces its Oscar nominations, and the awards are presented one day before the Oscar ceremony. The term "raspberry" is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry." In Cockney rhyming slang, "raspberry" means flatulence, "raspberry tart" rhyming with "fart".
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Song
"If I Didn't Have You" by Randy Newman (from the film Monsters, Inc.) won the Academy award for best song in 2001. Newman had been nominated sixteen times before finally winning the award.
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Fictional characters
Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th series of films), Godzilla, and Chewbacca (from Star Wars) are the only three completely fictional characters known to have been presented with a Lifetime achievement award. MTV presented the accolade in 1992, 1996, and 1997, respectively.
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Recipe
Award Winning Ghiradelli Brownies
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Wordplay
The Nobel Prize for Literature is an anagram (a word or phrase made by using the letters of another word or phrase in a different order) of The Pulitzer for a terrible one?
Source: Anagram Genius
The following are both puns (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word):
Successful dieters might win the Nobelly prize.
The person who invented the door knocker got a No-bell prize.
Source: http://punoftheday.com/

Literature
The following women have won the Nobel Prize for literature:
Selma Lagerlöf (1909); Grazia Deledda (1926); Sigrid Undset (1928); Pearl Buck (1938); Gabriela Mistral (1945); Nelly Sachs (1966); Nadine Gordimer (1991); Toni Morrison (1993); Wislawa Szymborska (1996); Elfriede Jelinek (2004).
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Quotes
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. (Jack Benny)
People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? (Neil Simon)
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. (Billy Wilder)
To refuse awards. . . is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. (Peter Ustinov)
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough . . . (Gail Sheehy)
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. (Jack Nicholson)
Source: Creative Quotations

Records
Katharine Hepburn has received 4 Academy awards (from 12 nominations)
Walter Brennan and Jack Nicholson have both received 3 Academy awards, and both two for best actor and one for best supporting actor.
Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) all won 11 Academy awards.
John Ford has won the most Best Director awards, with four. The winning films were The Informer, 1935, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940, How Green Was My Valley, 1941  and The Quiet Man, 1952.
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Proverb
It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them. (Portuguese)