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6 votes
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
8 votes -
Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize for Literature
6 votes -
Ghost win 2019 Music Export Prize – award celebrates Swedish creators in the music industry and their efforts to positively spread Swedish music across the globe
4 votes -
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
13 votes -
2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries
9 votes -
Winners of 2020 Drone Photo Awards
12 votes -
Nobel Prizes to go ahead amid pandemic – less razzmatazz, with this year's winners missing out on the swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden's glitterati
7 votes -
Ludwig Göransson has won the 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) on The Mandalorian – the composer's first Emmy
10 votes -
Winners of the 2021 Japan Packaging Design Awards
11 votes -
Comedy Wildlife Photography - 2020 finalists
17 votes -
72nd Emmy Awards nominations announced - HBO's Watchmen takes the top spot for program nominations with twenty-six
13 votes -
Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1m prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change
13 votes -
Winners of the 2020 Audubon Photography Awards
9 votes -
93rd Academy Awards ceremony delayed to April 25, 2021 (originally Feb. 28), with eligibility periods extended
5 votes -
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announce the winners of the 55th annual Nebula Awards
11 votes -
Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners
12 votes -
Academy Awards eligibility requirements changed for this year's Oscars to allow streamed films
11 votes -
2020 BAFTA Games Awards winners announced - Outer Wilds wins Best Game
6 votes -
Groundwater expert Dr. John Cherry wins 2020 Stockholm Water Prize – his research has raised awareness of how groundwater contamination is growing across the world
5 votes -
Got time on your hands and big ideas? Apply for the Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Awards by March 26
3 votes -
2020 Independent Games Festival winners announced - A Short Hike wins Grand Prize
5 votes -
Junos will continue as scheduled as no COVID-19 cases confirmed in Saskatchewan
4 votes -
Highlights from the This is Gender photography competition
8 votes -
Mabel won the Best British Female Artist at last night's Brit Awards in London – thirty years after her mum, Neneh Cherry, won the same prize
3 votes -
Erling Haaland has won the Bundesliga player of the month award for January – despite playing less than an hour of football in the month
6 votes -
Hildur Guðnadóttir becomes first woman to win Best Original Score – Icelandic composer also won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her work on 'Joker'
8 votes -
'Parasite' wins Best Picture
23 votes -
How chef Wolfgang Puck serves 25,000 dishes at the Oscars every year — mise en place
4 votes -
Robyn will be crowned as Songwriter Of The Decade at next week's NME Awards 2020
4 votes -
Jair Bolsonaro government attacks Oscar nominee Petra Costa as 'anti-Brazil activist'
10 votes -
Norwegian Dag Johan Haugerud's 'Beware Of Children' came away the biggest winner at the 43rd Göteborg Film Festival, scoring the best Nordic film prize
6 votes -
Oscars spotlight: The 2020 nominations for Best Screenplay
8 votes -
Norwich City striker Teemu Pukki has been named the Finnish Athlete of the Year at a special ceremony in Helsinki
4 votes -
Winners of the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest
6 votes -
Oscar nominations 2020: ‘Joker’ leads with eleven; Greta Gerwig snubbed for best director; complete list of nominees
6 votes -
The AnitaB.org Pass It On Awards Program - Applications are open
6 votes -
Finalists announced for 2020 Independent Games Festival awards
5 votes -
Chernobyl's Stellan Skarsgård took home the award for best supporting actor in a television series at the 2020 Golden Globes
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Best Illusion of the Year 2019 - Winners announced
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The Game Awards - Megathread
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.
Sales
Announcements/Releases
- Sayonara Wild Hearts released on PC (20% off)
Events
- "The Game Festival" - 13 first-look demos of indie games available on Steam for 48 hours (announcement post)
Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown
My original lists (incomplete)
Winners
- Best Community Support: Destiny 2
- Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
- Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
- Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Best Art Direction: Control
- Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
- Games for Impact: Gris
- Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
- Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
- Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite
Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end
- Best Esports Coach: Zonic
- Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
- Best Esports Host: Sjokz
- Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
- Best Esports Player: Bugha
- Content Creator of the Year: Shroud
New trailers/announcements
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: X-Men Rise of the Phoenix DLC 2
- Man Eater - Gameplay Trailer
- Humankind - Official "Your Story" Gameplay Trailer
- No More Heroes 3 - The Return
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Cloud Strife Trailer
- Xbox Series X - World Premiere - releasing holiday 2020
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – The Game Awards 2019 – Announce Trailer (in-engine)
- Godfall - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer
- Bravely Default II – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
- Warframe Empyrean - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer
- Magic: The Gathering - Theros Beyond Death Official Trailer
- prologue - Reveal Trailer
- Sons of the Forest Trailer
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - Official Teaser Trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 - Behind the Music
- Dungeons & Dragons - Dark Alliance Announcement Trailer
- Weird West - Reveal Trailer
- Magic: Legends - Cinematic Teaser Trailer
- Ghost of Tsushima - Gameplay Trailer
- Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer
- Naraka: Bladepoint - Official Announcement Trailer
Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.
Italicized links probably need a better source
16 votes -
The Game Festival - A 48-hour event associated with The Game Awards that will make over a dozen first-look playable demos available on Steam
6 votes -
The Steam Awards nominees are starting to be revealed - one category daily until voting starts on December 19
6 votes -
Quantum droplets win the 2019 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition
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Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden – Turkey joined Albania and Kosovo in boycotting Tuesday's Nobel prize ceremony
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Megan Rapinoe: Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year
5 votes -
Nominations for the 77th Golden Globe Awards have been announced
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Apple announces their choices for best apps and games of 2019, charts for most-downloaded apps/games, and the winners for 2019's Design Awards
App Store Best of 2019 news post Best of 2019 list (different presentation from above) Top Apps of 2019 list Top Games of 2019 list Apple Design Awards - 2019 Winners
7 votes -
Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday
6 votes -
Netflix has signed a ten-year lease to keep Manhattan's single-screen Paris Theatre open, which it can use to satisfy the theatrical-release requirement of the Oscars
11 votes