IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS

88th ACADEMY OSCAR AWARDS

CATEGORY & WINNERS 

Best picture                                Spotlight

Best actor                                   Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"

Best actress                                Brie Larson, "Room"

Best supporting actor               Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"

Best supporting actress            Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"

Best director                              The Revenant, Alejandro G.

Best animated short film          Bear Story, Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala

Best animated feature film       Inside Out, Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera

Best documentary, short subject  A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Best documentary feature         Amy, Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees

Best live-action short film         Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Best foreign-language film        Son of Saul, Hungary

Best original score                      The Hateful Eight, Ennio Morricone


                                                 IMPORTANT

****Mad Max: Fury Road Wins the Most Oscars

****Director George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road walked away with the six awards at the 2016 Oscars 

RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARDS 2016

WINNERS

Bezwada Wilson (India) 
For ‘asserting the inalienable right to life of human dignity’
 
T M Krishna (India) 
For ‘ensuring social inclusiveness in culture’
 
Conchita Carpio-Morales (Philippines) 
For ‘restoring faith in the rule of law’
 
Dompet Dhuafa (Indonesia) 
For ‘expanding the transformative impact of zakat’, which in Islam is a form of 
alms-giving and religious tax
 
Vientiane Rescue (A group from Laos) 
For ‘volunteering to save lives at risk’
 
Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers 
Building For contributing ‘to the reconstruction and progress of developing countries’ towards the goal of building a world of genuine solidarity