All 5 Awards & Honours updates published in March 2026, grouped into 3 subtopics. Each one carries the exam-relevant facts and its GK Bytes; open an update for the complete note with static GK.
The 98th Academy Awards introduced the Best Casting award, the first new Oscar category since Best Animated Feature (2001), won by Cassandra Kulukundis for 'One Battle After Another'.
Held at the Dolby Theatre and hosted by Conan O'Brien, 'One Battle After Another' won Best Picture (six awards) and Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director. Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor and Jessie Buckley Best Actress.
The Tamil poet-lyricist R. Vairamuthu was named winner of the Jnanpith Award (for 2025), India's highest literary honour, chosen by a committee chaired by Pratibha Ray. He is the third Tamil writer to receive it.
Germany's Gerd Faltings won the Abel Prize for his work in arithmetic geometry, resolving the Mordell and Lang conjectures. He is the first German Abel laureate; the prize carries 7.5 million Norwegian kroner.
The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic Clarke was named the 2026 Pritzker laureate - architecture's highest honour - becoming the second Chilean to win after Alejandro Aravena (2016).