and red-faced, simmering losers teetering between graciousness and homicide.
Rewarding success is lazy, though - much preferable are those awards which
reward failure and make the rest of us feel a little better about ourselves.
Fortunately, there seem to be an increasing number of these covering various
in-disciplines, some more famous than others. Worthy of note (here, anyway)
are:
- IgNobel Prize for spurious science
- www.improbable.com/ig/
- Razzies ("Golden Raspberries") for Hollywood's worst movies & movie performances
- www.razzies.com
- Darwin Awards for spectacularly stupid ways of killing yourself
- www.darwinawards.com
- Diagram Awards for odd book titles
- http://www.thebookseller.com/category/tags/diagram-prize
- Stella Awards for the more creative law suits
- www.stellaawards.com
- Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for published fiction's worst published line, especially opening sentences
- www.bulwer-lytton.com
- Golden Bull for plain English offences
- http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/awards/golden-bull-awards.html
- Carbuncle Awards for architecture
- www.urbanrealm.com/carbuncles
- Titanic Awards for the travel industry
- www.titanicawards.com
- Tracy Awards for advertising
- www.thetracyawards.com
Honourable mentions go to:
- Rosemary Awards named after Nixon's secretary who memorably erased 18 crucial minutes of the watergate tapes, and recognising U.S.-only open government failures
- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20100312/index.htm
- Golden Kela Awards Bollywood's Razzies
- www.goldenkela.com
- Lazzies the Latino Razzies
- http://www.latina.com/entertainment/movies/third-annual-lazzie-awards
