Category
page 1Awards established in 1956

Ballon d'Or
The Ballon d'Or is an annual association football award presented by French magazine France Football since 1956 to honour the player judged to have performed the best over the previous season.
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
American film award

Hans Christian Andersen Award
Pair of literary awards
NBA Most Valuable Player Award
award
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Enrico Fermi Award
award conferred by the United States Department of Energy
Shogakukan Manga Award
Japanese manga awards
Silver Bear for Best Actress
film award
Silver Bear for Best Actor
award
Cy Young Award
Major League Baseball award given annually to the best pitcher in each league
Obie Award
annual theater awards in New York City
Valladolid International Film Festival
annual film festival held in Valladolid, Spain
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
award
Guldpucken
Guldpucken (The Golden Puck) is awarded annually to the ice hockey player of the year in Sweden. It is similar to the NHL's Hart Memorial Trophy. Originally it was awarded to a player in the Swedish hockey system, the top-level ice hockey league in Sweden. Starting with the 2014–15 season the award began being awarded to players in the NHL who were of Swedish nationality. It should not be confused with Guldhjälmen (The Golden Helmet), the award for the most valuable player according to the players in the SHL.
Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
Soviet award
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
German literary award for children's and young adult literature (1956-)
Dutch Literature Prize
oeuvre prize awarded every three years by the Nederlandse Taalunie for literary works originally written in the Dutch language from Flanders and the Netherlands, since 1956
Cross for Military Valour
French military award
Eino Leino Prize
Finnish literary award
Order of Bernardo O'Higgins
award issued by Chile awarded to non-Chilean citizens

Order of Mohammed
highest state decoration of the Kingdom of Morocco
Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary
order
Duff Cooper Prize
literature award in United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Medal
British medal conferred by the RSA for individuals, groups, and organisations who have made profound efforts to forward Anglo-American understanding (1957–)
International Judge of Chess Compositions
Medal of Merit of the National People's Army
award
Dexter Award
presented by the American Chemical Society from 1956 until 2001
Élan d'Or Awards
award
Buddyprisen
Buddyprisen (established 1956 in Oslo, Norway) is an award, given annually by the Norwegian Jazz Forum to a Norwegian jazz musician that has "been an excellent performer and significantly involved in Norwegian jazz by other means".
International Meteorological Organization Prize
annual award of the World Meteorological Organization in the fields of meteorology and operational hydrology
Sokolov Award
Israeli prize for journalism
Sixth April Award of Sarajevo
🔑to the city
Contemporary Literature Award
South Korean literary award
Eugene O'Neill Award
Swedish award for stage acting
Medal of St. Hallvard
Norwegian award
Paul Langevin Award
French award
Charles Lang Freer Medal
medal designed by Paul Manship
Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
'''''' is a literary prize of Germany. It was first awarded in 1956 and was created in honour of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, has been awarded annually by the Wangener Kreis – Society for Literature and Art of the East. The award goes to writers who are closely related to Silesian culture.