Additionally, the FTC handed out a non-monetary prize to Google for a robo challenge achievement award.

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There was also a special prize for Channel 4 film boss Tessa Ross, who received a lifetime achievement award.

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He's won the prestigious Macarthur Genius Grant and this year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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In the evening's first award, Christoph Waltz took home the supporting actor prize for his role as a bounty hunter in Weinstein Co.

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The 475 members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation - a collection of movie fans and industry professionals - also found a prize for teenage heart-throb Leonard DicCaprio.

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When the Nobel committee was not willing to follow his suggestion of the creation of a new Nobel Prize for Agriculture, Dr. Borlaug created his own award.

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Mr. Laub, who didn't disclose any potential acquisitions from Tribeca, singled out a few documentaries for attracting strong interest from his colleagues, including "Don't Stop Believin'" and two titles that focus on social issues: "Burn, " an audience award-winner about Detroit fire fighters, and "Revisionaries, " which won a special jury prize for its close-up on the ideological battles dividing the State Board of Education in Texas.

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The event began last year as a way of celebrating Spain's National Book Day, but it also coincides with the award of the Cervantes Prize for Literature, the Spanish-speaking world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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