Tag: Awards

Baseball: Astros’ Altuve, Marlins’ Stanton win Aaron award

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Houston Astros slugger Jose Altuve accepted the American League Hank Aaron Award on Wednesday shortly before his team took the field aiming to level the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Altuve and the Miami Marlins Giancarlo Stanton received the annual honor given to the top offensive performers in the American and National leagues. The award is determined by online voting by fans and by a special panel of Hall of […]

Award season kicks off with the 26th annual Gotham Film Awards

  NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) –The Independent Filmmaker Project celebrated its 26 Gotham Film Awards on Monday (November 28) in New York with a star-studded red carpet. Actors Ethan Hawke, Amy Adams and director Oliver Stone were among those who received special tributes. “I feel like 42 is kind of young to get a tribute, but I’m really honored. I was awarded here with the breakthrough actor eleven years ago. So, nice to sort […]

Czech Republic Awards Filipino Students for Lidice Art Exhibition

Last January 30, 2015, Czech Ambassador Jaroslav Olša, jr. awarded the 3 Filipino students who participated in the 2014 International Children’s Exhibition of Fine Arts Lidice (ICEFA Lidice). The three students namely Justine Mae Sy, Jasmine Kate Tan (both from St Stephen’s High School) and Maria Angelica Tejada (Padre Burgos Elementary school) were chosen by the exhibitions committee in Lidice for  the awards of appreciation, which they received together with  gift  certificates from The Embassy […]