• Milosevic Ousted
• Chinese Jet Collides with US Spy Plane
• New Prime Minister of Japan
• Royal Family of Nepal Slain
• Israeli History Suicide Bombers
• World Trade Center Attacked

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Donnie Darko
• Amelie
• Spirited Away
• Blow
• Ocean's Eleven
• A Beautiful Mind
• Shrek
• Black Hawk Down

 

• Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
• Best Director: Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind
• Best Actor: Denzel Washington for Training Day
• Best Actress: Halle Berry for Monster's Ball
• Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent for Iris
• Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind

 

Grammy Awards

• Record of the Year: "Beautiful Day"- U2
• Song of the Year: "Beautiful Day"- U2
• Album of the Year: "Two Against Nature"- Steely Dan
• Best New Artist: Shelby Lynne

 

Nobel Prizes

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• Peace: Kofi Annan and the United Nations "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
• Physiology or Medicine: Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle".
• Economic Sciences: George Akerlog, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information".
• Chemistry: William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and to K. Barry Sharpless "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions".
• Physics: Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".
• Literature: V.S. Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".

Pulitzer Prizes

• Public Service: The Oregonian
• National Reporting: Staff of The New York Times
• International Reporting: Ian Johnson, The Wall Street Journal
• Editorial Writing: David Moats, The Rutland Herald
• Editorial Cartooning: Ann Telnaes, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate
• Breaking News Photography: Alan Diaz, The Associated Press
• Feature Photography: Matt Rainey, The Star Ledger
• Commentary: Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal
• Criticism: Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
• Feature Writing: Tom Hallman Jr., The Chicago Tribune
• Beat Reporting: David Cay Johnson, The New York Times
• Explanatory Reporting: The Chicago Tribune, Staff
• Investigative Reporting: David William, Los Angeles Times
• Breaking News: The Miami Herald Staff
• Fiction: Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Drama: David Auburn, Proff
• Biography/Autobiography: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.
• History: Joseph Ellis, The Revolutionary Generation
• Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
• General Nonfiction: Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
• Music: John Corigliano, Symphony no. 2 for String Orchestra- Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra