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People just love handing out awards to each other. Whether it's a merit badge, an honorary degree, or a knighthood, giving someone an award simultaneously tells them, and everyone else, that they've done well. Many of the most famous and prestigious awards have become bywords for the highest achievement in the relevant field, or even in any field. If a fictional character gets an Oscar, Pulitzer or Nobel Prize, you know they must have done something awesome. Unfortunately, sometimes authors use such awards for name value, without worrying about using them correctly. At the mildest end of the scale, a work will make changes that seem plausible for a parallel universe or future time line, like adding a fictional category to a real award (a Nobel Prize in music or computing, for instance). More severe cases of factual inaccuracy will give an award to someone who would be ineligible, or mess up the award's name. The most obvious examples will give out horrible mismatches of real awards, for all the wrong reasons, in a supposedly realistic or historical setting. Such an award could be the only proof that a character is good at something. Has nothing to do with giving people awards for taking the biggest artistic liberties. For characters in fiction receiving real-life awards, see Real Award, Fictional Character. See also the Awards Index. |
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This happens in-universe on Preacher when a group of Nazis attack the bus transporting Hitler back to Hell. They all wearing World War 2 German uniforms and their leader claims to be an SS officer. Sydney, the Angel of Death, points out that while he has the correct uniform, all his medals are actually Luftwaffe decorations. The Nazis are clearly wannabes and their leader is wearing medals he has no right to wear and has no idea what they even represent. | |
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In Courage Under Fire: Lieutenant Colonel Serling is assigned to determine if Captain Walden should be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. A White House aide erroneously refers to it as the Congressional Medal of Honor and Serling corrects him. The aide sarcastically responds with "Tell that to Congress" but is thankful to Serling for the correction. Captain Walden is continually referred to as potentially being "the first woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor." The problem being that Captain Mary Edwards Walker, a Union Army surgeon, was the first (and so far only) woman ever awarded the medal, which she earned through her courageous actions during the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. The scriptwriter later confessed that he had simply assumed that the Medal of Honor recipients were a males-only club without actually looking into whether any woman had already been awarded the medal. |
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In the epilogue for K-19: The Widowmaker, Vostrikov says that he nominated the men for Hero of the Soviet Union, but it was denied by the Central Committee because it was not wartime and merely an accident. In reality, the award of Hero of the Soviet Union was not a wartime decoration. It was awarded to Soviet and foreign citizens for "heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society." In fact, multiple individuals who were involved in the cleanup of Chernobyl were awarded it. | |
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Played for laughs in The Simpsons where the Iron Cross is rewarded to Abraham Simpson, a Sergeant in the US Army, for his incompetence in mine clearing. It's left ambiguous whether this was from the Nazis thanking him or from the US as a sarcastic Medal of Dishonor. | |
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Nathan Stark from Eureka has received a Nobel Prize in Mathematics, when no such award exists. | |
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In the Evangelion fanfic Nobody Dies, Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu has a Nobel Prize in Psychology. | |
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In Zipman!!, Koshiro is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a week after his death. The Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously unless the recipient was nominated before his or her death. An announcement also says that he's the first to receive both, when that honor actually goes to Linus Pauling. It's also extremely odd that someone noted to be a mechanical prodigy would get a Nobel Prize in Chemistry rather than Physics. | |
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The Death of Stalin: The real Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov actually received even more medals than the already impressive Chest of Medals he's depicted wearing in this film, but the costumers couldn't fit all of them on Jason Isaacs' chest: the real Zhukov was almost half-again as broad as the actor playing him. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon improvises his Nobel acceptance speech. This isn't allowed, as speeches have to be submitted 24 hours in advance to be translated into Swedish. Further, the rules of the Nobel Prize in Physics require the achievement has "stood the test of time", generally accepted to be a minimum of twenty years, so he shouldn't even be eligible for consideration. | |
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In Mars Attacks!, Richie and his grandmother are given the Congressional Medal of Honor by the president's daughter, in honor of their role in stopping the Martians. The President's daughter is referred to as the only surviving member of the Government (she's not — she didn't hold any office, and being a member of the family of an officeholder doesn't make you part of the government), but it's overlooked that the medal is only awarded to military personnel, not to civilians. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Professor Utonium has a Nobel Prize in Science. He discards it because he's prouder of the first place prize he won in a chili cook-off. | |
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Archer: In "The Double Deuce", Woodhouse is revealed to have served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as a Lance-Corporal, acting as a batman to his squadron's commanding officer Captain Thistileton (with whom he may or may not have had a Single-Target Sexuality). He is stated to have received the Victoria Cross for rushing into No Man's Land to rescue said CO when he gets shot down in Bloody April, then attacking a German position and killing 50 German soldiers in an Unstoppable Rage when Thistleton is killed by a sniper. His gravestone in a later episode states in addition to the VC, he also received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Military Cross and Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, plus a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Before the review in 1993, the Military Cross could only be awarded to officers and the Military Medal was awarded to Other Ranks (Warrant Ranks could potentially receive either), while the Distinguished Service Cross was likewise only available to officers until 1993 and was only available to Royal Navy officers until 1940, when eligibility was extended to non-naval officers serving aboard Navy vessels. The Distinguished Service Order was and remains available to officers-only and has never been awarded to non-commissioned personnel, and is generally issued to a Major or higher unless a more junior officer just missed out on the Victoria Cross. It is unclear if this is a retcon of his military service, as he would not have been awarded four medals for the same act. | |
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Tropic Thunder ends with Kirk Lazarus presenting the Oscar for Best Actor, even though that particular award is usually presented by the previous year's Best Actress.note It says All There in the Manual that Kirk's also got this one (presumably for applying his method acting to a female role), which loops back into this trope. Even when the winner is unavailable, the acting presenters are almost always of the opposite gender. | |
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At the end of A View to a Kill, as thanks for saving the Silicon Valley, and by extension the Soviet microchip industry, General Gogol presents James Bond with the Order of Lenin, saying that he's the first non-Soviet recipient of the USSR's highest civil decoration. In truth, the first foreign recipient was the Italian communist Luigi Longo. | |
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In Schindler's List: Oskar Schindler is depicted wearing the Golden Party Badge, which was the Nazi Party's decoration for members 1 (Hitler himself) to 100,000. While less than 23,000 of these badges were awarded, Schindler would not have been eligible for the award as he joined the party in 1938, when party membership was well into the millions. Amon Goeth is depicted wearing the Silesian Eagle, which was awarded to those who fought the Silesian uprisings in 1919. Goeth was only eleven when that occurred. He is also shown wearing the ribbon of the Iron Cross, 2nd Class, which he was never awarded because he never actually saw combat. |
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In Wag the Dog, Hollywood producer Stanley Motss repeatedly laments how there is no Academy Award for producing. However, the producer is the one who receives the award for Best Picture. The implication being that Motss hates the fact there is no specific "Best Producer of the year, everybody else can suck it" award because Best Picture is a "team effort" award, so to speak. | |
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M*A*S*H has several examples, some worse than others. Frank demands Henry approve a Purple Heart application for him twice: once when he had a back spasm while dancing with Margret - which he claimed was slipping while running to the shower - and again for getting an eggshell fragment in his eye during an artillery barrage. In the first case he would have been denied as it was not caused through direct or indirect enemy action (and likely discharged for throwing out his back), while the second case he might be eligible if it injured him and required medical attention. Both times Hawkeye steals Frank's Purple Heart and gives it to someone else, in the former to an underage Marine, Walter, that used his brother's identification (he had appendicitis and reacted badly to a blood transfusion; ineligible because it was not caused by the enemy), to impress a girl back home; while this would give him possession of the medal to impress the girl, it would do little else (and probably cause further trouble for having an unauthorised Purple Heart on top of identity theft and lying about his age). In the latter, it was to a Korean baby whose mother had a harrowing time getting to the hospital. In "Change of Command", Colonel Potter reveals he received the Good Conduct Medal as an enlisted man during the First World War. The Good Conduct Medal, only available to non-commissioned personnel, was established in 1941, with retroactive dates to 27 August 1940, well after his service as an enlisted soldier. This confusion probably exists because other branches of the military, notably the Navy (1869) and the Marine Corps (1896) did award the Good Conduct medal during the period when Potter would have been an enlisted man. Another weird aspect is that he explains the Good Conduct Medal to Radar, who, as an enlisted man, should be both aware of it and have already been awarded one, as after 1943 eligibility was changed from three years to one year in war or three years in peacetime, and the pilot is date-stamped as 1950 and this episode as 1952, giving Radar two years service in a war. In "Bombshells", BJ is awarded the Bronze Star for aiding a medivac chopper's escape while under fire. He hands it off to a soldier for "getting out in one piece". This is the same problem as Walter: he would have possession of the physical decoration, be BJ would still have the certificate and his service record reflecting the award. Further, the recipient's name is engraved on the back of every Bronze Star, which would undoubtedly cause trouble for the soldier if he was found with someone else's decoration. Potter is shown◊ to have a Purple Heart, WWII Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal and the United Nations Korea Medal. The Nation Defense Service Medal was introduced in April 1953, so depending on when that episode takes place, it might not exist, and because he served in World War I and II, he should also have the World War I Victory Medal and Army of Occupation of Germany Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (he claimed to be at Guam and Belgium) and Army of Occupation Medal with either Japan or Germany clasp. |
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In an episode of NCIS the team is investigating a Medal of Honor recipient and Kate refers to "winning" the CMOH. Gibbs corrects her that the Medal is "awarded" and not "won". | |
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Years earlier, SCTV did the same thing with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in The Nobel, which was a parody of The Oscar. | |
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In The Jungle Book (1967), Colonel Hathi claims to have earned the Victoria Cross while serving in the British Army. However, the Victoria Cross is only awarded to humans, and Hathi is an elephant. There is the Dickin Medal from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, established in 1943 and often referred to as "the animals' Victoria Cross", which likely didn't exist when the film is set. | |
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The Good Place: It's mentioned that Tahani's sister Kamilah was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, despite normally there being a twenty-five year waiting period. Kamilah being a Parody Sue, they decided to waive that requirement because her album was just that good. | |
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Cited when Serenity won the Hugo Award: the acceptance speech (written by Joss Whedon and read by Morena Baccarin) cited several science fiction authors as Hugo winners, then added, "Gee, I hope all those people won Hugos, or Morena's gonna look like an idiot out there."note Luckily for Whedon, the four he mentioned, Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven and Ray Bradbury all won Hugos. | |
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A sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1994 presented the Nobel Peace Prize as if it were an Oscar, with a big awards show hosted by (Dana Carvey as) Garry Shandling. The clip was then used in The Larry Sanders Show, where (In-Universe) it was Larry that Dana was doing an impression of. Years earlier, SCTV did the same thing with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in The Nobel, which was a parody of The Oscar. |
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My World… and Welcome to It: In "The Fourth Estate," John proudly states that he won the Beekman Award for Humor the previous year, calling it "the Pulitzer Prize for cartoonists." There are two issues with this: there are in fact a few "Beekman Awards" or "Beekman Prizes," but none are given for humor or cartooning — plus the Pulitzer in fact did offer a prize in the category of editorial cartooning at the time the show aired. | |
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Blackadder Goes Forth depicts Captain Blackadder with the Queen's South Africa Medal and the King's South Africa Medal, both awarded for The Second Boer War with slightly different criteria, note The Queen's Medal was issued for all service in the war from 1899 to 1902, while the King's Medal was specifically for a total of 18 months service, with at least one day in 1902; as such, the King's Medal was never issued alone. which goes against his claim of only fighting unarmed African natives, as the Boer War was infamous for the Boers' guerilla warfare. He claims to have also served in the Sudan War, but does not have the Queen's Sudan Medal or the Khedive's Sudan Medal (also issued together, never separately), and the fictional Battle of Mbutu Gorge is stated to have occurred in Upper Volta (modern Burkina Faso) in 1892, but does not have the East and West African Medal with 1892 bar. Additionally, there is the Africa General Service Medal for various operations after 1902. | |
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On The Looney Tunes Show, Bugs Bunny has a Nobel Prize just for existing. It was also delivered to his house. | |
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In season one of Teen Wolf, Stiles (successfully) flirts with Lydia by saying he knows she's a lot smarter than her Alpha Bitch front, and will someday write some "insane mathematical theorem" that earns her a Nobel Prize. After a beat, she corrects him that she'll win a Fields Medal, since Nobel doesn't have a Prize in mathematics. | |
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In the South Park episode "Christian Rock Hard", Cartman makes a bet with Kyle that he can start a band and earn a platinum album. He starts a Christian rock band and indeed makes an album that sells one million copies, only to instead be awarded a myrrh album since the awards for Christian music are not gold and platinum; but gold, frankincense, and myrrh. As the bet was for a platinum album and not a myrrh album, Kyle declares himself the winner of the bet. In real life, Christian music goes gold and platinum just like all other music. | |
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In Casey and Andy, the reason the King of Sweden is hogging their couch is because he came round to give Quantum Cop his latest Nobel Prize, but couldn't find him, so handed it to "some guy". Very little of this is how it works in real life. | |
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In The Fly (1986), it's mentioned that Seth Brundle nearly won a Nobel Prize, something that no one should know because all nominations are kept secret, even from the nominees themselves. | |
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The page quote comes from the tie-in website for Prometheus, which establishes the Back Story of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. It's not a one-off accident either; the fictitious Sir Peter Weyland is later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine as well. | |
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Ratatouille: French cuisine has traditionally been rated by the Michelin Guide. Although the film says Gusteau's was a five star restaurant and lost two stars, the Michelin rating system actually only goes to three. The stars are meant to highlight truly outstanding restaurants as most listed in the guide are fine, respectable establishments but don't have any stars. A restaurant receiving even a single star is considered to be a shining example of haute cuisine. | |
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The Transformers-esque anime series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird has an episode in which the evil Mad Scientist takes the Nobel Prize committee hostage and attempts to extort them into giving him awards in multiple categories, including Peace ("If you don't, then my evil transforming robot allies will destroy the Earth.") The good mad scientist is slow to order the committee's rescue, because he's suffered Award Snub from them multiple times. | |
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In Die Another Day, Miranda Frost is described as having won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games by default, after Graves organized the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. While said substances fit a medal revoking transgression, the fact it involves death screws any veracity: either the original gold drugged herself to death before the podium, or died in the 2 years before the film's events - when the IOC only strips medals based on the on-site drug tests, or the infractor's own admittance (such as Marion Jones). | |
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