Mock Prizes
Main category: Ironic and humorous awards- Big Brother Awards – To authorities, companies, organizations, and persons that have been acting particularly and consistently to threaten or violate people's privacy, or disclosed people's personal data to third parties
- Bulwer–Lytton Fiction Contest – For composing the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels (English Department of the San Jose State University)
- Darwin Awards – The Darwin Awards "commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives"
- Foot in Mouth Award – For "a baffling comment by a public figure" (Plain English Campaign)
- Golden Raspberry Awards – To the worst in film. Also known as the Razzies (Golden Raspberry Award Foundation)
- Golden Turkey Awards – To films judged as poor in quality, and to directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work (Michael Medved and Harry Medved)
- Ig Nobel Prize – Awarded annually for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research (Annals of Improbable Research)
- Bad Sex in Fiction Award – To the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel (Literary Review)
- Naomi Awards – To "outstandingly bad" music acts (Music Choice)
Read more about this topic: List Of Prizes, Medals, And Awards
Famous quotes containing the words mock and/or prizes:
““I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.”
“What was that?” inquired Alice.
“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
“I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
Up in my heart, which I have given already,
But not delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)