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* The Hero of the Soviet Union medal often shows up in Soviet films (and literature) to indicate that a character is a veteran, patriot, badass or all three.
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* ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'': Not only is Amy Archer established as having won a Pulitzer Prize, others in her office are shown making bets as to if and when she'll bring it up in conversation.
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Common choices include a Nobel Prize for TheSmartGuy, or the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Medal of Honor]], [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Victoria Cross]], or [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Order of Lenin]] for soldiers, depending on the country. Actors will usually get the Tony or an AcademyAward.
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Common choices include a Nobel Prize for TheSmartGuy, or Pulitzer Prize for the HotScoop, and the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Medal of Honor]], [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Victoria Cross]], or [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Order of Lenin]] for soldiers, depending on the country. Actors will usually get the Tony or an AcademyAward.
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* The group of futurists in "Literature/TomorrowTown" is led by two HugoAward winners: Varno Zhoule, Best Short Story 1957 and Best Novelette 1958, Georgie Gewell, Best Fan Editor 1958. (In real life, the Hugo Award categories were not standardised until the 1960s, and those categories were not in use in those years.)
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* The group of futurists in "Literature/TomorrowTown" is led by two HugoAward winners: winners. The story even specifies the years and categories: Varno Zhoule, Zhoule won Best Short Story 1957 and Best Novelette 1958, and Georgie Gewell, Gewell won Best Fan Editor 1958. (In real life, the Hugo Award categories were not standardised until the 1960s, and those categories were not in use awarded in those years.)
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* ''X-Men'' supporting character Moira [=MacTaggert=], a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist.
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* Potter has BJ awarded the Bronze Star for helping a chopper escape while under fire. However, it's unlikely he knew that BJ was forced to cut a rope to a wounded soldier to escape, abandoning him to death or capture. BJ views it as a MedalOfDishonor and gives it another wounded soldier.
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** Potter reveals he received the Good Conduct Medal while he was an enlisted soldier. While it is reserved for enlisted soldiers only, it was first awarded in 1941 and the retroactive dates only go back to 1940.
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* Potter has BJ awarded the Bronze Star for helping a chopper escape while under fire. However, it's unlikely he knew that BJ was forced to cut a rope to a wounded soldier to escape, abandoning him to death or capture. BJ views it as a MedalOfDishonor and gives it another wounded soldier.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Throughout his appearances, Cotton's decorations are slowly revealed. In "Returning Japanese", his uniform includes the Medal of Honor and American Campaign Medal. In "Cotton Comes Marching Home" his Silver Star is shown in a display case in the Arlen VFW. In season twelve, he shown wearing the third class, Commandeur, of the French Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France and only awarded to a handful of Americans during the war.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Throughout his appearances, Cotton's decorations are slowly revealed. In "Returning Japanese", his uniform includes the Medal of Honor and American Campaign Medal. In "Cotton Comes Marching Home" his Silver Star is shown in a display case in the Arlen VFW. In season twelve, he shown wearing the third class, Commandeur, of the French Legion of Honour, Honour - the highest decoration in France and only awarded to a handful of Americans during the war.
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* In ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Flying Colours]]'', while disguising Hornblower as a Dutch customs officer, the Comte de Gracay gives him his late son's Legion of Honour, saying that no one achieves the rank of colonel in Bonapartist France without receiving the Legion of Honour. The Comte de Gracay mentions that he does not care about a trinket of the tyrant, but he would like to have a memento of his son returned when most convenient.
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* In ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Flying Colours]]'', while disguising Hornblower as a Dutch customs officer, the Comte de Gracay Graçay gives him his late son's Legion of Honour, saying that no one achieves the rank of colonel in Bonapartist France without receiving the Legion of Honour. The Comte de Gracay Graçay mentions that he does not care about a trinket of the tyrant, but he would like to have a memento of his son returned when most convenient.
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* In ''Literature/HoratioHornblower: Flying Colours'', while disguising Hornblower as a Dutch customs officer, the Comte de Gracay gives him his late son's Legion of Honour, saying that no one achieves the rank of colonel in Bonapartist France without receiving the Legion of Honour. The Comte de Gracay mentions that he does not care about a trinket of the tyrant, but he would like to have a memento of his son returned when most convenient.
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* In ''Literature/HoratioHornblower: ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Flying Colours'', Colours]]'', while disguising Hornblower as a Dutch customs officer, the Comte de Gracay gives him his late son's Legion of Honour, saying that no one achieves the rank of colonel in Bonapartist France without receiving the Legion of Honour. The Comte de Gracay mentions that he does not care about a trinket of the tyrant, but he would like to have a memento of his son returned when most convenient.
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' Alexander Pierce was offered the Nobel Peace Prize. He declined by saying that peace is a goal that must be continuously striven for and such a worthy goal does not need prizes.
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* In ''Literature/{{Cujo}}'', Gary Pervier served in WorldWarII, where he had single-handedly taken a German pillbox, and was hit by six bullets. For this, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, Gary became an alcoholic and developed a nihilistic outlook on life, and he eventually had the medal made into an ashtray.
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* In ''Literature/{{Desperation}}'', Johnny Marinville, a burnt-out writer in the present had once won the National Book Award.
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* {{Godzilla}} was awarded the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award at the MTV Movie Awards.
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* In ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', Colonel Hathi claims to have gotten the Victoria Cross while serving in the British army.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'': When Jimmy peeks into his and his friends' futures in one episode, he sees himself as the first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize in bulk.
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** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is awarded a Nobel Prize in ''Series/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "The Shelf." Subverted when this genius bunny succeeds in demolishing his entire house while building a shelf to display his award.
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* Jay Sherman, the title character of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', is given the Pulitzer for criticism in one episode.
* In ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', Colonel Hathi claims to have gotten the Victoria Cross while serving in the British army.
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* President Bartlett on ''Series/TheWestWing'' has a Nobel for economics.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E24TheUltimateComputer The Ultimate Computer]]" Dr. Richard Daystrom is cited as a 2243 Nobel Prize winner for the invention of duotronic computers.
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* At the opening of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', Eve is being awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is an award for acting. This was a fictional award at the time, but was later {{Defictionalized}} as a regional award in Chicago.
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* At the end of ''Film/BeCool'', Linda Moon's pop single that Chilli Palmer helped her produce wins her a Grammy.
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* ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'': The computer-generated actress S1m0ne is given the Academy Award for Best Actress. To cover up her lack of attendance and maintain TheMasquerade Taransky puts together a clip of her accepting it.
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* ''Film/TheOscar'' has Frankie Fane being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, [[spoiler:only to see the Oscar be awarded to Music/FrankSinatra instead]].
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* ''Theatere/{{Applause}}'', the musical adaptation of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', begins with Eve being awarded a Tony.
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As a narrative device, giving your character a real-life award or military decoration is often a quick way to establish their credentials for [[TheSmartGuy smarts]], skills, or {{badass}}ery. It may also be a way to CallBack to a [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun moment of greatness earlier in the work]].
Common choices include a Nobel Prize for TheSmartGuy, or the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Medal of Honor]], [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Victoria Cross]], or [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Order of Lenin]] for soldiers, depending on the country. Actors will usually get the Tony or an AcademyAward.
See also ArtisticLicenseAwards for outright mistakes in the portrayal of awards. May overlap with RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun.
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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Lois Lane is almost always introduced as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.
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* In "Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans" Eleya cites Vice Admiral Harnett from Starfleet Science as a 2392 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics before all but calling him ArmchairMilitary.
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' Alexander Pierce was offered the Nobel Peace Prize. He declined by saying that peace is a goal that must be continuously striven for and such a worthy goal does not need prizes. [[spoiler:He's the leader of HYDRA.]]
* At the end of ''Film/BeCool'', Linda Moon's pop single that Chilli Palmer helped her produce wins her a Grammy.
* ''Film/TropicThunder'': Kirk Lazarus is a multiple-Oscar-winning actor. The film-about-the-making-of-the-film-within-the-film itself picks up a number of Oscars and Lazarus gets another one.
* ''Film/InAndOut'''s plot starts as a local boy made good accepts an Academy Award and outs his high school English teacher in his acceptance speech.
* In ''Film/TheMask'', The Mask accepts an Oscar for a [[LargeHam hammy performance]] as an audience applauds "[[MST3K Shadowrama]]"-style.
* At the opening of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', Eve is being awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is an award for acting. This was a fictional award at the time, but was later {{Defictionalized}} as a regional award in Chicago.
* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'':
** John Rambo is identified as a Medal of Honor recipient by Col. Trautman.
** Sheriff Teasle's office has a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, and a Distinguished Service Cross on display. Though not mentioned in the film, the novel and director's commentary explicitly state he served in Korea.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/TheRock'', Gen. Hummell leaves his Medal of Honor at his wife's gravesite.
* We are told that James Marshall, Harrison Ford's character in ''Film/AirForceOne'', received a Medal of Honor for flying combat rescue operations in Vietnam.
* In the original ''Film/TheKarateKid'' Daniel walks in on a very drunk Mr. Miyagi dressed up in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era US Army uniform. It turns out his EccentricMentor earned the Medal of Honor serving in Europe in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) 442nd Infantry Regiment]], a ''nisei'' (Japanese-American) unit. TruthInTelevision: Accounting for size and time active, the 442nd is the most decorated military unit in American history, and most of those medals, including 21 [=MOHs=], were given for the European theatre.
* ''Film/NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation'' opens with the Griswolds facing off with a family of geniuses on a game show. The parents are both Nobel Prize winners and the kids are no less brilliant. The Griswolds win anyway...by accident.
* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Gump is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving four members of his platoon in Vietnam and getting ShotInTheAss in the process.
* ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'': The computer-generated actress S1m0ne is given the Academy Award for Best Actress. To cover up her lack of attendance and maintain TheMasquerade Taransky puts together a clip of her accepting it.
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* In ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov, it is mentioned that Hallam received a Nobel prize for his work (well, he's actually a FakeUltimateHero, but still).
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "The Billiard Ball", a major point is the tension between two former classmates: a scientist with two Nobel Prizes versus a much more famous engineer who makes money through inventions based on his work.
* In the fifth ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' book, when the heroes are trapped in their respective {{Lotus Eater Machine}}s, Jon-Tom dreams of being a famous singer, and there are rumors that "because of the penetrating and powerful social commentary contained in his lyrics, the Nobel committee in Stockholm was giving serious consideration to awarding him a special prize".
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Mulch Diggums, finding the life of a (rich) law-abiding citizen in the human world to be unbearably boring, soon resorts to kleptomania, stealing Oscars from (fictional) Hollywood stars.
* In ''Literature/HoratioHornblower: Flying Colours'', while disguising Hornblower as a Dutch customs officer, the Comte de Gracay gives him his late son's Legion of Honour, saying that no one achieves the rank of colonel in Bonapartist France without receiving the Legion of Honour. The Comte de Gracay mentions that he does not care about a trinket of the tyrant, but he would like to have a memento of his son returned when most convenient.
* In ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'', Sgt. Raymond Prentiss Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing his platoon. Perhaps a case of ItWasHisSled, but [[spoiler: the action never happened, they were kidnapped and brainwashed, and Captain Marco was brainwashed into nominating him for the Medal.]]
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* In the ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "The Wrong Stuff", Sam mentions winning the Nobel Prize for Physics.
* President Bartlett on ''Series/TheWestWing'' has a Nobel for economics.
* Not quite a formal award, but in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]" the version of Data from 25 years in the future holds the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge. This post has been held by such real-world luminaries as Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, and Charles Babbage.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E9Secrets Secrets]]" Jack and Sam are each awarded the Air Medal for destroying two of Apophis' motherships that tried to invade Earth at the season 1/season 2 changeover. (Daniel and Teal'c were there, too, but they're civilians and aren't eligible.) The cover story is that they got the medal for their work in "deep-space satellite telemetry".
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Kramer is accidentally whisked on stage during a Tony's ceremony, where he receives one with the cast and crew of the fictional Broadway musical, ''Scarsdale Surprise''. The producers eventually discover the error, and make a deal with him that he can keep the Tony if he'll fire Creator/RaquelWelch, because they're too afraid to do it themselves. After being brutally attacked, Kramer's Tony is smashed to pieces.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Used basically the same way twice.
** In one episode the insufferable and obnoxious Major Frank Burns slips and injures his back in a "normal" accident on the base which requires routine intervention. He browbeats Colonel Henry into accepting the logic that as the 4077 M*A*S*H* is officially a front-line military hospital which shares front-line perils like occasional shelling and sniping, his "wound" was sustained in the front lines, and therefore merits a Purple Heart. Henry, grudgingly, gives in and writes the citation. Meanwhile Hawkeye and Trapper are dealing with a real American hero: a fifteen year old boy who lied about his age to enlist in the Marines. Hawkeye wrestles with the ethical dilemma about breaching a patient's confidence, but exposes the youth to the Military Police. He is to be discharged from the Marines and sent home to his parents. Hawkeye and Trapper sweeten the pill by stealing Frank's medal and re-presenting it to a soldier who really ''was'' wounded in combat.
** Frank claims a Purple Heart because when he cracked open his breakfast egg some of the eggshell got in his eye. The official medical records read [[ExactWords "shell fragment"]] and since they're a frontline unit, it counts as a war wound. Hawkeye & BJ steal Frank's Purple Heart medal and give it to a Korean baby born at the hospital whose mother had a harrowing time getting to the unit before she gave birth.[[/folder]]
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* In ''Theatere/{{Applause}}'', the musical adaptation of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', above, Eve is awarded a Tony.
* In Creator/RowanAtkinson's sketch "The Good Loser", Atkinson's character is forced by circumstance to accept the Lawrence Olivier Award on behalf of another actor in the same show (they were both nominated, the other guy wins, but Atkinson's character is the only one there).
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* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'', Kim Jong-un united Korea under UsefulNotes/{{North Korea}}n leadership and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
** In "Anthology of Interest II" Professor Farnsworth tries to win a Nobel Prize for turning Bender into a human using reverse-fossilization.
** "Bender's Big Score:" In 2308 a Nobel Peace Prize is given for ending the beef between East Coast & West Coast rappers, but Bender steals it.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** In the 1944 short "What's Cookin' Doc?", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny believes he's a shoo-in for Best Actor at the Oscars, but Creator/JamesCagney wins it instead, causing Bugs to have a meltdown. He ends up getting a BoobyPrize Oscar, shaped like him.
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is awarded a Nobel Prize in ''Series/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "The Shelf." Subverted when this genius bunny succeeds in demolishing his entire house while building a shelf to display his award.
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny argues with the humorless Kate Houghton during ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' about rehiring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, and bolsters his argument with four Oscar statuettes and a chunk of granite with his Walk of Fame star on it. For the record, four Warner Brothers cartoons have won an Oscar, but only one went to a Bugs Bunny cartoon" "Knighty Knight Bugs." Bugs Bunny also has an actual star on the Walk of Fame.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'': When Jimmy peeks into his and his friends' futures in one episode, he sees himself as the first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize in bulk.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The Be Sharps win a Grammy for their barbershop quartet album.
** When Homer becomes a blogger by the pen name "Mr. X", his pseudonym is awarded a Pulitzer for unmasking political corruption in Springfield. However, upon finding out that the prize money will go to charity since there's no indication whom to give it to, Homer outs himself for the payoff.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E22BehindTheLaughter Behind the Laughter]]", the Simpsons win Grammies for their mega platinum hits ''Simpsons Boogie'', ''Lovely to Love Your Lovin[='=]'', and ''Simpsons Christmas Boogie'' (the latter winning "Best Hardcore Thrash Metal").
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Throughout his appearances, Cotton's decorations are slowly revealed. In "Returning Japanese", his uniform includes the Medal of Honor and American Campaign Medal. In "Cotton Comes Marching Home" his Silver Star is shown in a display case in the Arlen VFW. In season twelve, he shown wearing the third class, Commandeur, of the French Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France and only awarded to a handful of Americans during the war.
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* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has a star on the real-life Hollywood Walk of Fame, normally reserved for actors and filmmakers.
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Common choices include a Nobel Prize for TheSmartGuy, or the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Medal of Honor]], [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Victoria Cross]], or [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Order of Lenin]] for soldiers, depending on the country. Actors will usually get the Tony or an AcademyAward.
See also ArtisticLicenseAwards for outright mistakes in the portrayal of awards. May overlap with RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun.
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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Lois Lane is almost always introduced as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.
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* In "Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans" Eleya cites Vice Admiral Harnett from Starfleet Science as a 2392 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics before all but calling him ArmchairMilitary.
-->"Congratulations. Have you ever fired your service weapon outside the range?"
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' Alexander Pierce was offered the Nobel Peace Prize. He declined by saying that peace is a goal that must be continuously striven for and such a worthy goal does not need prizes. [[spoiler:He's the leader of HYDRA.]]
* At the end of ''Film/BeCool'', Linda Moon's pop single that Chilli Palmer helped her produce wins her a Grammy.
* ''Film/TropicThunder'': Kirk Lazarus is a multiple-Oscar-winning actor. The film-about-the-making-of-the-film-within-the-film itself picks up a number of Oscars and Lazarus gets another one.
* ''Film/InAndOut'''s plot starts as a local boy made good accepts an Academy Award and outs his high school English teacher in his acceptance speech.
* In ''Film/TheMask'', The Mask accepts an Oscar for a [[LargeHam hammy performance]] as an audience applauds "[[MST3K Shadowrama]]"-style.
* At the opening of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', Eve is being awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is an award for acting. This was a fictional award at the time, but was later {{Defictionalized}} as a regional award in Chicago.
* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'':
** John Rambo is identified as a Medal of Honor recipient by Col. Trautman.
** Sheriff Teasle's office has a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, and a Distinguished Service Cross on display. Though not mentioned in the film, the novel and director's commentary explicitly state he served in Korea.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/TheRock'', Gen. Hummell leaves his Medal of Honor at his wife's gravesite.
* We are told that James Marshall, Harrison Ford's character in ''Film/AirForceOne'', received a Medal of Honor for flying combat rescue operations in Vietnam.
* In the original ''Film/TheKarateKid'' Daniel walks in on a very drunk Mr. Miyagi dressed up in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era US Army uniform. It turns out his EccentricMentor earned the Medal of Honor serving in Europe in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) 442nd Infantry Regiment]], a ''nisei'' (Japanese-American) unit. TruthInTelevision: Accounting for size and time active, the 442nd is the most decorated military unit in American history, and most of those medals, including 21 [=MOHs=], were given for the European theatre.
* ''Film/NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation'' opens with the Griswolds facing off with a family of geniuses on a game show. The parents are both Nobel Prize winners and the kids are no less brilliant. The Griswolds win anyway...by accident.
* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Gump is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving four members of his platoon in Vietnam and getting ShotInTheAss in the process.
* ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'': The computer-generated actress S1m0ne is given the Academy Award for Best Actress. To cover up her lack of attendance and maintain TheMasquerade Taransky puts together a clip of her accepting it.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov, it is mentioned that Hallam received a Nobel prize for his work (well, he's actually a FakeUltimateHero, but still).
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "The Billiard Ball", a major point is the tension between two former classmates: a scientist with two Nobel Prizes versus a much more famous engineer who makes money through inventions based on his work.
* In the fifth ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' book, when the heroes are trapped in their respective {{Lotus Eater Machine}}s, Jon-Tom dreams of being a famous singer, and there are rumors that "because of the penetrating and powerful social commentary contained in his lyrics, the Nobel committee in Stockholm was giving serious consideration to awarding him a special prize".
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Mulch Diggums, finding the life of a (rich) law-abiding citizen in the human world to be unbearably boring, soon resorts to kleptomania, stealing Oscars from (fictional) Hollywood stars.
* In ''Literature/HoratioHornblower: Flying Colours'', while disguising Hornblower as a Dutch customs officer, the Comte de Gracay gives him his late son's Legion of Honour, saying that no one achieves the rank of colonel in Bonapartist France without receiving the Legion of Honour. The Comte de Gracay mentions that he does not care about a trinket of the tyrant, but he would like to have a memento of his son returned when most convenient.
* In ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'', Sgt. Raymond Prentiss Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing his platoon. Perhaps a case of ItWasHisSled, but [[spoiler: the action never happened, they were kidnapped and brainwashed, and Captain Marco was brainwashed into nominating him for the Medal.]]
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "The Wrong Stuff", Sam mentions winning the Nobel Prize for Physics.
* President Bartlett on ''Series/TheWestWing'' has a Nobel for economics.
* Not quite a formal award, but in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]" the version of Data from 25 years in the future holds the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge. This post has been held by such real-world luminaries as Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, and Charles Babbage.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E9Secrets Secrets]]" Jack and Sam are each awarded the Air Medal for destroying two of Apophis' motherships that tried to invade Earth at the season 1/season 2 changeover. (Daniel and Teal'c were there, too, but they're civilians and aren't eligible.) The cover story is that they got the medal for their work in "deep-space satellite telemetry".
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Kramer is accidentally whisked on stage during a Tony's ceremony, where he receives one with the cast and crew of the fictional Broadway musical, ''Scarsdale Surprise''. The producers eventually discover the error, and make a deal with him that he can keep the Tony if he'll fire Creator/RaquelWelch, because they're too afraid to do it themselves. After being brutally attacked, Kramer's Tony is smashed to pieces.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Used basically the same way twice.
** In one episode the insufferable and obnoxious Major Frank Burns slips and injures his back in a "normal" accident on the base which requires routine intervention. He browbeats Colonel Henry into accepting the logic that as the 4077 M*A*S*H* is officially a front-line military hospital which shares front-line perils like occasional shelling and sniping, his "wound" was sustained in the front lines, and therefore merits a Purple Heart. Henry, grudgingly, gives in and writes the citation. Meanwhile Hawkeye and Trapper are dealing with a real American hero: a fifteen year old boy who lied about his age to enlist in the Marines. Hawkeye wrestles with the ethical dilemma about breaching a patient's confidence, but exposes the youth to the Military Police. He is to be discharged from the Marines and sent home to his parents. Hawkeye and Trapper sweeten the pill by stealing Frank's medal and re-presenting it to a soldier who really ''was'' wounded in combat.
** Frank claims a Purple Heart because when he cracked open his breakfast egg some of the eggshell got in his eye. The official medical records read [[ExactWords "shell fragment"]] and since they're a frontline unit, it counts as a war wound. Hawkeye & BJ steal Frank's Purple Heart medal and give it to a Korean baby born at the hospital whose mother had a harrowing time getting to the unit before she gave birth.[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatere/{{Applause}}'', the musical adaptation of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', above, Eve is awarded a Tony.
* In Creator/RowanAtkinson's sketch "The Good Loser", Atkinson's character is forced by circumstance to accept the Lawrence Olivier Award on behalf of another actor in the same show (they were both nominated, the other guy wins, but Atkinson's character is the only one there).
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'', Kim Jong-un united Korea under UsefulNotes/{{North Korea}}n leadership and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for it.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
** In "Anthology of Interest II" Professor Farnsworth tries to win a Nobel Prize for turning Bender into a human using reverse-fossilization.
** "Bender's Big Score:" In 2308 a Nobel Peace Prize is given for ending the beef between East Coast & West Coast rappers, but Bender steals it.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** In the 1944 short "What's Cookin' Doc?", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny believes he's a shoo-in for Best Actor at the Oscars, but Creator/JamesCagney wins it instead, causing Bugs to have a meltdown. He ends up getting a BoobyPrize Oscar, shaped like him.
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is awarded a Nobel Prize in ''Series/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "The Shelf." Subverted when this genius bunny succeeds in demolishing his entire house while building a shelf to display his award.
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny argues with the humorless Kate Houghton during ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' about rehiring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, and bolsters his argument with four Oscar statuettes and a chunk of granite with his Walk of Fame star on it. For the record, four Warner Brothers cartoons have won an Oscar, but only one went to a Bugs Bunny cartoon" "Knighty Knight Bugs." Bugs Bunny also has an actual star on the Walk of Fame.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'': When Jimmy peeks into his and his friends' futures in one episode, he sees himself as the first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize in bulk.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The Be Sharps win a Grammy for their barbershop quartet album.
** When Homer becomes a blogger by the pen name "Mr. X", his pseudonym is awarded a Pulitzer for unmasking political corruption in Springfield. However, upon finding out that the prize money will go to charity since there's no indication whom to give it to, Homer outs himself for the payoff.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E22BehindTheLaughter Behind the Laughter]]", the Simpsons win Grammies for their mega platinum hits ''Simpsons Boogie'', ''Lovely to Love Your Lovin[='=]'', and ''Simpsons Christmas Boogie'' (the latter winning "Best Hardcore Thrash Metal").
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Throughout his appearances, Cotton's decorations are slowly revealed. In "Returning Japanese", his uniform includes the Medal of Honor and American Campaign Medal. In "Cotton Comes Marching Home" his Silver Star is shown in a display case in the Arlen VFW. In season twelve, he shown wearing the third class, Commandeur, of the French Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France and only awarded to a handful of Americans during the war.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has a star on the real-life Hollywood Walk of Fame, normally reserved for actors and filmmakers.
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