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Arjuna Award
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Arjuna Award
Civilian award for outstanding individual achievements in National Sports
Sponsored by
Govt. of India
Reward(s)
₹ 500,000
First awarded
1961
Last awarded
2017
Highlights
Total awarded
700
Website
Official website
← Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of ₹ 500,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll.[1][2]
Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sports persons who belonged to the pre-Arjuna Award era were also included in the list. Further, the number of disciplines for which the award is given was increased to include indigenous games and the physically handicapped category.
The Government revises the criteria for the Arjuna Award over the years. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous four years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.[3]
Contents
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1 History
2 Archery
3 Athletics
4 Badminton
5 Ball Badminton
6 Basketball
7 Billiards & Snooker
8 Boxing
9 Carrom
10 Chess
11 Cricket
12 Cycling
13 Equestrian
14 Football
15 Golf
16 Gymnastics
17 Hockey
18 Judo
19 Kabaddi
20 Lawn Tennis
21 Roller Skating
22 Rowing
23 Polo
24 Shooting
25 Squash
26 Swimming
27 Table Tennis
28 Volleyball
29 Weightlifting
30 Wrestling
31 Wushu
32 Yachting
33 References
34 External links
History[edit]
From the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:
Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
Indigenous Games
Sports for the Physically Challenged
In mid-August 2011, 19 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year.[4][5]
In 2012, 25 sports-persons were conferred with the Arjuna awards.
In the year 2017, 17 sports-persons, including para- athletes were honoured with Arjuna Award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports[6].
Archery[edit]
Mangal Singh Champia
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1981 Krishna Das
2 1989 Shyam Lal
3 1991 Limba Ram
4 1992 Sanjeev Kumar Singh
5 2005 Tarundeep Rai
6 2005 Dola Banerjee
7 2006 Jayanta Talukdar
8 2009 Mangal Singh Champia
9 2011 Rahul Banerjee
10 2012 Deepika Kumari
11 2012 Laishram Bombayla Devi
12 2013 Chekrovolu Swuro
13 2014 Abhishek Verma
14 2015 Sandeep Kumar
15 2016 Rajat Chauhan
16 2017 VJ Surekha
Athletics[edit]
Mercy Kuttan
Reeth and Beedu
‡ - Para Athlete
§ - Lifetime Contribution
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
2 1962 Tarlok Singh
3 1963 Stephie D'Souza
4 1964 Makhan Singh
5 1965 Kenneth Powell
6 1966 Ajmer Singh
7 1966 Bhogeswar Baruah
8 1967 Praveen Kumar
9 1967 Bhim Singh
10 1968 Joginder Singh
11 1968 Manjit Walia
12 1969 Harnek Singh
13 1970 Mohinder Singh Gill
14 1971 Edward Sequeira
15 1972 Vijay Singh Chauhan
16 1973 Sriram Singh
17 1974 T. C. Yohannan
18 1974 Shivnath Singh
19 1975 Hari Chand
20 1975 V. Anusuya Bai
21 1976 Bahadur Singh
22 1976 Geeta Zutshi
23 1977-78 Satish Kumar (Athlete)
24 1978-79 Suresh Babu
25 1978-79 Angel Mary Joseph
26 1979-80 R. Gyanasekaran
27 1980-81 Gopal Saini
28 1981 Sabir Ali
29 1982 Charles Borromeo
30 1982 Chand Ram
31 1982 M. D. Valsamma
32 1983 Suresh Yadav
33 1983 P. T. Usha
34 1984 Raj Kumar
35 1984 Shiny Abraham
36 1985 Raghubir Singh Bal
38 1985 Asha Agarwal
39 1985 Adille Sumariwala
39 1986 Suman Rawat
40 1987 Balwinder Singh
41 1987 Vandana Rao
42 1987 Bagicha Singh
43 1987 Vandana Shanbagh
44 1988 Ashwini Nachappa
45 1989 Mercy Kuttan
46 1990 Deena Ram
47 1992 Bahadur Prasad
48 1993 K. Saramma
49 1994 Rosa Kutty
50 1995 Shakti Singh
51 1995 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
52 1995 Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla ‡
53 1996 Kallegowda ‡
54 1996 Ajit Bhaduria
55 1996 Padmini Thomas
56 1997 M. Mahadeva ‡
57 1997 Reeth Abraham
58 1998 Sirichand Ram
59 1998 Neelam Jaswant Singh
60 1998 S. D. Eshan
61 1998 Rachita Mistry
62 1998 Paramjit Singh
63 1999 Gulab Chand
64 1999 G. Venkataravanappa ‡
65 1999 Gurmit Kaur
66 1999 Parduman Singh
67 1999 Sunita Rani
68 2000 K. M. Beenamol
69 2000 Yadvendra Vashishta ‡
70 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi ‡ §
71 2001 K.R. Shankar Iyer ‡
72 2002 Anju Bobby George
73 2002 Saraswati Saha
74 2003 Soma Biswas
75 2003 Madhuri Saxena
76 2004 Anil Kumar
77 2004 J. J. Shobha
78 2004 Devendra Jhajharia ‡
79 2005 Manjit Kaur
80 2006 K. M. Binu
81 2007 Chitra K. Soman
82 2009 Sinimol Paulose
83 2010 Joseph Abraham (Athletics)
84 2010 Krishna Punia
85 2010 Jagseer Singh ‡
86 2011 Preeja Sreedharan
87 2012 Sudha Singh
88 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut
89 2012 Deepa Malik ‡
90 2012 Ramkaran Singh ‡
91 2013 Amit Kumar Saroha
92 2014 Tintu Luka
93 2015 M. R. Poovamma
94 2016 Lalita Babar
95 2016 Sandeep Singh Maan ‡
96 2017 Khushbir Kaur
97 2017 Arokia Rajiv
98 2017 Mariyappan Thangavelu ‡
98 2017 Varun Bhati ‡
Badminton[edit]
Prakash Padukone
Chetan Anand
Jwala Gutta
Parupalli Kashyap
‡ - Para Athlete
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Nandu Natekar
2 1962 Meena Shah
3 1965 Dinesh Khanna
4 1967 Suresh Goel
5 1969 Dipu Ghosh
6 1970 Damayanti Tambay
7 1971 Shobha Moorthy
8 1972 Prakash Padukone
9 1974 Raman Ghosh
10 1975 Davinder Ahuja
11 1976 Ami Ghia
12 1977-78 Kanwal Thakur Singh
13 1980-81 Syed Modi
14 1982 Partho Ganguli
15 1982 Madhumita Bisht
16 1991 Rajeev Bagga
17 2000 Pullela Gopichand
18 1999 George Thomas
19 2002 Ramesh Tikaram ‡
20 2003 Madasu Srinivas Rao ‡
21 2004 Abhinn Shyam Gupta
22 2005 Aparna Popat
23 2006 Chetan Anand
24 2006 Rohit Bhakar ‡
25 2008 Anup Sridhar
26 2009 Saina Nehwal
27 2011 Jwala Gutta
28 2012 Ashwini Ponnappa
29 2012 Parupalli Kashyap[1]
30 2013 P.V. Sindhu
31 2014 Valiyaveetil Diju
32 2015 Srikanth Kidambi
Ball Badminton[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1970 J. Pitchyya
2 1972 Ms. J. Srinivasan
3 1973 A. Kareem
4 1975 L.A. Iqbal
5 1976 Sam Christudas
6 1984 D. Rajaraman
Basketball[edit]
Prashanti Singh receiving the Arjuna Award in 2017 from the President of India.
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Sarbjit Singh
2 1967 Khushi Ram
3 1968 Gurdial Singh
4 1969 Hav. Hari Dutt
5 1970 Gulam Abbas Moontasir
6 1971 Man Mohan Singh
7 1973 S. K. Kataria
8 1974 A.K. Punj
9 1975 Hanuman Singh
10 1977-78 T. Vijayaragavan
11 1979-80 Om Prakash
12 1982 Ajmer Singh
13 1983 Suman Sharma
14 1991 Radhey Shyam
15 1991 Ms. S Sharma
16 1999 Sajjan Singh Cheema
17 2001 Parminder Singh
18 2003 Satya (Sports)
19 2014 Geethu Anna Jose
20 2017 Prashanti Singh
Billiards & Snooker[edit]
Pankaj Advani 2012
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1963 Wilson Jones
2 1973 Michael Ferreira
3 1983 Subhash Agarwal
4 1986 Geet Sethi
5 1997 Ashok Shandilya
6 2002 Alok Kumar
7 2003 Pankaj Advani
8 2005 Anuja Prakash Thakur
9 2009 R Umadevi Nagaraj
10 2012 Aditya S. Mehta
11 2013 Rupesh Shah
12 2016 Sourav Kothari
Boxing[edit]
Vijender Singh
Mary Kom
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 L. Buddy D' Souza
2 1962 Hav. P. Badadur Mal
3 1966 Hawa Singh
4 1968 Hav. Dennis Swamy
5 1971 Hav. Muniswamy Venu
6 1972 Hav. Chandranarayanan
7 1973 Hav. Mehatab Singh
8 1977-78 B.S. Thapa
9 1978-79 C. C. Machaiah
10 1979-80 B. Singh
11 1980-81 Issac Amaldas
12 1981 Hav. G. Manoharan
13 1982 Hav. Kaur Singh
14 1983 Jas Lal Pradhan
15 1986 Jai Pal Singh
16 1987 Seeva Jayaram
17 1989 Gopal Dewang
18 1991 Dharmendra Singh Yadav
19 1992 Rajendra Prasad
20 1993 Manoj Pingale
21 1993 Mukund Killekar
22 1995 V. Devarajan
23 1996 Raj Kumar Sangwan
24 1998 Dingko Singh
25 1999 Gurcharan Singh
26 1999 Jitender Kumar
27 2002 Mohammed Ali Qamar
28 2003 Mary Kom
29 2005 Akhil Kumar
30 2006 Vijender Singh
31 2008 Verghese Johnson
32 2009 Laishram Sarita Devi
33 2010 Dinesh Kumar
34 2011 Suranjoy Singh
35 2012 Vikas Krishan
36 2013 Kavita Chahal
37 2014 Manoj Kumar
38 2015 Mandeep Jangra
39 2016 Shiva Thapa
40 2017 Devendro Laishram
Carrom[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1996 A. Maria Irudayam
Chess[edit]
Viswanathan Anand
Harika Dronavalli
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Manuel Aaron
2 1980-81 Rohini Khadilkar
3 1983 Dibyendu Barua
4 1984 Pravin Thipsay
5 1985 Viswanathan Anand
6 1987 D. V. Prasad
7 1987 Bhagyashree Thipsay
8 1990 Anupama Gokhale
9 2000 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
10 2002 Krishnan Sasikiran
11 2003 Koneru Humpy
12 2005 Surya Shekhar Ganguly
13 2006 Pentyala Harikrishna
14 2008 Dronavalli Harika
15 2009 Tania Sachdev
16 2010 Parimarjan Negi
17 2013 Abhijeet Gupta
Cricket[edit]
Sachin Tendulkar
Sourav Ganguly
Rahul Dravid
Virender Sehwag
Harbhajan Singh
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Saleem Durani
2 1964 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
3 1965 Vijay Manjrekar
4 1966 Chandu Borde
5 1967 Ajit Wadekar
6 1968 E.A.S. Prasanna
7 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi
8 1970 Dilip Sardesai
9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
10 1972 Eknath Solkar
11 1972 B.S. Chandrashekhar
12 1975 Sunil Gavaskar
13 1976 Shanta Rangaswamy
14 1977-78 Gundappa Vishwanath
15 1979-80 Kapil Dev Nikhanj
16 1980-81 Chetan Chauhan
17 1980-81 Syed Kirmani
18 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar
19 1982 Mohinder Amarnath
20 1983 Diana Edulji
21 1984 Ravi Shastri
22 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni
23 1986 Mohammad Azharuddin
24 1986 Sandhya Agarwal
25 1989 Madan Lal
26 1993 Manoj Prabhakar
27 1993 Kiran More
28 1994 Sachin Tendulkar
29 1995 Anil Kumble
30 1996 Javagal Srinath
31 1997 Ajay Jadeja
32 1997 Sourav Ganguly
33 1998 Rahul Dravid
34 1998 Nayan Mongia
35 2000 Venkatesh Prasad
36 2001 VVS Laxman[7]
37 2002 Virender Sehwag
38 2003 Harbhajan Singh
39 2003 Mithali Raj
40 2005 Anju Jain
41 2006 Anjum Chopra
42 2009 Gautam Gambhir
43 2010 Jhulan Goswami
44 2011 Zaheer Khan
45 2012 Yuvraj Singh
46 2013 Virat Kohli
47 2014 Ravichandran Ashwin
48 2015 Rohit Sharma
49 2016 Ajinkya Rahane
50 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara
51 2017 Harmanpreet Kaur
Cycling[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1975 Amar Singh
2 1978-79 Ms. M. Mahapatra
3 1983 A.R. Arthna
Equestrian[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1973 Dafadar Khan M. Khan
2 1976 Lt Col H.S. Sodhi
3 1982 Maj. R. Singh Brar
4 1982 Raghubir Singh
5 1984 Capt. G. Mohd. Khan
6 1987 Maj. J.S. Ahluwalia
7 1991 Capt. Adhiraj Singh
8 2003 Capt. Rajesh Pattu
9 2004 Maj. Deep Kumar Ahlawat
Football[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 P. K. Banerjee
2 1962 Tulsidas Balaram
3 1963 Chuni Goswami
4 1964 Jarnail Singh
5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh
6 1966 Yousuf Khan
7 1967 Peter Thangaraj
8 1969 Inder Singh
9 1970 Syed Naeemuddin
10 1971 C. P. Singh
11 1973 Magan Singh
12 1978–79[8] Gurdev Singh Gill
13 1979–80[8] Prasun Banerjee
14 1980–81[8] Mohammed Habib
15 1981 Sudhir Karmakar
16 1983 Shanti Mullick
17 1989[8] Subrata Bhattacharya
18 1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
19 1998 Baichung Bhutia
20 2002 Bruno Coutinho
21 2003 I. M. Vijayan
22 2010 Deepak Kumar Mondal
23 2011 Sunil Chhetri
24 2016 Subrata Paul
25 2017 Oinam Bembem Devi
Golf[edit]
Jeev Milkha Singh
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 P. G. Sethi
2 1963 A.S. Malik
3 1967 R. K. Pitamber
4 1972 Anjali N Desai
5 1973 Vikramjit Singh
6 1977 Sita Rawlley
7 1982 Lakshman Singh
8 1987 Nonita Lall
9 1991 Ali Sher
10 1999 Jeev Milkha Singh
11 2002 Shiv Kapur
12 2004 Jyoti Randhawa
13 2007 Arjun Atwal
14 2013 Gagan Jeet Bhullar
15 2014 Anirban Lahiri
16 2017 SSP Chawrasia
Gymnastics[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Shyam Lal
2 1975 Montu Debnath
3 1985 Ms. S. Sharma
4 1989 Ms. Krupali Patel
5 2000 Dr. (Ms.) Kalpna Debnath
6 2011 Ashish Kumar
7 2015 Dipa Karmakar
Hockey[edit]
Jagbir Singh receiving the Arjuna Award 1990 from President Venkataraman.
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Prithipal Singh
2 1961 Ann Lumsden
3 1963 Charanjit Singh
4 1964 S. Laxman
5 1965 Udham Singh
6 1965 E. Britto
7 1966 V. J. Peter
8 1966 Sunita Puri
9 1966 Gurbaksh Singh
10 1967 Harbinder Singh
11 1967 Mohinder Lal
12 1968 Balbir Singh Kular
13 1970 Ajit Pal Singh
14 1971 P. Krishnamurthy
15 1972 Michael Kindo
16 1973 M. P. Ganesh
17 1973 O. Mascarenhas
18 1974 Ashok Kumar
19 1974 A. Kaur
20 1975 B. P. Govinda
21 1975 Rupa Saini
22 1977-78 Capt. Harcharan Singh
23 1977-78 L. L. Fernandes
24 1979-80 Vasudevan Baskaran
25 1979-80 R. B. Mundphan
26 1980-81 Mohammed Shahid
27 1980-81 Eliza Nelson
28 1981 Versha Soni
29 1983 Zafar Iqbal
30 1984 Rajbir Kaur
31 1984 S. Maney
32 1985 Prem Maya Sonir
33 1985 Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya
34 1986 J.M. Carvalho
35 1988 M. P. Singh
36 1989 Pargat Singh
37 1990 Jagbir Singh
38 1992 Mervyn Fernandes
39 1994 Jude Felix Sabastain
40 1995 Dhanraj Pillai
41 1995 Mukesh Kumar
42 1996 A. B. Subbaiah
43 1996 Ashish Kumar Ballal
44 1997 Harmik Singh
45 1997 Surinder Singh Sodhi
46 1997 Rajinder Singh
47 1998 Surjit Singh Randhawa
48 1998 Pritam Rani Siwach
49 1998 B. S. Dhillon
50 1998 S. Omana Kumari
51 1998 Mohammed Riaz
52 1998 Baldev Singh
53 1998 Maharaj Krishna Kaushik
54 1999 Balbir Singh Kullar
55 1998 Lt. Col. Haripal Kaushik
56 1998 Ramandeep Singh
57 1998 V. J. Phillips
58 2000 Baljeet Singh Saini
59 2000 Tingonleima Chanu
60 2000 Gp. Capt. R. S. Bhola
61 2000 Balkishan Singh
62 2000 Jalaluddin Rizvi
63 2000 Madhu Yadav
64 2002 Dilip Tirkey
65 2002 Gagan Ajit Singh
66 2002 Mamta Kharab
67 2003 Devesh Chauhan
68 2003 Suraj Lata Devi
69 2004 Deepak Thakur
70 2004 Innocent Helen Mary
71 2005 Viren Rasquinha
72 2006 Jyoti Sunita Kullu
73 2008 Prabhjot Singh
74 2009 Surinder Kaur
75 2009 Ignace Tirkey
76 2010 Jasjeet Kaur Handa
77 2011 Rajpal Singh
78 2012 Sardar Singh
79 2013 Saba Anjum Karim
80 2015 Sreejesh Ravindran
81 2016 V. R. Raghunath
82 2016 Ritu Rani
83 2017 S.V. Sunil
Judo[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1992 Sandeep Byala
2 1993 Cawas Billimoria
3 1996 Ms. Poonam Chopra
4 1999 Narender Singh
5 2003 Akram Shah
6 2004 Ms. Angom Anita Chanu
7 2007 Ms. Tombi Devi
8 2012 Yashpal Solanki
Kabaddi[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1994 Subbiah Rajarathinam
2 1995 Perumal Ganesan
3 1996 Raju Bhavsar
4 1998 Ashan Kumar
5 1998 Biswajit Palit
6 1999 Balwinder Singh
7 1999 Tirath Raj
8 2000 C. Honappa
9 2002 Ram Mehar Singh
10 2003 Sanjeev Kumar
11 2004 Sunder Singh
12 2005 Ramesh Kumar
13 2006 Naveen Gautam
14 2008 Pankaj Navnath Shrisat
15 2010 Dinesh Kumar
16 2011 Tejaswini Bai
17 2011 Rakesh Kumar
18 2012 Anup Kumar [1]
19 2014 Mamatha Poojary
20 2015 Manjeet Chillar
21 2015 Abhilasha Mhatre
22 2017 Jasvir Singh 23 2018 G.Pranav sai reddy
Lawn Tennis[edit]
Sania Mirza
Leander Paes
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Ramanathan Krishnan
2 1962 Naresh Kumar
3 1966 Jaidip Mukerjea
4 1967 Premjit Lall
5 1974 Vijay Amritraj
6 1978-79 Nirupama Mankad
7 1980-81 Ramesh Krishnan
8 1985 Anand Amritraj
9 1990 Leander Paes
10 1995 Mahesh Bhupathi
11 1996 Gaurav Natekar
12 1997 Asif Ismail
13 2000 Akhtar Ali
14 2004 Sania Mirza
15 2011 Somdev Devvarman
16 2017 Saketh Myneni
Roller Skating[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 2015 Anup Kumar Yama
Rowing[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1981 Maj. Parveen Oberoy
2 1984 Capt. M.A. Naik
3 1991 Naib Subedar Dalvir Singh
4 1994 Major R.S. Bhanwala
5 1996 Surender Singh Waldia
6 1999 Jagjit Singh
7 2000 Surender Singh Kanwasi
8 2001 Kasam Khan
9 2002 Inderpal Singh
10 2004 Jenil Krishnan
11 2008 Bajrang lal Thakkar
12 2009 Satish Joshi
13 2014 Saji Thomas
14 2015 Swarna Singh Virk
Polo[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 2012 Samir Suhag
Shooting[edit]
‡ - Para Athlete
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Karni Singh
2 1968 Rajyashree Kumari
3 1969 Bhuvaneshwari Kumari
4 1971 Bhim Singh
5 1972 Udyan Chinubhai
6 1978-79 Randhir Singh
7 1981 S. P. Chauhan
8 1983 Mohinder Lal
9 1983 Soma Dutta
10 1985 A. J. Pandit
11 1986 Bhagirath Samai
12 1993 Mansher Singh
13 1994 Jaspal Rana
14 1996 Moraad A. Khan
15 1997 Satendra Kumar
16 1997 Shilpi Singh
17 1997 Naresh Kumar Sharma ‡
18 1998 Manavjit Singh
19 1998 Roopa Unnikrishnan
20 1999 Vivek Singh
21 2000 Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat
22 2000 Abhinav Bindra
23 2000 Gurbir Singh
24 2002 Anwer Sultan
25 2002 Suma Shirur
26 2002 Samaresh Jung
27 2003 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
28 2004 Deepali A. Deshpande
29 2005 Gagan Narang
30 2006 Vijay Kumar
31 2008 Avneet Kaur Sidhu
32 2009 Ronjan Sodhi
33 2010 Sanjeev Rajput
34 2011 Tejaswini Sawant
35 2012 Annu Raj Singh
36 2012 Omkar Singh
37 2012 Joydeep Karmakar
38 2013 Rajkumari Rathore
39 2014 Heena Sidhu
40 2015 Jitu Rai
41 2016 Apurvi Chandela
42 2016 Gurpreet Singh
42 2017 PN Prakash
Squash[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 2006 Saurav Ghosal
2 2012 Dipika Pallikal
3 2013 Joshna Chinappa
4 2014 Anaka Alankamony
Swimming[edit]
‡ - Para Athlete
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Jam. Bajarangi Prasad
2 1966 Rima Datta
3 1967 Arun Shaw
4 1969 Baidyanath Nath
5 1971 Bhanwar Singh
6 1973 D. (Tingoo) Khatau
7 1974 A.B. Sarang
8 1974 Manjari Bhargava (diving)
9 1975 M.S. Rana
10 1975 Smita Desai
11 1982 Persis Madan
12 1983 Anita Sood
13 1984 Khajan Singh
14 1988 Wilson Cherian
15 1990 Bula Choudhury
16 1996 Kutraleeswaran
17 1998 Bhanu Sachdeva
18 1999 Nisha Millet
19 2000 Sebastian Xavier
20 2000 J. Abhijith
21 2005 Shikha Tandon
22 2010 Rehan Poncha
23 2011 Virdhawal Khade
24 2011 Prasanta Karmakar ‡
25 2012 Sandeep Sejwal
26 2015 Sharath Gayakwad ‡
Table Tennis[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 J.C. Vohra
2 1965 G. R. Deewan
3 1966 U. Sundararaj
4 1967 F. R. Khodaiji
5 1969 Mir Kasim Ali
6 1970 G. Jagannath
7 1971 K. F. Khodaiji
8 1973 N. R. Bajaj
9 1976 Shailaja Salokhe
10 1979-80 Indu Puri
11 1980-81 Manjit Dua
12 1982 V. Chandrasekhar
13 1985 Kamlesh Mehta
14 1987 Monalisa Barua
15 1989 Niyati Shah
16 1990 M. S. Walia
17 1997 Chetan Baboor
18 1998 Subramaniam Raman
19 2002 Mantu Ghosh
20 2004 Achanta Sharath Kamal
21 2005 Soumyadeep Roy
22 2006 Subhajit Saha
23 2009 Poulomi Ghatak
24 2013 Mouma Das
25 2013 Mouma Das
26 2016 Soumyajit Ghosh
27 2017 Anthony Amalraj
Volleyball[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 A. Palanisamy
2 1962 Nripjit Singh
3 1972 Balwant Singh a.k.a. Ballu
4 1973 G.M. Reddy
5 1974 M.S. Rao
6 1975 Sub. Insp. R. Singh
7 1975 K.C. Elamma
8 1976 Jimmy George
9 1977-78 A. Ramana Rao
10 1978-79 Kutty Krishnan
11 1979 Riaz Ahmed
12 1979-1980 S.K. Mishra
13 1982 G.E. Sridharan
14 1983 R.K. Purohit
15 1984 Saley Joseph
16 1986 Cyril C. Valloor
17 1989 Abdul Basith
18 1990 Dalel Singh Ror
19 1991 K. Udaya Kumar
20 1999 Sukhpal Singh
21 2000 P. V. Ramana
22 2001 Amir Singh
23 2002 Ravikant Reddy
24 2010 K. J. Kapil Dev
25 2011 Sanjay Kumar
26 2014 Tom Joseph
Weightlifting[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 A.N. Ghosh
2 1962 L.K. Dass
3 1963 K.E. Rao
4 1965 B.S. Bhatia
5 1966 Mohan Lal Ghosh
6 1967 S. John Gabriel
7 1970 Arun Kumar Dass
8 1971 S.L. Salwan
9 1972 Anil Kumar Mandal
10 1974 S. Vellaiswamy
11 1975 Dalbir Singh
12 1976 K. Balamuruganandam
13 1977-78 M.Tamilselvan
14 1978-79 Ekambaram Karunakaran
15 1981 B.K. Satpathy
16 1982 Tara Singh
17 1983 Vispy K. Daroga
18 1985 Mehar Chand Bhaskar
19 1986 Jag Mohan Sapra
20 1987 G. Devan
21 1989 Jyotsna Dutta
22 1990 R. Chandra
23 1990 Kunjarani Devi
24 1991 Chhaya Adak
25 1993 Bharati Singh
26 1994 Karnam Malleswari
27 1997 Paramjit Sharma
28 1997 N. Laxmi
29 1998 Satheesha Rai
30 1999 Dalbir Deol
31 2000 Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijam
32 2002 Thandava Murthy Muthu
33 2006 Geeta Rani
34 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar[9]
35 2012 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu
36 2014 Renubala Chanu
37 2015 Sathish Sivalingam
Wrestling[edit]
S.No.
Year
Name
1 1961 Subedar Udey Chand
2 1962 Malwa
3 1963 G. Andalkar
4 1964 Bishamber Singh
5 1966 Bhim Singh Bhati
6 1967 Mukhtiar Singh
7 1969 Master Chandgi Ram (Indian style wrestling)
8 1970 Sudesh Kumar
9 1972 Prem Nath
10 1973 Jagroop Singh
11 1974 Satpal
12 1978-79 Rajinder Singh
13 1980-81 Jagminder Singh
14 1982 Kartar Singh
15 1985 Mahabir Singh
16 1987 Subhash Verma
17 1988 Rajesh Kumar
18 1989 Satywan
19 1990 Ombir Singh
20 1992 Pappu Yadav
21 1993 Ashok Kumar
22 1997 Jagdish Bhola
23 1997 Sanjay Kumar
24 1998 Kaka Pawar
25 1998 Rohtas Singh Dahiya
26 1999 Ashok Kumar
27 2000 Randhir Singh
28 2000 Kripa Shakar Patel
29 2000 K.D. Jadhav (posthumously)
30 2000 Naresh Kumar
31 2002 Palwinder Singh Cheema
32 2002 Sujeet Mann
33 2003 Shokhinder Tomar
34 2004 Anuj Kumar
35 2005 Sushil Kumar
36 2006 Geetika Jakhar
37 2008 Alka Tomar
38 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt
39 2010 Rajiv Tomar
40 2011 Ravinder Singh
41 2012 Narsingh Yadav
42 2012 Rajinder Kumar
43 2012 Geeta Phogat
44 2013 Neha Rathi
45 2013 Dharmendra Dalal
46 2014 Sunil Kumar Rana
47 2015 Bajrang Punia
48 2015 Babita Kumari
49 2016 Vinesh Phogat
50 2016 Amit Kumar Saroha
51 2016 Ankit vats ‡
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2 1973 Afsar Hussain
3 1978-79 Cdr. S. K. Mongia
4 1981 Zarir Karanjia
5 1982 Farokh Tarapore
6 1982 Fali Unwalla
7 1982 Jeeja Unwalla
8 1986 Lt. Dhruv Bhandari
9 1987 C. S. Pradipak
10 1990 Pushpendra Kumar Garg
11 1993 Cdr. Homi Motiwala
12 1996 Lt. Cdr. Kelly Subbanand Rao (posthumously)
13 1999 Aashim Mongia
14 2001 Mahesh Ramachandran
15 2002 Nitin Mongia
15 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav
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^ Jump up to: a b c "Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Awards Announced". Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. 19 August 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
Jump up ^ "2013 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards". Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
Jump up ^ https://yas.nic.in/sites/default/files/Arjuna%20Award_0_0.pdf - from the website of India's Minister of Youth & Sports; retrieved 2011-08-23.
Jump up ^ Gagan Narang confirmed for Khel Ratna award, published by the Press Trust of India on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
Jump up ^ President Gives Away Sports and Adventure Awards, published by the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India on 2011-08-29, retrieved 2011-08-29.
Jump up ^ "National Sports Awards: Centre unveils list, cricket sensation Harmanpreet Kaur to receive Arjuna Award". Financial Express. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
Jump up ^ "Laxman, Tirkey, Sita get Arjuna Awards". The Hindu. 22 August 2002. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b c d LIST OF ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS - Football
Jump up ^ Pti (2011-08-30). "Arjuna award moral booster for K Ravi Kumar". News.oneindia.in. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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Directed by
William Wyler
Produced by
Samuel Goldwyn
Screenplay by
Robert E. Sherwood
Based on
Glory for Me
1945 novella
by MacKinlay Kantor
Starring
Myrna Loy
Fredric March
Dana Andrews
Teresa Wright
Virginia Mayo
Harold Russell
Music by
Hugo Friedhofer
Emil Newman
Cinematography
Gregg Toland
Edited by
Daniel Mandell
Production
company
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed by
RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
November 21, 1946 (1946-11-21) (United States)
Running time
172 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2.1 million[1] or $3 million[2]
Box office
$23.7 million[3]
Standing, L-R: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright; seated at piano: Hoagy Carmichael
The Best Years of Our Lives (aka Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen readjusting to civilian life after coming home from World War II. Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to produce a film about veterans after reading an August 7, 1944, article in Time about the difficulties experienced by men returning to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former war correspondent MacKinlay Kantor to write a screenplay. His work was first published as a novella, Glory for Me, which Kantor wrote in blank verse.[4][5][6][7] Robert E. Sherwood then adapted the novella as a screenplay.[7]
The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards in 1946, including Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Fredric March), Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell), Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell), Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert E. Sherwood), and Best Original Score (Hugo Friedhofer).[8] In addition to its critical success, the film quickly became a great commercial success upon release. It became the highest-grossing film and most attended film in both the United States and UK since the release of Gone with the Wind, selling approximately 55 million tickets in the United States [9] which equaled a gross of $23,650,000.[10] It remains the sixth most-attended film of all time in the UK, with over 20 million tickets sold.[11] The film had one of the highest viewing figures of all time, with ticket sales exceeding $20.4 million.[12]
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
4.1 Critical response
4.2 Popular response
4.3 Awards and honors
5 References
5.1 Notes
5.2 Citations
5.3 Bibliography
6 External links
Plot[edit]
After World War II, Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), Homer Parrish (Harold Russell), and Al Stephenson (Fredric March) meet while flying home to Boone City (a fictional city patterned after Cincinnati, Ohio[6]). Fred was a decorated Army Air Forces captain and bombardier in Europe. Homer lost both hands from burns suffered when his aircraft carrier was sunk, and now uses mechanical hook prostheses. Al served as an infantry platoon sergeant in the Pacific. All three have trouble adjusting to civilian life.
Al has a comfortable home and a loving family: wife Milly (Myrna Loy), adult daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright, who was only thirteen years Loy's junior), and college freshman son Rob (Michael Hall, who is absent after the first one-third of the film). He returns to his old job as a bank loan officer. The bank president views his military experience as valuable in dealing with other returning servicemen. When Al approves a loan (without collateral) to a young Navy veteran, however, the president advises him against making a habit of it. Later, at a banquet held in his honor, a slightly inebriated Al expounds his belief that the bank (and America) must stand with the vets who risked everything to defend the country and give them every chance to rebuild their lives.
Before the war, Fred had been an unskilled drugstore soda jerk. He wants something better, but the tight postwar job market forces him to return to his old job. Fred had met Marie (Virginia Mayo) while in flight training and married her shortly afterward, before shipping out less than a month later. She became a nightclub waitress while Fred was overseas. Marie makes it clear she does not enjoy being married to a lowly soda jerk.
Homer was a football quarterback and became engaged to his next door neighbor, Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell), before joining the Navy. Both Homer and his parents now have trouble dealing with his disability. He does not want to burden Wilma with his handicap so he eventually pushes her away, although she still wants to marry him.
Peggy meets Fred while bringing her father home from a bar where the three men meet once again. They are attracted to each other. Peggy dislikes Marie, and informs her parents she intends to end Fred and Marie's marriage, but they tell her that their own marriage overcame similar problems. Concerned, Al demands that Fred stop seeing his daughter. Fred agrees, but the friendship between the two men is strained.
At the drugstore, an obnoxious customer, who claims that the war was fought against the wrong enemies, gets into a fight with Homer. Fred intervenes and knocks the man into a glass counter, costing him his job. Later, Fred encourages Homer to put his misgivings behind him and marry Wilma, offering to be his best man.
One evening, Wilma visits Homer and tells him that her parents want her to leave Boone City for an extended period to try to forget him. Homer bluntly demonstrates to her how hard life with him would be. When Wilma is undaunted, Homer reconsiders.
On arriving home, Fred discovers his wife with another veteran (Steve Cochran). After complaining to Fred that she has "given up the best years of my life," Marie tells him that she is getting a divorce. Fred decides to leave town, and gives his father his medals and citations. His father is unable to persuade Fred to stay. After Fred leaves, his father reads the citation for his Distinguished Flying Cross as composed by General Doolittle. At the airport, Fred books space on the first outbound aircraft, without regard for the destination. While waiting, he wanders into a vast aircraft boneyard. Inside the nose of a B-17, he relives the intense memories of combat. The boss of a work crew rouses him from his flashback. When the man says the aluminum from the aircraft is being salvaged to build housing, Fred persuades the boss to hire him.
At the bride's home, people have gathered for the wedding of Homer and Wilma. Fred, now divorced, is Homer's best man. While the vows are exchanged Fred and Peggy glance across at one another. At the conclusion everyone gathers around the newlyweds. Still gazing over at Peggy, Fred walks across the room, takes her in his arms and kisses her. He asks if she understands how things will be for them, that it will be a hard struggle at first, and that it could take years before they can get a life established. All the while Peggy smiles fondly at Fred, and then kisses him again.
Cast[edit]
Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson
Fredric March as Platoon Sergeant Al Stephenson
Dana Andrews as Captain Fred Derry
Teresa Wright as Peggy Stephenson
Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry
Cathy O'Donnell as Wilma Cameron
Hoagy Carmichael as Uncle Butch Engle
Harold Russell as Petty Officer 2nd Class Homer Parrish
Gladys George as Hortense Derry
Roman Bohnen as Pat Derry
Ray Collins as Mr. Milton
Minna Gombell as Mrs. Parrish
Walter Baldwin as Mr. Parrish
Steve Cochran as Cliff
Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Cameron
Don Beddoe as Mr. Cameron
Marlene Aames as Luella Parrish
Charles Halton as Prew
Ray Teal as Mr. Mollett
Howland Chamberlain as Thorpe
Dean White as Novak
Erskine Sanford as Bullard
Michael Hall as Rob Stephenson
Victor Cutler as Woody Merrill
Robert Karnes as Technical Sergeant
Casting brought together established stars as well as character actors and relative unknowns. Famed drummer Gene Krupa was seen in archival footage, while Tennessee Ernie Ford, later a famous television star, appeared as an uncredited "hillbilly singer" (in the first of his only three film appearances).[Note 1] Blake Edwards, later notable as a film producer and director, appeared fleetingly as an uncredited "Corporal". Actress Judy Wyler was cast in her first role in her father's production. Sean Penn's father, Leo, played the uncredited part of the soldier working as the scheduling clerk at the beginning of the film.
Production[edit]
Director Wyler had flown combat missions over Europe in filming Memphis Belle (1944) and worked hard to get accurate depictions of the combat veterans he had encountered. Wyler changed the original casting that had featured a veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and sought out Harold Russell, a non-actor to take on the exacting role of Homer Parrish.[13]
For The Best Years of Our Lives, he asked the principal actors to purchase their own clothes, in order to connect with daily life and produce an authentic feeling. Other Wyler touches included constructing life-size sets, which went against the standard larger sets that were more suited to camera positions. The impact for the audience was immediate, as each scene played out in a realistic, natural way.[13]
The Best Years of Our Lives began filming on April 15, 1946 at a variety of locations, including the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, California, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, and the Samuel Goldwyn/Warner Hollywood Studios.[13] The Best Years of Our Lives is notable for cinematographer Gregg Toland's use of deep focus photography, in which objects both close to and distant from the camera are in sharp focus.[14] For the passage of Fred Derry's reliving a combat mission while sitting in the remains of a former bomber, Wyler used "zoom" effects to simulate Derry's subjective state.[15]
The "Jackson High" football stadium seen early in aerial footage of the bomber flying over the fictional Boone City, is Corcoran Stadium located at Xavier University in Cincinnati. A few seconds later Walnut Hills High School with its distinctive dome and football field can be seen along with the downtown Cincinnati skyline (Carew Tower and PNC Tower) in the background.[16]
After the war, the combat aircraft featured in the film were being destroyed and disassembled for reuse as scrap material. The scene of Derry's walking among aircraft ruins was filmed at the Ontario Army Air Field in Ontario, California. The former training facility had been converted into a scrap yard, housing nearly 2,000 former combat aircraft in various states of disassembly and reclamation.[13]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Upon its release, The Best Years of Our Lives received extremely positive reviews from critics. Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece. He wrote,
It is seldom that there comes a motion picture which can be wholly and enthusiastically endorsed not only as superlative entertainment but as food for quiet and humanizing thought... In working out their solutions Mr. Sherwood and Mr. Wyler have achieved some of the most beautiful and inspiring demonstrations of human fortitude that we have had in films." He also said the ensemble casting gave the "'best' performance in this best film this year from Hollywood."[17]
Several decades later, film critic David Thomson offered tempered praise: "I would concede that Best Years is decent and humane... acutely observed, despite being so meticulous a package. It would have taken uncommon genius and daring at that time to sneak a view of an untidy or unresolved America past Goldwyn or the public."[18]
The Best Years of Our Lives has a 98% "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 37 reviews.[19] Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert put the film on his "Great Movies" list in 2007, calling it "...modern, lean, and honest."[20]
Popular response[edit]
The Best Years of Our Lives was a massive commercial success, earning an estimated $11.5 million at the North American box office during its initial theatrical run.[21][22] When box office prices are adjusted for inflation, it remains one of the top 100 grossing films in U.S. history.
Among films released before 1950, only Gone With the Wind, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Big Parade and four Disney titles have done more total business, in part due to later re-releases. (Reliable box office figures for certain early films such as Birth of a Nation and Charlie Chaplin's comedies are unavailable.)[23]
However, because of the distribution arrangement RKO had with Goldwyn, RKO recorded a loss of $660,000 on the film.[24]
Awards and honors[edit]
1947 Academy Awards
The Best Years of Our Lives received nine Academy Awards. Fredric March won his second Best Actor award (also having won in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde).
Despite his Oscar-nominated performance, Harold Russell was not a professional actor. As the Academy Board of Governors considered him a long shot to win, they gave him an honorary award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance." When Russell in fact won Best Supporting Actor, there was an enthusiastic response. He is the only actor to have received two Academy Awards for the same performance. He later sold his Best Supporting Actor award at auction for $60,500, to pay his wife's medical bills.[25]
Award
Result
Winner
Best Motion Picture Won Samuel Goldwyn Productions (Samuel Goldwyn, Producer)
Best Director Won William Wyler
Best Actor Won Fredric March
Best Writing (Screenplay) Won Robert E. Sherwood
Best Supporting Actor Won Harold Russell
Best Film Editing Won Daniel Mandell
Best Music (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Won Hugo Friedhofer
Best Sound Recording Nominated Gordon E. Sawyer
Winner was John P. Livadary – The Jolson Story
Honorary Award Won To Harold Russell
Memorial Award Won Samuel Goldwyn
Some posters say the film won nine Academy Awards due to the honorary award won by Harold Russell, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award won by Samuel Goldwyn, in addition to its seven awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, and Best Music Score.
1947 Golden Globe Awards
Won: Best Dramatic Motion Picture
Won: Special Award for Best Non-Professional Acting – Harold Russell
1947 Brussels World Film Festival
Won: Best Actress Of The Year – Myrna Loy
1948 BAFTA Awards
Won: BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source
Other wins
National Board of Review: NBR Award Best Director, William Wyler; 1946.
New York Film Critics Circle Awards: NYFCC Award Best Director, William Wyler; Best Film; 1946.
Bodil Awards: Bodil; Best American Film, William Wyler; 1948.
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain: CEC Award; Best Foreign Film, USA; 1948.
In 1989, the National Film Registry selected it for preservation in the United States Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
American Film Institute included the film as #37 in its 1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, as #11 in its 2006 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers, and as #37 in its 2007 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition).
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ At the time the film was shot, Ford was unknown as a singer. He worked in San Bernardino as a radio announcer-disc jockey.
Citations[edit]
Jump up ^ Thomson 1993, pp 490–491.
Jump up ^ vhttps://archive.org/stream/variety165-1947-01#page/n85/mode/1up
Jump up ^ " 'Best Years of Our Lives' (1946)." Box Office Mojo. Retrieved: February 4, 2010.
Jump up ^ Kantor, MacKinlay (1945). Glory for Me. Coward-McCann. OCLC 773996.
Jump up ^ Easton, Carol (2014). "The Best Years". The Search for Sam Goldwyn. Carl Rollyson (contributor). Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62674-132-4. Andrews looked at the onionskin pages and asked, 'Mac, why did you write this in blank verse?' 'Dana', said Kantor with a wry smile, 'I can't afford to write in blank verse, because nobody buys anything written in blank verse. But when Sam asked me to write this story, he didn't tell me not to write it in blank verse!'
^ Jump up to: a b Orriss 1984, p. 119.
^ Jump up to: a b Levy, Emanuel (April 4, 2015). "Oscar History: Best Picture–Best Years of Our Lives (1946)" (review). Emanuel Levy: Cinema 24/7. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
Jump up ^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners." oscars.org. Retrieved: November 20, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Domestic Total: Estimated tickets: 'The Best Years of Our Lives'." Box Office Mojo. Retrieved: February 10, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Box office: 'The Best Years of Our Lives'." Box Office Mojo. Retrieved: February 10, 2015.
Jump up ^ "BFI'S Ultimate Film Chart." BFi.org.uk. Retrieved: July 27, 2010. Archived March 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 films." Channel 4. Retrieved: October 25, 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Orriss 1984, p. 121.
Jump up ^ Kehr, Dave. "'The Best Years of Our Lives'." The Chicago Reader. Retrieved: April 26, 2007.
Jump up ^ Orriss 1984, pp. 121–122.
Jump up ^ "Trivia: 'The Best Years of Our Lives'." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: February 10, 2015.
Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley. The Best Years of our Lives. The New York Times, November 22, 1946. Retrieved: April 26, 2007.
Jump up ^ Thomson, 2002, p. 949. 4th Edition; the first edition was published in 1975. See Thomson, David (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema. London: Secker & Warburg. OCLC 1959828.
Jump up ^ " 'The Best Years of Our Lives'." Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved: July 30, 2010.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger. "The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)." Chicago Sun Times, December 29, 2007. Retrieved: November 20, 2011.
Jump up ^ "All Time Domestic Champs". Variety, January 6, 1960, p. 34.
Jump up ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
Jump up ^ "All-time Films (adjusted)." Box Office Mojo. Retrieved: September 19, 2010.
Jump up ^ Richard B. Jewell, Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures, Uni of California, 2016
Jump up ^ Bergan, Ronald. "Obituary: Harold Russell; Brave actor whose artificial hands helped him win two Oscars." The Guardian, February 6, 2002. Retrieved: June 12, 2012.
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Flood, Richard. "Reel crank – critic Manny Farber." Artforum, Volume 37, Issue 1, September 1998. ISSN 0004-3532.
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values: أجمل سنوات العمر (فيلم) – Arabic

values: Най-добрите години от нашия живот – Bulgarian

values: Els millors anys de la nostra vida – Catalan

values: Die besten Jahre unseres Lebens – German

values: Τα καλύτερα χρόνια της ζωής μας – Greek

values: Los mejores años de nuestra vida – Spanish

values: بهترین سال‌های زندگی ما – Persian

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values: Մեր կյանքի լավագույն տարիները – Armenian

values: The Best Years of Our Lives – Indonesian

values: I migliori anni della nostra vita – Italian

values: שנות חיינו היפות ביותר – Hebrew

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values: Cei mai frumoși ani ai vieții noastre – Romanian

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