how important are coveted awards like "nobel prize","oscar",and others ,to the promotion of creativity ?

Answer 1

Those awards secure a minimal and necessary level of competence in their respective fields for those who may want the prestige of winning a contest among peers: survival of the field and constituents thereby promoted.

Contrast, though, warfare with the above, as it also offers a prize to the winner. The vanquished are subordinated or eliminated. And it is interesting to note that inventions like flying machines are the sine qua non of modern warfare.

Answer 2

Creativity cannot be promoted if creative talent is already not there in a person. Prizes simply increase the ambition. They have little to do with creativity.

A majority of the so called "creative" men now-a-days are expert in plagiarizing, paraphrasing and making useless topics appear bright. And, these dishonest people appear in the front and take prizes.

Many of those who are truely creative rarely get opportunity to be known to the public.

Answer 3

It would certainly be nice! I think that those who create however, do so for the love of their art. I paint & write songs because I love to, because it's rewarding to me even if I never achieve financial success through it. However, I would be thrilled if I were ever to win an award for my art or music. I was an extremely hard-working student & won several academic awards throughout high school & university. I have them displayed in my office on my "wall of pride." Since I graduated I've missed getting awards. Now I work a thankless job & while I have sold a couple of paintings & played my songs for people with positive responses, I haven't received any accolades for my creative work.

It is an incredibly satisfying feeling to be recognized and awarded for your achievements, to have something concrete to hold onto as a souvenir of your hard work or creativity. It's like the sound of applause put on paper or carved into metal. I think it is important to recognize talent and to give people something to strive for but it should not be the main focus or reason for doing what you do and people shouldn't beat themselves up for not winning. I think it's a bit cruel when at the Oscars, they show the faces of the other nominees once the winner has been announced & it wasn't them. "It's an honour just to be nominated" -- well perhaps but it's not the same as winning!

Answer 4

They aren't. Rather, they are society's way of patting someone on the back ... deserved or not !

Do you know what the Nobel Prize is about?? It really doesn't fit in the same sentence as Oscar, lol.

Answer 5

These are very important provided given honestly

Answer 6

Probably not particularly important.

Creators are usually compulsive personalities. They do what they do because they're driven to create.

Award in this instance, probably should be changed to REward. A recognition for accomplishment, as opposed to an incentive.

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Anyone motivated by a desire for awards and recognition by peers would definitely avoid stepping beyond the boundaries those peers have established:

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"Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down" - Sir Fred Hoyle



It took two bicycle mechanics to do the first heavier than air flight. Here's what the scientists were saying at the time:

"The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.... Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."

-Albert. A. Michelson, speech given in 1894 at the dedication of Ryerson Physics Lab,
Univ. of Chicago,

"It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere."
- Thomas Edison, 1895

"Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to to its true progress."
- Sir William Siemens, 1880, on Edison's announcement of a successful light bulb.

"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
- Simon Newcomb, astronomer, 1888

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.


"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement" - Lord Kelvin, ?1900?


"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." - Simon Newcomb, 1902.


"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force can be united in a practicable machine by which men shall fly for long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."
- astronomer S. Newcomb,
1906


"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."

- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"This foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd lengths to which vicious specialization will carry scientists."
-A.W. Bickerton, physicist, NZ, 1926

"Space travel is utter bilge!" -Sir Richard Van Der Riet Wolley

"The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space]...presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed
impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually
accomplished."
-Sir Richard van der Riet Wooley, British astronomer, reviewing P.E.
Cleator's "Rockets in Space", Nature, March 14, 1936

"Space travel is bunk" -Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik

"Don't use quotations. Tell me what you know." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 7

The awards are not about creativity. They are about fame.