The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, recently received a unique Bennett recognition award. Trudeau received the CERAWeek Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award in recognition of his commitment to sustainability in energy and the environment. For this award, Trudeau was presented with the unique Bennett sculpture award Etcetera, designed by sculptor Tom Bennett.

For the 3rd straight year, Bennett Awards produced unique recognition awards for the NATPE Realty Breakthrough Awards. These recognition awards are designed to honor reality programs and people that broke through the clutter in the proceeding year, as well as becoming part of the cultural conversation and generally altering the expectations of what constitutes a reality program. 2017 recipients of these awards included Blake Shelton, Steve Harvey, The Voice, and Shark Tank among others.

Bennett Awards created a new custom perpetual award for the AKC (American Kennel Club) National Championship, presented by Royal Canin. The 2016 AKC National Championship is the largest dog show North America. For this competition, Bennett Awards created a new custom perpetual award for the Best in Show winner. The award was in the form a custom sculpted bronze cup standing approximately 32” tall. The cup was mounted on a two-tier handcrafted wood base that holds medallions identifying each year’s Best in Show winner.

For the 10th consecutive year, the Bay Area Council presented unique Bennett recognition awards to their annual inductees into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame. The 2016 recipients of these awards were John Chambers, Executive Chair of Cisco, and Jane Shaw, former Chair of Intel. Both Chambers and Shaw were recognized for their outstanding philanthropic and business achievements.

Custom crystal awards created by Bennett Awards were presented to a variety of reality TV stars, including Khloé Kardashian and Mariah Carey, as part of the 2016 edition of the The Bravos. The Bravos are recognition awards given out each year by Bravo that honor the best reality moments and stars of the year. Awards winners are selected by viewer votes.

Bennett Awards created a custom championship trophy for the POWERADE 7 on 7 Invitational, an elite high school football passing league tournament. Bennett Awards worked with event organizers to create a 26” tall trophy consisting of a life-size pewter silver-plated football mounted on a custom handcrafted black hardwood base. The base featured a sublimated metal plate with the event logo prominently featured.

Ryan Murphy, the Emmy, Peabody, Humanitas and Golden Globe-winning director/producer/writer, received a unique recognition award created by Bennett Awards as the recipient of the inaugural Golden Slate Award. Murphy was honored with this award for his commitment to filming in California and the thousands of production-related jobs he has created in the state. His California-based projects include "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson," "Nip/Tuck," "Glee," "American Horror Story" and "Scream Queens."

Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, one of the top classic cars competitions in the United States, commissioned a set of unique Bennett custom awards for their 2016 event. Bennett Awards worked closely with Greenwich Concours d’Elegance to create a new, unique custom award design based on a stylish, unique silhouette of a streamlined classic car. Two sizes of this sculpture award were created: a smaller 8” sculpture recognizing winning entries across a broad variety of categories, and a larger 10” sculpture for winners of the largest, most prestigious competitions. The car sculptures were cast in pewter, and featured a brushed pewter finish.

Acclaimed actor Michael Keaton received a Bennett sculpture award from George Eastman House in honor of his distinguished contributions to the art of film. The award – the George Eastman Award - is the museum’s highest honor in motion pictures, was established in 1955 as the first retrospective film award to honor artistic works of enduring value. For this award, George Eastman House selected the unique Bennett sculpture award “Elite”, originally designed by Tom Bennett.

For the 3rd straight year, SIGGRAPH, the world’s premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, selected Bennett Awards to create a custom recognition awards for its Computer Animation Festival. These awards are based on a new custom award design that SIGGRAPH commissioned Bennett Awards to create in 2013. This unique design is based on a 3D sculptural representation of the SIGGRAPH logo.