Academy Award winning actor and producer Michael Douglas received a Bennett recognition 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, and was the first film award given by a U.S. cultural institution to honor artistic work of enduring value. For this award, George Eastman House selected the unique Bennett award “Elite” – a bronze sculpture award featuring natural patina and high-polished edges.

Bennett Awards created new custom awards for Ballet Hispanico, recognized as the nation’s premier Latino dance organization. These recognition awards were created to honor three individuals who have given voice to their Latino culture and the importance of Ballet Hispanico’s work through the corporations they serve. The centerpiece of these custom awards was a sculpture based on an impressionistic ballet dancer. The sculpture stood approximately 16” high, and was cast in gold-plated pewter.

The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Pete commissioned Bennett Awards to create new custom trophies for its 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series race, part of the premier open wheeled race series in the Americas. The trophies were given to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers in the race. For these trophies, Bennett Awards created custom pewter sculpture awards based on the race’s logo: a stylized silhouette of an Indy car in front of a circular sun image. These sculptures were mounted on three different sized bases with sublimated plates containing the race logo, race date, and place of finish. 

Award winning actors Stacy Keach, John Hurt, and Dame Diana Rigg were all recent recipients of custom recognition awards designed by Bennett Awards for the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC). The STC, one of the nation’s leading theatre companies, selected these three performing artists as their 2014 recipients of their William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (the Will Award).  The Will Award is presented each year to an artist or artists who have made a significant contribution to classical theatre in America. This is the eighth straight year that STC has used Bennett Awards for this prestigious award.

The NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes chose a custom award from Bennett Awards to honor their television broadcaster John Forslund in recognition of his 20th year as the television voice of the franchise. Forslund received this recognition award during a special pregame ceremony held March 21, 2015, at PNC Arena. For this award, Bennett Awards created a custom gold-plated pewter sculpture in the shape of a microphone, with a sculpted logo block surrounding the handle.

For the 5th straight year, Nike and the US Soccer Federation used a custom award designed and produced by Bennett Awards to recognize the champion of the Nike International Friendlies soccer tournament, an international youth soccer tournament involving Under-17 Men’s National Teams from four different countries. This year, the teams participating in the competition were the Australia, Braxil, England, and the USA. In 2010, Bennett Awards designed a custom trophy for this tournament, the design of which that has been used each year since then. Up until this year, the award was cast in pewter. In 2014, however, the award material was transitioned to bronze.

Howard Stern, one of the most recognized and popular radio and television personalities in the world, recently received a custom recognition award created by Bennett Awards. Stern received the “King of All Follicles” award from Groominglounge.com for having the “Best Men’s Hair in America.” For this award, Stern received a version of Bennett Award’s “The Benny” recognition award that was customized to hold a comb in its arms. Stern received the award during his live “Howard Stern Show” broadcast.

Blues legend Buddy Guy, a six-time Grammy Award recipient, received a Bennett recognition award from the state of Louisiana in honor of the Lifetime Achievement Award he received at this year’s 2015 Grammy Awards. The recognition award was presented to Guy at the 9th Annual “Only in Louisiana” luncheon, which recognizes Louisiana’s Grammy Award nominees. For this award, Guy received the unique Bennett Award “Melody”, which depicts a stylized music note.

For the third straight year, Purina’s Friskies® Cat Food used custom awards created by Bennett Awards to recognize winners in their annual Internet cat video contest called “The Friskies.” The Friskies are awarded to the best Internet cat videos of the year. For these awards, Bennett Awards designed unique custom sculptures in the shape of the iconic “Friskies” brand icon. These pewter recognition trophies, called “The Catuettes,” also feature an integrated pedestal with a raised relief of the Friskies logo.

The legendary musician and guitar pioneer Les Paul posthumously received a recognition award created by Bennett Awards from Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers (H.E.A.R.). H.E.A.R, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of hearing loss and tinnitus, honored Paul with its Leadership Award, which recognizes leadership through public service regarding hearing conservation in music.