Selection of the most significant cultural events in the world in 2010

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa became laureates of the Pritzker Prize on March 28.

JANUARY
11. - At the age of 89, French director, screenwriter, and film critic Eric Rohmer died in Paris.
18. - The American Golden Globe award for Best Film went to Avatar directed by James Cameron. Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) became Best Actor and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) Best Actress.
24. - The German rock band Scorpions announced their intention to disband after more than forty years of playing.
27. - At the age of 91, the author of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, American Jerome David Salinger, died.

FEBRUARY
1. - The American Grammy Award for Best Album was awarded to the twenty-year-old country singer Taylor Swift for her album Fearless. The Best Song was announced as Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) by Beyoncé, who overall won six out of ten nominations, which no other woman has achieved in a single year.
8. - The state prosecutor in Los Angeles charged Conrad Murray, the doctor of the famous pop singer Michael Jackson, with involuntary manslaughter of his client.
12. - Independent Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo won the international World Press Photo competition with a photograph from protests against the results of the Iranian presidential elections.
14. - At the age of 89, British detective fiction writer Dick Francis died.
20. - The Golden Bear for Best Film at the 60th International Film Festival Berlinale was awarded to the Turkish film Bal (Honey) directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu. Roman Polanski was honored as Best Director for the political thriller The Ghost Writer.
27. - The César Award for Best French Film went to the favorite film A Prophet by Jacques Audiard.

MARCH
8. - The American Academy Awards were dominated by the war drama The Hurt Locker. It won six Oscars, including Best Film and Best Director. Its director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for directing. Sandra Bullock was announced as Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film The Blind Side, and Jeff Bridges was named Best Actor for his role in Crazy Heart. The Best Foreign Language Film was awarded to the Argentine film The Secret in Their Eyes by Juan José Campanella.
28. - The Pritzker Prize, the highest award in architecture, was awarded to Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.

APRIL
8. - In New York, punk impresario Malcolm McLaren, manager of the legendary band Sex Pistols, died at the age of 64.
12. - The main journalism Pulitzer Prize, the award for public service, was awarded to the Virginia newspaper Bristol Herald Courier. In the literary categories, the prize for Best Fiction was awarded to writer Paul Harding for his debut Tinkers. In the drama category, the Pulitzer Prize went to the rock musical Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey.
30. - The World Expo 2010 was ceremonially opened in Shanghai. Over the course of six months, it was visited by a record 73.1 million people. A record 189 countries participated. The Czech pavilion received a silver medal for creativity among rented pavilions.

MAY
4. - A record $106.5 million was paid at auction at Christie's in New York for Picasso's painting of a naked woman with green leaves in the background. This surpassed the previous auction record of $104.3 million for Alberto Giacometti's sculpture Walking Man, which was sold in London on February 3.
20. - Five works by major masters of modern painting worth about €100 million were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. These included paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, and Fernand Léger.
23. - The Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival was awarded to the Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The Best Actress award went to French actress Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy) and Best Actor was awarded to Spaniard Javier Bardem (Biutiful) and Italian Elio Germano (Our Life). Czech screenwriter Irena Hejdová received special recognition for the film adaptation of the book My Grandmother's Memory by author Petra Hůlová.
29. - American actor Dennis Hopper died at the age of 74 in California. He became famous as the director and actor of the cult film Easy Rider.
31. - In New York, Franco-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois died (98).

JUNE
1. - At the age of 103, Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno, who introduced the dance style butoh to the international stage, died.
9. - In Moscow, legendary classical dance performer from the Soviet era Marina Semyonova died at the age of 102.
14. - The play Red about expressionist painter Mark Rothko received six Tony Awards. In the musicals category, the story Memphis about racial segregation in the American South captured four awards.
18. - Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate José Saramago (87) died on the Spanish island of Lanzarote.

JULY
12. - A Swiss court rejected the request of the American justice system to extradite Roman Polanski and lifted the house arrest of the famed filmmaker. Polanski was arrested in Zurich on September 26, 2009, based on an American warrant from 1978 for allegedly raping a thirteen-year-old girl in 1977.
15. - In London, famous conductor and expert on Czech music Sir Charles Mackerras died (84).
24. - A mass panic at the Loveparade techno party in Duisburg, Germany, resulted in 21 dead and 500 injured.

AUGUST
7. - French actor Bruno Cremer, known for his role as inspector Maigret, died at the age of 80.
30. - The American Emmy award in the drama series category was awarded for the third consecutive time to the series Mad Men. The Best Comedy Series award went to Modern Family.

SEPTEMBER
11. - The main Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival was awarded to the film Somewhere by American director Sofia Coppola.
12. - French film director Claude Chabrol, one of the most significant figures of the French New Wave, died at the age of 80.
12. - Singer Lady Gaga became the queen of the American MTV music awards by winning eight awards, including the prestigious Video of the Year award for her songs Bad Romance and Telephone.
20. - The White Goose, the main prize of the international jury at the DMZ documentary festival in South Korea, was awarded to the documentary comedy Czech Peace by Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda.
28. - American director Arthur Penn (88), who made the famous film about the criminal couple Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, passed away.
29. - At the age of 85, American film actor Tony Curtis, known from the classic comedy Some Like It Hot, died.

OCTOBER
2. - Czech-born director Miloš Forman received a lifetime achievement award at the International Film Festival in Zurich.
7. - The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2010 was awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa for "mapping the structures of power and penetratingly portraying the resistance, revolt, and defeat of the individual."
12. - The Man Booker Prize for the novel The Finkler Question was awarded to English writer and journalist Howard Jacobson.
22. - American translator Alex Zucker received the prestigious National Translation Award in New York for translating into English the debut novel of Czech writer Petra Hůlová, My Grandmother's Memory.
24. - At the age of 98, American playwright Joseph Stein, author of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, passed away.

NOVEMBER
3. - The Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) today filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors after years of attempts to reduce its debt. Investor Carl Icahn stated that he had reached an agreement with MGM and creditors regarding the studio's support in a pre-planned bankruptcy.
7. - The handing out of the European Music Awards (EMA) by the MTV television station was dominated by American artists. Singers Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Kesha received awards in Madrid, and the rock band Bon Jovi was also honored.
8. - The French literary Goncourt Prize was awarded to French writer Michel Houellebecq for the novel La carte et le territoire.
9. - Under the title Decision Points, the memoirs of former President George Bush were published in the USA.
11. - The world premiere of the first part of the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh installment of the film saga, took place in London.
11. - At the age of 91, Italian-American producer and honorary Oscar winner Dino de Laurentiis died in Los Angeles.
16. - The list of intangible heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) newly included the carnival processions and masks from Hlinecko and falconry, which was nominated by 11 countries, including the Czech Republic.
24. - The Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award for Spanish-speaking authors, was awarded to Spanish writer Ana María Matute.
29. - Italian director Mario Monicelli, who was a legend of Italian cinema, committed suicide by jumping out of a window at the age of 95.