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. 

The World Junior Golf Series (WJGS), an international golf tour designed to showcase the best junior golfers in the world, commissioned a custom perpetual trophy from Bennett Awards for their World Ranking Trophy. This custom trophy will feature the names of the world’s top ranked junior golfers at the time of each of the WJGS tournaments. For this trophy, Bennett Awards created a custom sculpture in the shape of the WJGS logo. This pewter sculpture was mounted on a fabricated aluminum base that will hold the names of the world’s top-ranked junior golfers.

Bell Labs, the world-renowned industrial arm of Alcatel-Lucent, and the world’s pre-eminent research organization in the field of communication networking, commissioned Bennett Awards to create a new custom award design for its inaugural Bell Labs Prize. The centerpiece of the award is a handcrafted sculpture featuring two figures – one male and one female – holding a globe. The sculpture also incorporates sculpted elements meaningful to Bell Labs and the Bell Labs Prize, including representations of the first transistor, fiber optics, the UNIX operating system, the Horn antennae, the Shannon algorithm, and Telstar.  

Bennett Awards created a new custom award design called the “Golden Noodle” award for the inaugural Mac & Cheese Fest, which honored the best dish based on this iconic food favorite. Over 50 restaurants competed in the competition, held in Chicago, Illinois. The award featured a custom sculpture in the shape of a macaroni noodle mounted on a black marble base.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame presented The Everly Brothers with Bennett recognition awards as part of their American Music Masters Series. These awards honor groundbreaking musicians who have helped shaped the evolution of popular music, and whose contributions and stories merit broader recognition. The Rock Hall of Fame used the Bennett Awards design “Harmonize” for these awards, which feature a sculpture in the shape of a stylized music note.

For the eighth consecutive year, a group of Hollywood stars who have made a profound impact on the film industry received custom recognition awards designed by Bennett Awards as recipients of the 2014 Elle Women in Hollywood Awards. The Elle Women in Hollywood Awards recognize women for their outstanding achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing. The 2014 recipients of these distinguished achievement awards included Jennifer Garner, Tina Fey, Jessica Lange, Elizabeth Banks, Annette Bening, Zoe Saldana, Brie Larson, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) commissioned a new custom award design from Bennett Awards for some recognition awards they recently presented. The first award was the Raul Julia Award for Excellence, which is given annually to a person or persons who are making a critical difference for Latino artists. The 2014 Raul Julia Award was presented to Latin Rock superstar and dedicated philanthropist Juanes. The second award was the Horizon Award, which honors individuals who have not only emerged but continue to make a positive impact in all that they do, both personally and professionally. The 2014 recipients of this award were actress Emily Rios (The Bridge), and actor Jesse Garcia (From Dusk Till Dawn).  

For the third straight year, the world’s top-ranked junior golf tournament presented a family of custom recognition awards created by Bennett Awards for its championship trophies. The Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, ranked by Golfweek as the top junior golf tournament in the world, used three unique custom recognition awards created by Bennett Awards for their 2014 event: 1) a 36” perpetual trophy called the Gibbs Trophy that features an engraved plaque identifying that year’s champion; 2) a smaller 18” version of the trophy that is presented to the champion to keep; and 3) custom medallions that are given to the tournament runners up.