At the book's end, prizes are handed out to some especially honorable, if little known, citizens of the world.
The winner's check of $40,000 goes into his team's year-end prize pool.
The European Film Awards, voted on by 2,500 members of the European Film Academy, offered its year-end prizes on Saturday in Berlin.
He talks to the contestants more and is not opposed to cracking an occasional joke about some of the lower-end prizes, the porcelain knickknacks and "constipation caplets" aimed at the older audience members.
At launch, the app includes 100 active giveaways, some of which even have high-end prizes like Lytro cameras and Android tablets.
The actors' work has been lauded, first in reviews and, lately, in year-end prizes from critics groups.
It helps that "Roma" has been a staple among critics' year-end prizes and racked up three Golden Globe nominations last week.
But in the end, the prize — if not yet the trophy — went to the younger, bolder baseliner in this French Open semifinal, as Ana Ivanovic rediscovered the range on her huge forehand in time to finish off a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory with two clean winners in a row.
In the end, the prize (and immunity for next week) went to Bert, he of the boxer shorts, and perhaps the season's most intriguing character.
Bizarrely, Nicholas Serota was "commended" in 1986 for refurbishing the Whitechapel Gallery, and by the decade's end the prize found itself without funding and a public who cared.
