Worth 8m kronor each, the Nobel prizes are always handed out on 10 December, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
But he has long cast himself as a man who prizes transparency.
It is a wonderful performance from Fiennes, though he might still justifiably be hoping for prizes for his own film as director-star, about Charles Dickens: The Invisible Woman.
Worth 8m kronor (£690,000) each, the Nobel prizes are always handed out on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.
Each year the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Academy, and the Norwegian Nobel committee give a series of prizes established in the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
BBC1's coverage of the Bafta TV awards drew more than 5 million viewers on Sunday night, as Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly won two prizes for the second year in a row.
Not among the original prizes provided for by Alfred Nobel's will, the economic sciences gong has only been given out since 1969, and is sponsored by Sweden's central bank, the Sveriges Riksbank.
Lucky for writers of children's fiction there are at least 10 opportunities for them to submit to prizes which are solely for fiction.
His debut collection, Arcadia, was published in 1979 and won the Somerset Maugham and Hawthornden prizes.
Of course it goes without saying that points mean prizes, but consistently, across the seasons, goal difference is an excellent indicator of where a team ends up in the league.
The results are in and the prizes apportioned.
