Disgraciad of the year

Award Ceremony

2025 Bestie Awards

Thematic Focus

Institutional decline and political/social critique

2025 Recipients

Universities, European Speech Suppression, Socialism in New York

Host Organization

All-In Podcast

Announcement Location

San Francisco, California

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A simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person’s life and enrich an entire community. 2023 #### English, by Sanaz Toossi [...] For his extraordinary picture, distributed by Agence France-Presse, of two Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guarding their position as beams of light stream through bullet holes in a nearby metal wall. Public Service #### Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL For its well documented investigation of off-duty police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard. See all 2013 winners [...] A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities and also represent a new life. 2022 #### Fat Ham, by James Ijames A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes "Hamlet" to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty.

This list is illustrative, not exhaustive; it highlights well-documented cases where public respect gave way to disgrace because of criminal conduct, substantiated abuse or fraud, or high-profile scandals that materially ended prior standing. Benjamin Lee Smith Author has 311 answers and 6.2M answer views · 4y Harvey Weinstein [...] Marion Jones — Olympic gold-medalist sprinter who was an icon of athletic excellence; admitted to doping in 2007, stripped of medals and imprisoned for related charges, resulting in major fall from grace. [...] Travis Kalanick — Founder of Uber; once celebrated as a disruptive tech entrepreneur and CEO; ousted in 2017 amid scandals over toxic workplace culture, regulatory breaches, and management controversies that tarnished his reputation. Elizabeth Holmes — Founder of Theranos hailed as an entrepreneurial wunderkind; convicted of fraud in 2022 after Theranos was exposed as a deceptive enterprise, leading to imprisonment and the dismantling of her public image. Politicians / Public Servants

their lives, was another of the nominees. The sixth was "The Blackwater Lightship," by Colm Toibin, in which a young woman grapples with her uneasy relationship with her mother and grandmother as her beloved brother dies of AIDS. | | | --- Home | Site Index | Site Search | Forums | Archives | Marketplace Quick News | Page One Plus | International | National/N.Y. | Business | Technology | Science | Sports | Weather | Editorial | Op-Ed | Arts | Automobiles | Books | Diversions | Job [...] Another book nominated was Michael Frayn's "Headlong," the story of an academic's efforts to prove that a picture he spots in a neighbor's house is a long-lost Bruegel. The list also included Ahdaf Soueif's "Map of Love," about two parallel love affairs between Westerners and Egyptians, one at the turn of the century and one in the present. "Our Fathers," the first novel by the Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan, in which a grandson called to his grandfather's death bed in Glasgow reviews both [...] | | | | | | | | --- --- ---