Would you rather win an Oscar or a Nobel Prize?

[rumguy]

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

1. Nobel

hands down more presige. Especially outside of the US.

Edit: make it a Nobel Peace Prize, too. MAN, would THAT ever be the shit.

[JI7]

2. Nobel

[theorist]

3. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (or Physics).

Preferably the chemistry prize. It'll be difficult for a theorist to get it in the next couple decades, so it might happen.

[Ready4Change]

4. Nobel Prize. 100% no doubt.

I even know what I'd like to do to earn it. (Not that I've lifted a finger to actually do anything like it.)

[gospelized]

5. i'd like to win

the nobel prize for having the most oscars ever.

[chookie]

6. Nobel

No need for painful high heels and a sprayed on tan. No idiotic interviews on the red carpet entering the venue.

Will miss Billy Crystal or Steve Martin though.

[aePrime]

7. Fields Medal

Closest thing to my career anyway.

[theorist]

11. That's a rough one, too.

Andrew Wiles didn't even get it for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. He got some kind of consolation prize, I believe. The Field's is a rough one, usually only given for work done in a mathematician's early career (under 30 years old).

John Nash was quite obsessed about getting one; I don't blame him. Isn't it only given out every other year, too, and sometimes not at all?

[aePrime]

17. Every four years, I believe

And Wiles didn't get one because they're generally given out for a body of work, not a particular result. Controversial, that.

[liontamer]

24. well if mathmeticians could keep their hands off of people's wives

maybe they'd get nobel prizes too. :P

[pansypoo53219]

8. Nobel

comes with $.

[getoffmytrain]

9. Oscar.

More women come with it.

[Droopy]

10. Nobel prize because that would mean that I had a brain in my head

An Oscar would just mean that I was a good actor which in turn would mean that I would be really good at bullshitting people.

[mark11727]

12. Nobel Peace Prize, absolutely.

[hobbit709]

13. Nobel of course

Oscar is basically a popularity contest. Nobel says you actually did something

[onebigbadwulf]

14. nobel - top 10 reasons

1. you get paid a million dollars
2. your speech can be longer than a minute
3. you actually make an impact on humanity
4. you necessarily had to do something important (unlike oscars where lighting guys win oscars)
5. nobel is more prestigeous
6. people actually care what you have to say
7. it's not rigged / political
8. you aren't competing with anyone
9. if your achievement isnt recognized one year, it can be recognized the next
10. you aren't criticized by a disgusting old hag about what you're wearing

[NamVetsWeeLass]

15. I say Nobel, But I do have a few people I wish would get the Darwin....

n/t

[Dudley_DUright]

16. I was shocked that the Nobel committee passed me up AGAIN

this year for the Physics prize. Oh well, maybe next year. ;-)

[Streetdoc270]

18. Oscar

They give away better stuff :silly:

[ronnykmarshall]

19. Oscar

[eyesroll]

20. Nobel.

I'm a writer, not an actor.

[Burma Jones]

21. Nobel

Then someone can get an oscar for playing ME.

[liontamer]

22. nobel

which is also a popularity contest, but one that I care about

[MissMillie]

23. Nobel

for the money and the prestige

[Anarcho-Socialist]

25. Nobel Prize - because they're far more prestigious n/t

[BluePatriot]

26. Nobel

...because they are way cooler than an Oscar and you get cash...roughly 1.3 million dollars I think.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

27. Nobel... for science

or mathematics.