Architecture

  • Santiago Calatrava
    World Trade Center PATH Terminal, New York City

  • James Corner (Field Operations) and Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro
    (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
    The High Line, New York City

  • Frank Gehry
    Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago

  • Rem Koolhaas (OMA)  * * WINNER * *
    Seattle Central Library, Seattle; Netherlands Embassy, Berlin; Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal

  • Yoshio Taniguchi
    Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Art

  • Edward Burtynsky
    Manufactured Landscapes

  • Michael Lau and Eric So
    vinyl action figures

  • Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman
    messa di voce

  • Jennifer and Kevin McCoy  * * WINNER * *
    Soft Rains

  • Gerfried Stocker, Andreas Exner, Hannes Leopoldseder, and Christine Schoepf
    Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica

Books

  • Thomas Barnett
    The Pentagon's New Map

  • Susanna Clarke
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

  • Rael Dornfest, Dale Dougherty, and Tim O'Reilly
    O'Reilly Hacks series

  • Jeff Hawkins  * * WINNER * *
    On Intelligence

  • James Surowiecki
    The Wisdom of Crowds

Blogs

  • Ana Marie Cox
    Wonkette.com

  • Mark Cuban
    Blogmaverick.com

  • Glenn Reynolds
    Instapundit.com

  • Kevin Sites  * * WINNER * *
    Kevinsites.net

  • Rex Sorgatz
    Fimoculous.com

Business

  • Alex Bogusky
    executive creative director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

  • Shigeyuki Hori  * * WINNER * *
    Executive Chief Engineer for Prius, Toyota

  • Steve Jobs
    CEO, Apple Computer

  • Yuanqing Yang
    president, vice chair, and CEO, Lenovo

  • Jong-Yong Yun
    vice chair and CEO, Samsung Electronics

Film

  • Brad Bird  * * WINNER * *
    The Incredibles

  • Jonathan Caouette
    Tarnation

  • Michel Gondry
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Trey Parker and Matt Stone
    Team America: World Police

  • Quentin Tarantino
    Kill Bill Vol. 2

Games

  • Jack Emmert
    City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios)

  • Gabe Newell
    Half-Life 2 (Valve Software)

  • Pete Parsons and team  * * WINNER * *
    Halo 2 (Bungie Studios)

  • Keita Takahashi
    Katamari Damacy (Namco)

  • Alex Ward
    Burnout 3 (Criterion Games)

Industrial Design

  • Apple Industrial Design Team
    iMac G5 and iPod shuffle

  • Yves Béhar (Fuseproject)
    Aliph Jawbone Headset

  • Naoto Fukasawa
    Plus Minus Zero Collection

  • Paul Pierce and Motorola CXD Team
    Razr V3 Cell Phone

  • Burt Rutan  * * WINNER * *
    Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne

Medical Science

  • Chester Buckenmaier
    anesthesiology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center

  • John Donoghue
    neuroscience, Cyberkinetics

  • Bette Korber
    HIV bioinformatics, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Robert Lanza  * * WINNER * *
    cell biology, Advanced Cell Technology

  • Jonathan Tilly
    reproductive biology, Harvard Medical School

Music

  • Björk
    Medulla

  • Danger Mouse  * * WINNER * *
    The Grey Album

  • Prince
    Musicology

  • The Streets
    A Grand Don't Come for Free

  • TV on the Radio
    Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Science

  • Peter Brown and team
    paleoanthropology, University of New England

  • Drew Endy
    synthetic biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • James Hansen
    climatology/science policy, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

  • Richard Jefferson
    biotechnology and intellectual property, Biological Innovation for Open Society

  • Steven Squyres  * * WINNER * *
    Mars exploration, Cornell University

Technology

  • Adam Curry
    iPodder

  • Mark Fletcher  * * WINNER * *
    Bloglines

  • Scott Maccabe
    Toshiba Microdrives

  • Jimmy Wales
    Wikipedia

  • Zhang Zuoyi
    INET

Television

  • Blair Harrison  * * WINNER
    iFilm.com

  • Rick Hurvitz and Bruce Beresford-Redman
    Pimp My Ride (MTV)

  • Mitchell Hurwitz
    Arrested Development (Fox)

  • Matt Maiellaro and David Willis
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Cartoon Network)

  • Jon Stewart
    The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

WIRED Renegade

  • Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt
    Google

  • Blake Ross and Ben Goodger
    architects, Firefox

  • Burt Rutan
    founder, president, and CEO, Scaled Composites

  • Howard Stern  * * WINNER * *
    The Howard Stern Radio Show

  • Jon Stewart
    The Daily Show with Jon Stewart