"Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes in his will in 1895, bequeathing his fortune to a fund that would honour 'those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1009/nobelwinners.html Meanwhile...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/05/boxoffice.ap/index.html (2008-10-12 - Supplement)
... and again...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/12/boxoffice.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories