Nobel Peace Prize 2025 Winner Live Updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado announced as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner

Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #nobelpeaceprize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to… pic.twitter.com/Zgth8KNJk9

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2025

As speculations loom whether US President Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize, let's take a look at four US presidents have won the prize in the past.

1. Theodore Roosevelt (1906)

He was the first US president to receive the prize. Roosevelt was given the award for mediating the Russo-Japanese War through the Treaty of Portsmouth.

2. Woodrow Wilson (1919)

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. He won the award for his role in ending World War I and creating the League of Nations, the world's first intergovernmental organisation aimed at preserving peace.

3. Jimmy Carter (2002)

Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States.

Recognised "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," Carter received the prize 21 years after leaving office.

4. Barack Obama (2009)

Obama, the 44th president of the United States, won the award early into his presidency “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

Emphasis was also given to his support - in word and deed - for the vision of a world free from nuclear weapons.

Any person or organization can be nominated by anyone eligible to nominate.

There is no vetting of nominations prior to the nomination deadline, hence the Norwegian Nobel Committee has no influence on the quality of the submissions.

The task of the Committee is strictly limited to selecting the best candidate (or candidates) among the entire list of submissions.

To simply be nominated is therefore not an official endorsement or honour extended by the Nobel Committee, and may not be used to imply affiliation with the Nobel Peace Prize or its related institutions.

All living persons and active organizations or institutions are eligible candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

What is considered a valid nomination is defined by the Nobel Foundation’s statutes.

In order for a nomination to be valid, it must be submitted no later than January 31. Submissions shall preferably be made through an online form.

Members of the Nobel Committee may add further names to the list during their first meeting after the nomination process is closed. In 2025 the first meeting of the committee was held 26 February.

After all the qualified nominations have been discussed, a short-list of the most interesting and worthy candidates is created.

The candidates on the short-list are then subject to assessments and examinations done by the Nobel Committee's permanent advisers, together with other Norwegian or international experts.

As a rule, the Committee reaches a decision only at its very last meeting before the announcement of the year’s laureate(s) at the beginning of October.

The Committee seeks to achieve consensus in its selection of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

On the rare occasions when this proves impossible, the decision is reached by a simple majority vote.

(Source: https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/)

After Israel and Hamas agreed to Trump’s Gaza plan, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an AI-generated photo of himself awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump on his official social media account.

“Give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it,” Netanyahu wrote on X.

Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize - he deserves it! 🏅 pic.twitter.com/Hbuc7kmPt1

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 9, 2025

Linus Pauling is the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes - in chemistry and peace.

He used quantum mechanics to understand and describe chemical bonding.

Later he campaigned vehemently against nuclear weapons and spearheaded a petition to ban nuclear testing.

Linus Pauling is the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes - in chemistry and peace.

He used quantum mechanics to understand and describe chemical bonding. Later he campaigned vehemently against nuclear weapons and spearheaded a petition to ban nuclear testing. pic.twitter.com/OnjbNKU76b

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2025

Trump might also not be a contender this year because the prize typically rewards achievements from the previous year.

By this time last year, Trump had been elected but not yet sworn in as president.

Another reason Trump may not win the Nobel Peace Prize lies in the principles guiding the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decisions.

The five-member committee bases its choices on the 1895 will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.

Russia would back US President Donald Trump's candidature for the Nobel Peace Prize, state news agency TASS quoted Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as saying on Friday.

The winner of the 2025 prize will be announced at 0900 GMT, but experienced watchers of the award say it is highly unlikely to be Trump.

Russia has said repeatedly that it is grateful for Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in remarks published on Thursday that Kyiv would nominate Trump for the Nobel, which he openly covets, if he managed to bring about a ceasefire.

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The US president has been campaigning for the award for quite some time now.

He has even been critical of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, who won it in 2009 “for extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. Trump said Obama won the prize for “doing nothing”.

In July, The Guardian reported that the POTUS had called Norway’s finance minister and former NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg to ask about the Nobel Prize. In a UN meeting last month, Trump again claimed credit for “ending seven wars,” telling world leaders: “Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.”

While Oslo is bracing for any reaction, Arild Hermstad, leader of Norway’s Green Party, said the Nobel Committee’s independence is what gives the prize its credibility.

The Nobel committee said on Thursday that the decision on who would be named the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was made on Monday, two days before the US President got Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire as part of his Gaza peace plan.

According to this timeline and the five-member committee that decides the winner, Trump is unlikely to win the prize. The situation has also sparked concern in Norway over how he might react to being overlooked so publicly.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize today (Friday).

Experts say the committee typically focuses on the durability of peace, the promotion of international fraternity and the quiet work of institutions that strengthen those goals.

(With inputs from AP)