At the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 on August 13, 2014, the Fields Medals (started in 1936), the Nevanlinna Prize (started in 1982), the Gauss Prize (started in 2006), and the Chern Medal Award (started in 2010) were awarded. In addition, the winner of the Leelavati Prize (started in 2010) and the speaker of the ICM Emmy Noether Lecture (started in 1994) were announced.  More information about the awards can be found HERE.
Below is information about the awardees. The texts describing their work are copyright free and can be used in publications. This also applies to the photos of the prize winners below. 

List of all 2014 awardees with brief citations

Fields Medals 2014

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• Fields Medal 2014 for Artur Avila
• Fields Medal 2014 for Manjul Bhargava
• Fields Medal 2014 for Martin Hairer
• Fields Medal 2014 for Maryam Mirzakhani

Rolf Nevanlinna Prize 2014

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• Nevanlinna Prize 2014 for Subhash Khot

Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics 2014

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•  Gauss Prize 2014 for Stanley Osher

Chern Medal Award 2014

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•  Chern Medal Award 2014 for Phillip Griffiths

Leelavati Prize 2014

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•  Leelavati Prize 2014 for Adrián Paenza

ICM Emmy Noether Lecture 2014

The 2014 ICM Emmy Noether lecturer is Georgia Benkart.

The videos about the winners of the Fields Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize were produced by the Simons Foundation which has granted the International Mathematical Union (IMU) the copyrights to the final videos. IMU gives all media (TV, online media) the permission to use the “online versions” of these videos.

• Fields Medal 2014 for Artur Avila
• Fields Medal 2014 for Manjul Bhargava
• Fields Medal 2014 for Martin Hairer
• Fields Medal 2014 for Maryam Mirzakhani
• Nevanlinna Prize 2014 for Subhash Khot