Miss Universe special awards

The following tables list the winners of the special awards given to candidates at the Miss Universe pageant during the finals night.

Miss Photogenic

In 2008 edition, the award was not handed out the first time since its inception in 1956.

Year	Winner	Country	Placement at MU
1956	Marina Orschel	Germany	2nd Runner-up
1957	Gerti Daub	Germany	4th Runner-up
1958	Corine Rottschafer	Holland	Semi-Finalist
1959	Pamela Anne Searle	England	3rd Runner-up
1960	Daniela Bianchi	Italy	1st Runner-up
1961	Sharon Rene Brown	USA	4th Runner-up
1962	Kim Carlton	England	Semi-Finalist
1963	Marlene McKeown	Ireland	2nd Runner-up
1964	Emanuela Stramana	Italy	Finalist
1965	Karin Schmidt	Austria
1966	Margareta Arvidsson	Sweden	Miss Universe 1966
1967	Elya Calligeraki	Greece	Semi-Finalist
1968	Daliborka Stojsic	Yugoslavia	Semi-Finalist
1969	Carole Robinson	New Zealand
1970	Margaret Hill	Bermuda
1971	Vida Valentina Doria	Philippines
1972	Ann Roger	Belgium	Semi-Finalist
1973	Maria Margarita Moran	Philippines	Miss Universe 1973
1974	Johanna Raunio	Finland	3rd Runner-up
1975	Martha Echeverry (tie)	Colombia	Semi-Finalist
	Summer Bartholomew (tie)	USA	2nd Runner-up
1976	Pauline Davis	England	Semi-Finalist
1977	Janelle Commissiong	Trinidad & Tobago	Miss Universe 1977
1978	Maribel Fernandez	Costa Rica
1979	Carolyn Seaward	England	2nd Runner-up
1980	Delyse Nottle	New Zealand	2nd Runner-up
1981	Tina Brand	Denmark
1982	Marilyn Burki	Bahamas
1983	Lolita Laure Morena	Switzerland	3rd Runner-up
1984	Garbine Abasolo Garcia	Spain
1985	Brigitte Bergman	Holland
1986	Susanna Huckstep	Italy
1987	Maria Patricia López Ruiz	Colombia
1988	Tracey Williams	England
1989	Karen Wenden	Australia
1990	Pasaraporn Chaimongkol	Thailand
1991	Siobhan McClafferty	Ireland
1992	Maria Soledad Diab	Ecuador
1993	Eugenia Santana	Spain	Semi-Finalist
1994	Minorka Mercado	Venezuela	2nd Runner-up
1995	Petra Hultgren	Sweden
1996	Ailleen Damiles	Philippines
1997	Abbygale Arenas	Philippines
1998	Vladimira Hrenovcikova	Slovak Republic
1999	Brenda Liz Lopez	Puerto Rico	Semi-Finalist
2000	Helen Lindes	Spain	2nd Runner-up
2001	Denise Quiñones	Puerto Rico	Miss Universe 2001
2002	Isis Marie Casalduc	Puerto Rico
2003	Carla Tricoli	Puerto Rico
2004	Alba Reyes	Puerto Rico	2nd Runner-up
2005	Gionna Cabrera	Philippines
2006	Lia Andrea Ramos	Philippines
2007	Anna Theresa Licaros	Philippines
2009	Chutima Chantelle Durongdej	Thailand

Miss Photogenic Awards Table Tally

Rank	Country	Awards	Winning Years
1	Philippines	7	1971, 1973, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007
2	Puerto Rico	5	1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
3	England	5	1959, 1962, 1976, 1979, 1988
4	Spain	3	1984, 1993, 2000
5	Italy	3	1960, 1964, 1986

Best in Swimsuit Award

• This prize was first awarded in 1992 by Catalina until 1993. In 1994-1997 by Jantzen. In 1998-2000 by Oscar Dela Renta & In 2001-2002 by Bluepoint. Since 2002, the award was discontinued.
• In Miss Universe 2008 edition, Best in Bikini-Queen of Vinpearl was given to a candidate during the preliminaries but still it is not considered to be part of the Swimsuit Award for it is not awarded during the finals night.

Year	Winner	Country	Placement at MU
1992	Carolina Eva Izsak Kemenify	Venezuela	Top 6 Finalist
1993	Voni Delfos	Australia	Top 6 Finalist
1994	Minorka Mercado	Venezuela	2nd Runner-up
1995	Chelsi Smith	USA	Miss Universe 1995
1996	Alicia Machado	Venezuela	Miss Universe 1996
1997	Verna Vasquez	Curaçaoafkdhk	Top 6 Finalist
1998	Veruska Tatiana Ramirez	Venezuela	1st Runner-up
1999	Diana Nogueira	Spain	2nd Runner-up
2000	Lara Dutta	India	Miss Universe 2000
2001	Denise Quiñones	Puerto Rico	Miss Universe 2001
2002	Oxana Fedorova	Russia	Miss Universe 2002
2008	Elisa Nájera	Mexico	4th Runner-up

Best Hair/Style Award

• This prize was first awarded in 1993 by Palmolive Optims for the Most Beautiful Hair, in 1994 by Ivory Shampoo, in 1995 by Vibrance, Finesse in 1996, this award was not presented in 1997, Clairol Shampoo presented the award in 1998-2001. Since 2001, it is no longer handed out.

Year	Winner	Country	Placement at MU
1993	Milka Chulina	Venezuela	2nd Runner-up
1994	3rd runner-up
	Christelle Roelandts	Belgium
1995	Paola Dellepiane	Peru
1996	Alicia Machado	Venezuela	Miss Universe 1996
1998	Katty Fuentes	Mexico
1999	Miriam Quiambao	Philippines	1st Runner-Up
2000	Letty Murray	Mexico
2001	Denise Quiñones	Puerto Rico	Miss Universe 2001

Best National Costume

Award started in 1962 but not awarded in 2007.

Year	Winner	Country	Placement at MU
1962	Kim Carlton	England	Semi-finalist
1963	Sherine Ibrahim	Israel
1964	Henny Deul	Holland
1965	Sue Ann Downey	USA	2nd Runner-Up
1966	Aviva Israeli	Israel	4th Runner-Up
1967	Carmen Silva de Barros Ramasco	Brazil	Semi-finalist
1968	Luz Helena Rastepo Gonzales	Colombia
1969	Sangduen Manwong	Thailand
1970	Roxana Brown	Bolivia
1971	Maria Luisa Lopez Corzo	Mexico
1972	Carmen Amelia Ampuero	Peru	Semi-finalist
1973	Maria Rocio Martin	Spain	3rd Runner-Up
1974	Kim Jae Kyu	Korea
1975	Emy Abascal	Guatemala
1976	Rocio Lazcano	Peru
1977	Kim Sung - hee	Korea
1978	Alamjet Kaur Chauhan	India
1979	Elizabeth Busti	Uruguay
1980	Sangeeta Bijlani	India
1981	Adriana Alves de Oliveira	Brazil	3rd Runner-Up
1982	Maria Francesca Zaza Reinoso	Peru	Semi-finalist
1983	Kim Jong - Jung	Korea
1984	Juhi Chawla	India
1985	Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas	Colombia
1986	Gilda Garcia Lopez	Panama
1987	Jacqueline Ribeiro Meirelles	Brazil
1988	Porntip Nakhirunkanok	Thailand	Miss Universe 1988
1989	Flavia Cavalcanti Rebello	Brazil
1990	Liseth Mahecha	Colombia	2nd Runner-Up
1991	Maribel Gutierrez	Colombia
1992	Pamela Zarza	Paraguay
1993	Ine Beate Strand	Norway
1994	Charlene Gonzalez	Philippines	Finalist
1995	Maria Reyes Vazquez	Spain
1996	Ilmira Shamsutdinova	Russia	Finalist
1997	Claudia Elena Vasquez Angel	Colombia
1998	Wendy Fitzwilliam	Trinidad & Tobago	Miss Universe 1998
1999	Nicole Simone Dyer	Trinidad & Tobago
2000	Leticia Murray Acedo	Mexico
2001	Sa Lang Kim	Korea
2002	Vanessa Mendoza	Colombia
2003	Amelia Vega	Dominican Republic	Miss Universe 2003
2004	Jessica Rodriguez Clark	Panama
2005	Chananporn Rosjan	Thailand
2006	Kurara Chibana	Japan	1st Runner Up
2007	Agni Pratistha	Indonesia
2008	Gavintra Photijak	Thailand
2009	Diana Broce	Panama

Best National Costume Awards Table Tally

Rank	Country	Awards	Winning Years
1	Colombia	6	1968, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2002
2	Thailand	4	1969, 1988, 2005, 2008
3	Korea	4	1974, 1977, 1983, 2001
4	Brazil	4	1967, 1981, 1987, 1989
5	India	3	1978, 1980, 1984
6	Peru	3	1972, 1976, 1982
7	Panama	3	1986, 2004, 2009
8	Indonesia	1	2007
9	Japan	1	2006

Miss Congeniality

• This award is also known as Miss Amity

Year	Winner	Country	Placement at MU
1952	Myriam Lynn	Belgium
1953	Jeanne Vaughn Thompson	Louisiana1
1954	Effie Androulakaki2	Greece
1955	Maribel Arrieta	El Salvador	1st Runner-Up
1956	Anabel Granados	Costa Rica
1957	Mapita Mercado Cortes	Puerto Rico
1958	Tomoko Moritake	Japan	Semi-finalist
1959	Sondsi Sodsal Venijvadhava	Thailand
1960	Myint Myint May (tie)	Burma
	Judy Rebecca Fletcher (tie)	Louisiana1
1961	Eleftheria Delutsi	Greece
1962	Sara Olimpia Formeta (tie)	Dominican Republic
	Hazel Williams (tie)	Wales
1963	Grace Taylor	Scotland
1964	Jeanne Venables	California1
1965	Ingrid Bethake	Germany
1966	Elizabeth Sanchez (tie)	Curaçaoafkdhk
	Paquita Torres (tie)	Spain	Semi-finalist
1967	Lena McGarvie	Scotland
1968	Yasuyo Iino	Japan
1969	Zahara Boufaden	Tunisia
1970	Hilary Anne Best	Guam	Semi-finalist
1971	Magnolia Martinez	Peru
1972	Ombayi Mutaka	Zaire3
1973	Wendy Robertson	Chile
1974	Anna Bjorsdottir	Iceland
1975	Christine Mary Jackson	Trinidad & Tobago
1976	Margot Elizabeth McFarlane	Trinidad & Tobago
1977	Pamela Mercer	Canada
1978	Sophia Titus	Trinidad & Tobago
1979	Yureka Kuroda	Japan
1980	Devan Walter	Cayman Islands
1981	Linda Smith	Bahamas
1982	Maureen Teresa Lewis	Cayman Islands
1983	Abbey Scattrel Janneh	Gambia
1984	Jessica Palao	Gibraltar
1985	Lucy Carbullido Montinola	Guam
1986	Dina Reyes Salas	Guam
1987	Tatiana Reyes	Honduras
1988	Liza Marie Camacho	Guam
1989	Sharon Simons	Turks & Caicos
1990	Christiane Stocker	Germany
1991	Monique Lindsay	U.S. Virgin Islands
1992	Barbara Johnson	Turks & Caicos
1993	Jamilah Haruna	Ghana
1994	Barbara Kahatjipara	Namibia
1995	Toyin Raji	Nigeria
1996	Jodie McMullen	Australia
1997	Laura Csortan	Australia
1998	Asuman Krause	Turkey
1999	Marisa Ferreira	Portugal
2000	Tamara Scaroni	Aruba
2001	Nakera Simms	Bahamas
2002	Merlisa George	U.S. Virgin Islands
2003	Kai Davis	Antigua & Barbuda
2004	Laia Manetti	Italy
2005	Tricia Homer	U.S. Virgin Islands
2006	Angela Asare	Ghana
2007	Ningning Zhang	China
2008	Rebeca Moreno	El Salvador
2009	Wang Jingyao	China

Miss Congeniality Awards Table Tally

Rank	Country	Awards	Winning Years
1	Guam	4	1970, 1985, 1986, 1988
3	Japan	3	1958, 1968, 1979
4	Trinidad & Tobago	3	1975, 1976, 1978
5	USA1	3	1953, 1960, 1964
2	U.S. Virgin Islands	3	1991, 2002, 2005

Notes

¹ Miss USA was held jointly with Miss Universe, and candidates from both pageants were eligible for the special awards.

² In 1954, Miss Greece Rika Dialina was unable to enter the United States due to passport problems. Effie Androulakaki was sent to replace her. Androulakaki managed to win the award before Dialina's problems were sorted out. Androulakaki withdrew from the pageant after Dialina's arrival; turning down the suggestion from pageant officials that she continue to compete in the contest as "Miss Crete".

³ Zaire is now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo.