The Shaw Prizes are $1 million cash awards offered annually by Run Run Shaw (b. 1907), a longtime movie and television producer. There are prizes for astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematics. The following table summarizes Shaw prizes in mathematics, which have been awarded since 2004.
| year | awardee | contribution |
| 2004 | Shiing-Shen Chern | geometry, pseudogroup problem |
| 2005 | Andrew John Wiles | Fermat's last theorem |
| 2006 | David Mumford | pattern theory and vision research |
| Wu Wentsun | mathematics mechanization | |
| 2007 | Robert Langlands | connecting prime numbers with symmetry |
| Richard Taylor | ||
| 2008 | Vladimir Arnold | dynamical systems, Yang-Mills equation |
| Ludwig Faddeev | ||
| 2009 | Simon K. Donaldson | geometry of 3 and 4 dimensions |
| Clifford H. Taubes | ||
| 2010 | Jean Bourgain | mathematical analysis |
| 2011 | Demetrios Christodoulou | works on nonlinear partial differential equations |
| Richard S. Hamilton |
