Of the 5 Nobel prize pages, 3 start from the present day, 2 go forward from 1901. IMO lists of prize awards or works are in a sense timelines, and as such should go forwards. What are your opinions?

When I created "World Series of Poker", I did it from present-day backwards, because that seemed to me easiest from the reader's point of view--the latest, most relevant stuff up front, followed by historical stuff that can be easily skipped. As a user, I'd like to see things like Nobel prizes and Academy awards in that same order, most recent to as far back as we care to document. But maybe that's just a personal preference of mine.

Timelines of /a single event/ should go forward--even if that event is something that lasts over many years like a war or a human life (i.e., a biography); that seems natural, because it follows the way the event unfolds. And there's no clear separation of units of time to reverse.

But /recurring multiple events/ seem to be a different beast to me: people generally want to know mainly about the recent ones, and a reverse order doesn't seem at all "unnatural" because the events are seen as separate and individual, and only vaguely related as a sequence. And there's certainly no sense of later events having dependencies on earlier ones as there would be in a biography or war timeline.