Movie Related Award
Winners and Nominees

Last update: [Sat Aug 2 17:54:45 2003]

Managed by Oliver Heidelbach

• What does fit into the AWARDS list of the IMDb?

• Submission format of the AWARDS list

• Detailed explanation of the submission format
• Submission examples
• Submitting a correction
• Making additional comments

• How to add an award (step-by-step)?

• Most common faults adding data to the AWARDS list
• AWARDS list submitter's check list

• Adding new titles to the IMDb

What does fit into
the AWARDS list of the IMDb?

Although the award section is mainly designed for awards given on a regular basis it is also designed to keep track of the various awards given in the world of movies at all. It should provide the user of the IMDb with an overview which movie or what person has gained which awards/nominations.

With the above in mind you may add any kind of award, even short-lived awards if you consider those of any general interest.

For example a reader poll of a local newspaper on '100 years of cinema - best film ever' is surely of some general interest (see the examples below to get an idea of how to submit such a thing) whereas the 'movie of the month' in the same newspaper or magazine would be not.

Before you add such awards ask yourself a moment 'Would others all over the world be interested in knowing this?'. And please be honest here ;-)

Please do not include (official) recommendations or (official) certificates of any kind if those cannot be considered an award.

E.g. the Catholic Commission for Media Information in Germany regularly rates movies as 'worth to be seen'. Such a thing is not to be considered an award. It is a recommendation and thus not to be entered into the awards list.

Please don't mix-up movie-related with acting awards. E.g. the Tony Awards are given for stage acting performances, but they are not movie-related. Please don't submit Tony Awards to the IMDb awards list. If you think other than movie-related awards should be included in a person's filmography, please use the trivia section of the biographies list.

(Overview of currently known award events and their awards)

Contribution format
of the AWARDS list

List keyword for submissions:

AWARD

Tags for the AWARDS list (in that order):

See examples with real world data.

Please read the explanations below.
If you have further questions or feel that the following explanations
are misguiding somehow please feel free to contact the maintainer via email.

Detailed explanation
of the submission format

• MV: <movie title>

  Enter the movie title as known to the IMDb or enter a dash if it is a personal award with no relationship to any movie, e.g. a lifetime or a technical award.

  Sometimes an award is given for performances in several movies. Please only enter one movie with the MV: tag. Add additional movies to the comment tag (CO:).

  E.g.:

  MV: Panama Deception, The (1992)
MV: "Star Trek" (1965)
MV: -

• NM: <person's name> [(<attribute>)]

  Enter the person's name as known to the IMDb if the award is related to a person, i.e. Best Direction, Best Actor etc.

  If a Best Picture award is presented to the movie's producer please don't forget to give his/her name here.

  The format is <lastname(s)>, <firstname(s)>. Please note the comma behind the person's surname.

  There is one exception to the usual IMDb names format and that is if fictious characters like e.g. 'Godzilla' or groups like e.g. 'The Beatles' are awarded. In such a case please put the name in quotation marks.

  In order to achieve the goal to keep complete track of awards and due to the fact that information may be hardly to gather especially for older awards you may also enter 'Unknown' if the name of the recipient is unknown, but all other necessary data is known. You should not give that hopefully always temporary placeholder for recent awards.

  You may enter several names for one award, if the award is given to more than one person. Enter a new line and tag for every name given. You may mix this tag with the CY: tag for companies.

  E.g.:

  NM: Foster, Jody
NM: Kurasawa, Akira
NM: John, Elton (music)
NM: Rice, Tim (lyrics)
NM: MacKenzie, Michael (ILM)
NM: Kennel, Glenn (Eastman Kodak)
NM: "Godzilla"
NM: "The Beatles"

  Attributes should be given e.g. as company information for technical awards where the award's recipient might not be widely known.

  Attributes should also be given where people are awarded together for different achievements as in the example above (music)/(lyrics).

  Please note: All attribute information - the data in the brackets - has *two* spaces in front.

• CY: <company's name> [(<attribute>)]

  Enter the company's name here if the award is given to a company, i.e. Best Picture, Technical Award etc.

  You may enter several companies for one award, if the award is given to more than one company. Enter a new line and tag for every company given. You may mix this tag with the NM: tag for real persons.

  E.g.:

  CY: Industrial Light & Magic (computer graphics department)
CY: Toulouse U Genie Des Systemes
CY: Kodak Pathe CTP CINE
CY: Eclair Laboratories (Paris, France)

  Please note: All attribute information - the data in the brackets - has *two* spaces in front.

• EV: <event's name>

  Enter the event's name as known to the AWARDS MASTER list.

  E.g.:

  EV: Academy Awards, USA
EV: Emmy Awards
EV: Sundance Film Festival
EV: Cinema magazine, Germany

• AW: <award's name>

  Enter the name of the award as known to the AWARDS MASTER list.

  E.g.:

  AW: Oscar
AW: Golden Lion
AW: Emmy
AW: Special Prize of the Jury
AW: FIPRESCI Award
AW: FIPRESCI Award - Honorable Mention
AW: Festival's Audience Award

• CT: <category>

  Enter the category of the award if any. Some awards may not have a category, because the award itself is the category, e.g. FIPRESCI (film press award).

  Please submit this information beginning substantial words in uppercase.

  E.g.:

  CT: Best Direction
CT: Best Actress
CT: Best Supporting Actor
CT: Worst Film Ever
CT: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Series
CT: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
CT: Best Short film

• YR: <year of award/event>

  Enter the year the award was given in. Please don't be confused when submitting for example academy awards. The 1994 academy awards were given in spring 1995 and you would enter 1995.

  E.g.:

  YR: 1973
YR: 1996
YR: 1930-1

  On rare occassions an event may have multiple instances in the same year, e.g. the Academy Awards in 1930. For those special cases - and only for those -, please append a counter with a dash to the year to indicate the event count within that year as in the last example above.

• RK: <1, 2, 3 or nom>

  Enter the rank of the award given (if any) or specify a nominee here.

  The following fits here: 1, 2, 3 or nom.
  Please don't add something else into the rank tag.

  Note: If a movie is an official festival contribution on festivals with a competition but without any prenomination it can be considered a nominee.
  However only a festival's official selection films, i.e. the movies which compete for the festival's grand prix are acceptable as nominees. Please don't enter movie's as being nominated which compete for minor awards in other festival sections. Some festivals have up to seven or eight sections with minor awards given and we have to draw the line somewhere.

  E.g.:

  RK: 1
RK: 2
RK: nom

• CO: - <additional comment>

  Put here whatever does not fit into the above tags, i.e. scandals, the title of the episode of an awarded TV series, song titles of songs awarded or any other useful additional information. Please put a dash in front of every different information. Please use a maximum line length of 76 characters, then begin a new line.

  Cases you will have to give a comment line:
  You must give a comment line whenever the award deals with something which cannot be directly identified by a movie title or a person's name and the according category. This includes e.g. song titles for Best Song Academy Awards or episode titles for TV series at the Emmy Awards as well as any official reasons for Honorary Awards or Special Mentions.

  E.g.:

  CO: - The decision led to an nation-wide scandal
CO: in the US, because...

  CO: - For the optical design, mechanical design,
CO: engineering and development of the Primo 3:1 zoom lens.

  CO: - For the song: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life".

  CO: - For episode "The Innkeepers".

  CO: - Tied with 'Bo Derek' (qv) in
CO: _Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)_ (qv).

  CO: - Also for his performances in
CO: _Pagemaster, The (1992)_ (qv) and
CO: _Richie Rich (1992)_ (qv).

  CO: - For outstanding service and dedication
CO: in upholding the high standards of the
CO: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Submission examples

Please look through all the following examples.
There are some 'special cases' shown.
These are preceded by a comment line (#) indicating why these are special.

AWARD

MV: -
NM: Kurosawa, Akira
EV: Academy Awards, USA
AW: Gordon E. Sawyer Award
YR: 1989
RK: 1

# Special case: Fictious character awarded
MV: -
NM: "Godzilla"
EV: MTV Movie Awards
AW: Lifetime Achievement Award
YR: 1996
RK: 1

MV: N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir (1995)
NM: Beauvois, Xavier
EV: Cannes Film Festival
AW: Jury Prize
YR: 1995
RK: 1

# Special case: Please note the song's title,
# the episode title and the miscellaneous contribution
# comments behind the names.
MV: "Simpsons, The" (1989)
NM: Clausen, Alf (composer) *
NM: Oakley, Bill (lyricist) *
NM: Weinstein, Josh (I) (lyricist) *
EV: Emmy Awards
AW: Emmy
CT: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics
YR: 1996
RK: nom
CO: - For the song "Senor Burns".
CO: - For the episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns".

MV: Camille Claudel (1988)
NM: Adjani, Isabelle
EV: Berlin International Film Festival
AW: Silver Berlin Bear
CT: Best Actress
YR: 1989
RK: 1

# Special case: Award is tied and the other movie's recipients
# are referenced in IMDb syntax.
MV: Interview with the Vampire (1994)
NM: Cruise, Tom
NM: Pitt, Brad
EV: Razzie Awards
AW: Razzie Award
CT: Worst Screen Couple
YR: 1995
RK: 1
CO: - Tied with 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv) and 'Sharon Stone' (qv)
CO: in _Specialist, The (1994)_ (qv).

MV: Eldorado (1988)
NM: Beremenyi, Geza
EV: European Film Awards
AW: European Film Award
CT: Best Direction
YR: 1989
RK: 1

# Special case: Reader poll of a magazine
MV: Enfants du Paradis, Les (1945)
EV: Zitty Magazine, Berlin, Germany
AW: Reader Poll: 100 Years Of Cinema - Best Movie Ever
YR: 1995
RK: 2

MV: Kombu Finze (1986)
EV: Locarno International Film Festival
AW: Silver Leopard
CT: Special Prize
YR: 1987
RK: 1

# Special case: Award is split for different achievements.
# Have a look at the comment.
NM: Stultz, Barry M. (Film Processing Corp.) *
NM: Avila, Ruben (Film Processing Corp.) *
NM: Kennedy, Wes (Film Processing Corp.) *
NM: Mosely, John
EV: Academy Awards, USA
AW: Scientific and Engineering Award
YR: 1985
RK: 1
CO: - For the formulation and application of an improved sound track stripe
CO: to 70mm motion picture film (Stultz/Avila/Kennedy) and for the
CO: engineering research involved therein (Mosely).

END

* Please remember to always enter two spaces in front of any comment in both awards related lists.

Submitting a correction
for the AWARDS list

Before you submit a correction for the AWARDS list be sure that you remember that every single award must be identified by both the event tag (EV:) AND the award tag (AW:). The reason for this is quite easy to understand: Two different events may both have an award with the same name, so the award's name alone would not be enough to identify the award uniquely.

You can correct data for the awards list in two different ways:

1. Using the exclamation mark

   You can use an exclamation mark in front of the data to delete the current data and then re-submit the corrected line.

   E.g.:

   MV: Citizen X (1995) (TV)
NM: ! Nettle, Joyce (casting director)
NM: Nettles, Joyce (casting director)
EV: Emmy Awards
AW: Emmy
CT: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting
YR: 1995
RK: ! 1
RK: nom

   MV: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
NM: ! unknown
NM: Capra, Frank
EV: Golden Globes
AW: Golden Globe
CT: Best Director
YR: 1947

2. Using the keyword for corrections

   You can also use the keyword CORRECT-AWARD to correct data in the awards list. This may especially be more conveniant as solution 1., if you cannot express your correction with a simple deletion.

   You can freely describe what is wrong and what should be corrected, because you do not have to stick to a given format. Use as many lines as you need.

   E.g.:

   CORRECT-AWARD
The Fantasy Film Fest's categories Best Actor/Best Actress
were changed into Best Acting Achievement in 1963

Making additional comments
for the AWARDS list

To make a free form comment please use the COMMENT-AWARD keyword.

E.g.:

COMMENT-AWARD
Your comment goes here. Use as many lines as you may need...

How to add an award (step-by-step)?

Now that you have yourself made somehow familiar with what the IMDb awards section is about, you may want to add an award.

It's easy if you know where to click. Let's go through this step-by-step.

1. Is the award you want to add related to a movie or is it not related to any movie, e.g. a life achievement award? If it is an award of the first category, simply visit the IMDb page of the movie the award was given for. If it is the latter case, please visit the according person's filmography page.

2. Scroll down the page you have visited. On the bottom of the page you will find a button [Update]. Click on that button.

3. You will be presented a page with all those IMDb sections you can add data for. Scroll down to the "Miscellaneous" heading and click on the "Awards" checkbox. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the [Add information on the above] button.

4. You are there. This is the form where you can add the awards data as described in this guide. Fill out the form where appropriate, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the [Format] button.

5. Last, but not least step: You will be shown the data that you have entered. Please have a look. Does it look like the examples above? See also the check-list. If you are satisfied, click on the button [Submit this data] and you are done.

Too complicated? It will be as easy as making a coffee on the third time - promise!

Note: The form for awards master data is automatically added below every form to add awards data. However you only need to fill out the awards master form once, when you are going to submit an award which is unknown to the IMDb awards section. Simply ignore the awards master form if you are going to submit an award for which the awards master data is already known.

Most common faults
adding data to the AWARDS list

• Submitting awards not movie-related.

  Please don't submit awards which cannot be considered movie-releated. E.g. I regularly receive additions containing Tony Awards. The Tony Awards are a stage acting award and are by no means movie-related. One day I even received an Olympic medal for inclusion in the AWARDS list.
  Awards for movie-related achievements only please.

• Submitting the wrong year

  Please make sure you are submitting the year the award was actually given in. Quite a lot organizations handing out awards refer to their awards as of the year the awards are given for, i.e. the year of eligibility. E.g. the DGA handed out their 1992 awards in spring 1993. Thus you would refer to these particular awards as of 1993, but not 1992.

• Submitting data without year

  Please make sure your submission contains a year at all. Otherwise your data cannot be added and will probably be dropped.

• Submitting data without a name

  Please make sure your submission contains the recipient's name in the proper location, i.e. the NM: tag.

• Submitting data for an unknown event

  Please make sure you are submitting data for an award event which is already known to the IMDb. If you are submitting data for an event not already known chances are that your data will not be processed, because your submission cannot be verified.
  You can check for all the events already known on our events overview page.

• "Inventing" data to fit the submission scheme

  Some submitters tend to invent data to fit the AWARDS list's data scheme. Please only submit an award category if there was one. Don't invent one.

• Making yourself too much work submitting awards

  Please don't make yourself too much work with the awards list. Especially with regular errors, e.g. all years of an event are wrong or all winners of an particular year are wrong, it's much more easier to state these fault(s) in a comment using the CORRECT-AWARD keyword. I can batch process most corrections, thus it's not necessary to submit dozens or even hundreds of corrections having basically the same error on it.

• Using superfluous comment fields

  You only need to give comments for names where it's necessary, e.g. if a group of persons is awarded for different achievements or if the achievement differs more or less from the award's category.

  NM: Clausen, Alf (composer)
NM: Oakley, Bill (lyricist)
NM: Weinstein, Josh (I) (lyricist)
EV: Emmy Awards
AW: Emmy
CT: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics

  There is no need e.g. to specify (actor) for an award with an acting category. Such an information is pretty evident.

• Using _hyperlink syntax_ (qv) where not appropriate.

  Please use IMDb full text hyperlink syntax only in the comment field CO: of the AWARDS list. The MV: tag is automatically linked into the database and does not need that syntax.

AWARDS list submitter's check list

1. Does your submission have a movie title? (MV:)

2. Does your submission have a recipient's name? (NM:)

3. Does your submission have a known event name? (EV:)
   If not please submit the new event to the AWARDS-MASTER list.

4. Does your submission have a known award name? (AW:)
   If not please submit the new award to the AWARDS-MASTER list.

5. Does your submission have the year the award was given in? (YR:)
   (A common fault is to submit the year the awards are given for.)

Adding new titles to the IMDb

If you submit AWARD information for titles not in the IMDb your information will not appear online as long as you do not at least submit the title too.

Use the TITLE keyword for that purpose:

TITLE
Camille Claudel (1988)|1988|
Sommerliebe (1993) (TV)|1993|
"Star Trek" (1965)|1965|
"Babeck" (1968) (mini)|1968|

Use quotation marks to indicate a TV series or TV mini series.
Add (mini) to TV mini series'.
Add (TV) to TV movie releases.
Add (V) to video releases.
Add (VG) to video/computer games with movie sequences.

Contact/help

• What does fit into the AWARDS list of the IMDb?

• Submission format of the AWARDS list

• Detailed explanation of the submission format
• Submission examples
• Submitting a correction
• Making additional comments

• How to add an award (step-by-step)?

• Most common faults adding data to the AWARDS list
• AWARDS list submitter's check list

• Adding new titles to the IMDb

• The submission guide of the AWARDS MASTER list

• The overview of currently known award events