The phrase "award acceptance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of receiving or acknowledging an award, often in a formal context such as speeches or written statements.
Example: "During the award acceptance, the recipient expressed gratitude to their mentors and supporters."
Alternatives: "acceptance speech" or "award reception".
The actor and activist Jesse Williams beautifully mocked this blame-the-victim mentality in his Humanitarian Award acceptance speech at this year's BET Awards: "She would have been alive today if she hadn't acted so … free".
He also fled the spotlight after interrupting Taylor Swift's award acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards.
The singer also took a disparaging swipe in her female video award acceptance speech at August's MTV Video Music Awards in August when she claimed her accolade for "I Knew You Were Trouble".
In his Academy Award acceptance speech, Rademakers famously chided American audiences to be more accepting of subtitled films.
This would have been the best award acceptance of all time if it wasn't for the 2007 winner Doris Lessing.
"I obviously should've been writing Y.A. all along," Alexie said in his National Book Award acceptance speech.
THE DONALD AWARD Also to Hillary Clinton for her year-long application of the Trump play -- creating another candidacy of inevitability through myriad award acceptances, a CNN docudrama and selective interviews.
Not so long ago "the fans" were a faceless entity, occasionally thanked by actors as an afterthought in awards acceptance speeches, now they are part of a dialogue, with the power to change plots and even get a series recommissioned.
Tackling a fraught and nuanced subject in an awards acceptance speech can often be a perilous endeavour, and Star Wars actor John Boyega has become the latest celebrity figure to hurriedly clarify comments made amid the high emotion of a moment of triumph.
That's like asking Michael Douglas to not give a creepy awards acceptance speech.
Hans Berlin, who last year came out during a Grabby awards acceptance speech, puts it this way: "There are still some dumb people in the industry – and that shouldn't be an insult.
