The phrase "award in question" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific award that is being discussed or examined in a particular context.
Example: "The committee reviewed the criteria for the award in question before making their final decision."
Alternatives: "award at hand" or "award being discussed".
The "transparency award" in question was described as "aspirational", similar to the rationale for awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize early in his presidency when he had done nothing yet to further the cause of peace.
"It used to be Truck of the Year but, well, we don't have any trucks," he added just before the award in question, decided by 80 Canadian automotive journalists, was presented to Hyundai for its Santa Fe 2.0T Sport crossover.
The court rejected that argument, saying, "The awards in question were supported by the evidence".
He confirmed that the chair of the award jury in question was at the ceremony, but that the mistake was not brought to his (Mr Owen's) attention until after the awards had ended.
The prize in question is the Prix Ars Electronica, awarded annually during the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
The standard of work showcased is so bad that some claim the future of the Turner Prize itself, regarded as one of the world's most prestigious contemporary art awards, is in question.
The award-winning animation in question, the title sequence of the "United States of Tara," took six weeks to shoot after four weeks of preparation.
The association retroactively gave the award to the product in question, the Hopper, a digital video recorder sold by Dish Network that allows users to automatically skip all the ads on prime-time network television shows.
We used the fraction of total points awarded by the country in question to each other country over the whole period of time.
And now the award in Boston prompts the question: Why this flowering of Mr. Ford's reputation?
"We will bear the cost of the potential overcharge, not the government," said Randy Harl, the president and chief executive of the Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, to which the contract in question was awarded, in a statement.
