"awards for performance" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to refer to awards given to those who have performed well in a particular area, such as a sport or a subject. For example, "The school gave awards for performance in mathematics to the top three students in the class."
"Companies don't reach their goals," Mr. Siegel said, "salespeople don't reach their quotas, people don't get awards for performance, because they are not performing because the economy's so poor".
"In addition, the vesting of awards for performance at the third place in the group (median performance) does not represent a challenging performance requirement".
As for progression, there will be no ranking up, but successful competitors will be able to earn awards for performance, as in Team Fortress 2. "Players like to know how they're doing, how they're improving" says Faliszek.
Federal employees have received something of an early holiday present, as the Obama administration has boosted by half the amount that agencies may pay in awards for performance or special accomplishments.
"Les Miserables" decisively beat its chief competition, "Me and My Girl," which won three awards, for performance by a leading actor and actress in a musical (Robert Lindsay and Maryann Plunkett) and choreography (Gillian Gregory).
"Broadway Bound," the third part of the Neil Simon autobiographical trilogy that included "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Biloxi Blues," won the awards for performance by an actress in a play (Linda Lavin) and performance by a featured actor in a play (John Randolph), both of whom are veteran actors returning to the New York stage after long absences.
He has been showered with accolades and awards for performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, among others.
The evening was also noteworthy for the way it contrasted Broadway with Hollywood: All four awards for performances in musicals went to black actors.
— and there isn't much of a point in watching a bunch of people receive awards for performances you haven't witnessed.
The award for performance installation and new media work was given to Ward Shelley, Jesse Bercowetz and the MIR2 Collaborative Team.
And last year, she won an Evening Standard best actress award for performance as Saint Joan in the National's revival of Shaw's masterpiece.
