The phrase "awards for playing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to recognition or prizes given to individuals for their participation or performance in a game or sport.
Example: "The tournament will offer various awards for playing, including trophies and gift cards for the top performers."
Alternatives: "prizes for participation" or "recognition for playing".
She won several comedy awards for playing Blanche, although she only became a regular cast member in 1999 after numerous occasional appearances.
If one theme dominated the night, besides matrimonial revelry, it was straight actors winning awards for playing gay men, transgender women, and/or AIDS victims, a trope as old as "Philadelphia".
She was nominated for best actress in the Drama Critics' Circle awards for playing the lead in The Play Room (1965); Coppola, who was in the audience, cast her in You're a Big Boy Now.
Some feel angry about how able-bodied actors such as Eddie Redmayne are showered with awards for playing people with physical disabilities, especially while actors with disabilities in real life struggle to find work commensurate with their talent.
'SPY' (SKY, 2011-12) = 'SPY' (ABC) Darren Boyd won Bafta and British Comedy best-acting awards for playing the hapless father accidentally turned MI5 agent in this sitcom, which exhibits a common British quality: the ability to do dark, absurdist humor with an air of realism and characters who are recognizably human and occasionally sympathetic.
After those high-profile dramatisations of David Frost's 1977 interviews with the only US president forced to resign, interviewer Oprah Winfrey and interviewee Lance Armstrong could be forgiven for idly wondering – as they prepared for their encounter, to be broadcast on Thursday – if actors will one day be nominated for Tony and Oscar awards for playing them.
She received an Academy Award for playing Fanny Brice in the musical "Funny Girl" and two Grammy Awards for her first record, "The Barbra Streisand Album".
Similarly, Christopher Plummer, 82, won for the supporting actor award for playing an gay father in "Beginners".
Fredric March won his first Academy Award for playing the lead role.
Bolger won a Tony Award for playing Charley in the original 1948 Broadway production.
Most famously, Bryan Cranston won a Tony award for playing LBJ in Robert Schenkkan's All the Way.
