Responding to continuing concerns about the eligibility of some shows, the Tony administration committee announced yesterday that it would establish a new category of award next season: special theatrical event.
Spotlight of the Month recognizes any outstanding individual or group contribution to the Columbia community that is ineligible for any other category of award but is still worthy of attention and appreciation.
In relation to every category of award, all public votes submitted using the postal or online voting forms shall be collated into a list of finalists by GNM and presented to the advertised OFM panel of judges for their final deciding votes on award winners.
India's NABH, for example, uses a single set of standards but, depending on the results, gives three different categories of awards: pre-accreditation entry level, pre-accreditation progressive level, and fully accredited.
Last year, judges for the National Book Awards were widely criticized after the selection of a group of largely unknown authors as the finalists for the fiction prize, the most visible category of the awards.
Pratchett's Choosing To Die, in the documentary category of the awards, handed out in New York, followed the author, who after his Alzheimer's diagnosis, travelled to Swiss clinic Dignitas for a first-hand look at assisted suicide methods.
MARBURY CORNERS, Ginsburg Development's new complex of 66 lofts, town houses and condo flats near the small business district of this densely populated southern Westchester community, has been named a finalist by the National Association of Home Builders in its "Best Smart Growth" category of annual awards.
The strangest category of this awards season has to be Best Animated Picture.
