The phrase 'class of award' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type or category of award or prize that is given out. For example, "The Nobel Prize is a prestigious class of award in the field of scientific research."
You just put in your flight and it tells you how many award seats there are, for each different class of award.
Because this is the first class of award winners, the awardees have no examples to emulate and no clear paths to follow.
Nicholson's film was one among a jam-packed class of award contenders including "Gravity," "Dallas Buyers Club," "Wolf of Wall Street," "American Hustle," and "August: Osage County," not to mention a slew of talented actors and actresses including Leonardo DiCaprio, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jared Leto, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.
Mr. Iglesias ended the night with a message of brotherly love, telling the audience that he hoped in the future the Chinese, the Scandinavians and all the other regional music traditions of the world would "have a point of access to this class of awards," which currently only includes the annual Grammy ceremony and the Latin Grammys, now in their second year.
With his distinguished achievements, Dr. Shen won two prizes of National New Product Award (1964), five prizes of National Scientific Conference Award (1978), the Third Class of National Invention Award (1982), and the Second Class for Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award (1999).
At graduation he received the Class of 2004 Award of Excellence in Drama.
Cars compete for a best-of-class award, and the best-in-class winners vie for the best-in-show title.
At Wharton, Alex won 14 teaching awards in six years; at LBS, he won the MBA Class of 2016 teaching award for the highest-rated professor school-wide (voted by the first-year class) and the Best Teacher: MBA 2016 award (voted by the graduating class).
Base on those studies, CUMTB developed Dynamic Pre-reclamation Technology for High Groundwater Mining Subsidence Land in 2009, and won the second class of Science and Technology Improvement Award (MSTIA) by Ministry of Land and Resources.
If CBS is unwilling to give us the time and budget to allow this show to have the class of a proper awards show -- meaning, let's say, not cutting to the news at 11 p.m. when the author of the best play walks up to the microphone -- then I would prefer that we go in the direction of the Golden Globes.
George was Emeritus Professor of English at Hamilton College, where he was the inaugural recipient of The Class of 1962 Outstanding Teaching Award.
