Winners, determined by both a judges panel and a popular vote, will be announced on June 13 in New York, where they will be asked, as usual, to deliver acceptance speeches of no more than five words.
An awards ceremony will be held in New York in late January, where the winners of the "most important categories" (the site doesn't say what qualifies as important) will be able to deliver acceptance speeches in person or via video in 140 characters or less.
With a superbly written, adequately delivered acceptance speech Thursday night, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton closed out a nearly flawless party convention in Philadelphia by pitilessly attacking her Republican rival and laying out a liberal agenda for her administration.
Winners also were given the chance to deliver acceptance speeches in front of an audience of several thousand onlookers and the show's host: actor, comedian and Grammy nominee David Alan Grier.
There is tremendous pressure on colleges not only to deliver acceptances this time of year, but ultimately to enroll a freshman class better than the previous year.
After all these years, she is finally delivering her acceptance speech (her children accepted the award and the more than one million dollars that went with it on her behalf 21 years ago).
She took a serious gulp from it before delivering her acceptance speech.
It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who broke with the tradition in 1932 by flying to Chicago and delivering his acceptance address to the convention.
This year, Derek Connolly, who took the first award of the day, best debut screenplay, for "Safety Not Guaranteed," decided to take his time delivering his acceptance speech.
As a freshman senator in 2005, after delivering an acceptance speech in Detroit for a lifetime achievement award from the N.A.A.C.P., Mr. Obama spoke about the differences.
