The phrase "plethora of awards" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a large or excessive number of awards. Example: "The famous actor has a plethora of awards on his mantle, including an Oscar and several Golden Globes."
Josephine has won a plethora of awards and honors, including the Women Leadership Awards' Top Female Leader in Information & Communications Technology (2016) presented by the Women Heritage World Organization, Megafest Top 20 Outstanding Women in Business (2015), Businesswoman of the Year, ZNCC Mashonaland 1st Runner Up (2014), among many other distinctions.
She has won a plethora of awards, including Designer of the Year in 1972.
Their debut album, Barton Hollow, had been released to critical acclaim, strong sales and a plethora of awards.
(Sound familiar?) Mrs. Clinton has been picking up a plethora of awards since she left the Obama administration in February.
Their array of cured meats has just scooped a plethora of awards, and graces the tables of some of the country's classiest restaurants and gastropubs.
The idea is to cut back on some of the unseemly campaigning of recent years and perhaps winnow out some of the plethora of awards shows that have popped up in the weeks between New Year's Day and the Oscars.
A plethora of award-winning, controversial, and ground-breaking movies were presented to the New York City cognoscenti who attended.
It's good to be a server in San Francisco, and the plethora of award-winning restaurants isn't the only reason.
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing mourns the passing of our esteemed colleague and dear friend, a masterful science writer, who, in a career spanning more than a half-century, amassed a plethora of major awards and honors that testified to the breadth and brilliance of his writing and reportorial skills.
One aspect that will be missing from this year's Oscar night is the plethora of post-awards parties.
Too often, since it was first given, in 1969, it has been used to reward free-market orthodoxy, as evidenced by the plethora of prizes awarded to scholars at the University of Chicago.
