Earth Hour has also been lauded for its ingenuity, vision and reach, receiving MTV's Good Karma Award, The Gold Banksia Award (Australia's premier environmental honour) and the Cannes Titanium Lion, amongst a host of international accolades.
The pitch is recognised as being one of the best in English football, and has been nominated five times in the last nine seasons for best Premier League pitch, an accolade it won in 2010 11 among other awards.
The debate over which league has the better players is sure to continue but off the pitch La Liga is also competing with the Premier League for the unwanted accolade of most indebted top flight.
It marked the first and only time a silent film has received the top accolade at Hollywood's premier prize-giving event.
Three Arsenal players received the Premier League Player of the Month award – Henry twice in January and April 2004, and Bergkamp and Edu shared the accolade in February 2004 after the judges "felt it was appropriate that we make a joint award".
Where was Mr Turner, the Mike Leigh-directed biopic of Britain's groundbreaking 19th-century painter, that had won so many accolades after premiering at Cannes and winning Timothy Spall the festival's best actor award.
He was selected as Georgia CIO of the Year in both 2011 and 2015, Global CIO Breakaway Leader in 2013 and Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader in 2015, among other accolades.
He was a nominee for the Premier League Player of the Month in August 2014, with the accolade going instead to another new Chelsea signing, Diego Costa.
There is nothing to add to the accolades bestowed on Sunday morning's extraordinary drama from Sydney but Premier Sports viewers were also treated to the two curtain-raisers from the Olympic Stadium.
Overall his contribution to Ferguson's 10th Premier League title in 16 years cannot be sullied, but had he taken the individual accolade for the championship-winning display here it would have been a travesty.
The pair first competed at the premier European film festival in 1993, when Loach won the jury's prize for Raining Stones and Leigh walked away with the best director accolade for Naked.
