"runner-up award" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a prize that is awarded to someone who was close to winning the main award. For example, "The winner of the competition was awarded a cash prize, while the runner-up award was a trophy."
His pictures were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and his single image won a runner-up award.
Berlin's grand jury prize, the runner-up award, went to Zhang Yimou, the Chinese director, for The Road Home, a film rejected by Cannes last year.
Audiard, 63, took the Grand Prix (or runner-up award) five years ago for A Prophet, and competed at the festival three years ago with Rust & Bone.
David Hallac, EE PhD candidate, is the lead author of "Toeplitz Inverse Covariance-Based Clustering of Multivariate Time Series Data," which has been selected to receive the KDD 2017 Conference Best Paper Runner-Up Award and the Best Student Paper runner-up Award.
The Venice jury this year split its Special Grand Prize, a kind of runner-up award, between "Wild Dove" by the Soviet director Sergei Solovyev and "Love Story," an Italian film by Francesco Maselli.
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer and her writing awards include Zimbabwe's Mukuru Nyaya Award for comic writing, and a runner-up award in the SA/PEN HSBC short story competition judged by JM Coetzee.
IBM donated the $1m in special prize money to charity, while the two human contestants gave half their runner-up awards away.IBM has a long tradition of setting "grand challenges" for itself as a way of driving internal research and innovation as well as demonstrating its technical smarts to the outside world.
The Kennedy Center announced Thursday that Jeff Augustin of UC San Diego and Brian Polak of USC have won $1,000 first-place awards for full-length plays, with $500 runner-up awards going to Michael Yichao of the California Institute of the Arts and Kristin Idaszak of UC San Diego.
The second runners up award went to Hugh Jackman/Jake Gyllenhaal thriller Prisoners, while the best documentary award to The Square, a chronicle of events in Egypt's Tahir Square over the last two years.
1.3 There will be a runner up award of £3000 for the second placed story.
EasyTaxi was conceived in 2011 at Google's inaugural Startup Weekend in São Paulo, where it won the "runner up" award.
