Award category

Cannes Film Festival for Best Screenplay: whoops.

2008-06-15T05:58:15.0012Z

my bad. Didn't see the other one, this is the type but the other one I think should be the proper one (but it's typeless).

Award category: Non-unique property Date Established?

2008-04-14T23:39:08.0000Z

Yes. Good catch.

Award category: Non-unique property Date Established?

2008-04-14T20:20:20.0012Z

Should the property Date established be a unique field? It seems a bit silly to allow multiple dates for an award to be established and I can't think or an example where this case is valid.

Golden Globe Awards: Golden Globe television awards?

2008-04-09T22:31:19.0007Z

Hi cjewell,

You're probably right that there are only some of the more prominent Golden Globe awards (best actor/actress, score) with any data. This is where we rely on community users like yourself to help contribute and add data!

Also, you may be interested to know that there is a discussion on the data-modeling list around the grouping of specific awards under the general award, i.e. when you look up the Golden Globe awards, you should be able to then navigate to the Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture. You can join the data-modeling list here.

Golden Globe Awards: Golden Globe television awards?

2008-04-09T20:10:31.0012Z

There does not appear to be any entries for the Golden Globe television awards, only the films. I suspect there are no television awards of any kind yet, but the discrepancy is particularly apparent when only half of a well-known ceremony's awards are included.

Academy Award for Film Editing: Two Academy Award Film Editing files

2008-04-08T22:13:00.0007Z

In this case, this looks like an error -- the official name for the award seems to have been "Film Editing" rather than "Best Film Editing", so the topic for Best Film Editing should just be merged into this one.

The larger issue this brings up, though, is that some award categories change over time (according to Wikipedia, the name of this award is now "Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing"). The question is, should these be treated as separate categories, each with their own topic, or should equivalent-but-renamed awards use a single topic? Sometimes, the name change is essentially meaningless, in terms of what it implies about qualifying works, but sometimes it's more substantive -- the Academy Award for Best Actor was originally for all actors, leading or supporting. Eventually, there were two awards, one for supporting and one for leading actors. Arguably, the original version of the award is a distict entity (especially considering that both leading and supporting actors were nominated), but most sources, including the official Oscar website, combine Best Actor and Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Academy Award for Film Editing: Two Academy Award Film Editing files

2008-04-08T18:50:57.0012Z

There is an Academy Award for Film Editing, and an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Points to a more general issue of how to handle common name variations.

Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Merge

2008-03-16T03:38:25.0012Z

Apparently, the formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture".

Academy Award for Achievement in Sound Editing: Duplicate

2008-02-04T17:25:07.0012Z

Marking for merge, although we could probably delete it.

Miss Michigan USA: Should not merge!

2008-01-27T23:22:41.0012Z

Miss Michigan and Miss Michigan USA are actually separate competitions - excuse my pagentry naiveness!

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-16T21:13:52.0007Z

Thanks Jeff. I didn't know about that feature. That's great and not very annoying at all. (maybe a little but I can't think of any way to make it better)

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-16T18:43:11.0018Z

Faye -- remember that all properties in Freebase are optional, so I would expect that any query would allow for the possibility that some values will be empty. There are going to be films that win awards (without reference to a person), as well as people who win awards without reference to a specific work (like the Nobels). I don't really have an opinion about whether we should include the producers as the "award winners" for the Oscar for Best Picture; I'm happy to let the community sort that out. ;)

Ed: the award winner (and award nominee) CVTs accept multiple values for both winner and work. The problem, of course, is the the UI does not easily support entering multiple values for a single CVT property. You can only do it by first filling out as much as you can, then clicking "view" after saving it. You will then be able to enter additional values. It's annoying, I know.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-15T22:41:40.0000Z

How about listing the film title in both the "Award Winner" and "Honored for" properties in cases where the award goes to the film instead of the producer?

One thing I don't like about the Award Winners CVT in this situation is that there may be multiple producers for a film who all won the same award so they all need to be filled in individually. In other words, "Year" and "Honored for" must be filled in with the same information multiple times if there are multiple winners. I understand why it's this way but it opens the door to typos and frustration. I am concerned, from both data quality and user experience points of views, about any situations where users are asked to enter the same information multiple times.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-15T22:04:58.0000Z

Hmm, I want to differentiate between an award-winning film and an award-winning producer. The Academy doesn't have a "Best Producer" category but other awards do. If I enter a producer's name as the winner for a "Best Picture", only way I can tell the difference is to do string-matching on the award itself ("picture" vs. "producer"), something I'd rather avoid.

On the "Academy Award for Best Picture" page, the "Awards Given" properties only have film titles and no "Award Winner" specified. I think I might just do the same for the "Winners" CVT and leave the "Award Winner" property blank and enter the film's name for "Honored For". Only problem is that when I run a query to find award winners connected to the film industry, I have to remember that some properties will have winners filled out, and some will be blank. That bugs me. Oh well.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-15T21:12:03.0007Z

For the Oscars the best film award goes to the film's producers. It could similar for all film awards.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-15T19:09:39.0029Z

Oh I agree with that. But who/what's the winner? Wouldn't you say it's the film too? It just looks rather silly to fill out two parts of a CVT with the same value.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-15T17:29:15.0000Z

Film should go in the "honored for" property. The property hints for this property reads "The work (book, film, product, etc.) that the award is for."

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Filling out "Award Winner" and "Honored For" for a film

2008-01-15T02:44:34.0012Z

I was trying to add the 2007 film "Sweeney Todd" to the "Winners" property which is a CVT ("Award Honor") that prompts me for the following values:

- Year
- Award Winner (e.g. a person or organization)
- Honored For (e.g. a book or performance)
- Notes/Description

The second and third properties confuse me in this example. Should I enter the film under "Award Winner" (since it's the film that just won Best Motion Picture)? And what do I enter for "Honored For"? The film, again? The producers may be the ones accepting the award, but the winner remains the film, for...the film.

Award category: Award as included type

2007-12-13T18:14:06.0007Z

We're actually going to deprecate all the domain-specific awards, and use the schema in the awards domain for all of them. It's a pretty large migration task, though, so it's going to take some time.

Award category: Award as included type

2007-12-13T02:17:08.0005Z

Does it make better sense for Award to be an included type of various subject awards (e.g., science award, film award) instead of co-typed on a topic by topic basis?

Also, Nobel prize and Academy Award are currently typed as Award when the Award description states: "This type should only be applied to specific awards (e.g., the The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Nobel Peace Prize) rather than for the general award (e.g. Academy Award, Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize)". I wonder how many other similar cases there are.

Award category: Need to have First Created or Established Date Property

2007-08-20T21:20:01.0007Z

Seems like a good idea; I'll add the property.

Award category: Jury and judges

2007-08-20T21:19:31.0007Z

Good suggestion; I added the new types "award judge" and "award judging term" to capture this. I put some sample data in the Tiptree Awards.

Award category: Jury and judges

2007-08-20T19:32:49.0038Z

Award juries are sometimes public, and it's interesting to know who was on an award judging committee in particular years. How about adding Judging committee or some similar field to this type?

Award category: Need to have First Created or Established Date Property

2007-08-18T20:22:10.0011Z

Example is Order of Lenin from Wikipedia with given date of April 6, 1960.