Spon Awards
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| Spon Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in media, music, software and typography |
| Country | Sirocco |
| First awarded | December 2007 |
A Spon Award is an accolade bestowed by the Siroccan government to recognise excellence in media, software and music. Spon Awards are unique in that they are not restricted to content produced that year - awards have been given for content dating back to the 1950s. While the awards were originally intended solely for music (the song that had been played most that year), they have since expanded to encompass such varied categories as films, video games, typefaces, and software.
Occasional variations on the awards have been made; there were two joint winners for both the game of the year and Spon Award categories in 2015, and in 2019 an additional set of awards were granted to determine each category's overall winner for the entire decade.
Awards
Current
- Song (2007–present): Won the Spon Award in 2007 (Power Grid) and 2013 (Manhattan Spiritual). Sponsored by SBC National Radio since 2013.
- Film (2008–present): Won the Spon Award in 2010 (World War Three). Sponsored by National Post and Telegraph since 2013.
- Television/Show (2008–present): Won the Spon Award in 2008 (The Chaser's War on Everything) and 2009 (Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This?). Sponsored by the Siroccan Broadcasting Corporation since 2013. Absorbed the Internet Video category in 2014.
- Font (2008–present): Won the Spon Award in 2012 (Gotham). Sponsored by LogoWorks Sirocco since 2013.
- Game (2008–present): Won the Spon Award in 2014 (Garry's Mod) and 2015 (Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto V). Sponsored by the National Centre of Computing since 2013.
- Software (2008, 2011–present): Won the Spon Award in 2011 (Adobe Photoshop CS5). Sponsored by the Institute of Scientific Research since 2013.
- Spon (2008-2010) / Spon Award for Excellentness (2011–present)
- Awarded twice each to Game, Song and Television/Show, and once each to Film, Font, Program, and Website.
Retired
- Anime (2010-2013): Sponsored by the Siroccan Tourism Bureau in 2013.
- Video (2011-2013): Sponsored by Fern Tree Studios in 2013. Merged into the Show category in 2014, and then into the Film category in 2016.
- Micronation (2013–2016): Sponsored by The Sirocco Times since 2013.
- Website (2013, 2016): Won the Spon Award in 2016 (Twitch). Sponsored by Dominion Chocolate in 2013 and 2016.
List of ceremonies
| Ceremony | Date | Song | Spon Award | |||||||||
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| 1st Spon Awards | December 2007 | Power Grid (Jerry Martin) | Power Grid (Song)[1] | |||||||||
| Ceremony | Date | Song | Film | Television | Font | Game | Program | Spon Award | ||||
| 2nd Spon Awards | 18 December 2008 | We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel) | Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) | The Chaser's War on Everything (ABC) | Boulder | The Sims 2 (Maxis) | Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (Microsoft) | The Chaser's War on Everything (Television) | ||||
| Ceremony | Date | Song | Film | Television | Font | Game | Spon Award | |||||
| 3rd Spon Awards | 19 December 2009 | Walk of Life (Dire Straits) | Independence Day (1996) | Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This? (Ideo) | Zurich BT (Univers) | World in Conflict (Massive) | Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This? (Television) | |||||
| Ceremony | Date | Song | Film | Television | Font | Game | Anime | Spon Award | ||||
| 4th Spon Awards | 20 December 2010 | Big Love (Pete Heller) | World War Three (1998) | Coast (BBC) | Roadgeek 2005 Series D (FHWA Series D) | Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Electronic Arts) | Soul Eater | World War Three (Film) | ||||
| Ceremony | Date | Song | Film | Show | Font | Game | Program | Anime | Video | Spon Award for Excellentness | ||
| 5th Spon Awards | 30 December 2011 | Kodachrome (Paul Simon) | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1) (2010) | The Billy T James Show (TV3) | Akzidenz-Grotesk | Freedom Fighters (Electronic Arts) | Photoshop CS5 (Adobe) | 07-Ghost | Nyan Cat | Adobe Photoshop CS5 (Program) | ||
| 6th Spon Awards | 30 December 2012 | Call on Me (Eric Prydz) | Porky's (1982) | Russell Howard's Good News (BBC) | Gotham | Dead Island (Techland) | VMware Workstation 7 (VMware) | Hetalia | Gangnam Style (Psy) | Gotham (Font) | ||
| Ceremony | Date | Song (National Radio) |
Film (National Post and Telegraph) |
Show (SBC) |
Font (LogoWorks Sirocco) |
Game (National Centre of Computing) |
Program (Institute of Scientific Research) |
Anime (Siroccan Tourism Bureau) |
Video (Fern Tree Studios) |
Website (Dominion Chocolate) |
Micronation (The Sirocco Times) |
Spon Award for Excellentness |
| 7th Spon Awards | 21 December 2013 | Manhattan Spiritual (Reg Owen) | It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) | Futurama (Fox) | Trade Gothic | Team Fortress 2 (Valve) | Steam (Valve) | Free! | Grown Men Are Talking (5 Second Films) | Tumblr | Austenasia | Manhattan Spiritual (Song) |
| Ceremony | Date | Song (National Radio) |
Film (National Post and Telegraph) |
Show (SBC) |
Font (LogoWorks Sirocco) |
Game (National Centre of Computing) |
Program (ISR) |
Micronation (The Sirocco Times) |
Spon Award for Excellentness | |||
| 8th Spon Awards | 23 December 2014 | If You Wanna Be Happy (Jimmy Soul) | God Bless America (2011) | South Australia (video) | Knockout | Garry's Mod (Valve) | Spotify | Lostisland | Garry's Mod (Game) | |||
| 9th Spon Awards | 27 December 2015 | Steal Away (Robbie Dupree, 1980) |
Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015) |
Yes Minister / Yes, Prime Minister (BBC, 1980–88) |
Metro Nova Pro / Geometric 415 | Fallout 4 (Bethesda, 2015) and Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar, 2015) |
Cortana (Microsoft) | Sandus | Fallout 4 and Grand Theft Auto V (Game) | |||
| Ceremony | Date | Song (National Radio) |
Film (National Post and Telegraph) |
Show (SBC) |
Font (LogoWorks Sirocco) |
Game (National Centre of Computing) |
Program (ISR) |
Micronation (The Sirocco Times) |
Website (Dominion Chocolate) |
Spon Award for Excellentness | ||
| 10th Spon Awards | 28 December 2016 | Sausalito Summernight (Diesel, 1980) |
The Hollywood Knights (Floyd Mutrux, 1980) |
The Dukes of Hazzard (Warner Bros., 1979–85) |
Whitney | Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian Entertainment, 2010) |
Open Broadcaster Software | Ladonia | Twitch | Twitch (website) | ||
| Ceremony | Date | Song | Film | Show | Font | Game | Software | Spon Award for Excellentness | ||||
| 11th Spon Awards | 26 December 2017 | All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper, 1983) |
American Truck Simulator (SCS Software, 2016) and Euro Truck Simulator 2 (SCS Software, 2012) |
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| 12th Spon Awards | 28 December 2018 | '59 Volvo (Vernon Green and the Medallions, 1959) |
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft, 2013) | '59 Volvo (Vernon Green and the Medallions, 1959) | ||||||||
| 13th Spon Awards | 31 December 2019 | Shufflin' Jive (Joe Lyons and the Arrows, 1959) |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Studios, 2019) |
Chernobyl (Craig Mazin, 2019) |
Galderglynn 1884 | Red Dead Redemption II (Rockstar, 2018) |
Microsoft Windows 98 (Microsoft, 1998) |
Red Dead Redemption II (game) | ||||
| Manhattan Spiritual (2013) | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (2013) | Chernobyl (2019) | Metro Nova Pro (2015) | Grand Theft Auto V (2015 joint winner) |
Adobe Photoshop CS5 (2010) and Spotify (2014) | Grand Theft Auto V (2015 joint winner) | ||||||
| 14th Spon Awards | 31 December 2020 | Gloria (Laura Branigan, 1982) |
Outback Truckers | Libre Franklin | Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games, 2018) |
Discord (Discord, Inc.) | Gloria (song) | |||||
| 15th Spon Awards | December 2021 | Pending | Pending | Pending | Pending | Pending | Pending | Pending | ||||
Logos and Posters
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6th Spon Awards (2012)
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7th Spon Awards (2013)
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8th Spon Awards (2014)
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9th Spon Awards (2015)
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10th Spon Awards (2016)
References
- ↑ While the Spon Award was not officially awarded until the 2008 Awards, it was retroactively awarded to 2007 Song winner in 2014.