# Awards > From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/awards Every award this season is running, one card each: how many submissions are in the running for it, who has won it, and which honorable mentions have been attached. This is the screen where a decision is made. There are two kinds of card. **Category awards** — one for every submission category that holds at least one submission, whose pool is that category's entries and which also carries the category's **rank**. And **non-category awards** — the awards you attached from your organization's library, whose pools are assembled by hand and by judge recommendation. See [Two kinds of award](#two-kinds-of-award). It is a **working screen**: you can name winners and co-winners, add and detach honorable mentions, clear a decision you want to redo, release a category's rank to its submitters, and open any award's pool of entrants — see [Award pools](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md). Winners and mentions stay inside your organization until the season's **Award winners announced** date, and even then reach only the filmmakers concerned, on their own account and their own public page — see [Nothing is announced from here](#nothing-is-announced-from-here). A released rank is the one thing on this screen that reaches submitters directly, on their own scorecard — see [Releasing a category's rank](#releasing-a-categorys-rank). ## Finding the screen **Awards** is the seventh row in the season block of the left navigation, under your festival's name, between Announcements and Settings. It carries **no count**. The navigation keeps its numbers for things waiting on a person, and awards wait on judging by design, so how many are still to decide is the **Waiting** figure in the **Status** filter on each tab. What "waiting" means differs by kind: **an award from the library is waiting until its pool holds a winner; a category award is waiting until it holds a winner *and* its rank has been released.** A category with no submissions is not counted at all. Its address is: ``` /org////awards ``` **Only the tab is kept in the address.** Choosing **Non-category awards** adds `?tab=other`, so a reload, a bookmark or a link you send lands on that tab; **Category awards** is the default and carries nothing. Any other value opens on Category awards — including a link saved when the tabs were Waiting and Completed, which ends `?tab=completed`; completed awards are now found with the **Status** filter. Your search, the Status and Decision filters and the sort are working state for as long as you stay on the page: reload it, or come back from a pool, and you are back to the default view with nothing narrowed. (The **Awards** link at the top of a pool opens on Category awards, whichever tab you left.) That is the deliberate difference from [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md), whose narrowed list is a link you can send. ## The cards keep themselves up to date **The season's awards are read once and then held in your browser.** The search box, the Status and Decision filters, the sort and the two tabs are worked out from what is already loaded — each applies as you press it, and nothing reloads the page. **And the cards re-read themselves in the background**, so a screen you left open after lunch is not a lunchtime's worth out of date: - **Whenever you come back to the tab.** Switch to another window or another application and back, and the cards re-read themselves as you return — a glance away of a few seconds is too short to bother them. - **About once a minute while the tab is in front of you.** - **Never while the tab is behind something else.** A forgotten tab asks the festival's records for nothing. - **Straight after anything you change here** — winners named or edited, a mention added or detached, a decision cleared, a rank released or held. Each of those waits for the server and then re-reads the cards before it lets go, so when the picker closes or the dialog closes, the card behind it already agrees. The one exception is the **Release rank** switch, which moves the moment you press it and moves back if the server refuses — see [Releasing a category's rank](#releasing-a-categorys-rank). What arrives that way is what other people have been doing: a winner a colleague named on an award from the library turns it from **Waiting** to **Completed** — and out of view, if your Status filter is set to Waiting — a mention they attached appears on the card, a rank they released changes the switch, an approved scorecard that recommended a film lifts the pool count on its `AWD-2004 · 34 in pool` line, a newly imported submission lifts a category card's entry count — each within a minute, in place, under whatever tab, search, filters and sort you are working in. The DECIDED figure on the banner, the tab counts, the counts beside the Status and Decision options and the footer line all move with it. **A refresh never moves you.** Your tab, your search, your filters, your sort and an open picker all survive it — though see [Naming a winner](#naming-a-winner) for the one thing an open picker does not follow. ### When the cards cannot refresh A refresh that fails is retried a few times before anything is said. If all of those fail, one message appears at the bottom of the screen: > Couldn't refresh the list. Showing what was last loaded. **The cards stay exactly where they are.** Nothing is emptied, nothing is greyed out and nothing you were doing is lost — what you are reading is simply the last version that arrived, and the next refresh that works replaces it. When that refresh lands the message goes away on its own, because it has stopped being true; you can also clear it sooner with **Dismiss**. Search, the filters, the sort and the tabs keep working over what was last loaded. **If your session has ended**, this is where you find out: you signed out in another tab, or somebody removed your access to this festival while you had the screen open. The screen does not leave you on cards you can no longer act on — it sends you to the log-in screen, or to an ordinary "page not found" if the season is no longer yours to see. ## Who can work here Everyone in your organization who can open the season gets the same screen, with the same buttons. Owners and staff members have identical capability here, and both can name a winner. **Releasing a rank needs write access to the season.** The **Release rank** switch and the **Release all ranks** button are drawn for everyone, but somebody whose festival role is Viewer is refused when they press either — "You do not have permission to change this award." — and nothing changes. See [Festival access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-access.md). Anyone else who opens the address — including hosts of other festivals — sees an ordinary "page not found", exactly as if they had mistyped it. A logged-out visitor is sent to the log-in screen first. ## Two kinds of award ### Category awards **Every submission category this season runs is also an award**, from the moment it holds a submission. Nothing attaches it and nothing can detach it: it exists because the category does, and it goes when the category is taken off the season — which can only happen once the category holds no submissions. See [A season's categories and awards](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-categories-and-awards.md). - **Its pool is the category's entries, kept for you.** A submission joins the pool when it is entered in the category — on import, on **Edit categories**, on a move from another season — and leaves it when it is taken out of the category. There is no Add submission and no Remove from pool on its pool screen; the pool is the category, and the way to change it is to change which categories the submission competes in. See [A category award's pool](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md#a-category-awards-pool). - **It carries a rank.** Every scored entry in the category has a position, and, until a winner is named, the card's **TOP SCORES** block shows the top three. Submitters see their own position on their scorecard once you release it — see [Releasing a category's rank](#releasing-a-categorys-rank). - **Winners and mentions are yours to name, exactly as on any other award.** Standing first in the category makes nobody a winner; the standings are there to inform the decision, not to make it. - **It has no `AWD-` id, no add-on price and no settings page.** Its name is the category's name as this season carries it, and its card's sub-line reads **Category award · 20 entries**. The card menu has no **Award settings** item, and the season's [Awards tab in Settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-categories-and-awards.md#awards) does not list it. - **A category with no submissions has no card.** It is left off the Category awards tab, out of every count and out of **Release all ranks** until something is entered in it. A withdrawn submission does not count as one: withdraw a category's only film and its card disappears; re-enter one and it is back on the next refresh. ### Non-category awards **Those are chosen on the Awards tab of Settings**, where you attach awards from your organization's library to this season and detach the ones it is not running — see [A season's categories and awards](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-categories-and-awards.md). Only owners and staff of the organization can open Settings; a coordinator sees the cards but cannot change the line-up. Three things follow: - **An award with entrants in its pool cannot be taken off the season.** Empty the pool first — see [Award pools](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md). - **Nothing on this screen changes the line-up.** **Manage award list**, top right, opens the Awards tab of this season's [festival settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-categories-and-awards.md#awards), where awards are attached to and detached from the season. The awards themselves are written in the library, the Awards tab of [Categories and scorecards](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-categories.md), which that settings tab links to. - **A film can be put in or taken out of a non-category award's pool from its own submission panel**, on the panel's **Awards** tab, as well as from the pool — see [The Awards tab](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-a-submission.md#the-awards-tab). The two are the same pool, and each shows the other's change. ### A season with nothing to show A season that runs no categories and no non-category awards reads: > This season runs no awards with a **Manage award list** button underneath that opens the same settings tab, and nothing else — no banner, no filters, no footer, because each of those would be describing a set that does not exist. A season that has categories but no submissions yet, and no award attached from the library, reads the same way. Its category awards exist, but each one is hidden until something is entered in its category, so there is nothing to show. Import your submissions and the category cards appear. ## Results stay private The indigo banner across the top says what the rule is: > **HELD UNTIL ANNOUNCEMENT** > > Results stay private until you announce them > > Winners and mentions are visible to festival staff only. Nothing is sent to > submitters until you announce. On the right of it, **DECIDED** with the real figures — `3 / 9` — and a bar filled to match. Both numbers count the whole season, whichever tab you are on and whatever you have filtered: how many awards hold a winner, out of how many are listed on the two tabs together. A category award's rank does not enter into it — a category with a winner and a held rank is decided here and still **Waiting** under the Status filter. ### Nothing is announced from here **There is no announce button on this screen.** Naming a winner writes it into your season and, on its own, goes no further: no email to the winner, no notice to your judges, nothing on any submitter's scorecard. **What makes a result public is a date.** The Season tab of [Settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#season) carries an **Award winners announced** date. From midnight on that date, in the season's time zone, what this season's pools decided about a film can reach its filmmaker in two places, both their own — and only if they have saved the submission to their FilmScorecard account: - **Their public film page**, once it is published with a Laurels block: one laurel for your festival reading **Winner**, **Honorable Mention**, **Nominee**, **Finalist**, **Semifinalist** or **Quarterfinalist** — never the award's name. See [The public film page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-page.md#award-winners-announced). - **Their own account**: an update in their bell naming the film's standing, and, for a win or an honorable mention, an **Award winner** pill on their Festivals tab. See [The bell](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-notifications.md#updates). A filmmaker who has not saved the submission to an account sees none of it, whatever the date says. Nothing is emailed when the date arrives, and none of your screens changes. **A rank is different, and it is released from this screen.** A category's rank reaches each submitter in that category on their own unlocked scorecard — their position, the size of the category, and nothing about anybody else — the moment you release it, with no email and no announcement date involved. See [Releasing a category's rank](#releasing-a-categorys-rank). **Releasing scorecards is a different thing again, and it does reach submitters.** Each filmmaker can be given their own scores and their own judges' notes, without learning anything about anybody else's — no winner, no mention, no other film. That step lives on Settings → Results for the season, or — for one submission ahead of the rest — on the submission's own detail panel; see [Releasing scorecards](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/releasing-scorecards.md) and [Releasing one submission's scorecard](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/releasing-one-scorecard.md). A submitter's scorecard carries their ranks and nothing about awards. The Season tab's other date, **Notification date** (which was called **Selections announced**), says nothing about awards. It has two effects of its own: on a season set to release scorecards **When selections are announced**, it is the date each filmmaker's own scorecard opens; and from it, a filmmaker who has saved the submission to their account learns whether you selected it — **Official Selection** on your festival's tile on their public page, and an update in their bell — see [The two dates](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-page.md#the-two-dates). There is likewise **no deadline on an award**. Nothing on a card says when a decision is due, because FilmScorecard does not store such a date. ## Reading a card Every card carries the award's **name** and a small monospace line under it: - **`AWD-2004 · 34 in pool`** on an award from the library — its permanent short id and the size of its pool. - **`Category award · 20 entries`** on a category award — the number of submissions currently entered in the category. Withdrawn submissions keep a row in the pool but are not counted here. A long name wraps onto a second line rather than being cut off. An undecided card has an amber border; once somebody has won it, the border turns neutral and a **WINNER** block names them. The **three-dot menu** at the top right of the card sits faint until you hover the card or reach it with the keyboard. See [The card menu](#the-card-menu). ### A category card's TOP SCORES **An undecided category card carries a TOP SCORES block** under its head: the three highest-scoring submissions in the category, each with its **position**, its title and its score. Positions are competition positions — two films tied for first are both `1` and the next is `3` — and they are the same positions a submitter reads on their scorecard once the rank is released, so the `2` you see here and the "2 of 31" they see are one fact. - **Only scored, current entries are placed.** A film with no score in the category yet has no position — however it got its score, a judge's creative scorecard or an approved technical review — and a withdrawn film is not in the running. - **A category nobody has scored yet reads "No scores yet"** rather than listing three films at position 1. - **The score is the category's own score** — not the film's best category — because the standings are within this category. See [About scores and recommendations](#about-scores-and-recommendations). ### An undecided card There is no winner block, and the amber border is what says no winner has been named. The foot carries a **Name winner** button on the left and **Open pool** on the right. **The pool count counts entrants, not entries.** A submission that competes in two of a library award's eligible categories is one entrant in it, counted once. ### A decided card - **One WINNER block per winner**, stacked. Each has the score, the title in large type, its categories in monospace and the submitter's name — whichever of those the record holds. Awards can have **co-winners**, and two winners means two blocks. - **The winning film's poster**, small and upright, on the left of each WINNER block — on both kinds of award. It is the poster uploaded on the submission; see [The poster](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/statements-taglines-and-posters.md#the-poster). It sits in a 2:3 portrait frame, so a poster of another shape is trimmed at its edges to fill it; the stored image is untouched. **A winner with no poster shows no image and leaves no gap** — its block simply starts at the card's left edge. Only winners carry a poster: mentions and the TOP SCORES rows never do. - **No TOP SCORES block on a decided category card** — the WINNER block replaces it. The pool still orders its rows by the same standings. - **Honorable mentions (2)** — **(0)** when there are none — with **+ Add** on the right of that heading, then a row per mention — title, its categories, score, and a **✕** to detach it. It sits below the card's other results (finalists and the rest), so the winner and those results read as one list. - **A foot line**: "Decided Aug 2 by Dana Ellis", or "Decided Aug 2" with no name. See [Why a decision may have no name on it](#why-a-decision-may-have-no-name-on-it). - **Open pool**, on the right of the foot. **A category card ends with its Release rank row**, above the foot line, whether or not it is decided — see [Releasing a category's rank](#releasing-a-categorys-rank). **Categories are written the short way everywhere on this screen** — the first one alphabetically, then a `+2` for however many others: `Drama Film +1`. It is the same shorthand the [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md) list uses, and the full set is always readable in the submission's detail panel. ### Why a decision may have no name on it FilmScorecard shows a person's name only to that person. So the foot line reads "Decided Aug 2 by *your name*" on an award **you** decided, and "Decided Aug 2" — the date alone — on one a colleague decided. The date is always real; a missing name means the name is not yours to read, not that nobody decided it. ## What "decided" and "completed" mean **An award is decided exactly when its pool holds at least one winner.** There is no separate switch, and nothing else can put an award in the decided group. **An award is completed when there is nothing left for you to do on it** — and that is where the two kinds part: - an award from the library is completed when it is decided; - a category award is completed when it is decided **and** its rank is released. Everything else is **Waiting**. Those are the two options of the **Status** filter — see [Searching, filtering and sorting](#searching-filtering-and-sorting). A category award with a winner and a held rank is decided and still waiting — its **Release rank** switch, at the foot of the card, is the half that is outstanding. Three consequences worth carrying around: - **Co-winners are normal.** Naming three winners is one decision, not three. - **Demoting or removing the last winner returns the award to undecided**, wherever you do it from: committing an empty winner picker, changing a winner's result on the [pool screen](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md), clearing the decision, or — on a library award — removing the winning entrant from the pool altogether. So does **holding a released rank**: turn a completed category's switch off and it is **Waiting** again at once. - **The decided date is set when the first winner is named** and cleared when the last one goes. Adding a second co-winner later does not re-date it. ## Naming a winner **Name winner** on the card, or **Name winner** / **Edit winners** in its menu, opens a panel over the card itself — so the pool count, the pill and the mentions you are deciding against stay in view. It works the same on both kinds of award. 1. The panel is headed **Name winners**, with the award's `AWD-` id — or the words **Category award** — underneath. 2. **Search the pool** if it is long — the box matches a title, a submitter's name, or **any of an entrant's categories**, including ones the `+2` is standing in for. Searching "experimental" finds a film shown as `Drama Film +1` when Experimental Film is the other one. Escape clears a filled box; press it again to close the panel. 3. **Tick everyone who won.** Rows show the title, a monospace `Drama Film +1 · 2 recs` line and the score. Rows are listed best score first, the same order as the card's top scores, with unscored entrants A to Z after them. They do not move as you tick them. 4. Choose **Name winner** — or **Name 3 winners**, which names the real number. Things the panel does that are easy to miss: - **The current winners are already ticked when it opens.** This is an editor of the whole winner set, not an "add another" form. - **The button stays greyed until your selection differs from the current winners.** Reopening the panel and committing the same thing writes nothing. - **Unticking a winner and committing sends it to Finalist**, not back to consideration. It was named and then unnamed, and Finalist is the honest record of that. - **Committing with nothing ticked is allowed, and it is how you undo a decision from here.** Every winner drops to Finalist and the award returns to undecided. The button keeps the singular label, "Name winner", so it always says what it will do. - **Naming a current honorable mention as winner promotes it** — it becomes a winner and stops being a mention. An entrant is never both at once. - **There is no select-all here.** Naming every entrant a winner is not a shortcut anybody needs. - **The ticks follow a colleague's change while you have not touched them.** The cards re-read themselves while the panel stands; if somebody names a winner on this award while your panel is open and you have not ticked or unticked anything, that winner arrives ticked and the button stays quiet. If you had already changed the ticks, yours are kept and the button reads them as your change against the winners as they now are — look before you commit. **Cancel, Escape, or a click outside the panel discards the selection.** Nothing is written until you commit, and nothing is written optimistically: the button holds until the cards have been re-read from the server, so when the panel closes the card behind it already shows what was actually saved. An award whose pool is empty says so instead of showing an empty list — "This pool has no entrants yet." A search that matches nothing says `No submission matches "orchestral".` with a **Clear search** button. ## Honorable mentions **+ Add**, beside a decided card's honorable mentions heading, or **Add honorable mention** in its menu, opens the same panel in its other mode, headed **Add honorable mentions**. - **It offers everyone in the pool except the current winners and the entrants who already have a mention.** When there is nobody left it says so: "Every entrant is already a winner or a mention." - **A select-all row** — "Select all 12", or "Select all 6 matching" under a search, which selects those six only — with a running "3 selected" count and a **Clear** link. - The button reads **Add mentions**, **Add 1 mention** or **Add 3 mentions**, and stays greyed until something is picked. Its search box matches the same three things the winner picker's does: title, submitter, or any of an entrant's categories. **Mentions are listed oldest first**, in the order they were attached. The **✕** beside one detaches it **immediately, with no confirmation** — that is deliberate, because detaching costs nothing: the entrant keeps its place in the pool and keeps its result, and you can add the mention again from the picker. Re-adding it re-dates it, so it comes back at the bottom of the list. The **✕** greys for the moment it takes the cards to be re-read, and the row is gone when they land. **A mention is not a result.** It sits alongside Undecided, Finalist or Not Selected; the only combination FilmScorecard forbids is winner and mention at once. ## Releasing a category's rank Every category card ends with a row headed **Release rank** and a switch. It is the one control on this screen that reaches submitters. **What it releases.** Every scored film in the category has a position — the same competition positions the card's TOP SCORES block shows. While the switch is off, a submitter in that category who has unlocked their scorecard sees **Calculating** where their position would be. Turn it on and, on their next load, they see their position and the size of the category — "2 of 31" — and nothing about who is above or below them. No email is sent; the number simply appears on the page they already have. See the submitter's own guide, [Your scorecard](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-scorecard.md#your-ranks). **The switch cannot be turned on until every film in the category is fully judged** — every scorecard the category uses approved on that film: a full panel of creative scorecards, judges' or colleagues', the technical review, and the press-kit card when its press kit has something to mark. A category with no creative scorecard waits only for its technical review and press kit. The whole rule is on [When a film is fully judged](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-scoring-works.md#when-a-film-is-fully-judged). Until then the switch is greyed and the row says why, in amber: > 4 films still being scored **A film one judge of three has filed is still being scored**, and so is one whose panel is complete and whose technical review is not — the first approved scorecard puts a film on the board, and the last one is what this switch waits for. The count is measured over the category's current entries; withdrawn films do not hold it. Approve the missing scorecards in the [Review Queue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md), or file them yourself, and the row clears on the next refresh. The switch is also greyed for the moment it takes the cards to load after the page opens, and for the moment any other change on this screen is being saved. **The switch is two-way, and turning it off is never refused.** A released rank can be put away again — the submitters' pages go back to **Calculating** on their next load, and the card goes back to **Waiting** — even if a film has been entered in the category since, and even if the season's scorecards have gone out. Nothing is emailed either way. Once it is on, the row reads **Ranks released**. **The switch moves as you press it.** It is the one control on this screen that does not wait for the server: the card changes at once, and if the server refuses — because a film was entered in the category a moment ago, or because your role cannot change the season — it moves back and a message at the bottom of the screen says why. See [If something is refused](#if-something-is-refused). **Rank release and scorecard release are independent.** Releasing the season's scorecards ([Releasing scorecards](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/releasing-scorecards.md)) does not release any rank; a submitter with a released, unlocked scorecard and an unreleased rank reads **Calculating**. And releasing a rank does not release anybody's scorecard — a submitter whose scorecard is not yet released, or not yet unlocked, sees no number whatever the switch says. Do them in either order. **A film's season rank follows its categories.** Besides the per-category positions, a submitter's scorecard carries a rank across the whole season — films against films, screenplays against screenplays. That number has no switch of its own: it is released once **every** category award holding scored films of that kind has its rank released, and reads **Calculating** while any of them is held. Releasing one category therefore shows its submitters their category position and, usually, nothing more until the rest follow. ### Release all ranks When at least one category could be released and has not been, a **Release all ranks (3)** button sits beside the tabs while **Category awards** is open, naming how many. It is absent — not greyed — when there is nothing it could do, and on the **Non-category awards** tab, whose cards have no rank. It counts and releases every ready category in the season, whatever your search and filters are showing. 1. Choose **Release all ranks**. 2. A dialog opens: > **Release every ready category rank?** > > Submitters in those categories see their position the next time they open > their scorecard. > > 3 categories are fully scored and ready. 3. Choose **Release all ranks** in the dialog, or **Cancel**. It releases every category that is fully scored and still held, in one go, and skips the rest. The dialog stays put until the cards have been re-read, and a message at the bottom of the screen reports what happened: > 3 ranks released. or, when some categories were not ready by the time it ran: > 2 ranks released, 1 skipped — those categories are not fully scored yet. The button counts what is ready as the screen sees it; a scorecard a colleague approves, or a submission somebody enters, in the moments before you confirm can move a category from one number to the other. The message says what was actually done. ## The card menu The three-dot menu opens with the award's name and its `AWD-` id — or the words **Category award** — so you can be sure which card you are acting on. What it offers depends on the state: | On a decided card | On an undecided card | | --- | --- | | **Edit winners** | **Name winner** | | **Add honorable mention** | **Open award pool** | | **Open award pool** | **Award settings** (library awards only) | | **Clear decision**, in amber, with "Returns the award to undecided. The pool is kept." | | **Award settings** — the award's page in your organization's library, where its name, description and eligible categories live — is on the **undecided** menu only, and only on an award from the library. A category award has no such page: its name is the category's, edited on the [Categories tab of Settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-categories-and-awards.md#categories). From a decided library award, use the **Award settings** button at the top right of its [pool screen](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md#the-header) instead. **Clear decision** appears only where there is a decision to clear. ## Clearing a decision **Clear decision** always confirms first: > **CLEAR DECISION** > > Clear the decision for *Best Original Music*? > > Returns the award to undecided. The pool is kept. > > Every winner returns to consideration. Honorable mentions are kept. Read the second line carefully, because it differs from the picker: **clearing sends every winner back to Undecided**, while unticking a winner in the picker leaves it at Finalist. Clearing is undoing the whole decision; unticking is stepping one rung back. Nothing else moves. The pool keeps every entrant, the mentions stay attached, a category award's rank stays wherever the switch is, and the award is **Waiting** again, with its amber pill. The dialog stays put until the cards have been re-read, so when it closes the card has already moved. ## Searching, filtering and sorting The row of controls above the tabs works on the open tab only: - **The search box** matches an award's **name**, its **`AWD-` id**, and the **titles of its current winners** — so searching a film's name finds the award it won. Its placeholder counts the awards on the open tab: "Search 7 awards". Escape clears it. - **Status** narrows by progress: **Waiting** and **Completed**, each with a count, in the sense of [What "decided" and "completed" mean](#what-decided-and-completed-mean). Tick one or both. There is a select-all row, and the button reads "Any status", the one you picked, or the first you picked and a count ("Waiting +1"), and stays tinted while it is set. It starts unset, so each tab opens on every award of its kind. - **Decision** narrows by state: **No winner**, **Winner named**, **Winner and mentions**, each with a count. Tick as many as you like; a card matches if it is in any of them. There is a select-all row, and the button reads "Any decision", the single state's name, or the first and a count ("No winner +1"), and stays tinted while it is set. - **Sort**: **A to Z** (the default) or **Most judge recommendations**. It closes as soon as you pick. - **Clear filters** appears as soon as the search, the Status filter or the Decision filter is set, and clears all three. It does not touch the sort or the tab. A card shows only if it matches the search and both filters. Switching tabs keeps all of them as they are; they simply apply to the other kind of award. **The two statuses are mutually exclusive, and so are the three Decision states**, so each filter's counts add up to the number of awards on the open tab. They are measured across that whole tab and never cross-filtered: a count beside an option you have not picked is there to tell you what you would get if you picked it. A category award with a winner and a held rank counts under **Winner named** — or **Winner and mentions** — in Decision, and under **Waiting** in Status: Decision asks about the decision, Status asks whether anything is left to do. **Most judge recommendations** ranks awards by how many of their entrants got in by judge recommendation — the same real number the undecided card's line quotes. Category awards all tie at zero and fall into name order. ### The two tabs Under the filter row, two tabs with a count each: **Category awards** and **Non-category awards** — the [two kinds of award](#two-kinds-of-award), one grid of cards each. The counts describe every award of that kind this season, not your narrowed view. The screen opens on **Category awards**. The tab is the one thing kept in the address: **Non-category awards** adds `?tab=other`, so a link to that tab opens on it. A card never changes tab. What changes on its own, as a winner is named or a rank released or held, is its status — so on the next refresh it can drop into or out of a Status filter you have set. A tab with nothing on it says so in one line rather than showing an empty grid: > This season runs no category awards with entries. > This season runs no non-category awards. So a season that runs only awards from the library opens on the first of those lines; its cards are on **Non-category awards**. ### The footer line Under the cards, one sentence: > Showing 4 of 9 awards. 3 decided, 6 undecided, 4 honorable mentions. Sorted by > name, A to Z. It describes the open tab. **Only the first number follows your filters.** The second is the number of awards on the tab — the same figure the tab itself shows — and the decided, undecided and honorable-mention counts always describe that whole tab, so they are a standing progress report on that kind of award rather than a description of the narrowed view. The trailing clause names the sort — "name, A to Z" or "most judge recommendations". ### When nothing matches The cards never go blank. When a tab has awards but your search or filters hide all of them, you get "No awards match this filter", one sentence, and a **Clear filters** button. On Category awards the sentence is either - `Nothing matches "orchestral" in this season's category awards.` for a search, or - "None of this season's category awards match the filters you picked." for the Status or Decision filter; on Non-category awards it says "non-category awards" instead. A tab with no awards at all shows its one line rather than this block — see [The two tabs](#the-two-tabs) — and a season with none on either tab is covered in [A season with nothing to show](#a-season-with-nothing-to-show). ## About scores and recommendations **Scores and recommendation counts on this screen count released work only.** A scorecard a judge has filed but nobody has approved contributes nothing anywhere; approval in the [Review Queue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md) is what releases it. On this screen that means: - **A score reads "No scores"** — on a winner block, on a mention row, on a picker row — until an approved scorecard counts toward that submission's shown category, and on a category whose every section the season weights 0. It is never a 0 and never a dash. - **A picker row's `· 2 recs`** counts judges whose approved scorecard recommends that entrant for this award — including a recommendation a coordinator added to a judge's scorecard on the Review Queue. `· 0 recs` means no released recommendation, not that the entrant was passed over. - **"Most judge recommendations" sorts by a different number**: it counts how entrants *entered* each pool — which is stamped on every entrant, including the ones approval entered automatically. That number and the per-entrant one are different things — see [About scores and judge recommendations](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md#about-scores-and-judge-recommendations) on the pool screen, where both appear side by side. - **A category award's rank waits for every scorecard, not the first one.** A film is on the board — scored and placed — from its first approved scorecard, which may be its technical review; the **Release rank** switch waits until every scorecard the category uses has been approved on every film in it. **The score is the same one every screen shows.** The Submissions list, a submission's Scoring tab, the award pools, the export and the filmmaker's own scorecard all read one figure for one film in one category, so the standings here and the position a filmmaker reads cannot disagree. **Which category's score a card shows depends on the kind of award.** On an award from the library — whose pool can span several categories — the score beside a winner, a mention or a picker row is the one the Submissions list shows: **the highest-scoring of that submission's categories**, not a total across them. On a category award every score on the card, in its pool and in its pickers is **the film's score in that category**, because the standings are within it. A film in two categories can therefore show one figure on one category's card and another on the other's, and both are right. See [Which category's score a row shows](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#which-categorys-score-a-row-shows). **Judges never recommend a film for a category award.** The awards a judge can tick on a creative scorecard are the season's library awards — at most three on one card, counting any a coordinator added; a category's pool is its entries and needs no recommending. Which recommendations a coordinator added or changed is marked on the [award pool](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/award-pools.md#reading-a-row). **None of it is on a submitter's scorecard, except the rank you release.** A released scorecard shows a filmmaker their own scores and — once released — their positions; award pools, recommendations and other films' scores are staff-only wherever they appear. **A result is the one other thing that can leave** — a win, a mention or a standing, never a score or a recommendation — and only from the season's Award winners announced date, to the filmmaker's own account and public page; see [Nothing is announced from here](#nothing-is-announced-from-here). ## If something is refused Nothing on this screen is optimistic except the Release rank switch: a change is written when you commit it, and the cards are re-read from the server before the control lets go. If a write is refused, nothing was saved and nothing on screen moved — and a refused switch moves back. | The message | What it means | | --- | --- | | "One of those entrants is no longer in this pool. Refresh the page and try again." | Somebody removed an entrant from the pool while your picker was open. The cards catch up on their own within a minute — close the picker and open it again, or reload the page. | | "4 films in this category are still being scored." | The Release rank switch was refused: films in the category are not yet fully judged — one was entered in it, or a scorecard on one was withdrawn, since the screen last read its cards. It is the same count the row's "still being scored" line gives, so a film with some scorecards approved can be among them. The switch goes back to off and the row shows the count. | | "Only a category award has ranks to release." | The switch was pressed on an award that is not a category award. It cannot happen from this screen. | | "You do not have permission to change this award." | Your account cannot change this season — a Viewer, or the season, festival or award in the address is not one you can reach. | | "Something in the form is not valid. Check the fields and try again." | The change was rejected before it reached the database. | | "The change could not be saved. Try again." | Anything else — a switch that could not be saved goes back to where it was, and Release all ranks wrote nothing. Nothing partial is shown as saved; the next refresh shows where things stand. | | "Couldn't refresh the list. Showing what was last loaded." | Nothing you did failed. The cards could not re-read themselves, several tries running — what is on screen is as new as the last refresh that worked. See [When the cards cannot refresh](#when-the-cards-cannot-refresh). | Where the message appears depends on what you were doing: inside the picker just above its buttons, inside the Clear decision or Release all ranks dialog, or as a message at the bottom of the screen when you detached a mention or pressed a switch. Dialogs and pickers stay open on a refusal, so you never lose your selection. ## What does not work yet - **Announcing, beyond the date.** No button, no email to a winner, no notice to your judges. A result reaches outside your organization only through the filmmaker's own account and their own [public page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-page.md#if-you-run-a-festival), from the season's Award winners announced date — and a filmmaker who has not saved the submission to an account hears nothing. See [Nothing is announced from here](#nothing-is-announced-from-here). - **Telling submitters their rank is out.** Releasing a rank changes their page and sends nothing; if you want them to look, tell them yourself. - **Charging for an award.** A library award's add-on price is set per season in Settings and stored; nothing collects it. A category award has no price at all. - **Nothing announces what a refresh brought in.** Cards change under you quietly — there is no "1 award decided" notice and no highlight on a card that has just turned from Waiting to Completed. Every neighbouring row is live: **Judges** is the season's roster, and **Review Queue** — see [Review Queue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md) — is where the scores and recommendations this screen reads are released. **Settings**, at the bottom, is live for organization owners and staff: see [Festival settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md).