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Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 9:48 PM

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Adding an award

Hello IMDb staff. I won an award which I can't find a link to online. It was "Best Short Screenplay Award" at the "TINCAN magazine Writing Award". The certificate is dated January 16th 2022. My screenplay is still on the website and so is an interview they did with me but they are now called "Short to the Point". I can't find a link to the category I won. TINCAN's awards were never listed on IMDb but "Short to the Point" is and they have categories going back to even before I won. It's frustrating because I have emailed them and had no reply. There's even a link on their website on how to add your award on IMDb but it doesn't work! All I could send you is a link to my screenplay on their website and a download of my certificate. Would this be sufficient to add the award to my page? Sorry for the long-winded post and thank you for any help.

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Hi andrew_newall- Thank you for providing this information! Yes, you can attach this as part of the supporting evidence and provide any further information on the explanation box. Once submitted, our editors will review it. Cheers!

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Thanks Maya. I'll give it a try. The only issue I have is that the actual category doesn't exist and the award was under a different name. I'll try adding the category and submit my supporting evidence and see what happens.

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@andrew_newall- Your welcome! No worries, you can try to fill in as much information as you can. Also, once you submit it, you are welcome to post the 18-digit submission reference number here and I can take a look.

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Hi Maya. I have tried to add the award and keep getting errors. The tracking number is 250417-230301-099200. The title is not a film, it's for an unproduced short screenplay but the submission process doesn't seem to get that. Also, where can I attach supporting evidence? Thanks for all your help on this.

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@andrew_newall- Hi, I took a look a your saved for later contribution, in this case, since the title is not yet on IMDb you will have to remove the 'Title' information from the contribution. It will give you a warning saying that there seems to not be a title related to this award but you can just check the warning box to acknowledge. So now instead, you will have to add this information under the 'Supplementary info' text box and this is how you need to put it: For un-produced short screenplay "Not So Fast." The supporting evidence, you can attach it under the 'Comments' text box below the supplementary info one. If you have an issue where you can't see this 'Comments' text box, I will recommend to cancel the saved contribution and start a "new" one just so that this part is enabled again. Hope this helps and let us know if you have further questions! Cheers!

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Hi Maya. Sorry for the delayin replying. I think the issue is that my winning laurel/certificate is for an award that's not listed on IMDb. The award is from Tincan. I've tried emailing both them and Short to the Point with no reply. I'll try and add the award to IMDb's database but if I can't do it, it's fine. Thanks for all your help.

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I've submitted info (tracking number 250424-160533-302000). No big deal if it can't be added. I couldn't find a way to paste a screenshot but hopefully I've submitted enough evidence.

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@andrew_newall- Perfect! I have taken a look at it and it has now been approved. The changes will be live on the site shortly. Cheers!