Nomination Process

The Sound & Stage Awards are open to individuals, companies and organisations working in the Middle East. Nominations can be made via the awards website up until the closing date of 6pm on Thursday 12th March.

Nominations are made by completing a short nomination form and submitting it along with the appropriate material (see details below). Each application will then be assessed and judged by a panel of judges, who will be selected from within the industry.

All nominations must include a written submission of no more than 1500 words for the judges to consider. Click here to download the nomination form.

A shortlist of nominations will be selected and award winners announced and presented at the Awards gala dinner on Sunday 26th April 2009.

General criteria and conditions
▪ All nominations must be submitted on an official nomination form by email to ssawards@itp.com
  Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

▪ Nominations must be submitted on the official nomination form, in either Word.doc or Rich Text Format (.rtf). No other
  submission formats will be accepted. Supporting documents can be in any common electronic format – jpg, pdf etc...

▪ Nominations must be in English.

▪ Nominations must be clearly and succinctly written, and remain within the submission guidelines described below.

▪ Nominations should deal in grounded and supported statements with supporting facts and figures.

▪ Nominations should be for recent projects, releases or achievements – anything put forward older than 12 months
  is unlikely to be successful.

▪ Nominations should relate to work completed within the Middle East region. For the purposes of these awards,
  this includes: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
  UAE, Yemen.

▪ S&S shall have the right to verify the information provided in each submission if required. Nominations must
  include contact details for nominator and nominee to facilitate this. Nominations without this information will
  be discounted.

▪ Nominations will be accepted in good faith and, notwithstanding any attempts to verify claims made in nominations,
  will be treated as true and accurate.

▪ Submission of an application form indicates acceptance of the conditions of entry.

▪ In the event of any disputes or issues the decision made by the group editor of the B&C Group shall be deemed final.   The organisers will not be obliged to justify their decisions or enter into any correspondence.

▪ Nominations received will be circulated to the judging panel. It may also be used in S&S – in print, online or both - as
  the basis of a case study, as a standalone article, or part of an awards feature.

▪ Representatives from the nominated company/person must be available on the night of the awards.

Click here to download the nomination form