11.   The awards are sponsored by the Promotion Marketing Association of America.

12.   The Chrysler Corp., in keeping with its current practice of seeking inspiration for new cars in the automotive past, is sponsoring four awards.

13.   The Major League Players Association sponsors the awards, which will be handed out in a ceremony that will be carried by ESPN.

14.   The NBA does not officially sponsor the award.

15.   These awards are sponsored by Malice Domestic, an organization for writers whose sleuths are amateur crime-solvers and whose plots avoid gratuitous torture scenes.

16.   The non-fiction award is sponsored by the computer company NCR Ltd.

17.   The awards are sponsored by Chevrolet.

18.   The awards were sponsored by Kerrang!

19.   The awards are sponsored by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

20.   The annual Creative Britons award is sponsored by the savings and investment company Prudential PLC.