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ACM & SCS Doctoral Dissertation Awards

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Nomination materials that do not also have a checklist provided will be held from review until a NOMINATION CHECKLIST is provided.

ACM Code of Ethics & Core Values

Acm has implemented the following change to the acm doctoral dissertation award nomination process:.

• Nominators and endorsers for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award will now be required to indicate whether they are aware of any action committed by the candidate that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM's Core Values. See the Policy for Honors Conferred by ACM .
• ACM provides Guidelines for Nominators and Endorsers (PDF).
• For questions regarding these new requirements please contact [email protected]

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• Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing.
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ACM Nomination Overview

• ACM Nomination Details (ACM website)
• Eligibility (for either award) : Dissertations certified from October 1st, 2022 through September 30, 2023.
• Nomination materials, including supporting letters, should be uploaded by Friday, September 15, 2023 (11:59PM ET) via the uploader available below.
• We know ACM timing allows for theses certified after our internal deadline. Please contact Jenn directly if you anticipate nominating your advisee's thesis that will be certified between the internal SCS deadline of September 15th and September 30th.
• Any CS-related thesis is eligible for consideration for the ACM award, including those of students in any SCS or ECE doctoral program. All SCS and ECE faculty are invited to submit nominations for these doctoral dissertation awards, following the procedures detailed on this page.
• ECE nominated theses are only eligible for consideration for the ACM nominations.

Internal Nomination Overview

Important please note internal scs nomination details that differ from those on acm's website..

• SCS & ECE grant more than 10 doctoral degrees annually. SCS, through an agreement with ACM, manages the upload of two nominations each year.
• Advisors should NOT nominate their student's thesis directly to ACM .
• Selection Criteria : Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of presentation.
• We expect the nomination sets for ACM/SCS to intersect, but not necessarily be the same. Moreover, the thesis chosen for the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award may not necessarily be chosen to be one of the two sent as Carnegie Mellon's nominations to ACM.
• Past recipients of the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Past recipients of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Internal Nomination Requirements

Please use the downloadable nomination checklist (fillable pdf).

• Nominations for either/both awards should include:
• 1. All items required in the ACM Submissions section at the bottom of their page: https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation/nominations should be uploaded by the internal deadline.
• 2. We also request the nominated student's CV.

NOTE : This department head endorsement is in addition to the 3-5 endorsement letters.

We will follow up directly with Dept. Heads for the endorsement letter to complete the nomination packet if the thesis is selected for ACM nomination.

• 4. Please remember to select on the NOMINATION CHECKLIST which award(s) the nomination is for (ACM / SCS / both). The form should be uploaded as part of your packet.

When are the awards announced?

• The SCS Doctoral Dissertation Award winner is announced at the beginning of November each fall semester , at the conclusion of the selection process.
• The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award *NOMINEES* are announced at the beginning of November at the same time as the announcement for the SCS award *WINNER*.

A note about endorsement letters

• Each letter should include the name, address, and telephone number of the endorser.
• All materials, including support letters, must be uploaded via this portal. Please provide letter writers a link to this page when requesting their endorsement.
• Support letters should be uploaded by the SCS internal nomination deadline. They are read and used by the SCS Nominating Committee as part of the nomination and award process. The committee takes into consideration expert information provided in support letters to help determine the outcome of the SCS award in addition to the 2 nominations sent on to ACM.
• Multiple files can be uploaded at once and this uploader can be used as many times as necessary until you have provided all packet items. In the same session, refreshing your browser window will enable additional uploads.

ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation

Design automation has gained widespread acceptance by the VLSI circuits and systems design community. Advancement in computer-aided design (CAD) methodologies, algorithms, and tools has become increasingly important to cope with the rapidly growing design complexity, higher performance and low-power requirements, and shorter time-to-market demands. To encourage innovative, ground-breaking research in the area of electronic design automation, the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) has established an ACM award to be given each year to an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation.   The award consists of a certificate and a check for $1,000 and is presented at the Design Automation Conference, which is held in June/July of each year. The award is selected by a committee of experts from academia and industry in the field and appointed by ACM in consultation with the SIGDA Chair.

 Each department of any university may nominate at most two Ph.D. dissertations whose final submission date is between July 1st of the previous year and June 30th of the current year.    Deadline: November 30th of each year

ACM SIGMICRO

Dissertation award.

2023 Nominations

Nominate someone for the 2023 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award! Read the eligibility criteria and application requirements below, and submit your nomination via email to award chair Pradip Bose by August 18 August 25, 2023 .

Eligibility

Eligible dissertations must have been successfully defended and deposited in the previous calendar year. Each nominated dissertation must be on a topic relevant to computer microarchitecture. The determination of whether a thesis is within scope for the award will be made by the SIGMICRO Dissertation Award Committee.

A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGMICRO Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. However, a dissertation that has received the SIGARCH Dissertation Award is ineligible for nomination.

Application Requirements

Nominations should be made in the form of an email addressed to the Chair of the Dissertation Award Committee (Pradip Bose; [email protected]) with the subject 2023 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award Nomination . Self nominations are not allowed. The following materials are required for the nomination:

• English language copy of the thesis.
• A statement from the nominator, limited to two pages, addressing why the nominee's dissertation should receive this award. This should address the significance of the dissertation, and not simply repeat information in the thesis abstract.
• Three letters of support, limited to two pages each. Supporting letters should be included from experts in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation's impact. The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support. The letter should also contain the qualification of the endorser and his/her role with respect to the nominee. If a letter writer is supporting more than one nomination, they may be asked to rank those nominations.
• A list of publications contributing to thesis.
• Suggested citation if the candidate is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing the key technical contribution for which the candidate merits this award. Note that the final wording for awardees will be at the discretion of the Dissertation Award Committee.

Past Recipients

SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards

"for outstanding phd thesis in computer and information security".

The SIGSAC Awards Committee is pleased to announce the awardees of the SIGSAC 2021 awards. The award recipients are:

The ACM Special Interest Group for Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC) is soliciting nominations for the 2023 SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This annual award by SIGSAC recognizes excellent research and dissertation by doctoral candidates in computer and information security and privacy. The SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM CCS 2023 conference. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,500 honorarium and a complimentary registration to CCS 2023. The runners-up each will receive a plaque and complimentary registration to CCS 2023.

Nomination Deadline:

Eligibility:, nomination procedure:.

A nomination statement summarizing the candidate's PhD thesis contribution and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (two pages maximum);

Three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the significant PhD thesis contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement should be no longer than 500 words with clear specification of nominee PhD thesis contributions and potential impact on the computer and information security field. Note that the three endorsement letters must be submitted in addition to the nomination statement .

Decision Notification:

The award honorarium, the award plaques and the conference registration fee for the winner to attend the ACM CCS Conference will be fully funded by SIGSAC and included in its annual budget.

Further Information and Inquiry:

Submission instructions and a list of past winners are available at https://www.sigsac.org/award/diss-awards.html . For information not found in this message or for any other inquiries, contact the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee Chair, Yan Chen.

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Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

The SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Software Engineering. The author of the winning dissertation will be invited to publish a dissertation summary in the SIGSOFT newsletter, Software Engineering Notes (SEN). The award includes a $1000 honorarium and a plaque for the author, which is presented at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and funding support for the recipient to travel to ICSE to receive the award (including a registration to ICSE). A public citation for the award dissertation will be placed on the SIGSOFT web site. The award recipient also receives support for travel to ICSE up to $2500 within their home continent and up to $3000 outside their home continent, including airfare, hotel, and conference registration for ICSE.

The award is for an outstanding dissertation (in software engineering) dated within the year preceding the nomination due date. For nominations for the October 30, 2023, deadline, dissertations dated December 15, 2022 to October 15, 2023 are eligible. The dissertation date can refer to the “deposit date,” “committee approval date,” or another reasonable and relevant date, depending on the process followed by the nominee’s institution. However, please note that a dissertation can be nominated only once. Thus, if, e.g., the “deposit date” and “committee approval date” would fall into two award periods, the thesis cannot be nominated twice, and the nominee would have to choose one period.

To submit a nomination for the award, please use the awards nomination portal . Please note that:

An intent to nominate must be submitted in the nomination system by October 16, 2023. The intent submission is very lightweight and only requires: (1) full name and affiliation of the nominee, (2) contact information of the nominator, and (3) some metadata. If no intent is received by the deadline, the nomination will be deemed late and not considered for this round of award selection.

A single PDF containing the nomination package must be submitted through the portal to complete the submission by October 30, 2023. The PDF should contain the following:

• Full name and affiliation of the nominee
• One- to two-page summary of the nominee’s dissertation (in English)
• Link to download the nominee’s dissertation (in any language)
• List of nominee’s publications (that were used as the basis of chapters in the nominated dissertation)
• Succinct description of why the nominee is well-qualified for the award (200-500 words)
• Up to three support letters (200-300 words will be sufficient for each support letter, although longer statements of support are of course welcome). Each support letter must include the following sentence: “To the best of my knowledge, the candidate I am endorsing has not committed any action that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM’s Core Values.

The selection committee shall have the option to decline to make an award in a given year, if no suitable nominations are presented. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-dissertation-award (at) acm (dot) org.

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• 2022 Wing Lam, Detecting, Characterizing, and Taming Flaky Tests, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisors: Darko Marinov and Tao Xie
• 2021 August Shi, Improving Regression Testing Efficiency and Reliability via Test-Suite Transformations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor: Darko Marinov
• 2020 Rachel Tzoref-Brill, Comprehension and Evolution of Combinatorial Models and Test Plans, Tel Aviv University
• 2019 Sergey Mechtaev, Semantic Program Repair, National University of Singapore; Honorable Mention: Christoffer Quist Adamsen, Automated Testing Techniques for Event-Driven and Dynamically Typed Software Applications, Aarhus University
• 2018 Fan Long, Automatic Patch Generation via Learning from Successful Human Patches, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2017 Srdan Krstic, Trace Checking of Quantitative Properties, Politecnico di Milano
• 2016 Milos Gligoric, Regression Test Selection: Theory and Practice, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Darko Marinov, advisor
• 2015 Muath Alkhalaf, Automatic Detection and Repair of Input Validation and Sanitization Bugs, University of California, Santa Barbara, Tevfik Bultan, advisor
• 2014 Nicolas Mangano, Calico: An early-phase software design tool, University of California, Irvine, André van der Hoek, advisor
• 2013 Jeff Huang, Effective Methods for Debugging Concurrent Software, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Charles Zhang, advisor
• 2012 Mark Gabel, Inferring Programmer Intent and Related Errors from Software, University of California, Davis, Zhendong Su, advisor
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Outstanding Dissertation Award | ACM SIGCHI

Sigchi outstanding dissertation award.

We are excited to announce the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award, which will recognize the most outstanding research contributions from recently graduated PhD students within the HCI community, showcasing the quality and impact of HCI research.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:  December 15, 2022 Awards Announced: February 14, 2023

Eligibility

• Eligible dissertations must have been successfully completed between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022 . An award date that is appropriate to the candidate’s institution is acceptable, for example graduation date, examination date, or final thesis acceptance date. 
• Candidates will only be eligible to submit once for this award.
• The candidate must be a SIGCHI member.
• Only dissertations written in English will be considered. If a dissertation originally was written in another language, a translation into English is acceptable and can be considered.
• The candidate must have published at least one paper in a “paper venue” (e.g., a full paper or a note) of any length (but not an abstract to support a workshop or other non-paper venue) at a SIGCHI Sponsored or Co-Sponsored conference (see https://new.sigchi.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/ ) or an ACM-sponsored HCI journal.
• Each nominated dissertation must be on a topic relevant to HCI. The determination of whether a dissertation is within scope for the award will be made by the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee. A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
• Only one nomination may be submitted per department.

Preparing and Submitting

All nomination materials must be submitted by the submission deadline to this online form . Submissions must be submitted in English. PDF format is preferred for textual materials. Supplementary materials must be multi-platform. Late submissions will not be considered.

Nomination for the award must include:

• English language copy of dissertation.
• Statement from an advisor limited to 2 pages addressing why the candidate’s dissertation should receive this award. This should address the significance of the dissertation, not simply repeat the information in the abstract. Nomination must come from the advisor; self-nomination is not allowed.
• One letter of support limited to 2 pages. The supporting letter should be from an expert in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation’s impact. (The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support.) If a letter-writer is supporting more than one nomination, they may be asked to rank those nominations.
• List of publications contributing to the dissertation.
• SIGCHI membership number for candidate.
• Suggested citation if the candidate is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 50 words) describing the key technical contribution for which the candidate merits this award. Note that the final wording for awardees will be at the discretion of the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee.

Doctoral Award Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by a panel of experts selected by the SIGCHI Executive Committee to evaluate the quality, contribution, and impact as demonstrated by the submitted thesis and supplementary materials.  

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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award

AAAI and ACM SIGAI established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award is presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner is invited to present a talk at the conference.

Call for Nominations

Past Recipients

2021 aaai/acm sigai dissertation award winner.

Shibani Santurkar , Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work entitled Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy: A Features Perspective On Model Generalization

2021 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention

Bryan Wilder , Harvard University for his work entitled AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks

2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner

Noam Brown , Carnegie Mellon University for his work entitled Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games

2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention

David Abel , Brown University for his work entitled A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning

Abhishek Das , Georgia Institute of Technology for his work entitled Building Agents that Can See, Talk, and Act

2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner

Jiajun Wu , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA for his work entitled Learning to See the Physical World

2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention

Aishwarya Agrawal , Georgia Institute of Technology for her work entitled Visual Question Answering and Beyond

Li Dong, University of Edinburgh , for his work entitled Learning Natural Language Interfaces with Neural Models

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Welcome to the SIGSOFT Awards Nomination Portal

Early career researcher.

This award is presented to an individual or individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the area of software engineering as an early career investigator. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-early-career-award (at) acm (dot) org.

Distinguished Service Award

This annual award is presented to individuals who have contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-service-award (at) acm (dot) org.

Outstanding Research Award

This award is presented to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-research-award (at) acm (dot) org.

Influential Educator Award

The SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award is presented annually to an educator or educators who have made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his or her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher (in education or learning), author, and/or policy maker. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-educator-award (at) acm (dot) org.

Frank Anger Memorial Award

In honor of our late colleague and friend, Dr. Frank Anger, the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering has joined together with the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems to present the Frank Anger Memorial Award. The award provides stipends for two students, one named by each SIG, to attend the flagship conference of the other SIG. The award is meant to improve the mutual awareness of the two research communities to the opportunities and challenges emerging in complimentary research areas. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. For questions about this award, please reach out to the SIGSOFT Chair

Impact Paper Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award is presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at a SIGSOFT-sponsored or co-sponsored conference held at least 11 years prior to the award year. In including all of SIGSOFT's conferences in the competition, this award recognizes the breadth and vitality of the software engineering community. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-impact-award (at) acm (dot) org.

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

The SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Software Engineering. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-dissertation-award (at) acm (dot) org. For nominations for the January 15, 2022 deadline, dissertations dated December 15, 2020 to December 31, 2021 are eligible.

Announcing ACM SIGGRAPH Award Winners

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ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s awards and new members of the SIGGRAPH Academy, listed below.

Computer Graphics Achievement Aaron Hertzmann For his pioneering work in non-photorealistic animation and rendering (NPR), image synthesis, character animation, computational photography and the interplay between computer generated and traditional art

Significant New Researcher Award Adriana Schulz For her outstanding contributions to interactive 3D design tools for physical artifacts

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Zachary Ferguson “Provably Robust and Accurate Methods for Rigid and Deformable Simulation with Contact”

For a dissertation which significantly extends the state of the art in physical simulation by presenting new groundbreaking methods to handle contacts in dynamic simulations of rigid and deformable objects.

Honorable mention to Yu Wang for his dissertation “Geometric Computing beyond the Laplacian” and Fangcheng Zhong for his dissertation “Path from Photorealism to Perceptual Realism”

Outstanding Service Award Adele Newton For her long-term, visionary, and dedicated service to ACM SIGGRAPH

Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art Tamiko Thiel For her innovations in virtual and augmented reality art used to explore place, space, the body, and cultural memory

ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award F. Sebastian Grassia For technical leadership of and contribution to Universal Scene Description

ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award Mike Bailey For his dedication to introducing the basics and joy of computer graphics to thousands of students and the SIGGRAPH conference attendees in a decades-long endeavor

ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Baoquan Chen For contributions to large-scale scene reconstruction, point-cloud processing, and shape design for manufacturing

Jacquelyn Ford Morie For pioneering contributions to the fusion of art with virtual reality and immersive technologies, and for advancing digital arts within the SIGGRAPH community

Dinesh K. Pai For groundbreaking contributions to animation using physics-based and data-driven simulation techniques

Ariel Shamir For pioneering work in algorithms for image, video, and geometry processing that are driven by models of human perception

Mary C. Whitton For contributions to programmable graphics systems and virtual reality, and for exemplary leadership in the SIGGRAPH community

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2024 ACM Awards: Check Out the List of Performers and Presenters for This Year’s Show

Randy Travis and the widow and son of country legend Charley Pride are set as presenters.

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The line-up of performers and presenters for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards is just about set, and the key word is collaboration.   Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan will team up for a performance, as will Blake Shelton and wife Gwen Stefani and also Nate Smith featuring Avril Lavigne . In addition, Post Malone is booked for the show. He is expected to perform “I Had Some Help,” his new single featuring Morgan Wallen , though that has not yet been announced.

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Presenters include Alabama (most awarded group in Academy history with 22 ACM Awards ), Carin León (two-time Latin Grammy Award winner), Dion Pride (son of country legend Charley Pride ), Rozene Pride (Pride’s widow), Richard Sherman (Super Bowl XLVIII Champion & Thursday Night Football analyst), Charissa Thompson (host, Thursday Night Football) and Randy Travis (11-time ACM Award-winning artist).

Hosted by 16-time ACM Award-winner Reba McEntire , the ACM Awards will stream live for a global audience on Prime Video from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday (May 16) at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. A Prime membership will not be required to watch live. The full rebroadcast will be available directly following the stream on Prime Video and available the next day for free on Amazon Freevee and the Amazon Music app.

The ACM Awards will kick off with the Official ACM Awards Red Carpet Show hosted by Amber Anderson and Kelly Sutton (co-hosts, Country Heat Weekly podcast), Makho Ndlovu (host, Amazon Live ), and Elaina D. Smith (host, Nights With Elaina ), with Katie Neal (host, Katie & Company ) serving as a correspondent from the carpet. Presented by Prime Video and Amazon Music, the Red Carpet Show will also feature a performance by Megan Moroney (this year’s most nominated female artist with six nods), and air on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch starting at 7 p.m. ET.

Fans can also experience a week of pre-ACM livestream celebrations hosted by Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson courtesy of Amazon Music. Broadcasting live on the Amazon Music Channel on Twitch, the festivities will kick off on Tuesday (May 14) at 9 p.m. ET with Live from the ACM Awards: ACM New Artist Winners Celebration from Tostitos Championship Plaza at The Star, which will feature musical performances and special guests, as well as the presentation of the ACM new male artist, new female artist, and new duo or group of the year.

On Wednesday (May 15) at 9 p.m. ET, fans will be able to stream Live from the ACM Awards: Backstage with Kelly & Amber. Amber and Kelly will also release three ACM-themed Country Heat Weekly podcasts on Thursdays, starting on May 9 with the duo’s interview with McEntire.

Fans can also stream the Official ACM Awards playlist available now on Amazon Music in celebration of this year’s nominees. Fans can listen to Country Music’s biggest stars directly on the Amazon Music app.

The 59th Academy of Country Music Awards is produced by Dick Clark Productions. Raj Kapoor is executive producer and showrunner, with Patrick Menton as co-executive producer. Damon Whiteside serves as executive producer for the Academy of Country Music, and Barry Adelman serves as executive producer for DCP. John Saade continues to serve as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.

Here are the performers and presenters for the 2024 ACM Awards. Any additional performers will be added to the list as they are announced.

Jason Aldean

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan

Cody Johnson

Miranda Lambert

Post Malone

Parker McCollum

Reba McEntire

Thomas Rhett

Nate Smith featuring Avril Lavigne

Chris Stapleton

Lainey Wilson

Tyler Cameron

Jordan Davis

Carin León

Little Big Town

Ashley McBryde

Dion and Rozene Pride

Richard Sherman

Charissa Thompson

Randy Travis

Clay Walker

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Jason Aldean will honor Toby Keith with a performance at the 2024 ACM Awards

Toby Keith appears at the CMT Music Awards, in Nashville, Tenn., on April 14, 2008, left, and Jason Aldean appears at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 29, 2024. Aldean will honor Toby Keith with a performance at the 2024 ACM Awards. (AP Photo)

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The time has come to raise a red solo cup . Jason Aldean will pay tribute to the late Toby Keith at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards .

The 59th ACM Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire , will take place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas.

Across his career, Keith took home 14 ACM Awards, twice winning the top prize of entertainer of the year. He died in February at age 62, following a stomach cancer diagnosis.

“I’ve been a fan of his since the beginning and his songs are some of the first songs I played back in clubs early in my career, including the one I’ll be performing on the show,” Aldean said in a statement. “I was lucky enough to share the stage with Toby in Oklahoma this last year, and it means a lot to be able to honor him and properly celebrate his iconic career and legacy. He was one of a kind.”

Having Aldean, the most recent artist of the decade recipient, honor Keith made sense, ACM CEO Damon Whiteside said in a statement.

“The popularity, influence, and love for Toby Keith is infinite since his passing earlier this year,” Whiteside said, adding that the academy was looking forward to welcoming Keith’s family.

Luke Combs leads the 2024 nominations with eight nods. For a fifth year in a row, he’s up for both male artist of the year and entertainer of the year.

Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen follow with six each, while Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson are tied with five.

Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Post Malone, Parker McCollum, McEntire, Wilson and Stapleton will perform during the telecast. Fans can expect a few interesting collaborations as well — Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan; Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani and Nate Smith with Avril Lavigne.

Among the presenters are Alabama, BRELAND, Carin León , Little Big Town, Randy Travis .

The awards will stream on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch Live at 8 p.m. Eastern. The red carpet feed will begin at 7 p.m.

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Jason Aldean will honor Toby Keith with a performance at the 2024 ACM Awards

The time has come to raise a red solo cup

The time has come to raise a red solo cup. Jason Aldean will pay tribute to the late Toby Keith at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards.

The 59th ACM Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire, will take place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas.

Across his career, Keith took home 14 ACM Awards, twice winning the top prize of entertainer of the year. He died in February at age 62, following a stomach cancer diagnosis.

“I’ve been a fan of his since the beginning and his songs are some of the first songs I played back in clubs early in my career, including the one I’ll be performing on the show," Aldean said in a statement. "I was lucky enough to share the stage with Toby in Oklahoma this last year, and it means a lot to be able to honor him and properly celebrate his iconic career and legacy. He was one of a kind.”

Having Aldean, the most recent artist of the decade recipient, honor Keith made sense, ACM CEO Damon Whiteside said in a statement.

“The popularity, influence, and love for Toby Keith is infinite since his passing earlier this year," Whiteside said, adding that the academy was looking forward to welcoming Keith's family.

Luke Combs leads the 2024 nominations with eight nods. For a fifth year in a row, he’s up for both male artist of the year and entertainer of the year.

Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen follow with six each, while Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson are tied with five.

Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Post Malone, Parker McCollum, McEntire, Wilson and Stapleton will perform during the telecast. Fans can expect a few interesting collaborations as well — Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan; Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani and Nate Smith with Avril Lavigne.

Among the presenters are Alabama, BRELAND,Carin León, Little Big Town, Randy Travis.

The awards will stream on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch Live at 8 p.m. Eastern. The red carpet feed will begin at 7 p.m.

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Raj Kapoor and Patrick Menton on Producing 2024 ACM Awards: ‘This Is Such a Global Genre Now'

Four pop stars - Post Malone , Gwen Stefani , Noah Kahan and Avril Lavigne - are set to perform on the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday May 16, but the show's producers stress that the performances came about organically.

"Our goal is always country-first," Raj Kapoor, who is the show's executive producer and showrunner, told Billboard . "We're not actively going out to pursue artists [who are] out-of-genre. I think the most important thing is that it fits in a very natural way. We're not asking people to come in who don't have relationships or haven't wanted to work together or don't have projects together. We always want to stay authentically country. Those bonds that bring people together need to exist already."

Post Malone will perform a song from his upcoming country album, possibly "I Had Some Help," a collab with Morgan Wallen . Stefani and Blake Shelton will perform their single "Purple Irises." Kahan and Kelsea Ballerini - who, Kapoor notes, were in the studio together - will perform her "Mountain with a View" and his smash "Stick Season." Lavigne and Nate Smith will perform Smith's song "Bulletproof."

This is a heavier slate of pop performers than on last year's ACM Awards, where there was just one: Ed Sheeran, who joined Luke Combs to perform Sheeran's song "Life Goes On."

Menton, who is serving as co-executive producer, notes, "Yes, Post is definitely a kind of pop/hip-hop performer, but in a way, he's almost genre-less. Post spent a lot of time in Nashville on this record and kind of dove back into his roots. He's a country traditionalist at heart. He's from Texas, so he grew up on this. Having heard some of the album, this is a real country album. This is an artist who's really honoring the genre.

Menton adds: "This is such a global genre now. Country artists are selling out stadiums in the U.K. and Europe and all over the world. So, I think there is that conversation of they want it to be a bit boundary-less. They want those guardrails to open up a little bit. Yes, for us to be focused on country and celebrate the genre, but we really do welcome these other genres coming in because [country] really has exploded into this global genre and we want to celebrate that."

The 59th ACM Awards, to be hosted by Reba McEntire , will stream globally on Prime Video on Thursday May 16 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Also performing on the show are Jason Aldean ,  Kane Brown , Jelly Roll , Cody Johnson , Miranda Lambert ,  Parker McCollum , Thomas Rhett , Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson , as well as McEntire and, most likely, one or two more artists not yet named. "There may be some surprises," Menton teases.

Kapoor was one of three executive producers of the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, along with Ben Winston and Jesse Collins. He also served as executive producer and showrunner of the Oscars on March 10. Menton was a co-executive producer of the Grammys.

"I think my job is to make each show unique," Kapoor says, "because they have such different DNA. That's really what I strive for. They're brands almost. They're all actually [put on by] academies. It's so different from just a pop show. There's so many eyeballs on what we do. I guess I didn't realize the complexities of that before I took on these positions. I'm much more aware of what goes on behind-the-scenes because it's not just about our show. It's really about these year-round programs that they all do and how many people are so invested."

Kapoor and Menton have worked together on six Grammy telecasts – four in their current positions. They share a philosophy of producing a show, one that may sound a bit soft, but which is obviously working. Last year's ACM Awards was the third-highest-rated awards show of 2023, behind just the Oscars and the Grammys (which they also worked on).

"We both lead with kindness," Menton says. "That's our rule of thumb, across-the-board. It's creating space for these artists to come to us and feel safe. It's not a case of we tell them what we want on the show. That's not at all the way we work. It's ‘What do you want to do on the show?', ‘What's going to create a moment?' We're all about the artist first and making sure they have a space to really create and collaborate in a safe space."

Some awards show producers are known for taking a much firmer hand; for dictating what they want the artist to perform and who they want them to perform it with.

"We always believe it's a conversation," Kapoor says. "Obviously, we're there to help guide sometimes. ‘Why don't we try this?' ‘What would you think about this?' Sometimes we will push if we have a really strong belief about something, but it's always a conversation, always a collaboration.

"Sometimes these moments really help define people's careers," he continues. "They can go viral. They are things that people will talk about for years to come. Last year [on the ACMs], everyone talked about Luke and Ed. Earlier this year [on the Grammys], I think everyone was talking about Luke and Tracy [Chapman, who teamed on "Fast Car]."

Kapoor believes the ACMs' move to Amazon in 2022 helped give it a unique personality that sets it apart from the three other televised country award shows, the CMA Awards, the CMT Music Awards and the People's Choice Country Awards.

"Our show is very fast-paced – two hours with very little commercials. So, you have back-to-back music performances. You still have a lot of awards, but our show moves very quickly. One thing I've really taken away since we've been on Amazon is how punchy and exciting it feels. We're literally moving all the time. One performance leads into another. Sometimes, we've done three performances back-to-back."

Menton says the partnership with Amazon has affected the show in another way. "It has allowed us to open those guardrails up and take chances. We've leaned into new artist development a lot more, we lean into diversity. We lean into something that's completely out of the box; [that] other shows may feel a bit uncomfortable trying to do. Amazon gives us that ability to move and shake a bit differently. But I also think the industry comes to us with those out-of-the-box ideas. I think it's because we're open to it, Amazon is open to it and the Academy has always been that place where we're the party of the year. We're a little bit more fun. We try to let everyone just let their hair down."

The ACM Awards are different in that respect from the Grammys and the Oscars, which are the official "shows of record" for the music and film industries. The CMA Awards probably better fit that description for country music, which led to the ACM Awards instead billing itself as country music's party of the year.

As for new artist development, the show will feature performances by this year's winners of the three new artist awards, male artist, female artist and duo/group. The latter category is being awarded for the first time in five years.

Bobby Bones will be featured throughout the show with the artist interview segment "Backstage with Bobby Bones," which was introduced on last year's show. This takes advantage of Bones' close relationships with many country stars, but Kapoor reveals that the segments also serve a practical function on the show.

"Because we are live/live with all these performances, Bobby is also a great backup plan when we need him to be. You would never know it, like if we need an extra 30 seconds [to set the stage for the next performer], Bobby is there to help us if we need it, which we are very grateful for."

Menton says they approached last year's hosts, Dolly Parton  and  Garth Brooks , about returning to host the show again this year, but the superstar duo declined. "They were ready to take a step down," he says. "They had such a rocking year last year, they probably felt like it [would be] hard to top."

Fortunately for the show, another country legend, McEntire, was willing to return to the show for a 17th time as host or co-host. McEntire is closing in on the all-time record for most times hosting or co-hosting a major  awards  show. That record has long been held by  Bob Hope , who hosted or co-hosted the Academy Awards 19 times between 1940-78.

"Reba is one of the most kind and hard-working artists out there, and to have her hosting our show, having an icon like that - we're so lucky," Menton says.

Barry Adelman, a mainstay at Dick Clark Productions, is serving as executive producer of this year's show for DCP. Adelman has worked on the ACMs for more than 30 years.

Anyone can watch the ACM Awards, whether they have a Prime subscription or not. Did ACM CEO Damon Whiteside push for that? "Oh, I think we all did," Menton says. "We want everyone to see this. It's a country music show. We don't want to have that paywall in front of us. The fact that everyone can watch it, whether you have Prime or not, we're so grateful."

Kapoor says they are already thinking ahead to next year's show, which will be the 60th ACM Awards. "Everybody is already strategizing leading to that event. We'll be returning to Amazon. I hope on this show we set the foundation for what's going to be an amazing 60th show."

DCP is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a Penske Media Corporation (PMC) subsidiary and joint venture between PMC and Eldridge. PMC is the parent company of  Billboard .

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