WAN-IFRA 17th Asian Media Awards 2018 (5 wins)
Best in Design
- Gold Award: Sunday Morning Post (5 Mar 2017)
Magazine Overall Design
- Gold Award: Post Magazine (17 Sep 2017)
Magazine Cover Design
- Silver Award: How to lose friends and alienate people (This Week in Asia 12 Mar 2017)
Best in Infographics
- Gold Award: Getting to grips with North Korea
- Silver Award: What’s in a face?
INMA Global Media Awards 2018 (3 wins)
- Best in Asia/Pacific, Global/National Brands: South China Morning Post (Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund JumpStarter)
- First Place – Best Marketing Solution for an Advertising Client (Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund Jumpstarter 2017)
- Honourable Mention – Best Use of Mobile (HK Racing)
SOPA Awards 2018 (4 wins)
Excellence in Information Graphics
- Award for Excellence: What happens in the cage, stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde and Dennis Wong
- Honorable Mention: What’s in a face? – Marco Hernandez and Marcelo Duhalde
Excellence in Video Reporting
- Honorable Mention: Chinese roots – Lea Li and Bernice Chan
The Scoop Award
- Honorable Mention: Party promotions – SCMP Staff Reporters
Global BIGGIES Awards 2018 (6 wins)
Excellence in Data Analytics, Group A
- Second Place: Implementation of Data Management Platform
Excellence in Data-driven Advertising Campaign
- First Place: Retargeting Campaign Roll-out with Data to Maximize Reach and Conversion
Excellence in Data-driven Business Process Efficiency
- Award of Excellence: Strengthening Data Culture at SCMP
Excellence in Data-Driven Product Development, Group A
- Second Place: Leveraging Data for A/B Testing
Excellence for Creativity in a Data-Driven Project
- Second Place: ETL without a data engineer
Excellence in Data-driven Technology
- Award of Excellence: Implementation of GCS to increase reliance on data across the organization
Society for News Design (SND) – Best of Digital Design 2017 Edition (18 wins)
Features: Single-subject project
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The good wine
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Valentines Day
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Getting to grips with North Korea in 15 graphics
Graphics: Features and planned coverage
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Getting away from work in 2018
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Are we alone?
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The good wine
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Land of the giants
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The power of your passport
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Plugging China into Europe
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Getting to grips with North Korea in 15 graphics
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Mixed Martial Arts
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Russia 2018 World Cup
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – They are very close… and you can’t escape them
Graphics: Motion graphics
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Mixed Martial Arts: What happens in the cage… stays in the cage
Portfolio: Individual
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Marco Hernandez Portfolio
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – Marcelo Duhalde Portfolio
Portfolio: Organization
- Award of Excellence: South China Morning Post – The South China Morning Post Graphics Team
Society for News Design (SND) Award 39th Edition (2017) (31 wins)
Information Graphics [Single] Features
- Award of Excellence: What’s in a face – Macro Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: A dog’s life – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: Divine Creations – Marco Hernandez
- Award of Excellence: Away from work – Marco Hernandez
- Award of Excellence: On the road – Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: Trump’s global empire – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: A world of graft – Dennis Wong
- Award of Excellence: The power of your passport – Marco Hernandez
Information Graphics [Single] Local
- Award of Excellence: Endless duty – Marcelo Duhalde
Information Graphics [Single] Other
- Award of Excellence: They are very close – Adolfo Arranz
Information Graphics [Single] Nation & World
- Award of Excellence: China’s rain dance – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: How China Invests in America – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: Iphone 10 years – Adolfo Arranz
Information Graphics [Single] Nation & World
- Award of Excellence: Money in Your Pocket – Marcelo Duhalde
Information Graphics [Single] Sports
- Award of Excellence: What happens in the cage stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong
- Award of Excellence: How they score – Marco Hernandez
News Design [Pages] A-Section/Broadsheet
- Award of Excellence : The rise of Islamic State in Southeast Asia – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: China’s rain dance – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: Deportations from the U.S. – Marcelo Duhalde
- Award of Excellence: What’s in a face – Macro Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde
News Design [Pages] Business/Broadsheet
- Award of Excellence: Iphone 10 years – Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: How China Invests in America – Adolfo Arranz
News Design [Pages] Sports/Broadsheet
- Award of Excellence: What happens in the cage stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong
News Design [Pages] Inside page/Broadsheet
- Award of Excellence : The rise of Islamic State in Southeast Asia – Adolfo Arranz
News Design [Pages] Other/Broadsheet
- Award of Excellence: They are very close – Adolfo Arranz
Features Design [Pages] Other/Broadsheet
- Award of Excellence: What happens in the cage stays in the cage – Marcelo Duhalde, Dennis Wong
Combination Print & Digital Features
- Award of Excellence: Getting to Grips with North Korea – Marcelo Duhalde, Macro Hernandez, Adolfo Arranz
- Award of Excellence: The power of your passport – Marco Hernandez
Illustration Features/Color
- Award of Excellence: Beyond the Great Divide – Kaliz Lee
Information Graphics [Multiple] Staff Portfolio
- Award of Excellence: On the Road – Marco Hernandez, Marcelo Duhalde, Adolfo Arranz
Photography [Multiple Photos] Photo Page Design
- Award of Excellence: Faces caught in the crowd – Emilio Rivera, Yves Sieur
The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong – Hong Kong News Awards 2017 (9 wins)
Best News Reporting
- Merit: Party Congress – Choi Chi-yuk, Viola Zhou, Nectar Gan, Jun Mai
Best News Writing (English)
- Winner: Rags among the riches – Phila Siu
Best Business News Writing (English)
- Winner: The winner techs it all – Coco Liu
- 2nd Runner-up: Last brokers to turn off lights on 126 years of floor trading – Enoch Yiu
Best Headline (English)
- 2nd Runner-up: He said, Xi said – Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Best News Page Design (Single Page)
- Winner: A dog’s life – Marcelo Duhalde
- Merit: Get smart, Hong Kong – Dennis Wong
Best Photograph (News)
- Merit: Activist Joshua Wong’s political career by jail term for his role in an illegal protest that triggered the 2014 Occupy sit-ins – K.Y. Cheng
Best Photograph (Features)
- 1st Runner-up: Congealed lumps of palm oil prove white terror of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour after leak from ship collision – Nora Tam
Hong Kong Press Photographers Association – Focus on the Frontline 2017 (3 wins)
Sport News
- 2nd Prize: Sam Tsang
Portrait
- 3rd Prize: Nora Tam
Nature & Environment
- 3rd Prize: Sam Tsang
26th Malofiej International Infographics Awards 2017 (7 wins)
Printed Graphics
Features – Sports
- Silver Award: What happens in the cage, stays in the cage
- Bronze Award: How they score
Features – Science, Technology, Medical and Health issues
- Silver Award: They are very close…
Features – World and Nation
- Bronze Award: What’s in a face
Features – Travel, Transportation, Cars and Environment
- Bronze Award: Divine Creations
Portfolios – Features Portfolio
- Bronze Award: Features portfolio South China Morning Post
Online Graphics
Features – Travel, Transportation, Cars and Environment
- Bronze Award: The tallest statues in the world
18th Consumer Rights Reporting Awards (2 wins)
Text (News/Features/Commentaries)
- Bronze Award: The cost of service – Sandy Li
Press Photo
- Silver Award: Dickson Lee
6th HKAIM Media Convergence Awards (13 wins)
- Top 10 Media: South China Morning Post
- Gold Award – Overall Excellence: South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Overall) – South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Website) – South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Mobile) – South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Newspaper Category (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Overall Media (Website) – South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Overall Media (Mobile) – South China Morning Post
- Silver Award: Overall Media (Social Media) – South China Morning Post
- Gold Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Social Media) – Elle
- Bronze Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Social Media) – Harper’s Bazaar
- Bronze Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Website) – Elle
- Bronze Award: Monthly Magazine Category (Website) – Harper’s Bazaar
Marketing Magazine’s The Spark Awards 2018 (8 wins)
Best Social Media Event
- Gold: ELLE Girl – ELLE Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Use of Content
- Gold: ELLE Girl – ELLE Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)
Best Media Campaign – Experiential
- Gold: LANDMARK Christmas 2017 – South China Moring Post (South China Morning Post Publishers – Marketing Solutions)
Best Partnership Strategy
- Silver: Esquire x ELLE MEN Sands Macau Project – Esquire / ELLE MEN (SCMP Hearst)
Best Use of Small Budget
- Silver: Why don’t you… – Harper’s Bazaar HK (Harper’s BAZAAR HK)
Best Function Activation
- Bronze: Cosmo x PLAN Run for Girls 2018 – Cosmopolitan HK (Cosmopolitan HK)
Best Media Campaign – Print
- Bronze: LANDMARK “A Year of Wisdom” Campaign – South China Morning Post (South China Morning Post Publishers – Marketing Solutions)
Best Media Campaign – Social
- Bronze: Celine x ELLE Campaign – ELLE Hong Kong (SCMP Hearst Hong Kong)