Award identifications

Award events are often identified by "The 31st Annual Academy Awards" as seen in this photo . . . .

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3682054400/nm0001333?ref_=nmmd_md_nxt

. . . . But this is meaningless to readers. The appropriate way to identify any photo or event is with it's date (06 April 1959), and imdb should adopt this as policy.