Music recently held the Grammy Awards, while film fans are anxious to watch next month’s Academy Awards broadcast. Between the two events, the Staten Island high school football community will fill the void with an afternoon of honors at Curtis High School’s gym.

This Sunday at 1 p.m., the Al Fabbri Award (best player), the Sal Somma Award (top lineman) and the Dennis Barrett Award (for football, leadership and service) will be presented, stretching the 2023 gridiron season another three months.

While the Fabbri Award’s candidates will come from the yet-to-be-named list of all stars selected by the Staten Island Advance/SI Live and its advisory board, the nominees for the other two honors are known.

The Sal Somma Award, named for the legendary New Dorp HS head coach, will be bestowed on one of these linemen: David Louis Salazar of Curtis; Jlon Cherubin of McKee/S.I. Tech; Yasire DeJesus of Monsignor Farrell; Aqil Meredith-Smith of Moore Catholic; Yeriel Diaz of New Dorp; Josiah Maye of Petrides; Adeniyi Salau of Port Richmond; Nick Falco of St. Joseph by-the-Sea; Frank Langello of St. Peter’s; Daniel Olukoya of Susan Wagner; and Angelo Novello of Tottenville.

The Dennis Barrett Award, given to the player who best combines football playing with leadership and service, is named after the great Farrell head coach. The nominees are: Salazar of Curtis; Chase Dalcortivo of McKee/S.I. Tech; Michael Barzal of Monsignor Farrell; Michael Herbert of Moore Catholic; Sean Brower of New Dorp; Raymond Pecorale of Petrides; David Ruiseco of Port Richmond; Liam McBratney of St. Peter’s; Mason Ayala of Susan Wagner; and Novello of Tottenville. Sea did not nominate a player for the award.

PAST AL FABBRI AWARD WINNERS

1971 — Bernie Previti, Curtis; 1972 — John Quinn, Farrell; 1973 — Jim Garcia, New Dorp; 1974 — Steve Ferraris, Port Richmond; 1975 — Mike Gilsenan, Tottenville; 1976 — Dino Mangiero, Curtis; 1977 — Tony Bahno, Tottenville; 1978 — Frank Marone, Farrell; 1979 — John Skronski, Farrell; 1980 — Rich Roche, Farrell; 1981 — Mike Garcia, New Dorp; 1982 — Herb Bellamy, Wagner; 1983 — Steve Valente, New Dorp; 1984 — David DiTommaso, Farrell; 1985 — Vernon Turner, Curtis; 1986 — Gary Wilkos, Farrell; 1987 — Bobby Rodriguez, Wagner; 1988 — Anthony Garofalo, Farrell; 1989 — Mike Taranto, Wagner and Lamont Watson, Wagner; 1990 — Eddie Thompson, Wagner; 1991 — Javonne Darling, Wagner; 1992 — Tom Reali, Wagner; 1993 — Greg Guastavino, Farrell; 1994 — Peter Timmins, Curtis; 1995 — Malik Aluqdah, Wagner; 1996 — Malik Aluqdah, Wagner and Joe Romero, Curtis; 1997 — Cassel Smith, Tottenville; 1998 — Jovan Whitehead, Curtis; 1999 — Steve Gregory, Curtis; 2000 — Steve Gregory, Curtis and Ramael Myers, Wagner; 2001 — Harrison Tindall, Wagner; 2002 — Damian McCaig, Curtis; 2003 — Josh Amaro, Farrell; 2004 — Nick Doscher, Moore; 2005 — Andre Cirino, Wagner; 2006 — Freddie Santana, New Dorp; 2007 — Dominick LeGrande, Curtis; 2008 — Torian Phillips, Port Richmond; 2009 — Dominique Easley, Curtis and Lyle McCombs, Sea; 2010 — Alvin Cornelius, Tottenville; 2012 — Kevin Austin, Curtis; 2013 — James Munson, Tottenville; 2014 — Dawa Winn, New Dorp; 2015 — Jesse Bramble, Tottenville; 2016 — Amad Anderson, Curtis; 2017 — Amad Anderson, Curtis and Quincy Barnes, Curtis; 2018 — Mike Jones, Tottenville; 2019 — Roland Dempster, Tottenville; 2020 — no award (pandemic); 2021 — Sam Martin, Curtis; 2022 — John Michalski, Moore.

Note: Prior to 1983, the award was called the Joe Burke Award.

PAST SAL SOMMA AWARD WINNERS

2010 — Adam Vischio, Sea; 2011 — Paul Scrocco, Curtis; 2012 –Rich Lam, Tottenville; 2013 — Anthony Coyle, Tottenville; 2014 — Sean Kennedy, St. Peter’s; 2015 — Zach O’Neill, Farrell; 2016 — Damian Ostaszewski, Curtis; 2017 — Isaiah Ortiz, Curtis; 2018 — Alex Barshaba, MSIT; 2019 — Andrew Hosie, Port Richmond; 2020 — no award (pandemic); 2021 — Osahon Noruwa, Curtis; 2022 — Henry Tabanski, Moore.

PAST DENNIS BARRETT AWARD WINNERS

2019 — Justin Cohen, MSIT; 2020 — no award (pandemic); 2021 — Bobby Capolongo, Farrell; 2022 — Shane Gallagher, New Dorp.