A Many to Many relationship that is not required.

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My example is a list of movies and awards they could have won (ie.
"Oscar, Best Picture").

So I create the Award object:

class Award(meta.Model):
    description = meta.CharField(maxlength=100)

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.description

    class META:
        admin = meta.Admin()

Then I create the Movie object:

class Movie(meta.Model):
    year = meta.SmallIntegerField()
    title = meta.CharField(maxlength=100)
    period = meta.CharField(maxlength=1, choices=PERIOD_CHOICES)
    plot = meta.TextField()
    awards = meta.ManyToManyField(Award)

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.title

    def short_plot(self):
        output = self.plot
        if len(output) > 100:
            output = self.plot[:100] + "..."

        return output

    short_plot.short_description = "Plot extract"

    class META:
        ordering = ('-year', 'title')
        admin = meta.Admin(
            list_display = ("title", "year", "period", "short_plot"),
        )

The only catch is that in the Admin piece, I am required to select at
least one award for any movie I enter, however the vast majority of
movies have 0 awards.   What's the best way to approach this?

By the way, i'm newish to Python and Django.  I'm employed as a C# &
Java/Struts guy.  I'm starting to wish my "native" platforms had
Django's feature set.