Mark gets nothing as an award (5)
I believe the answer is:
oscar
'an award' is the definition.
(Oscar is an example)
'mark gets nothing' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'mark' could be 'scar' (synonyms) and 'scar' is present in the answer.
'nothing' could be 'o' (looks like zero - 0) and 'o' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oscar that I've seen before include "Film award; --- Hammerstein" , "academy's prize" , "Movie award, popularly called" , "Comms code for "O"" , "Boy" .)