diff --git a/assets/react/controllers/ActorPopover.jsx b/assets/react/controllers/ActorPopover.jsx
index f085fd6..5d0d485 100644
--- a/assets/react/controllers/ActorPopover.jsx
+++ b/assets/react/controllers/ActorPopover.jsx
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ export default function ActorPopover({ hintType, hintText }) {
     const dismiss = useDismiss(context);
     const { getReferenceProps, getFloatingProps } = useInteractions([click, dismiss]);
 
+    if (!hintText) return null;
+
     const iconClass = HINT_ICONS[hintType] || 'fa-solid fa-circle-question';
 
     return (
diff --git a/src/Service/GameGridGenerator.php b/src/Service/GameGridGenerator.php
index c7c39b0..8078d19 100644
--- a/src/Service/GameGridGenerator.php
+++ b/src/Service/GameGridGenerator.php
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class GameGridGenerator
         $rowOrder = 0;
         $usedMovieRoleIds = [];
         $usedHintKeys = [];
+        $cachedAwards = null;
 
         foreach (str_split(strtolower($mainActor->getName())) as $char) {
             if (!preg_match('/[a-z]/', $char)) {
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ class GameGridGenerator
             $row->setPosition(strpos(strtolower($actor->getName()), $char));
             $row->setRowOrder($rowOrder);
 
-            $hint = $this->generateHint($mainActor, $usedMovieRoleIds, $usedHintKeys);
+            $hint = $this->generateHint($mainActor, $usedMovieRoleIds, $usedHintKeys, $cachedAwards);
             if ($hint !== null) {
                 $row->setHintType($hint['type']);
                 $row->setHintData($hint['data']);
@@ -138,13 +139,13 @@ class GameGridGenerator
      * @param list<string> $usedHintKeys Semantic keys like "film:42" to avoid duplicate hints
      * @return array{type: string, data: string}|null
      */
-    private function generateHint(Actor $mainActor, array &$usedMovieRoleIds, array &$usedHintKeys): ?array
+    private function generateHint(Actor $mainActor, array &$usedMovieRoleIds, array &$usedHintKeys, ?array &$cachedAwards): ?array
     {
         $types = ['film', 'character', 'award'];
         shuffle($types);
 
         foreach ($types as $type) {
-            $hint = $this->resolveHint($type, $mainActor, $usedMovieRoleIds, $usedHintKeys);
+            $hint = $this->resolveHint($type, $mainActor, $usedMovieRoleIds, $usedHintKeys, $cachedAwards);
             if ($hint !== null) {
                 return $hint;
             }
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ class GameGridGenerator
      * @param list<string> $usedHintKeys
      * @return array{type: string, data: string}|null
      */
-    private function resolveHint(string $type, Actor $mainActor, array &$usedMovieRoleIds, array &$usedHintKeys): ?array
+    private function resolveHint(string $type, Actor $mainActor, array &$usedMovieRoleIds, array &$usedHintKeys, ?array &$cachedAwards): ?array
     {
         switch ($type) {
             case 'film':
@@ -196,12 +197,15 @@ class GameGridGenerator
                 return ['type' => 'character', 'data' => $roleId];
 
             case 'award':
-                try {
-                    $awards = $this->wikidataAwardGateway->getAwards($mainActor);
-                } catch (\Throwable) {
-                    return null;
+                if ($cachedAwards === null) {
+                    try {
+                        $cachedAwards = $this->wikidataAwardGateway->getAwards($mainActor);
+                    } catch (\Throwable) {
+                        $cachedAwards = [];
+                        return null;
+                    }
                 }
-                foreach ($awards as $award) {
+                foreach ($cachedAwards as $award) {
                     $text = $award['name'] . ' (' . $award['year'] . ')';
                     $key = 'award:' . $text;
                     if (!in_array($key, $usedHintKeys)) {
diff --git a/src/Service/WikidataAwardGateway.php b/src/Service/WikidataAwardGateway.php
index db19bc5..c933f30 100644
--- a/src/Service/WikidataAwardGateway.php
+++ b/src/Service/WikidataAwardGateway.php
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ class WikidataAwardGateway
                 'Accept' => 'application/sparql-results+json',
                 'User-Agent' => 'LtbxdActorle/1.0',
             ],
+            'timeout' => 5,
         ]);
 
         $data = $response->toArray();
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ class WikidataAwardGateway
 
     private function buildQuery(string $actorName): string
     {
-        $escaped = str_replace('"', '\\"', $actorName);
+        $escaped = str_replace(['\\', '"', "\n", "\r"], ['\\\\', '\\"', '\\n', '\\r'], $actorName);
 
         return <<<SPARQL
         SELECT ?awardLabel ?year WHERE {