I try to get years of some awards product, but want avoid duplicate years, so I using group by but it not show nothing

I try to get years of some awards product, but want avoid duplicate years, so I using group by but it not show nothing, when I remove it, code working but not show right what I want, below is snippet code:

   *  <div class="cms-sticky-content">
*                 <ul>
*                   <?php 
*                     //$collection = $collection->getSelect()->group('aw_year'); 
*                     //print_r($collection->__toString()); die;
*                      $collection = $this->getSelect()->group('aw_year');
*                     
*                     //print_r($new_collection->__toString()); die;
*                     //print_r($collection->count()); die;
*                     foreach ($collection as $year) {
*                       
*                       echo '<li><a href="#' . $year->getData("aw_year"). '"><span><span>' .$year->getData('aw_year'). '</span></span></a></li>';
*                       }
*                     
*                     
*                   ?> 
*                 </ul>
*             </div>

This is error:

So how I can do it:

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