diff --git a/roles/badges-backend/files/cron/award-oldschool-badges b/roles/badges-backend/files/cron/award-oldschool-badges
index 7fa6ebda47..f4569a5388 100644
--- a/roles/badges-backend/files/cron/award-oldschool-badges
+++ b/roles/badges-backend/files/cron/award-oldschool-badges
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
 import __main__
 # This is going to require sqlalchemy 0.8 sooner than later.
 __main__.__requires__ = __requires__ = ["tahrir-api", "sqlalchemy>=0.7"];