The Academy Award for Best Actor is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire body of eligible voting members of the Academy. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories. The system was later replaced by one in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Since its inception, the award has been given to 78 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis(pictured) has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor.
For your consistently inspiring work in promoting Academy Award ceremonies to featured list status, you deserve many more of these. KRIMUK90✉ 01:34, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Despite your hard work on Oscars related list, you have only two barnstars and I am pretty surprised. Anyways, from FrB.TG (aka FrankBoy) to Birdienest81 for their work on the lists of the Academy Awards. FrankBoy(Buzz) 20:55, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
For your outstanding contributions to the Academy Awards ceremonies. You are an inspiration for all of us. Krish | Talk 18:26, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
I really appreciate all your wiki work and edits, especially regarding the academy awards. I am completely incapable of doing an edit myself- I don't have a clue how to do it and really don't have the need to try and learn (not that I could- my computer skills are very limited). But I have an issue with the 1995 academy awards page and since you seem very concerned with accuracy and darn sure have the capability to make changes, I thought I'd just contact you and ask you to look into it and- if I'm right- correct the error on the page. The area in question is the BEST ACTOR nominations on the 1995 Academy Awards. If you google, look at the IMDB page, or any other quick research you will find countless sources saying that Richard Dryfuss was nominated for Best Actor in 1995 (for Mr. Holland's Opus). Yet it isn't shown on the wiki page for the 1995 awards. These other sources might be wrong, or there may be some other explanation that justifies Mr. Dryfus not being listed on the 1995 Academy Awards page for Best Actor. If so, I'm sorry I've wasted your time. If those sources are correct and Mr. Dryfus SHOULD be listed on that wiki page, I respectfully ask that you please make that change. I know I'm just some stranger who isn't even smart enough to properly edit a wiki page, but I'd be forever grateful if you would at least take a moment to look into this and perhaps (PLEASE!) even let me know what you decided. (my email is sunnyspottravel@yahoo.com) Thanks so much!!! Thecityman (talk) 15:51, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Awards
The Half Million Award
For your contributions to bring List of Robin Williams performances (estimated annual readership: 600,000) to Featured List status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! FrB.TG (talk) 14:37, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Other Commendations
Happy Birthday!
Wish you a very Happy Birthday Birdie! Have a great one. Krimuk|90 (talk) 08:42, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
51st Academy Awards
