Rule Six
Special Rules for the Acting Awards
1. Reminder lists including the casts of all eligible pictures
shall be sent with
nominations ballots to all active members of the Academy Actors
Branch who shall vote in the
order of their preference for not more than five acting achievements
in each category: Best
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Performance by
a Actor in a Supporting Role,
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Best Performance
by an Actress in a
Supporting Role.
2. The five acting achievements in each category receiving the
highest number of votes
shall become the nominations for final voting for the Acting Awards.
3. A performance by an actor or actress in any role shall be
eligible for nomination either
for the Best Performance in a Leading Role or for the Best Performance
in a Supporting Role. If,
however, all the dialogue has been dubbed by another actor, the
performance shall not be eligible
for award consideration. Singing which is dubbed will not affect
the performer's eligibility
unless it constitutes the entire performance. The determination
as to whether a role is a lead or
support shall be made individually by members of the branch at
the time of balloting.
4. The leading role and supporting role categories will be tabulated
simultaneously. If
any performance should receive votes in both categories, the achievement
shall only be placed on
the ballot in that category in which, during the tabulation process,
it first receives the required
number of votes to be nominated. In the event that the performance
receives the numbers of
votes required to be nominated in both categories simultaneously,
the achievement shall only be
placed on the ballot in that category in which it receives the
greater percentage of the total votes.
5. In the event that two achievements by an actor or actress
receive sufficient votes to be
nominated in the same category, only one shall be nominated using
the preferential tabulation
process and such other allied procedures as may be necessary to
achieve that result.
6. In the event that an actor or actress receives a sufficient
number of votes to be
nominated for one achievement in one category and for another
achievement in the other
category, both achievements shall be eligible.
7. Final voting for the Acting Awards shall be restricted to
active and life Academy
members.
