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| Academy Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
 The 2022 recipient: Brendan Fraser | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1929 (for performance in movies released during the 1927/1928 movie season) |
| Most recent winner | Brendan Fraser The Whale (2022) |
| Most awards | Daniel Day-Lewis (3) |
| Most nominations | Laurence Olivier and Spencer Tracy (9) |
| Website | oscars |
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit. It is presented each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is to recognize an actor with an outstanding performance in a movie. Before 1976, this award was called the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor. Since the beginning the award has commonly been called the Oscar for Best Actor.
Actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves. The winner is selected by the Academy membership as a whole.