Talk:Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

message: Someone has single-handedly decided to delete a great deal of important information (to say nothing of contributors' hard work) from this article.  What can be done?  (JosephASpadaro 05:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Stripped Bare

message: I recently became aware that Peter Falk received BSA nominations for his first 2 movie roles.  I can do the research myself if necessary, but is there already a list of other such actors?   Or people who were nominated for their first role?  Of their first three (if any)?  etc etc.   --  JackofOz 03:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I've just looked Falk up on IMDB and they weren't his first two roles after all.   But I'd still like to see if anyone else has achieved this.  --  JackofOz 03:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nominated in first/first two etc roles

message: There's an error in the "Film" line - is it 3 or 4 nominations for Waterfront/Godfather..? ntnon (talk) 14:52, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe that there is an error ... I suspect that you may be reading the Chart incorrectly.  The films that you mention each have 3 Best Supporting Actor nominations.  Also, these films each have 4 total Actor nominations (that is, combining the nominations for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor).  Thanks.  (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:34, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Another superlative

message: I have some concerns about the "Nationalities of winners" table that was recently added to this article along with the Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress articles – many of them regard issues similar to what are raised WP:MOSFLAG.
What is the primary reason and basis to determine nationality or citizenship of the winners? Is it the nationality or citizenship of each actors' birth? Is it the nationality or citizenship when their specified film was released? Or is it their nationality or citizenship today?
There are many actors and actress like Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins, John Houseman, Elizabeth Taylor, and Charlize Theron who have changed their citizenship during their career. So unless there is some sort of standard, I am afraid I will have to remove the table. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:31, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is it that you are ultimately looking to achieve ... removing the tables ... or establishing a standard?  Those are two very different objectives.  If it is the latter, I am sure that some standard can be derived through consensus. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 06:52, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please centralize discussion at Talk:Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor#Nationalities_of_winners_table to avoid repitition. Cop 663 (talk) 13:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationalities of winners table 

message: Prior to the 16th Academy Awards ceremony (1943), however, they received a plaque. The first recipient was Walter Brennan, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936) for his performance in Come and Get It. The most recent recipient was Alan Arkin, who was honored at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony (2006) for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine.  etc. 
Comment: I understand that the dates in brackets refer to the years of release of the films, not the actual years in which the awards ceremonies were held, which is the following year.  For example, the 79th Academy Awards ceremony at which Alan Arkin won his award was held in 2007, not 2006.  But many readers would not understand this.  Maybe we need a box that could go at the head of all these related articles that explains the convention we're using.  --  JackofOz (talk) 08:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I see your point ... and the inconsistency of dates is always an "issue" when dealing with Academy Awards.  As you mention, the year of the ceremony is always "off" by one, in relation to the year of film being honored.  However, I would say that this is not our (Wikipedia) convention ... isn't this really simply an Academy / AMPAS convention that we are mirroring?  Also, doesn't the wiki link to, say, 79th Academy Awards pretty easily clarify whatever confusion might lie in the reader's mind?  Those articles usually say, in the very first line ... "This ceremony was held on April 20, 1952, to honor the film year 1951" ... or some such.  To be honest, I think that adding yet another one of those dreaded "boxes" to all of the (dozens of) Academy Award articles would look silly.  There is enough of that "bureaucratic" nonsense that detracts from (not adds to) the article flow.  Every article I read has 8 gazillion boxes / tags that pretty much say nothing, and are pretty much ignored by most readers.  ("This articles needs clean up" ... "This article does not cite sources" ... "This article does not conform to Wiki standards" ... "We discourage the use of Trivia sections" ... ad nauseam.)  All of these boxes are distracting and add little for the reader.  Sure, they help bolster the ego of some Wiki editor who likes to exert some, uhhhh, "control" --- but they really serve no purpose to the reader.  I say less is more, when it comes to these distracting boxes.  Specifically, with regard to the Academy Awards ... if a reader can't click on the link (if/when he needs clarification), that's his issue, not ours.  And I think that, after a moment or two, the designation of years becomes apparent and obvious --- if indeed a reader takes that moment or two to read the articles, notice the formatting conventions, etc.  Those are my two cents.  Thanks.   (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 13:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  By the way, I just realized ... it's very odd and curious that you would pose that question on this page ... ?!?!?!  Best Supporting Actor is one of the more "obscure" articles, if you will.  The issue you mention is more global to the Academy Awards in general.  So, I am just surprised to find it on an article as obscure as Best Supporting Actor.  You'd probably get more feedback on Academy Awards, or even Best Picture, Best Actor, etc.  Just a thought.   (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 13:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating issue 

message: The table is confusing as hell.  Is this showing wins and nominations for Lead Actor as well? If so, why?  And am I correct in thinking that I have to do some mathematical calculations to figure out who's got how many?
I'm going to delete this table if it's not made clearer. 98.82.0.102 (talk) 07:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Table 

message: Another editor brought to my attention the following list of (acting) Academy Award winning performances of non-fictional characters.  I will leave it to others to ascertain whether or not this information belongs in the main article.  I am posting it on the Talk Pages of the four acting Academy Awards in the event that someone wants to add in the information, as appropriate.  I am also posting it for general information, in the event that a reader would like to know these facts.  Thanks.   (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:38, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Academy Award winning performances of non-fictional characters 

message: He was 82 years old when he was nominated for Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 03:40, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Max Von Sydow  

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message: Left a note at User talk:Michael 182 about his changes to the 4 related AA acting articles. Do any other editors/readers care about keeping the list as one continuous sortable table, or do you prefer a split by decade, and if so, why? Thanks. Brian W. Schaller (talk) 00:50, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No comments in a week, so nobody seems to care. Leaving it split is ok with this editor. Isn't anyone else watching this 'featured' list? Brian W. Schaller (talk) 23:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Splitting table by decade

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thread_title:  Move most of the images to a Wikimedia gallery? 

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message: Hello! Opening up this talk space (in response to dilemmas—that are now resolved thankfully) as per the lead acting pages, so that if anyone would like to dispute or discuss the people chosen to be represented on the sidebar, or discussing together to reach a compromise together, here's the place. We can also work together to find better free images of certain actresses. Also, if you want to include infobox captions with wikilinks, or have an issue, please talk about it FIRST. Thanks.
P.S. Idk who created that chart above, but I love it. --Cinemaniac86Dane_Cook_Hater_Extraordinaire 03:05, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidebar images & captions ~ Please discuss here FIRST to prevent edit warring!