What is an award prestige tier?

Every award in the registry sits in one of five prestige bands. Tier one is the peak: the Academy Awards, the Primetime Emmys, the Tonys, BAFTA, the Oliviers, SAG and the Golden Globes. A win at tier one is worth 100 award points, tier two 45, tier three 20, tier four 8 and tier five 2. The tier is a property of the award, not of the performance.

Are nominations counted?

Yes. A nomination is recorded as a first-class honour with its own outcome value and contributes 35 percent of what a win at the same body would. Shortlists contribute 12 percent, longlists 5 percent and non-competitive honorary awards 60 percent. Withdrawn or rescinded honours contribute nothing but remain in the record.

A competitive win at the Emmys, the Grammys, the Oscars and the Tonys. It is one of five cross-award career milestones the registry models, alongside the Triple Crown of Acting, the Grand Slam, the Screen Sweep and the Festival Triple. Milestones are entailed from recorded honours rather than conferred directly.

Can this registry be consumed as data?

Yes. The registry is published as JSON-LD on this page, marked up inline as RDFa, and defined formally in the ActorRankings Ontology at /ontology, available in Turtle and JSON-LD. Every award carries a Wikidata identifier so honours resolve into the wider knowledge graph.

The award registry

Every Acting Award

Catalogued rather than listed. Every award carries its conferring body, prestige tier, covered media and complete set of performance categories, down to the billing level and the years each category was active.

52
Awards: 341
Categories: 50
Conferring bodies: 5
Career milestones

Most decorated actors The ontology

How honours are weighted

Award points are the product of two numbers: the tier weight of the award and the multiplier of the outcome. Nothing else. A tier one nomination beats a tier three win, which is the correct ordering and the one most award tallies get wrong by counting statues.

Tier weight

Tier 1 · Peak100 pts
Tier 2 · Major45 pts
Tier 3 · Significant20 pts
Tier 4 · Notable8 pts
Tier 5 · Emerging2 pts

Outcome multiplier

won×1.00
nominated×0.35
shortlisted×0.12
longlisted×0.05
honorary×0.60
withdrawn×0.00

By industry

The registry

52 awards, ordered by prestige tier. 332 of the 341 tracked categories are currently active; the rest are retired but preserved so historical honours still resolve.

Tier 1 · Peak

100 pts per win

Tier 2 · Major

45 pts per win

Tier 3 · Significant

20 pts per win

Tier 4 · Notable

8 pts per win

Career milestones

Cross-award achievements that are notable in themselves. These are entailed from recorded honours rather than conferred by anyone, which is exactly why they need a formal definition.

EGOT
A competitive win at the Emmys, the Grammys, the Oscars and the Tonys. Fewer than two dozen people have completed it, and only a fraction of those did so in performance categories.
Triple Crown of Acting
A competitive acting win at the Academy Awards, the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Tony Awards. The purest measure of range across the three screen and stage traditions.
Grand Slam of Acting
The Triple Crown plus a competitive Grammy Award, which in practice means a spoken word or musical theatre album win.
Screen Sweep
Winning the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for the same performance in a single season. The rarest outcome in a modern awards campaign.
Festival Triple
An acting prize at Cannes, Venice and Berlin, the three A-list European competitions.

Frequently asked questions

What is an award prestige tier?: Every award in the registry sits in one of five prestige bands. Tier one is the peak: the Academy Awards, the Primetime Emmys, the Tonys, BAFTA, the Oliviers, SAG and the Golden Globes. A win at tier one is worth 100 award points, tier two 45, tier three 20, tier four 8 and tier five 2. The tier is a property of the award, not of the performance.
Are nominations counted?: Yes. A nomination is recorded as a first-class honour with its own outcome value and contributes 35 percent of what a win at the same body would. Shortlists contribute 12 percent, longlists 5 percent and non-competitive honorary awards 60 percent. Withdrawn or rescinded honours contribute nothing but remain in the record.
What is the EGOT?: A competitive win at the Emmys, the Grammys, the Oscars and the Tonys. It is one of five cross-award career milestones the registry models, alongside the Triple Crown of Acting, the Grand Slam, the Screen Sweep and the Festival Triple. Milestones are entailed from recorded honours rather than conferred directly.
Can this registry be consumed as data?: Yes. The registry is published as JSON-LD on this page, marked up inline as RDFa, and defined formally in the ActorRankings Ontology at /ontology, available in Turtle and JSON-LD. Every award carries a Wikidata identifier so honours resolve into the wider knowledge graph.