Golden Boot Awards
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The Golden Boot Awards honor actors, actresses, and crew members who have made significant contributions to the genre of Western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 television and movies. The award is sponsored and presented by the Motion Picture & Television Fund
Motion Picture & Television Fund
The Motion Picture & Television Fund is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries with limited or no resources...

. Money raised at the award banquet is used to help finance various services offered by the Fund to those in the entertainment industry.

Actor Pat Buttram
Pat Buttram
Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram was an American actor, known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the TV series Green Acres. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty"...

conceived the idea of the Golden Boot Award, and the first ones were presented in 1983.

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