Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. also known as Will Smith is a 39-year-old two time Academy Award-nominated American actor and singer. However, this year Smith hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar, but has received the first Cadet Choice Movie Award from the U.S. Military Academy for his role in “I Am Legend.”

The Award was designed to honor the fictional character that best embodies West Point leadership qualities on the silver screen. Smith’s character, Army virologist Dr. Robert Neville, the only New Yorker that survived the zombie-making virus which spread in Manhattan, received 27 percent of the cadets’ 2,200 online votes.

The Award for his “value-based leadership,” was given to Will Smith on Thursday night. However, not only the actor was awarded. According to the Mid-Hudson News the screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman; the producers Akiva Goldsman, David Heyman, James Lassiter, Neal H. Moritz and Erwin Stoff; the executive producer Michael Tadross and the co-producers Tracy Torme and Jeffrey Wetzel, were also recognized by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Runners-up included King Leonidas of “300”, played by Gerard Butler, and John McClane of “Live Free or Die Hard” portrayed by Bruce Willis. The cadets will hand over the prizes in an award presentation later in the spring, Mid-Hudson News reports. The award is actually going to be a “Tarbucket,” the tall ornate gray and black cadet parade hat with a feather plume.