1940
The following is the average ranking of Oscar nominees by the Twitter followers of And the Runner-Up Is. Followers ranked the nominees of the above-the-line categories for the 13th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1940.
Results are tallied using a positional voting system, where the nominees receive points based on their rank position on each submission and the nominee with the most points overall wins
Bold = the actual Academy Award winner
BEST PICTURE
- Rebecca
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Great Dictator
- The Letter
- Foreign Correspondent
- The Long Voyage Home
- Kitty Foyle
- All This, and Heaven Too
- Our Town
BEST DIRECTOR
- John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath
- Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
- George Cukor – The Philadelphia Story
- William Wyler – The Letter
- Sam Wood – Kitty Foyle
BEST ACTOR
- Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath
- Charles Chaplin – The Great Dictator
- James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story
- Laurence Olivier – Rebecca
- Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois
BEST ACTRESS
- Joan Fontaine – Rebecca
- Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story
- Bette Davis – The Letter
- Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle
- Martha Scott – Our Town
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Walter Brennan – The Westerner
- Jack Oakie – The Great Dictator
- James Stephenson – The Letter
- Albert Bassermann – Foreign Correspondent
- William Gargan – They Knew What They Wanted
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath
- Judith Anderson – Rebecca
- Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story
- Marjorie Rambeau – Primrose Path
- Barbara O’Neil – All This, and Heaven Too
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- The Great Dictator – Charles Chaplin
- Foreign Correspondent – Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison
- The Great McGinty – Preston Sturges
- Angels Over Broadway – Ben Hecht
- Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet – John Huston, Heinz Herald, Norman Burnside
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- The Grapes of Wrath – Nunnally Johnson
- Rebecca – Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
- The Philadelphia Story – Donald Ogden Stewart
- The Long Voyage Home – Dudley Nichols
- Kitty Foyle – Dalton Trumbo
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