1942
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 15th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1942.
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
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Mrs. Miniver
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Random Harvest
- The Talk of the Town
- 49th Parallel
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Kings Row
- The Pied Piper
- Wake Island
BEST DIRECTOR
- William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
- Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest
- Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Sam Wood – Kings Row
- John Farrow – Wake Island
BEST ACTOR
- James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Ronald Colman – Random Harvest
- Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees
- Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper
- Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver
BEST ACTRESS
- Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
- Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year
- Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
- Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen
- Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
- Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver
- Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat
- William Bendix – Wake Island
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons
- Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager
- Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver
- Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver
- Susan Peters – Random Harvest
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Woman of the Year – Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Road to Morocco – Frank Butler, Don Hartman
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley – George Oppenheimer
- Wake Island – W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Mrs. Miniver – Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West
- The Talk of the Town – Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman
- Random Harvest – Claudine West, George Froeschel, Arthur Wimperis
- 49th Parallel – Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger
- The Pride of the Yankees – Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
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