1945
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 18th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1945.
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
- Mildred Pierce
- The Lost Weekend
- Spellbound
- Anchors Aweigh
- The Bells of St. Mary’s
BEST DIRECTOR
- Billy Wilder – The Lost Weekend
- Alfred Hitchcock – Spellbound
- Jean Renoir – The Southerner
- Clarence Brown – National Velvet
- Leo McCarey – The Bells of St. Mary’s
BEST ACTOR
- Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend
- Gene Kelly – Anchors Aweigh
- Gregory Peck – The Keys of the Kingdom
- Bing Crosby – The Bells of St. Mary’s
- Cornel Wilde – A Song to Remember
BEST ACTRESS
- Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce
- Gene Tierney – Leave Her to Heaven
- Ingrid Bergman – The Bells of St. Mary’s
- Greer Garson – The Valley of Decision
- Jennifer Jones – Love Letters
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- James Dunn – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Michael Chekhov – Spellbound
- Robert Mitchum – The Story of G. I. Joe
- John Dall – The Corn Is Green
- J. Carrol Naish – A Medal for Benny
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Ann Blyth – Mildred Pierce
- Eve Arden – Mildred Pierce
- Angela Lansbury – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Anne Revere – National Velvet
- Joan Lorring – The Corn Is Green
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Marie-Louise – Richard Schweizer
- Music for Millions – Myles Connolly
- Salty O’Rourke – Milton Holmes
- Dillinger – Philip Yordan
- What Next, Corporal Hargrove? – Harry Kurnitz
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Mildred Pierce – Ranald MacDougall
- The Lost Weekend – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis
- The Story of G. I. Joe – Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson
- Pride of the Marines – Albert Maltz
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