1946
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 19th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1946.
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 Best Years of Our Lives
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Henry V
- The Razor’s Edge
- The Yearling
BEST DIRECTOR
- William Wyler – The Best Years of Our Lives
- David Lean – Brief Encounter
- Frank Capra – It’s a Wonderful Life
- Robert Siodmak – The Killers
- Clarence Brown – The Yearling
BEST ACTOR
- James Stewart – It’s a Wonderful Life
- Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives
- Laurence Olivier – Henry V
- Gregory Peck – The Yearling
- Larry Parks – The Jolson Story
BEST ACTRESS
- Celia Johnson – Brief Encounter
- Olivia de Havilland – To Each His Own
- Rosalind Russell – Sister Kenny
- Jennifer Jones – Duel in the Sun
- Jane Wyman – The Yearling
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Claude Rains – Notorious
- Harold Russell – The Best Years of Our Lives
- Clifton Webb – The Razor’s Edge
- Charles Coburn – The Green Years
- William Demarest – The Jolson Story
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Anne Baxter – The Razor’s Edge
- Lillian Gish – Duel in the Sun
- Ethel Barrymore – The Spiral Staircase
- Gale Sondergaard – Anna and the King of Siam
- Flora Robson – Saratoga Trunk
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Notorious – Ben Hecht
- Children of Paradise – Jacques Prevert
- The Seventh Veil – Muriel Box, Sydney Box
- The Blue Dahlia – Raymond Chandler
- Road to Utopia – Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- The Best Years of Our Lives – Robert E. Sherwood
- Brief Encounter – David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
- Rome, Open City – Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini
- The Killers – Anthony Veiller
- Anna and the King of Siam – Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson
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