1947
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 20th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1947.
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
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Great Expectations
- Crossfire
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- The Bishop’s Wife
BEST DIRECTOR
- David Lean – Great Expectations
- Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire
- Elia Kazan – Gentleman’s Agreement
- George Cukor – A Double Life
- Henry Koster – The Bishop’s Wife
BEST ACTOR
- Ronald Colman – A Double Life
- John Garfield – Body and Soul
- Gregory Peck – Gentleman’s Agreement
- Michael Redgrave – Mourning Becomes Electra
- William Powell – Life with Father
BEST ACTRESS
- Joan Crawford – Possessed
- Susan Hayward – Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman
- Loretta Young – The Farmer’s Daughter
- Rosalind Russell – Mourning Becomes Electra
- Dorothy McGuire – Gentleman’s Agreement
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Edmund Gwenn – Miracle on 34th Street
- Robert Ryan – Crossfire
- Richard Widmark – Kiss of Death
- Charles Bickford – The Farmer’s Daughter
- Thomas Gomez – Ride the Pink Horse
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Celeste Holm – Gentleman’s Agreement
- Gloria Grahame – Crossfire
- Anne Revere – Gentleman’s Agreement
- Marjorie Main – The Egg and I
- Ethel Barrymore – The Paradine Case
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Monsieur Verdoux – Charles Chaplin
- A Double Life – Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
- Shoe-Shine – Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini
- Body and Soul – Abraham Polonsky
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer – Sidney Sheldon
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Crossfire – John Paxton
- Miracle on 34th Street – George Seaton
- Great Expectations – David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
- Gentleman’s Agreement – Moss Hart
- Boomerang! – Richard Murphy
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