1950
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 23rd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1950.
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
- All About Eve
- Sunset Boulevard
- Born Yesterday
- Father of the Bride
- King Solomon’s Mines
BEST DIRECTOR
- Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve
- Carol Reed – The Thin Man
- John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle
- George Cukor – Born Yesterday
BEST ACTOR
- William Holden – Sunset Boulevard
- James Stewart – Harvey
- José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac
- Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride
- Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee
BEST ACTRESS
- Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard
- Bette Davis – All About Eve
- Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday
- Anne Baxter – All About Eve
- Eleanor Parker – Caged
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- George Sanders – All About Eve
- Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard
- Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle
- Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880
- Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Celeste Holm – All About Eve
- Thelma Ritter – All About Eve
- Josephine Hull – Harvey
- Hope Emerson – Caged
- Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
- Adam’s Rib – Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
- The Men – Carl Foreman
- Caged – Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
- No Way Out – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Born Yesterday – Albert Mannheimer
- The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow, John Huston
- Father of the Bride – Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
- Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz
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