1958
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 31st Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1958.
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
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Auntie Mame
- The Defiant Ones
- Separate Tables
- Gigi
BEST DIRECTOR
- Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
- Robert Wise – I Want to Live!
- Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
- Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
BEST ACTOR
- Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
- David Niven – Separate Tables
- Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
- Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea
BEST ACTRESS
- Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
- Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
- Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
- Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Burl Ives – The Big Country
- Arthur Kennedy – Some Came Running
- Lee J. Cobb – The Brothers Karamazov
- Gig Young – Teacher’s Pet
- Theodore Bikel – The Defiant Ones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
- Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
- Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
- Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
- Martha Hyer – Some Came Running
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
- The Goddess – Paddy Chayefsky
- Teacher’s Pet – Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
- The Sheepman – William Bowers, James Edward Grant
- Houseboat – Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks, James Poe
- I Want to Live! – Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
- Separate Tables – Terence Rattigan, John Gay
- The Horse’s Mouth – Alec Guinness
- Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner
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