1959

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 32nd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1959.

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

  1. Anatomy of a Murder
  2. Ben-Hur
  3. Room at the Top
  4. The Diary of Anne Frank
  5. The Nun’s Story

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot
  2. William Wyler – Ben-Hur
  3. Jack Clayton – Room at the Top
  4. George Stevens – The Diary of Anne Frank
  5. Fred Zinnemann – The Nun’s Story

BEST ACTOR

  1. Jack Lemmon – Some Like It Hot
  2. James Stewart – Anatomy of a Murder
  3. Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur
  4. Laurence Harvey – Room at the Top
  5. Paul Muni – The Last Angry Man

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Simone Signoret – Room at the Top
  2. Katharine Hepburn – Suddenly, Last Summer
  3. Elizabeth Taylor – Suddenly, Last Summer
  4. Audrey Hepburn – The Nun’s Story
  5. Doris Day – Pillow Talk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. George C. Scott – Anatomy of a Murder
  2. Arthur O’Connell – Anatomy of a Murder
  3. Hugh Griffith – Ben-Hur
  4. Ed Wynn – The Diary of Anne Frank
  5. Robert Vaughn – The Young Philadelphians

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Juanita Moore – Imitation of Life
  2. Shelley Winters – The Diary of Anne Frank
  3. Susan Kohner – Imitation of Life
  4. Thelma Ritter – Pillow Talk
  5. Hermione Baddeley – Room at the Top

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. North by Northwest – Ernest Lehman
  2. Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman
  3. The 400 Blows – Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
  4. Pillow Talk – Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin 
  5. Operation Petticoat – Paul King, Joseph Stone; Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
  2. Anatomy of a Murder – Wendell Mayes
  3. Room at the Top – Neil Paterson 
  4. The Nun’s Story – Robert Anderson
  5. Ben-Hur – Karl Tunberg

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