1961

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 34th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1961.

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. West Side Story
2. The Hustler
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Guns of Navarone
5. Fanny

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins – West Side Story
2. Federico Fellini – La Dolce Vita
3. Robert Rossen – The Hustler
4. Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg
5. J. Lee Thompson – The Guns of Navarone

BEST ACTOR

1. Paul Newman – The Hustler
2. Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg
3. Spencer Tracy – Judgment at Nuremberg
4. Stuart Whitman – The Mark
5. Charles Boyer – Fanny

BEST ACTRESS

1. Sophia Loren – Two Women 
2. Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass
3. Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
4. Geraldine Page – Summer and Smoke
5. Piper Laurie – The Hustler

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. George Chakiris – West Side Story
2. Montgomery Clift – Judgment at Nuremberg
3. Jackie Gleason – The Hustler
4. George C. Scott – The Hustler
5. Peter Falk – Pocketful of Miracles

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Rita Moreno – West Side Story 
2. Judy Garland – Judgment at Nuremberg
3. Fay Bainter – The Children’s Hour
4. Lotte Lenya – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
5. Una Merkel – Summer and Smoke

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Splendor in the Grass – William Inge 
2. La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
3. General Della Rovere – Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
4. Lover Come Back – Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
5. Ballad of a Soldier – Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. The Hustler – Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
2. Judgment at Nuremberg – Abby Mann 
3. West Side Story – Ernest Lehman
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – George Axelrod
5. The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman