1964

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 37th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1964.

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. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  2. Mary Poppins
  3. Becket
  4. My Fair Lady
  5. Zorba the Greek

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  2. Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins
  3. George Cukor – My Fair Lady 
  4. Peter Glenville – Becket
  5. Michael Cacoyannis – Zorba the Greek

BEST ACTOR

  1. Peter Sellers — Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  2. Peter O’Toole — Becket
  3. Richard Burton — Becket
  4. Rex Harrison — My Fair Lady
  5. Anthony Quinn — Zorba the Greek

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins
  2. Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater
  3. Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon
  4. Sophia Loren – Marriage Italian Style
  5. Debbie Reynolds – The Unsinkable Molly Brown

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Peter Ustinov – Topkapi 
  2. John Gielgud – Becket
  3. Stanley Holloway – My Fair Lady
  4. Lee Tracy – The Best Man
  5. Edmond O’Brien – Seven Days in May

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Agnes Moorehead – Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte
  2. Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek
  3. Grayson Hall – The Night of the Iguana
  4. Gladys Cooper – My Fair Lady
  5. Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. A Hard Day’s Night – Alun Owen
  2. That Man from Rio – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe De Broca
  3. Father Goose – S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff 
  4. The Organizer – Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
  5. One Potato, Two Potato – Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
  2. Mary Poppins – Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
  3. Becket – Edward Anhalt 
  4. My Fair Lady – Alan Jay Lerner
  5. Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis