1965

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 38th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1965.

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. The Sound of Music
  2. Doctor Zhivago
  3. Darling
  4. A Thousand Clowns
  5. Ship of Fools

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Robert Wise – The Sound of Music 
  2. Hiroshi Teshigahara – Woman in the Dunes
  3. David Lean – Doctor Zhivago
  4. William Wyler – The Collector
  5. John Schlesinger – Darling

BEST ACTOR

  1. Rod Steiger — The Pawnbroker
  2. Richard Burton — The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
  3. Lee Marvin — Cat Ballou
  4. Oskar Werner — Ship of Fools
  5. Laurence Olivier — Othello

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Julie Andrews — The Sound of Music
  2. Julie Christie — Darling
  3. Elizabeth Hartman — A Patch of Blue
  4. Samantha Eggar — The Collector
  5. Simone Signoret — Ship of Fools

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Martin Balsam — A Thousand Clowns
  2. Tom Courtenay — Doctor Zhivago
  3. Frank Finlay — Othello
  4. Michael Dunn — Ship of Fools
  5. Ian Bannen — The Flight of the Phoenix

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Shelley Winters — A Patch of Blue 
  2. Peggy Wood — The Sound of Music
  3. Maggie Smith — Othello
  4. Ruth Gordon — Inside Daisy Clover
  5. Joyce Redman — Othello

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Jacques Demy
  2. Darling – Frederic Raphael 
  3. The Train – Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
  4. Casanova ’70 – Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D’Amico
  5. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines – Jack Davies, Ken Annakin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Doctor Zhivago – Robert Bolt 
  2. The Collector – Stanley Mann, John Kohn
  3. A Thousand Clowns – Herb Gardner
  4. Cat Ballou – Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
  5. Ship of Fools – Abby Mann

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