1966

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 39th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1966.

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. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. A Man for All Seasons
3. The Sand Pebbles
4. Alfie
5. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Michelangelo Antonioni – Blow-Up
3. Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons
4. Richard Brooks – The Professionals
5. Claude Lelouch – A Man and a Woman

BEST ACTOR

1. Richard Burton — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Paul Scofield — A Man for All Seasons
3. Michael Caine — Alfie
4. Alan Arkin — The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
5. Steve McQueen — The Sand Pebbles 

BEST ACTRESS

1. Elizabeth Taylor — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Lynn Redgrave — Georgy Girl
3. Ida Kaminska — The Shop on Main Street
4. Anouk Aimee — A Man and a Woman
5. Vanessa Redgrave — Morgan!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Walter Matthau — The Fortune Cookie
2. Robert Shaw — A Man for All Seasons
3. George Segal — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. James Mason — Georgy Girl
5. Mako — The Sand Pebbles

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Sandy Dennis — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Wendy Hiller — A Man for All Seasons
3. Geraldine Page — You’re a Big Boy Now
4. Vivien Merchant — Alfie
5. Jocelyne LaGarde — Hawaii

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. The Fortune Cookie – Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
2. Blow-Up – Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
3. A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven 
4. The Naked Prey – Clint Johnston, Don Peters
5. Khartoum – Robert Ardrey

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt 
2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Ernest Lehman
3. Alfie – Bill Naughton
4. The Professionals – Richard Brooks
5. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming – William Rose