1969

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 42nd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1969.

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. Midnight Cowboy
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. Z
4. Hello, Dolly!
5. Anne of the Thousand Days

BEST DIRECTOR

1. John Schlesinger — Midnight Cowboy
2. Sydney Pollack — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
3. Costa-Gavras — Z
4. George Roy Hill — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Arthur Penn — Alice’s Restaurant

BEST ACTOR

1. Dustin Hoffman — Midnight Cowboy
2. Jon Voight — Midnight Cowboy
3. John Wayne — True Grit
4. Peter O’Toole — Goodbye, Mr. Chips
5. Richard Burton — Anne of the Thousand Days

BEST ACTRESS

1. Maggie Smith — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Jane Fonda — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
3. Liza Minnelli — The Sterile Cuckoo
4. Geneviève Bujold — Anne of the Thousand Days
5. Jean Simmons — The Happy Ending

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Gig Young — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
2. Jack Nicholson — Easy Rider
3. Elliott Gould — Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
4. Anthony Quayle — Anne of the Thousand Days
5. Rupert Crosse — The Reivers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Susannah York — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
2. Goldie Hawn — Cactus Flower
3. Catherine Burns — Last Summer
4. Dyan Cannon — Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
5. Sylvia Miles — Midnight Cowboy

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman 
2. Easy Rider – Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
3. The Wild Bunch – Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah
4. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
5. The Damned – Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt 
2. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
3. Z – Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
4. Anne of the Thousand Days – John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove
5. Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman