1970

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 43rd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1970.

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

* = not an official Best Picture nominee; selected by And the Runner-Up Is followers as a film that would be nominated in the current up-to-10 Best Picture system

BEST PICTURE

1. Five Easy Pieces
2. M*A*S*H
3. Patton
4. Women in Love*
5. Love Story
6. I Never Sang for My Father*
7. Airport
8. Ryan’s Daughter*
9. Tora! Tora! Tora!*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Robert Altman – M*A*S*H
2. Ken Russell – Women in Love
3. Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton
4. Federico Fellini – Fellini Satyricon
5. Arthur Hiller – Love Story

BEST ACTOR

1. George C. Scott — Patton
2. Jack Nicholson — Five Easy Pieces
3. James Earl Jones — The Great White Hope
4. Melvyn Douglas — I Never Sang for My Father
5. Ryan O’Neal — Love Story

BEST ACTRESS

1. Glenda Jackson — Women in Love 
2. Carrie Snodgress — Diary of a Mad Housewife
3. Jane Alexander — The Great White Hope
4. Ali MacGraw — Love Story
5. Sarah Miles — Ryan’s Daughter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. John Mills — Ryan’s Daughter
2. Chief Dan George — Little Big Man
3. Gene Hackman — I Never Sang for My Father
4. John Marley — Love Story
5. Richard Castellano — Lovers and Other Strangers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Karen Black — Five Easy Pieces
2. Sally Kellerman — M*A*S*H
3. Maureen Stapleton — Airport
4. Lee Grant — The Landlord
5. Helen Hayes — Airport

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Five Easy Pieces – Bob Rafelson & Adrien Joyce
2. My Night at Maud’s – Eric Rohmer
3. Patton – Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North 
4. Love Story – Erich Segal
5. Joe – Norman Wexler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. M*A*S*H – Ring Lardner, Jr. 
2. Women in Love – Larry Kramer
3. I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Anderson
4. Lovers and Other Strangers – Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman
5. Airport – George Seaton