1971

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 44th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1971.

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. The Last Picture Show
2. The French Connection
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday*
5. Fiddler on the Roof
6. Klute*
7. The Hospital*
8. Nicholas and Alexandra
9. Summer of ’42*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
2. Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
3. William Friedkin – The French Connection
4. John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof

BEST ACTOR

1. Gene Hackman — The French Connection
2. Topol — Fiddler on the Roof
3. Peter Finch — Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. George C. Scott — The Hospital
5. Walter Matthau — Kotch

BEST ACTRESS

1. Jane Fonda — Klute
2. Glenda Jackson — Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Julie Christie — McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4. Janet Suzman — Nicholas and Alexandra
5. Vanessa Redgrave — Mary, Queen of Scots

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Ben Johnson — The Last Picture Show
2. Roy Scheider — The French Connection
3. Jeff Bridges — The Last Picture Show
4. Leonard Frey — Fiddler on the Roof
5. Richard Jaeckel — Sometimes a Great Notion

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Cloris Leachman — The Last Picture Show
2. Ellen Burstyn — The Last Picture Show
3. Ann-Margret — Carnal Knowledge
4. Barbara Harris — Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
5. Margaret Leighton — The Go-Between

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday — Penelope Gilliatt
2. Klute — Andy Lewis & Dave Lewis
3. The Hospital — Paddy Chayefsky 
4. Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion — Elio Petri & Ugo Pirro
5. Summer of ’42 — Herman Raucher

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. The Last Picture Show — Larry McMurtry & Peter Bogdanovich
2. A Clockwork Orange — Stanley Kubrick
3. The French Connection — Ernest Tidyman 
4. The Conformist — Bernardo Bertolucci
5. The Garden of the Finzi Continis — Ugo Pirro & Vittorio Bonicelli