1974

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 47th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1974.

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 Godfather Part II
2. Chinatown
3. The Conversation
4. A Woman Under the Influence*
5. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore*
6. Lenny
7. Day for Night*
8. Murder on the Orient Express*
9. The Towering Inferno

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part II
2. Roman Polanski – Chinatown
3. John Cassavetes – A Woman Under the Influence
4. François Truffaut – Day for Night
5. Bob Fosse – Lenny

BEST ACTOR

1. Al Pacino — The Godfather Part II
2. Jack Nicholson — Chinatown
3. Dustin Hoffman — Lenny
4. Art Carney — Harry and Tonto
5. Albert Finney — Murder on the Orient Express

BEST ACTRESS

1. Gena Rowlands — A Woman Under the Influence
2. Ellen Burstyn — Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
3. Faye Dunaway — Chinatown
4. Valerie Perrine — Lenny
5. Diahann Carroll — Claudine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Robert De Niro — The Godfather Part II
2. Michael V. Gazzo — The Godfather Part II
3. Lee Strasberg — The Godfather Part II
4. Fred Astaire — The Towering Inferno
5. Jeff Bridges — Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Madeline Kahn — Blazing Saddles
2. Diane Ladd — Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
3. Valentina Cortese — Day for Night
4. Talia Shire — The Godfather Part II
5. Ingrid Bergman — Murder on the Orient Express

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Chinatown – Robert Towne 
2. The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola
3. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – Robert Getchell
4. Day for Night – Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard & Suzanne Schiffman
5. Harry and Tonto – Paul Mazursky & Josh Greenfeld

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo 
2. Young Frankenstein – Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks
3. Lenny – Julian Barry
4. Murder on the Orient Express – Paul Dehn
5. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz – Mordecai Richler & Lionel Chetwynd