1975

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 48th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1975.

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. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2. Jaws
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Nashville
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Amarcord*
7. Shampoo*
8. The Man Who Would Be King*
9. The Sunshine Boys*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Robert Altman – Nashville
2. Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
3. Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
4. Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
5. Federico Fellini – Amarcord

BEST ACTOR

1. Al Pacino — Dog Day Afternoon
2. Jack Nicholson — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3. Walter Matthau — The Sunshine Boys
4. James Whitmore — Give ’em Hell, Harry!
5. Maximilian Schell — The Man in the Glass Booth

BEST ACTRESS

1. Louise Fletcher — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2. Isabelle Adjani — The Story of Adele H.
3. Ann-Margret — Tommy
4. Carol Kane — Hester Street
5. Glenda Jackson — Hedda

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2. Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
3. Jack Warden – Shampoo
4. George Burns – The Sunshine Boys
5. Burgess Meredith – The Day of the Locust

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Lily Tomlin – Nashville
2. Ronee Blakley – Nashville
3. Lee Grant – Shampoo
4. Brenda Vaccaro – Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough
5. Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson 
2. Amarcord – Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
3. Shampoo – Robert Towne, Warren Beatty
4. And Now My Love – Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
5. Lies My Father Told Me – Ted Allan

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman 
2. Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick
3. The Man Who Would Be King – John Huston, Gladys Hill
4. The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon
5. Scent of a Woman – Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi