1976

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 49th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1976.

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. Network
2. Taxi Driver
3. All the President’s Men
4. Rocky
5. Seven Beauties*
6. Bound for Glory
7. Face to Face*
8. Voyage of the Damned*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Sidney Lumet – Network
2. Alan J. Pakula – All the President’s Men
3. Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties
4. John G. Avildsen – Rocky
5. Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face

BEST ACTOR

1. Robert De Niro — Taxi Driver
2. Peter Finch — Network
3. William Holden — Network
4. Sylvester Stallone — Rocky
5. Giancarlo Giannini — Seven Beauties

BEST ACTRESS

1. Faye Dunaway — Network
2. Sissy Spacek — Carrie
3. Liv Ullmann — Face to Face
4. Talia Shire — Rocky
5. Marie-Christine Barrault — Cousin Cousine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Jason Robards – All the President’s Men
2. Burgess Meredith – Rocky
3. Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man
4. Ned Beatty – Network
5. Burt Young – Rocky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Piper Laurie – Carrie
2. Beatrice Straight – Network
3. Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
4. Jane Alexander – All the President’s Men
5. Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Network – Paddy Chayefsky 
2. Seven Beauties – Lina Wertmüller
3. The Front – Walter Bernstein
4. Rocky – Sylvester Stallone
5. Cousin, Cousine – Jean-Charles Tacchella & Daniele Thompson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. All the President’s Men – William Goldman 
2. Bound for Glory – Robert Getchell
3. Fellini’s Casanova – Federico Fellini & Bernardino Zapponi
4. The Seven-per-cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer
5. Voyage of the Damned – Steve Shagan & David Butler