1977

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 50th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1977.

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. Annie Hall
2. Star Wars
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
4. Saturday Night Fever*
5. The Goodbye Girl
6. Julia
7. That Obscure Object of Desire*
8. The Turning Point
9. Equus*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Woody Allen – Annie Hall
2. Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. George Lucas – Star Wars
4. Fred Zinnemann – Julia
5. Herbert Ross – The Turning Point

BEST ACTOR

1. Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl
2. John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever
3. Woody Allen – Annie Hall
4. Richard Burton – Equus
5. Marcello Mastroianni – A Special Day

BEST ACTRESS

1. Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
2. Jane Fonda – Julia
3. Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl
4. Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point
5. Shirley MacLaine – The Turning Point

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Alec Guinness – Star Wars
2. Peter Firth – Equus
3. Jason Robards – Julia
4. Maximilian Schell – Julia
5. Mikhail Baryshnikov – The Turning Point

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
2. Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl
4. Tuesday Weld – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
5. Leslie Browne – The Turning Point

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Annie Hall – Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman 
2. The Goodbye Girl – Neil Simon
3. Star Wars – George Lucas
4. The Late Show – Robert Benton
5. The Turning Point – Arthur Laurents

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Julia – Alvin Sargent 
2. Equus – Peter Shaffer
3. That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
4. Oh, God! – Larry Gelbart
5. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino