1978

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 51st Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1978.

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 Deer Hunter
2. Days of Heaven*
3. Coming Home
4. Interiors*
5. Autumn Sonata*
6. Midnight Express
7. An Unmarried Woman
8. Heaven Can Wait
9. California Suite*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
2. Hal Ashby – Coming Home
3. Woody Allen – Interiors
4. Alan Parker – Midnight Express
5. Warren Beatty & Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait

BEST ACTOR

1. Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter
2. Jon Voight – Coming Home
3. Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait
4. Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story
5. Laurence Olivier – The Boys from Brazil

BEST ACTRESS

1. Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
2. Geraldine Page – Interiors
3. Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata
4. Jane Fonda – Coming Home
5. Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter
2. Bruce Dern – Coming Home
3. John Hurt – Midnight Express
4. Jack Warden – Heaven Can Wait
5. Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Maggie Smith – California Suite
2. Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
3. Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
4. Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait
5. Penelope Milford – Coming Home

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky
2. Autumn Sonata – Ingmar Bergman
3. The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
4. Interiors – Woody Allen
5. Coming Home – Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Midnight Express – Oliver Stone 
2. Heaven Can Wait – Elaine May, Warren Beatty
3. California Suite – Neil Simon
4. Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade
5. Bloodbrothers – Walter Newman