1979

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 52nd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1979.

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. Apocalypse Now
2. All That Jazz
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Manhattan*
5. Being There*
6. The China Syndrome*
7. Norma Rae
8. Breaking Away
9. La Cage aux Folles*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now
2. Bob Fosse – All That Jazz
3. Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Peter Yates – Breaking Away
5. Édouard Molinaro – La Cage aux Folles

BEST ACTOR

1. Roy Scheider – All That Jazz
2. Peter Sellers – Being There
3. Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome
5. Al Pacino – …And Justice for All

BEST ACTRESS

1. Sally Field – Norma Rae
2. Bette Midler – The Rose
3. Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome
4. Jill Clayburgh – Starting Over
5. Marsha Mason – Chapter Two

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Robert Duvall – Apocalypse Now
2. Melvyn Douglas – Being There
3. Justin Henry – Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Frederic Forrest – The Rose
5. Mickey Rooney – The Black Stallion

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer
2. Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan
3. Jane Alexander – Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away
5. Candice Bergen – Starting Over

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. All That Jazz – Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
2. Manhattan – Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
3. Breaking Away – Steve Tesich 
4. The China Syndrome – Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges
5. …And Justice for All – Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton 
2. Apocalypse Now – John Milius, Francis Coppola
3. Norma Rae – Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
4. La Cage aux Folles – Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret
5. A Little Romance – Allan Burns