1980

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 53rd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1980.

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. Raging Bull
2. The Elephant Man
3. Ordinary People
4. Coal Miner’s Daughter
5. Tess
6. Fame*
7. Private Benjamin*
8. The Stunt Man*
9. Melvin and Howard*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
2. Robert Redford – Ordinary People
3. David Lynch – The Elephant Man
4. Roman Polanski – Tess
5. Richard Rush – The Stunt Man

BEST ACTOR

1. Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
2. John Hurt – The Elephant Man
3. Robert Duvall – The Great Santini
4. Peter O’Toole – The Stunt Man
5. Jack Lemmon – Tribute

BEST ACTRESS

1. Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner’s Daughter
2. Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
3. Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin
4. Gena Rowlands – Gloria
5. Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People
2. Joe Pesci – Raging Bull
3. Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People
4. Michael O’Keefe – The Great Santini
5. Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
2. Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
3. Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
4. Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
5. Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Private Benjamin – Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer & Harvey Miller
2. Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman 
3. Fame – Christopher Gore
4. Mon Oncle D’Amerique – Jean Gruault
5. Brubaker – W. D. Richter & Arthur Ross

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent 
2. The Elephant Man – Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren & David Lynch
3. Coal Miner’s Daughter – Tom Rickman
4. The Stunt Man – Lawrence B. Marcus & Richard Rush
5. Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens & Bruce Beresford