1983

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 56th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1983.

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. Terms of Endearment
2. Fanny and Alexander*
3. The Right Stuff
4. Silkwood*
5. The Big Chill
6. Tender Mercies
7. Yentl*
8. The Dresser
9. Educating Rita*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
2. Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander
3. Mike Nichols – Silkwood
4. Peter Yates – The Dresser
5. Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies

BEST ACTOR

1. Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies
2. Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
3. Albert Finney – The Dresser
4. Michael Caine – Educating Rita
5. Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben

BEST ACTRESS

1. Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
2. Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment
3. Meryl Streep – Silkwood
4. Julie Walters – Educating Rita
5. Jane Alexander – Testament

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
2. John Lithgow – Terms of Endearment
3. Sam Shepard – The Right Stuff
4. Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be
5. Rip Torn – Cross Creek

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Cher – Silkwood
2. Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
3. Glenn Close – The Big Chill
4. Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek
5. Amy Irving – Yentl

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Silkwood – Nora Ephron & Alice Arlen
2. The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek
3. Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman
4. Tender Mercies – Horton Foote 
5. WarGames – Lawrence Lasker & Walter F. Parkes

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks 
2. The Dresser – Ronald Harwood
3. Educating Rita – Willy Russell
4. Betrayal – Harold Pinter
5. Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein