1984

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 57th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1984.

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. Amadeus
2. The Killing Fields
3. Broadway Danny Rose*
4. A Passage to India
5. The Natural*
6. Places in the Heart
7. A Soldier’s Story
8. The River*
9. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Miloš Forman – Amadeus
2. Roland Joffé – The Killing Fields
3. David Lean – A Passage to India
4. Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
5. Robert Benton – Places in the Heart

BEST ACTOR

1. F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
2. Tom Hulce – Amadeus
3. Jeff Bridges – Starman
4. Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields
5. Albert Finney – Under the Volcano

BEST ACTRESS

1. Sally Field – Places in the Heart
2. Judy Davis – A Passage to India
3. Jessica Lange – Country
4. Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
5. Sissy Spacek – The River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields
2. Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita – The Karate Kid
3. John Malkovich – Places in the Heart
4. Adolph Caesar – A Soldier’s Story
5. Ralph Richardson – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
2. Christine Lahti – Swing Shift
3. Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village
4. Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart
5. Glenn Close – The Natural

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen
2. Splash – Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel & Bruce Jay Friedman
3. Beverly Hills Cop – Daniel Petrie, Jr. & Danilo Bach
4. Places in the Heart – Robert Benton 
5. El Norte – Gregory Nava & Anna Thomas

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Amadeus – Peter Shaffer 
2. The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson
3. A Passage to India – David Lean
4. A Soldier’s Story – Charles Fuller
5. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – P.H. Vazak & Michael Austin