1985

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 58th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1985.

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 Color Purple
2. Back to the Future*
3. Witness
4. Ran*
5. The Purple Rose of Cairo*
6. Kiss of the Spider Woman
7. Prizzi’s Honor
8. Out of Africa
9. The Trip to Bountiful*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Akira Kurosawa – Ran
2. Peter Weir – Witness
3. John Huston – Prizzi’s Honor
4. Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
5. Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa

BEST ACTOR

1. William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
2. Harrison Ford – Witness
3. Jack Nicholson – Prizzi’s Honor
4. James Garner – Murphy’s Romance
5. Jon Voight – Runaway Train

BEST ACTRESS

1. Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
2. Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful
3. Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
4. Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
5. Anne Bancroft – Agnes of God

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. William Hickey – Prizzi’s Honor
2. Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa
3. Don Ameche – Cocoon
4. Eric Roberts – Runaway Train
5. Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple
2. Anjelica Huston – Prizzi’s Honor
3. Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
4. Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
5. Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
2. The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen
3. Witness – Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace 
4. Brazil – Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
5. The Official Story – Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
2. Kiss of the Spider Woman – Leonard Schrader
3. Prizzi’s Honor – Richard Condon, Janet Roach
4. The Trip to Bountiful – Horton Foote
5. Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke