1986

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 59th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1986.

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. Blue Velvet*
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Platoon
4. Aliens*
5. A Room with a View
6. Children of a Lesser God
7. The Mission
8. The Color of Money*
9. Crimes of the Heart*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. David Lynch – Blue Velvet
2. Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Oliver Stone – Platoon
4. James Ivory – A Room with a View
5. Roland Joffé – The Mission

BEST ACTOR

1. Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
2. Paul Newman – The Color of Money
3. William Hurt – Children of a Lesser God
4. James Woods – Salvador
5. Dexter Gordon – ‘Round Midnight

BEST ACTRESS

1. Sigourney Weaver – Aliens
2. Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
3. Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God
4. Sissy Spacek – Crimes of the Heart
5. Jane Fonda – The Morning After

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
2. Willem Dafoe – Platoon
3. Tom Berenger – Platoon
4. Dennis Hopper – Hoosiers
5. Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters
2. Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
3. Piper Laurie – Children of a Lesser God
4. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – The Color of Money
5. Tess Harper – Crimes of the Heart

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen 
2. Platoon – Oliver Stone
3. My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
4. Salvador – Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle
5. Crocodile Dundee – Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Stand by Me – Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans
2. A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 
3. Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
4. The Color of Money – Richard Price
5. Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley