1988

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 61st Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1988.

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. Who Framed Roger Rabbit*
2. Dangerous Liaisons
3. A Fish Called Wanda*
4. Big*
5. Rain Man
6. Mississippi Burning
7. Working Girl
8. Gorillas in the Mist*
9. The Accidental Tourist

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Martin Scorsese – The Last Temptation of Christ
2. Charles Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda
3. Mike Nichols – Working Girl
4. Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning
5. Barry Levinson – Rain Man

BEST ACTOR

1. Tom Hanks – Big
2. Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man
3. Gene Hackman – Mississippi Burning
4. Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver
5. Max von Sydow – Pelle the Conqueror

BEST ACTRESS

1. Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons
2. Sigourney Weaver – Gorillas in the Mist
3. Jodie Foster – The Accused
4. Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
5. Melanie Griffith – Working Girl

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Kevin Kline – A Fish Called Wanda
2. River Phoenix – Running on Empty
3. Martin Landau – Tucker: The Man and His Dream
4. Dean Stockwell – Married to the Mob
5. Alec Guinness – Little Dorrit

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl
2. Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons
3. Joan Cusack – Working Girl
4. Geena Davis – The Accidental Tourist
5. Frances McDormand – Mississippi Burning

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. A Fish Called Wanda – John Cleese, Charles Crichton
2. Big – Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
3. Bull Durham – Ron Shelton
4. Rain Man – Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow 
5. Running on Empty – Naomi Foner

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton 
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
3. The Accidental Tourist – Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan
4. Gorillas in the Mist – Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy
5. Little Dorrit – Christine Edzard