1989

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 62nd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1989.

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. Do the Right Thing*
2. Born on the Fourth of July
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors*
4. Dead Poets Society
5. My Left Foot
6. Glory*
7. Driving Miss Daisy
8. Field of Dreams
9. Henry V*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July
2. Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors
3. Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society
4. Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
5. Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot

BEST ACTOR

1. Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
2. Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July
3. Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society
4. Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy
5. Kenneth Branagh – Henry V

BEST ACTRESS

1. Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
2. Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy
3. Isabelle Adjani – Camille Claudel
4. Jessica Lange – Music Box
5. Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Denzel Washington – Glory
2. Martin Landau – Crimes and Misdemeanors
3. Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing
4. Dan Aykroyd – Driving Miss Daisy
5. Marlon Brando – A Dry White Season

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot
2. Dianne Wiest – Parenthood
3. Julia Roberts – Steel Magnolias
4. Anjelica Huston – Enemies, A Love Story
5. Lena Olin – Enemies, A Love Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee
2. When Harry Met Sally… – Nora Ephron
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen
4. Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman 
5. sex, lies, and videotape – Steven Soderbergh

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
2. Field of Dreams – Phil Alden Robinson
3. My Left Foot – Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton
4. Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry 
5. Enemies, A Love Story – Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky