1990

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 63rd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1990.

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. GoodFellas
2. The Grifters*
3. Dances With Wolves
4. Ghost
5. Reversal of Fortune*
6. Awakenings
7. The Godfather Part III
8. Avalon*
9. Cyrano de Bergerac*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Martin Scorsese – GoodFellas
2. Stephen Frears – The Grifters
3. Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves
4. Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part III
5. Barbet Schroeder – Reversal of Fortune

BEST ACTOR

1. Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune
2. Robert De Niro – Awakenings
3. Gerard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac
4. Kevin Costner – Dances With Wolves
5. Richard Harris – The Field

BEST ACTRESS

1. Kathy Bates – Misery
2. Anjelica Huston – The Grifters
3. Meryl Streep – Postcards from the Edge
4. Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman
5. Joanne Woodward – Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Joe Pesci – GoodFellas
2. Bruce Davison – Longtime Companion
3. Graham Greene – Dances With Wolves
4. Andy Garcia – The Godfather Part III
5. Al Pacino – Dick Tracy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost
2. Lorraine Bracco – GoodFellas
3. Annette Bening – The Grifters
4. Diane Ladd – Wild at Heart
5. Mary McDonnell – Dances With Wolves

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin 
2. Metropolitan – Whit Stillman
3. Avalon – Barry Levinson
4. Alice – Woody Allen
5. Green Card – Peter Weir

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. GoodFellas – Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese
2. The Grifters – Donald E. Westlake
3. Awakenings – Steven Zaillian
4. Reversal of Fortune – Nicholas Kazan
5. Dances With Wolves – Michael Blake