1992

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 65th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1992.

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. Unforgiven
2. The Player*
3. The Crying Game
4. Howards End
5. A Few Good Men
6. Husbands and Wives*
7. A River Runs Through It*
8. Scent of a Woman

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
2. Robert Altman – The Player
3. Neil Jordan – The Crying Game
4. James Ivory – Howards End
5. Martin Brest – Scent of a Woman

BEST ACTOR

1. Denzel Washington – Malcolm X
2. Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin
3. Stephen Rea – The Crying Game
4. Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
5. Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman

BEST ACTRESS

1. Emma Thompson – Howards End
2. Mary McDonnell – Passion Fish
3. Susan Sarandon – Lorenzo’s Oil
4. Michelle Pfeiffer – Love Field
5. Catherine Deneuve – Indochine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Gene Hackman – Unforgiven
2. Jaye Davidson – The Crying Game
3. Jack Nicholson – A Few Good Men
4. Al Pacino – Glengarry Glen Ross
5. David Paymer – Mr. Saturday Night

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives
2. Marisa Tomei – My Cousin Vinny
3. Vanessa Redgrave – Howards End
4. Miranda Richardson – Damage
5. Joan Plowright – Enchanted April

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
2. Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples
3. Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen
4. Passion Fish – John Sayles
5. Lorenzo’s Oil – George Miller & Nick Enright

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Howards End – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
2. The Player – Michael Tolkin
3. A River Runs Through It – Richard Friedenberg
4. Enchanted April – Peter Barnes
5. Scent of a Woman – Bo Goldman