1995

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 68th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1995.

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. Toy Story*
2. Apollo 13
3. The Usual Suspects*
4. Babe
5. Dead Man Walking*
6. Sense & Sensibility
7. Leaving Las Vegas*
8. Braveheart
9. The Postman (Il Postino)

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Chris Noonan – Babe
2. Tim Robbins – Dead Man Walking
3. Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas
4. Mel Gibson – Braveheart
5. Michael Radford – The Postman (Il Postino)

BEST ACTOR

1. Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
2. Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking
3. Anthony Hopkins – Nixon
4. Richard Dreyfuss – Mr. Holland’s Opus
5. Massimo Troisi – The Postman (Il Postino)

BEST ACTRESS

1. Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking
2. Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas
3. Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County
4. Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
5. Sharon Stone – Casino

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects
2. Ed Harris – Apollo 13
3. Brad Pitt – 12 Monkeys
4. James Cromwell – Babe
5. Tim Roth – Rob Roy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility
2. Joan Allen – Nixon
3. Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite
4. Mare Winningham – Georgia
5. Kathleen Quinlan – Apollo 13

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Toy Story – Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft
2. The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie
3. Nixon – Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson & Oliver Stone
4. Mighty Aphrodite – Woody Allen
5. Braveheart – Randall Wallace

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson
2. Apollo 13 – William Broyles, Jr. & Al Reinert
3. Babe – George Miller & Chris Noonan
4. Leaving Las Vegas – Mike Figgis
5. The Postman (Il Postino) – Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi