1999

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 72nd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1999.

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. American Beauty
  2. Being John Malkovich*
  3. Magnolia*
  4. The Sixth Sense
  5. The Insider
  6. The Talented Mr. Ripley*
  7. The Green Mile
  8. Topsy-Turvy*
  9. The Cider House Rules

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Sam Mendes – American Beauty
  2. Spike Jonze – Being John Malkovich
  3. M. Night Shyamalan – The Sixth Sense
  4. Michael Mann – The Insider
  5. Lasse Hallström – The Cider House Rules

BEST ACTOR

  1. Russell Crowe – The Insider
  2. Kevin Spacey – American Beauty
  3. Denzel Washington – The Hurricane
  4. Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story
  5. Sean Penn – Sweet and Lowdown

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry
  2. Annette Bening – American Beauty
  3. Julianne Moore – The End of the Affair
  4. Janet McTeer – Tumbleweeds
  5. Meryl Streep – Music of the Heart

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Tom Cruise – Magnolia
  2. Haley Joel Osment – The Sixth Sense
  3. Jude Law – The Talented Mr. Ripley
  4. Michael Clarke Duncan – The Green Mile
  5. Michael Caine – The Cider House Rules

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Toni Collette – The Sixth Sense
  2. Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don’t Cry
  3. Catherine Keener – Being John Malkovich
  4. Angelina Jolie – Girl, Interrupted
  5. Samantha Morton – Sweet and Lowdown

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman
  2. Magnolia – Paul Thomas Anderson
  3. The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan
  4. American Beauty – Alan Ball 
  5. Topsy-Turvy – Mike Leigh

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Election – Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
  2. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Anthony Minghella
  3. The Insider – Eric Roth, Michael Mann
  4. The Green Mile – Frank Darabont
  5. The Cider House Rules – John Irving 

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