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