2001

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 74th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 2001.

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. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. In the Bedroom
4. Amélie*
5. Gosford Park
6. Shrek*
7. Black Hawk Down*
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. Monster’s Ball*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
2. Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring
3. Robert Altman – Gosford Park
4. Ridley Scott – Black Hawk Down
5. Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind

BEST ACTOR

1. Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind
2. Denzel Washington – Training Day
3. Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom
4. Will Smith – Ali
5. Sean Penn – I Am Sam

BEST ACTRESS

1. Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge!
2. Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
3. Halle Berry – Monster’s Ball
4. Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones’s Diary
5. Judi Dench – Iris

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Jim Broadbent – Iris
3. Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast
4. Ethan Hawke – Training Day
5. Jon Voight – Ali

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Helen Mirren – Gosford Park
2. Marisa Tomei – In the Bedroom
3. Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
4. Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind
5. Kate Winslet – Iris

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Memento – Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
2. The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
3. Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes 
4. Amélie – Guillaume Laurant & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
5. Monster’s Ball – Milo Addica & Will Rokos

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
2. In the Bedroom – Rob Festinger & Todd Field
3. Ghost World – Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff
4. Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman & Roger S.H. Schulman
5. A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman