2006

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 79th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 2006.

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. Children of Men*
2. The Departed
3. Pan’s Labyrinth*
4. United 93*
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. The Queen
7. Letters from Iwo Jima
8. Babel
9. Dreamgirls*

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Martin Scorsese — The Departed
2. Paul Greengrass — United 93
3. Clint Eastwood — Letters from Iwo Jima
4. Alejandro González Iñárritu — Babel
5. Stephen Frears — The Queen

BEST ACTOR

1. Ryan Gosling — Half Nelson
2. Forest Whitaker — The Last King of Scotland
3. Peter O’Toole — Venus
4. Will Smith — The Pursuit of Happyness
5. Leonardo DiCaprio — Blood Diamond

BEST ACTRESS

1. Helen Mirren — The Queen
2. Penélope Cruz — Volver
3. Meryl Streep — The Devil Wears Prada
4. Judi Dench — Notes on a Scandal
5. Kate Winslet — Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Alan Arkin — Little Miss Sunshine
2. Jackie Earle Haley — Little Children
3. Eddie Murphy — Dreamgirls
4. Djimon Hounsou — Blood Diamond
5. Mark Wahlberg — The Departed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Jennifer Hudson — Dreamgirls
2. Adriana Barraza — Babel
3. Cate Blanchett — Notes on a Scandal
4. Rinko Kikuchi — Babel
5. Abigail Breslin — Little Miss Sunshine

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt 
2. Pan’s Labyrinth — Guillermo del Toro
3. The Queen — Peter Morgan
4. Babel — Guillermo Arriaga
5. Letters from Iwo Jima — Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. The Departed — William Monahan 
2. Children of Men — Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
3. Notes on a Scandal — Patrick Marber
4. Little Children — Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
5. Borat — Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer & Todd Phillips