2008

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 81st Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 2008.

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 Dark Knight*
2. WALL-E*
3. The Wrestler*
4. Milk
5. Doubt*
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8. Frost/Nixon
9. The Reader

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
2. David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Gus Van Sant – Milk
4. Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
5. Stephen Daldry – The Reader

BEST ACTOR

1. Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
2. Sean Penn – Milk
3. Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
4. Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
5. Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ACTRESS

1. Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
2. Meryl Streep – Doubt
3. Kate Winslet – The Reader
4. Melissa Leo – Frozen River
5. Angelina Jolie – Changeling

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
3. Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
4. Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
5. Josh Brolin – Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Viola Davis – Doubt
2. Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
3. Amy Adams – Doubt
4. Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
5. Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. WALL-E — Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon & Pete Docter
2. In Bruges — Martin McDonagh
3. Milk — Dustin Lance Black 
4. Happy-Go-Lucky — Mike Leigh
5. Frozen River — Courtney Hunt

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Doubt — John Patrick Shanley
2. Frost/Nixon — Peter Morgan
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Eric Roth & Robin Swicord
4. Slumdog Millionaire — Simon Beaufoy 
5. The Reader — David Hare