2012

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 85th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 2012.

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

BEST PICTURE

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Life of Pi
4. Amour
5. Django Unchained
6. Argo
7. Lincoln
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. Les Misérables

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Ang Lee – Life of Pi
2. Michael Haneke – Amour
3. Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
4. Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
5. David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ACTOR

1. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
2. Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
3. Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
4. Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
5. Denzel Washington – Flight

BEST ACTRESS

1. Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
2. Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
3. Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
4. Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
5. Naomi Watts – The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
2. Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
3. Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
4. Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
5. Alan Arkin – Argo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
2. Amy Adams – The Master
3. Sally Field – Lincoln
4. Helen Hunt – The Sessions
5. Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
2. Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
3. Amour – Michael Haneke
4. Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
5. Flight – John Gatins

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Lincoln – Tony Kushner
2. Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
3. Argo – Chris Terrio
4. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
5. Life of Pi – David Magee