2020

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 93rd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 2020 and the first two months of 2021.

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. Nomadland
  2. Minari
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. The Father
  5. Sound of Metal
  6. Judas and the Black Messiah
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  8. Mank

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
  2. Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
  3. Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
  4. Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round
  5. David Fincher – Mank

BEST ACTOR

  1. Anthony Hopkins – The Father
  2. Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
  3. Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  4. Steven Yeun – Minari
  5. Gary Oldman – Mank

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
  2. Frances McDormand – Nomadland
  3. Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
  4. Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  5. Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
  2. Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
  3. Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah
  4. Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
  5. Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
  2. Olivia Colman – The Father
  3. Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  4. Amanda Seyfried – Mank
  5. Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
  2. Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
  3. Sound of Metal – Darius Marder, Abraham Marder & Derek Cianfrance
  4. Judas and the Black Messiah – Will Berson & Shaka King, Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
  5. The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. The Father – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
  2. Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
  3. One Night in Miami – Kemp Powers
  4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern & Nina Pedrad
  5. The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani