1963
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 36th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1963.
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
- How the West Was Won
- Tom Jones
- Lilies of the Field
- America America
- Cleopatra
BEST DIRECTOR
- Federico Fellini – 8½
- Martin Ritt – Hud
- Elia Kazan – America America
- Otto Preminger – The Cardinal
- Tony Richardson – Tom Jones
BEST ACTOR
- Paul Newman – Hud
- Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field
- Richard Harris – This Sporting Life
- Albert Finney – Tom Jones
- Rex Harrison – Cleopatra
BEST ACTRESS
- Patricia Neal – Hud
- Leslie Caron – The L-Shaped Room
- Natalie Wood – Love with the Proper Stranger
- Rachel Roberts – This Sporting Life
- Shirley MacLaine – Irma La Douce
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Melvyn Douglas – Hud
- John Huston – The Cardinal
- Hugh Griffith – Tom Jones
- Nick Adams – Twilight of Honor
- Bobby Darin – Captain Newman, M.D.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s
- Lilia Skala – Lilies of the Field
- Edith Evans – Tom Jones
- Joyce Redman – Tom Jones
- Diane Cilento – Tom Jones
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- 8½ – Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
- Love with the Proper Stranger – Arnold Schulman
- America America – Elia Kazan
- How the West Was Won – James R. Webb
- The Four Days of Naples – Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini, Carlo Bernari
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Hud – Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
- Lilies of the Field – James Poe
- Tom Jones – John Osborne
- Captain Newman, M.D. – Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
- Sundays and Cybele – Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal
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