1944
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 17th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1944.
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
- Double Indemnity
- Gaslight
- Since You Went Away
- Going My Way
- Wilson
BEST DIRECTOR
- Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity
- Otto Preminger – Laura
- Alfred Hitchcock – Lifeboat
- Leo McCarey – Going My Way
- Henry King – Wilson
BEST ACTOR
- Charles Boyer – Gaslight
- Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way
- Bing Crosby – Going My Way
- Cary Grant – None but the Lonely Heart
- Alexander Knox – Wilson
BEST ACTRESS
- Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight
- Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity
- Claudette Colbert – Since You Went Away
- Bette Davis – Mr. Skeffington
- Greer Garson – Mrs. Parkington
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Clifton Webb – Laura
- Claude Rains – Mr. Skeffington
- Hume Cronyn – The Seventh Cross
- Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way
- Monty Woolley – Since You Went Away
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Ethel Barrymore – None but the Lonely Heart
- Angela Lansbury – Gaslight
- Jennifer Jones – Since You Went Away
- Agnes Moorehead – Mrs. Parkington
- Aline MacMahon – Dragon Seed
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek – Preston Sturges
- Hail the Conquering Hero – Preston Sturges
- Two Girls and a Sailor – Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
- Wilson – Lamar Trotti
- Wing and a Prayer – Jerome Cady
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
- Gaslight – John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
- Laura – Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
- Meet Me in St. Louis – Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe
- Going My Way – Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
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