1935

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 8th Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 1935.

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. The Informer
2. Top Hat
3. Mutiny on the Bounty
4. Alice Adams
5. Captain Blood
6. Les Misérables
7. David Copperfield
8. Ruggles of Red Gap
9. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
10. Broadway Melody of 1936
11. Naughty Marietta
12. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

BEST DIRECTOR

1. John Ford – The Informer
2. Frank Lloyd – Mutiny on the Bounty
3. Michael Curtiz – Captain Blood
4. Henry Hathaway – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

BEST ACTOR

1. Victor McLaglen – The Informer
2. Charles Laughton – Mutiny on the Bounty
3. Clark Gable – Mutiny on the Bounty
4. Paul Muni – Black Fury
5. Franchot Tone – Mutiny on the Bounty

BEST ACTRESS

1. Katharine Hepburn – Alice Adams
2. Bette Davis – Dangerous
3. Miriam Hopkins – Becky Sharp
4. Elisabeth Bergner – Escape Me Never
5. Claudette Colbert – Private Worlds
6. Merle Oberon – The Dark Angel

BEST SCREENPLAY

1. The Informer – Dudley Nichols
2. Mutiny on the Bounty – Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson
3. Captain Blood – Casey Robinson
4. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt