2000

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 73rd Academy Awards, which rewarded the films of 2000.

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

* = not an official Best Picture nominee; selected by And the Runner-Up Is followers as a film that would be nominated in the current up-to-10 Best Picture system

BEST PICTURE

1. Almost Famous*
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Erin Brockovich
4. Traffic
5. Gladiator
6. Billy Elliot*
7. Wonder Boys*
8. Chocolat

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Steven Soderbergh – Traffic
3. Ridley Scott – Gladiator
4. Stephen Daldry – Billy Elliot
5. Steven Soderbergh – Erin Brockovich

BEST ACTOR

1. Tom Hanks – Cast Away
2. Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls
3. Russell Crowe – Gladiator
4. Ed Harris – Pollock
5. Geoffrey Rush – Quills

BEST ACTRESS

1. Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
2. Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream
3. Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me
4. Joan Allen – The Contender
5. Juliette Binoche – Chocolat

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Albert Finney – Erin Brockovich
2. Benicio del Toro – Traffic
3. Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire
4. Joaquin Phoenix – Gladiator
5. Jeff Bridges – The Contender

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Kate Hudson – Almost Famous
2. Frances McDormand – Almost Famous
3. Julie Walters – Billy Elliot
4. Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock
5. Judi Dench – Chocolat

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe 
2. Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
3. You Can Count on Me – Kenneth Lonergan
4. Erin Brockovich – Susannah Grant
5. Gladiator – David Franzoni, John Logan & William Nicholson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Traffic – Stephen Gaghan 
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus & Tsai Kuo Jung
4. Wonder Boys – Steve Kloves
5. Chocolat – Robert Nelson Jacobs