Best Picture

The following is the average ranking of Best Picture Oscar nominees by the Twitter followers of And the Runner-Up Is.

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

1920s

YearFilm and rank
1927–281. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2. The Crowd
3. Wings
4. 7th Heaven
5. The Racket
6. Chang
1928–291. In Old Arizona
2. Alibi
3. The Broadway Melody
4. The Hollywood Revue of 1929
5. The Patriot

1930s

YearFilm and rank
1929–301. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. The Big House
3. The Divorcee
4. The Love Parade
5. Disraeli
1930–311. The Front Page
2. Skippy
3. East Lynne
4. Cimarron
5. Trader Horn
1931–321. Shanghai Express
2. Grand Hotel
3. Five Star Final
4. The Champ
5. Bad Girl
6. One Hour with You
7. The Smiling Lieutenant
8. Arrowsmith
1932–331. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
2. 42nd Street
3. The Private Life of Henry VIII
4. Lady for a Day
5. A Farewell to Arms
6. Little Women
7. She Done Him Wrong
8. Cavalcade
9. State Fair
10. Smilin' Through
19341. It Happened One Night
2. The Thin Man
3. Imitation of Life
4. The Gay Divorcee
5. The Barretts of Wimpole Street
6. Cleopatra
7. One Night of Love
8. Viva Villa!
9. The House of Rothschild
10. Here Comes the Navy
11. Flirtation Walk
12. The White Parade
19351. 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
19361. Libeled Lady
2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
3. Dodsworth
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. The Great Ziegfeld
6. San Francisco
7. The Story of Louis Pasteur
8. Romeo and Juliet
9. Three Smart Girls
10. Anthony Adverse
19371. The Awful Truth
2. Stage Door
3. A Star Is Born
4. Dead End
5. Captains Courageous
6. Lost Horizon
7. The Life of Emile Zola
8. The Good Earth
9. In Old Chicago
10. One Hundred Men and a Girl
19381. Grand Illusion
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood
3. Pygmalion
4. You Can't Take It with You
5. Jezebel
6. The Citadel
7. Boys Town
8. Test Pilot
9. Alexander's Ragtime Band
10. Four Daughters
19391. The Wizard of Oz
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
4. Stagecoach
5. Ninotchka
6. Wuthering Heights
7. Dark Victory
8. Of Mice and Men
9 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
10. Love Affair

1940s

YearFilm and rank
19401. Rebecca
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Philadelphia Story
4. The Great Dictator
5. The Letter
6. Foreign Correspondent
7. The Long Voyage Home
8. Kitty Foyle
9. All This, and Heaven Too
10. Our Town
19411. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Little Foxes
4. How Green Was My Valley
5. Suspicion
6. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
7. Sergeant York
8. Hold Back the Dawn
9. Blossoms in the Dust
10. One Foot in Heaven
19421. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Mrs. Miniver
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. Random Harvest
5. The Talk of the Town
6. 49th Parallel
7. The Pride of the Yankees
8. Kings Row
9. The Pied Piper
10. Wake Island
19431. Casablanca
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. The More the Merrier
4. Heaven Can Wait
5. The Song of Bernadette
6. Watch on the Rhine
7. The Human Comedy
8. In Which We Serve
9. Madame Curie
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls
19441. Double Indemnity
2. Gaslight
3. Since You Went Away
4. Going My Way
5. Wilson
19451. Mildred Pierce
2. The Lost Weekend
3. Spellbound
4. Anchors Aweigh
5. The Bells of St. Mary's
19461. The Best Years of Our Lives
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Henry V
4. The Razor's Edge
5. The Yearling
19471. Miracle on 34th Street
2. Great Expectations
3. Crossfire
4. Gentleman's Agreement
5. The Bishop's Wife
19481. The Red Shoes
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Hamlet
4. The Snake Pit
5. Johnny Belinda
19491. The Heiress
2. A Letter to Three Wives
3. All the King's Men
4. Battleground
5. Twelve O'Clock High

1950s

YearFilm and rank
19501. All About Eve
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Born Yesterday
4. Father of the Bride
5. King Solomon's Mines
19511. A Streetcar Named Desire
2. A Place in the Sun
3. An American in Paris
4. Quo Vadis
5. Decision Before Dawn
19521. High Noon
2. The Quiet Man
3. Moulin Rouge
4. Ivanhoe
5. The Greatest Show on Earth
19531. From Here to Eternity
2. Shane
3. Roman Holiday
4. Julius Caesar
5. The Robe
19541. On the Waterfront
2. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
3. The Country Girl
4. The Caine Mutiny
5. Three Coins in the Fountain
19551. Marty
2. Picnic
3. Mister Roberts
4. The Rose Tattoo
5. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
19561. Giant
2. The King and I
3. The Ten Commandments
4. Friendly Persuasion
5. Around the World in 80 Days
19571. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Witness for the Prosecution
4. Peyton Place
5. Sayonara
19581. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2. Auntie Mame
3. The Defiant Ones
4. Separate Tables
5. Gigi
19591. Anatomy of a Murder
2. Ben-Hur
3. Room at the Top
4. The Diary of Anne Frank
5. The Nun's Story

1960s

YearFilm and rank
19601. The Apartment
2. Elmer Gantry
3. Sons and Lovers
4. The Sundowners
5. The Alamo
19611. West Side Story
2. The Hustler
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Guns of Navarone
5. Fanny
19621. Lawrence of Arabia
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Longest Day
4. The Music Man
5. Mutiny on the Bounty
19631. How the West Was Won
2. Tom Jones
3. Lilies of the Field
4. America America
5. Cleopatra
19641. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Mary Poppins
3. Becket
4. My Fair Lady
5. Zorba the Greek
19651. The Sound of Music
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Darling
4. A Thousand Clowns
5. Ship of Fools
19661. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. A Man for All Seasons
3. The Sand Pebbles
4. Alfie
5. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
19671. The Graduate
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. In the Heat of the Night
4. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
5. Doctor Dolittle
19681. The Lion in Winter
2. Funny Girl
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Oliver!
5. Rachel, Rachel
19691. Midnight Cowboy
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. Z
4. Hello, Dolly!
5. Anne of the Thousand Days

1970s

YearFilm and rank
19701. Five Easy Pieces
2. M*A*S*H
3. Patton
4. Women in Love*
5. Love Story
6. I Never Sang for My Father*
7. Airport
8. Ryan's Daughter*
9. Tora! Tora! Tora!*
19711. The Last Picture Show
2. The French Connection
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday*
5. Fiddler on the Roof
6. Klute*
7. The Hospital*
8. Nicolas and Alexandra
9. Summer of '42*
19721. The Godfather
2. Cabaret
3. Deliverance
4. Sounder
5. Sleuth*
6. The Emigrants
7. The Poseidon Adventure*
8. The Candidate*
9. Lady Sings the Blues*
19731. The Exorcist
2. Cries and Whispers
3. Paper Moon*
4. American Graffiti
5. The Sting
6. Last Tango in Paris*
7. The Way We Were*
8. Save the Tiger*
9. A Touch of Class
19741. The Godfather Part II
2. Chinatown
3. The Conversation
4. A Woman Under the Influence*
5. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore*
6. Lenny
7. Day for Night*
8. Murder on the Orient Express*
9. The Towering Inferno
19751. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Jaws
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Nashville
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Amarcord*
7. Shampoo*
8. The Man Who Would Be King*
9. The Sunshine Boys*
19761. Network
2. Taxi Driver
3. All the President's Men
4. Rocky
5. Seven Beauties*
6. Bound for Glory
7. Face to Face*
8. Voyage of the Damned*
19771. Annie Hall
2. Star Wars
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
4. Saturday Night Fever*
5. The Goodbye Girl
6. Julia
7. That Obscure Object of Desire*
8. The Turning Point
9. Equus*
19781. The Deer Hunter
2. Days of Heaven*
3. Coming Home
4. Interiors*
5. Autumn Sonata*
6. Midnight Express
7. An Unmarried Woman
8. Heaven Can Wait
9. California Suite*
19791. Apocalypse Now
2. All That Jazz
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Manhattan*
5. Being There*
6. The China Syndrome*
7. Norma Rae
8. Breaking Away
9. La Cage aux Folles*

1980s

YearFilm and rank
19801. Raging Bull
2. The Elephant Man
3. Ordinary People
4. Coal Miner's Daughter
5. Tess
6. Fame*
7. Private Benjamin*
8. The Stunt Man*
9. Melvin and Howard*
19811. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Reds
3. Atlantic City
4. On Golden Pond
5. Chariots of Fire
6. Arthur*
7. Absence of Malice*
8. Ragtime*
9. The French Lieutenant's Woman*
19821. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Tootsie
3. The Verdict
4. Sophie's Choice*
5. Das Boot*
6. Missing
7. Gandhi
8. Victor/Victoria*
9. An Officer and a Gentleman*
19831. Terms of Endearment
2. Fanny and Alexander*
3. The Right Stuff
4. Silkwood*
5. The Big Chill
6. Tender Mercies
7. Yentl*
8. The Dresser
9. Educating Rita*
19841. Amadeus
2. The Killing Fields
3. Broadway Danny Rose*
4. A Passage to India
5. The Natural*
6. Places in the Heart
7. A Soldier's Story
8. The River*
9. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes*
19851. The Color Purple
2. Back to the Future*
3. Witness
4. Ran*
5. The Purple Rose of Cairo*
6. Kiss of the Spider Woman
7. Prizzi's Honor
8. Out of Africa
9. The Trip to Bountiful*
19861. Blue Velvet*
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Platoon
4. Aliens*
5. A Room with a View
6. Children of a Lesser God
7. The Mission
8. The Color of Money*
9. Crimes of the Heart*
19871. Broadcast News
2. Moonstruck
3. The Last Emperor
4. Empire of the Sun*
5. The Untouchables*
6. Fatal Attraction
7. Hope and Glory
8. My Life as a Dog*
9. Cry Freedom*
19881. Who Framed Roger Rabbit*
2. Dangerous Liaisons
3. A Fish Called Wanda*
4. Big*
5. Rain Man
6. Mississippi Burning
7. Working Girl
8. Gorillas in the Mist*
9. The Accidental Tourist
19891. Do the Right Thing*
2. Born on the Fourth of July
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors*
4. Dead Poets Society
5. My Left Foot
6. Glory*
7. Driving Miss Daisy
8. Field of Dreams
9. Henry V*

1990s

YearFilm and rank
19901. GoodFellas
2. The Grifters*
3. Dances With Wolves
4. Ghost
5. Reversal of Fortune*
6. Awakenings
7. The Godfather Part III
8. Avalon*
9. Cyrano de Bergerac*
19911. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. JFK
4. Thelma & Louise*
5. Boyz n the Hood*
6. The Fisher King*
7. Bugsy
8. The Prince of Tides
19921. Unforgiven
2. The Player*
3. The Crying Game
4. Howards End
5. A Few Good Men
6. Husbands and Wives*
7. A River Runs Through It*
8. Scent of a Woman
19931. Schindler's List
2. The Piano
3. Short Cuts*
4. Philadelphia*
5. The Remains of the Day
6. The Fugitive
7. The Age of Innocence*
8. In the Name of the Father
19941. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Lion King*
4. Forrest Gump
5. Quiz Show
6. Three Colours: Red*
7. Bullets over Broadway*
8. Four Weddings and a Funeral
19951. Toy Story*
2. Apollo 13
3. The Usual Suspects*
4. Babe
5. Dead Man Walking*
6. Sense and Sensibility
7. Leaving Las Vegas*
8. Braveheart
9. The Postman (Il Postino)
19961. Fargo
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Jerry Maguire
4. The English Patient
5. The People vs. Larry Flynt*
6. Sling Blade*
7. Shine
8. Evita*
19971. L.A. Confidential
2. Boogie Nights*
3. Titanic
4. Good Will Hunting
5. As Good as It Gets
6. The Sweet Hereafter*
7. The Full Monty
8. Amistad*
9. The Wings of the Dove*
19981. The Truman Show*
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Shakespeare in Love
4. The Thin Red Line
5. Gods and Monsters*
6. Out of Sight*
7. Elizabeth
8. Life Is Beautiful
19991. American Beauty
2. Being John Malkovich*
3. Magnolia*
4. The Sixth Sense
5. The Insider
6. The Talented Mr. Ripley*
7. The Green Mile
8. Topsy-Turvy*
9. The Cider House Rules

2000s

YearFilm and rank
20001. Almost Famous*
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Erin Brockovich
4. Traffic
5. Gladiator
6. Billy Elliot*
7. Wonder Boys*
8. Chocolat
20011. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. In the Bedroom
4. Amélie*
5. Gosford Park
6. Shrek*
7. Black Hawk Down*
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. Monster's Ball*
20021. Adaptation*
2. Far from Heaven*
3. Chicago
4. The Pianist
5. Talk to Her*
6. The Hours
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8. Road to Perdition*
9. Gangs of New York
20031. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Finding Nemo*
3. Lost in Translation
4. Mystic River
5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
6. In America*
7. City of God*
8. Cold Mountain*
9. Seabiscuit
20041. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2. Sideways
3. The Aviator
4. The Incredibles*
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. Vera Drake*
7. Hotel Rwanda*
8. Ray
9. Finding Neverland
20051. Brokeback Mountain
2. A History of Violence*
3. Munich
4. Capote
5. Good Night, and Good Luck
6. Walk the Line*
7. The Constant Gardener*
8. Crash
20061. Children of Men*
2. The Departed
3. Pan's Labyrinth*
4. United 93*
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. The Queen
7. Letters from Iwo Jima
8. Babel
9. Dreamgirls*
20071. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Ratatouille*
4. Atonement
5. Juno
6. Into the Wild*
7. The Diving Bell & the Butterfly*
8. Michael Clayton
9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
20081. The Dark Knight*
2. WALL-E*
3. The Wrestler*
4. Milk
5. Doubt*
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8. Frost/Nixon
9. The Reader
20091. Inglourious Basterds
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Up
4. Up in the Air
5. District 9
6. A Serious Man
7. Avatar
8. An Education
9. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
10. The Blind Side

2010s

YearFilm and rank
20101. The Social Network
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. Toy Story 3
5. True Grit
6. The Fighter
7. Winter's Bone
8. The King's Speech
9. 127 Hours
10. The Kids Are All Right
20111. The Tree of Life
2. Moneyball
3. Hugo
4. The Artist
5. The Descendants
6. Midnight in Paris
7. The Help
8. War Horse
9. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
20121. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Life of Pi
4. Amour
5. Django Unchained
6. Argo
7. Lincoln
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. Les Misérables
20131. Her
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Gravity
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. Captain Phillips
6. Nebraska
7. American Hustle
8. Dallas Buyers Club
9. Philomena
20141. Whiplash
2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
3. Boyhood
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Selma
6. The Imitation Game
7. The Theory of Everything
8. American Sniper
20151. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Spotlight
3. Room
4. The Revenant
5. Brooklyn
6. The Big Short
7. The Martian
8. Bridge of Spies
20161. Arrival
2. Moonlight
3. La La Land
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Hell or High Water
6. Lion
7. Hidden Figures
8. Hacksaw Ridge
9. Fences
20171. Call Me by Your Name
2. Lady Bird
3. Get Out
4. Phantom Thread
5. The Shape of Water
6. Dunkirk
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8. The Post
9. Darkest Hour
20181. The Favourite
2. Roma
3. BlacKkKlansman
4. A Star Is Born
5. Black Panther
6. Vice
7. Green Book
8. Bohemian Rhapsody
20191. Parasite
2. Little Women
3. Marriage Story
4. 1917
5. The Irishman
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
7. Jojo Rabbit
8. Joker
9. Ford v Ferrari

2020s

YearFilm and rank
20201. 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
20211. The Power of the Dog
2. Drive My Car
3. West Side Story
4. Dune
5. Licorice Pizza
6. CODA
7. Nightmare Alley
8. King Richard
9. Belfast
10. Don't Look Up
20221. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. TÁR
4. The Fabelmans
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. Women Talking
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. Triangle of Sadness
9. Avatar: The Way of Water
10. Elvis
20231. Oppenheimer
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Past Lives
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Poor Things
6. The Holdovers
7. The Zone of Interest
8. Barbie
9. American Fiction
10. Maestro


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