List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees

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At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay). ^[1] As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories. Only three films have won all five of these major awards: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated.

In addition, there are three film studios that have won all of the Big Five awards in the same year for two different films, while Everything Everywhere All at Once won the most "above-the-line" awards (includes Supporting Actor/Actress), with six.

Films nominated for each of the "Big Five" awards

This list of films is sorted by the number of Big Five Academy Awards received by each film. Award winners are listed in bold with green background; others listed are nominees who did not win.

Awards Ceremony	Year in Film	Total Nominations	Total Awards	Big Five Awards	Best Picture	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Screenplay (A): Adapted Screenplay / (O): Original Screenplay	Notes
7th	1934	5	5	5	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	Clark Gable	Claudette Colbert	Robert Riskin (A)
48th	1975	9	5	5	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	Jack Nicholson	Louise Fletcher	Lawrence Hauben / Bo Goldman (A)
64th	1991	7	5	5	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Anthony Hopkins	Jodie Foster	Ted Tally (A)
12th	1939	13	8	4	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming	Clark Gable	Vivien Leigh	Sidney Howard (A)	[note 1]
15th	1942	12	6	4	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	Walter Pidgeon	Greer Garson	George Froeschel / James Hilton / Claudine West / Arthur Wimperis (A)	[note 2]
50th	1977	5	4	4	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	Diane Keaton	Woody Allen / Marshall Brickman (O)
72nd	1999	8	5	4	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	Kevin Spacey	Annette Bening	Alan Ball (O)
26th	1953	13	8	3	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Montgomery Clift / Burt Lancaster	Deborah Kerr	Daniel Taradash (A)	[note 3]
33rd	1960	10	5	3	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	Jack Lemmon	Shirley MacLaine	Billy Wilder / I. A. L. Diamond (O)
49th	1976	10	4	3	Network	Sidney Lumet	Peter Finch / William Holden	Faye Dunaway	Paddy Chayefsky (O)	[note 4]
51st	1978	8	3	3	Coming Home	Hal Ashby	Jon Voight	Jane Fonda	Robert C. Jones / Waldo Salt / Nancy Dowd (O)
54th	1981	10	3	3	On Golden Pond	Mark Rydell	Henry Fonda	Katharine Hepburn	Ernest Thompson (A)
77th	2004	7	4	3	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	Clint Eastwood	Hilary Swank	Paul Haggis (A)	[note 5]
4th	1930–31	7	3	2	Cimarron	Wesley Ruggles	Richard Dix	Irene Dunne	Howard Estabrook (A)
13th	1940	6	2	2	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	James Stewart	Katharine Hepburn	Donald Ogden Stewart (A)
20th	1947	8	3	2	Gentleman's Agreement	Elia Kazan	Gregory Peck	Dorothy McGuire	Moss Hart (A)
24th	1951	9	6	2	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens	Montgomery Clift	Shelley Winters	Harry Brown / Michael Wilson (A)
27th	1954	7	2	2	The Country Girl	George Seaton	Bing Crosby	Grace Kelly	George Seaton (A)
32nd	1959	6	2	2	Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	Laurence Harvey	Simone Signoret	Neil Paterson (A)
40th	1967	10	2	2	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	Spencer Tracy	Katharine Hepburn	William Rose (O)	[note 6]
41st	1968	7	3	2	The Lion in Winter	Anthony Harvey	Peter O'Toole	Katharine Hepburn	James Goldman (A)
49th	1976	10	3	2	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	Sylvester Stallone	Talia Shire	Sylvester Stallone (O)
69th	1996	12	9	2	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	Ralph Fiennes	Kristin Scott Thomas	Anthony Minghella (A)	[note 7]
89th	2016	14	6	2	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	Ryan Gosling	Emma Stone	Damien Chazelle (O)
10th	1937	7	1	1	A Star Is Born	William A. Wellman	Fredric March	Janet Gaynor	William A. Wellman / Robert Carson / Dorothy Parker / Alan Campbell (O)
12th	1939	7	1	1	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Sam Wood	Robert Donat	Greer Garson	R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, and Eric Maschwitz (A)
13th	1940	11	2	1	Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock	Laurence Olivier	Joan Fontaine	Robert E. Sherwood / Joan Harrison (A)
21st	1948	12	1	1	Johnny Belinda	Jean Negulesco	Lew Ayres	Jane Wyman	Irma von Cube / Allen Vincent (A)
23rd	1950	11	3	1	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	William Holden	Gloria Swanson	Charles Brackett / Billy Wilder / D. M. Marshman, Jr. (O)	[note 8]
24th	1951	12	4	1	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	Marlon Brando	Vivien Leigh	Tennessee Williams (A)	[note 9]
39th	1966	13	5	1	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	Richard Burton	Elizabeth Taylor	Ernest Lehman (A)	[note 10]
40th	1967	7	1	1	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	Dustin Hoffman	Anne Bancroft	Calder Willingham / Buck Henry (A)
47th	1974	11	1	1	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	Jack Nicholson	Faye Dunaway	Robert Towne (O)
54th	1981	12	3	1	Reds	Warren Beatty	Warren Beatty	Diane Keaton	Warren Beatty / Trevor Griffiths (O)	[note 11]
85th	2012	8	1	1	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	Bradley Cooper	Jennifer Lawrence	David O. Russell (A)	[note 12]
31st	1958	7	0	0	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks	Paul Newman	Elizabeth Taylor	Richard Brooks / James Poe (A)
34th	1961	9	2	0	The Hustler	Robert Rossen	Paul Newman	Piper Laurie	Sidney Carroll / Robert Rossen (A)
40th	1967	10	2	0	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	Warren Beatty	Faye Dunaway	David Newman / Robert Benton (O)	[note 13]
43rd	1970	7	1	0	Love Story	Arthur Hiller	Ryan O'Neal	Ali MacGraw	Erich Segal (A)
47th	1974	6	0	0	Lenny	Bob Fosse	Dustin Hoffman	Valerie Perrine	Julian Barry (A)
54th	1981	5	0	0	Atlantic City	Louis Malle	Burt Lancaster	Susan Sarandon	John Guare (O)
66th	1993	8	0	0	The Remains of the Day	James Ivory	Anthony Hopkins	Emma Thompson	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A)
86th	2013	10	0	0	American Hustle	David O. Russell	Christian Bale	Amy Adams	Eric Warren Singer / David O. Russell (O)	[note 14]

Studio winners across two films

This list of film studios is sorted by the number of Big Five Academy Awards received by two different films altogether.

Awards Ceremony	Year in Film	Film studios	Big Five Awards	Best Picture	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Screenplay (A): Adapted Screenplay / (O): Original Screenplay	Notes
12th	1939	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Loew's Inc	4 ( Gone with the Wind ) + 1 ( Goodbye, Mr. Chips )	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)	Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)	Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)	Sidney Howard (A) (Gone with the Wind)
49th	1976	United Artists	3 ( Network ) + 2 ( Rocky )	Rocky	John G. Avildsen (Rocky)	Peter Finch (Network)	Faye Dunaway (Network)	Paddy Chayefsky (O) (Network)
95th	2022	A24	4 ( Everything Everywhere All at Once ) + 1 ( The Whale )	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)	Brendan Fraser (The Whale)	Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (O) (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Milestones and records

• David O. Russell, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, and Mike Nichols are the only directors with two movies on this list.
• Nine actors appear twice on this list as Best Actor nominees: Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty and William Holden.
• Four actresses appear twice on this list as Best Actress nominees: Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson and Diane Keaton. Faye Dunaway appears three times, while Katharine Hepburn appears four times.
• Billy Wilder, David O. Russell, and Claudine West are the only screenwriters with two screenplays on this list.
• Eight directors also wrote the screenplays of their movies: Billy Wilder, David O. Russell, Damien Chazelle, Anthony Minghella, George Seaton, Richard Brooks, Robert Rossen and William A. Wellman.
• Sylvester Stallone is credited for writing and acting in Rocky . Clint Eastwood is credited for directing and acting in Million Dollar Baby . Warren Beatty and Woody Allen were each credited for acting, writing, and directing their respective movies on the list.
• Network and From Here to Eternity each had six nominations in the "Big Five"; both extra nominations were for Best Actor.
• The ceremonies with the most "Big Five"-nominated films were the 40th and 54th with three films each. Other ceremonies with multiple "Big Five" nominees are the 12th, 13th, 24th, 47th, and 49th, each with two films.

Films nominated for and winning four

These films won all four of their nominations for the Big Five Academy Awards. The list is sorted chronologically.

Awards Ceremony	Year in Film	Total Nominations	Total Awards	Best Picture	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Screenplay (A): Adapted Screenplay / (O): Original Screenplay	Notes
17th	1944	10	7	Going My Way	Leo McCarey	Bing Crosby	-	Frank Butler / Frank Cavett (A)
18th	1945	7	4	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	Ray Milland	-	Charles Brackett / Billy Wilder (A)
19th	1946	8	7	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	Fredric March	-	Robert E. Sherwood (A)
27th	1954	12	8	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	Marlon Brando	-	Budd Schulberg (O)
28th	1955	8	4	Marty	Delbert Mann	Ernest Borgnine	-	Paddy Chayefsky (A)
30th	1957	8	7	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Alec Guinness	-	Michael Wilson / Carl Foreman / Pierre Boulle (A)
39th	1966	8	6	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	Paul Scofield	-	Robert Bolt (A)
43rd	1970	10	7	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	George C. Scott	-	Francis Ford Coppola / Edmund H. North (O)
44th	1971	8	5	The French Connection	William Friedkin	Gene Hackman	-	Ernest Tidyman (A)
52nd	1979	9	5	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	Dustin Hoffman	-	Robert Benton (A)
55th	1982	11	8	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	Ben Kingsley	-	John Briley (O)
56th	1983	11	5	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	-	Shirley MacLaine	James L. Brooks (A)	Debra Winger was also nominated for Best Actress
57th	1984	11	8	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	F. Murray Abraham	-	Peter Shaffer (A)	Tom Hulce was also nominated for Best Actor
61st	1988	8	4	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	Dustin Hoffman	-	Ronald Bass / Barry Morrow (O)
67th	1994	13	6	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Tom Hanks	-	Eric Roth (A)
83rd	2010	12	4	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	Colin Firth	-	David Seidler (O)
95th	2022	11	7	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	-	Michelle Yeoh	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (O)

Above-the-line awards

List of films with the most "above-the-line" Academy Awards—that is, the "Big Five" + Supporting Acting. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) holds the record with six "above-the-line" awards, while eleven other films have received five. The list is sorted chronologically.

Awards Ceremony	Year in Film	Total Nominations	Total Awards	Total Above-The-Line Awards	Best Picture	Best Director	Best Actor (M) / Best Actress (F)	Best Supporting Actor (M) / Supporting Actress (F)	Best Adapted Screenplay (A) / Best Original Screenplay (O)	Notes
7th	1934	5	5	5	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	Clark Gable (M) / Claudette Colbert (F)	—	Robert Riskin (A)
12th	1939	13	8	5	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming	Vivien Leigh (F)	Hattie McDaniel (F)	Sidney Howard (A)	Clark Gable and Olivia de Havilland were also nominated for Actor and Supporting Actress, respectively
15th	1942	12	6	5	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	Greer Garson (F)	Teresa Wright (F)	George Froeschel / James Hilton / Claudine West / Arthur Wimperis (A)	Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, and May Whitty were also nominated for Actor, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress, respectively
17th	1944	10	7	5	Going My Way	Leo McCarey	Bing Crosby (M)	Barry Fitzgerald (M)	Frank Butler / Frank Cavett (A)	Barry Fitzgerald was also nominated for Actor, for the same performance [note 15]
26th	1953	13	8	5	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster (M) / Deborah Kerr (F)	Frank Sinatra (M) / Donna Reed (F)	Daniel Taradash (A)
19th	1946	8	7	5	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	Fredric March (M)	Harold Russell (M)	Robert E. Sherwood (A)
27th	1954	12	8	5	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	Marlon Brando (M)	Eva Marie Saint (F)	Budd Schulberg (O)	Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger were also nominated for Best Supporting Actor
48th	1975	9	5	5	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	Jack Nicholson (M) / Louise Fletcher (F)	Brad Dourif (M)	Lawrence Hauben / Bo Goldman (A)
52nd	1979	9	5	5	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	Dustin Hoffman (M)	Meryl Streep (F)	Robert Benton (A)	Justin Henry and Jane Alexander were also nominated for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress, respectively
56th	1983	11	5	5	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	Shirley MacLaine (F)	Jack Nicholson (M)	James L. Brooks (A)	Debra Winger and John Lithgow were also nominated for Actress and Supporting Actor, respectively
64th	1991	7	5	5	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Anthony Hopkins (M) / Jodie Foster (F)	—	Ted Tally (A)
95th	2022	11	7	6	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Michelle Yeoh (F)	Ke Huy Quan (M) / Jamie Lee Curtis (F)	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (O)	Stephanie Hsu was also nominated for Supporting Actress

See also

• List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations
• List of films with two or more Academy Awards in an acting category

Notes

1. Gone With the Wind: Hattie McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress. Olivia de Havilland was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
2. Mrs. Miniver: Teresa Wright won for Best Supporting Actress. May Whitty was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
3. From Here to Eternity: Frank Sinatra won for Best Supporting Actor. Donna Reed won for Best Supporting Actress. This film received six nominations in the Big Five Categories; two actors (Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster) were each nominated for Best Actor.
4. Network: Beatrice Straight won for Best Supporting Actress. Ned Beatty was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. This film received six nominations in the Big Five Categories; two actors (Peter Finch and William Holden) were each nominated for Best Actor.
5. Million Dollar Baby: Morgan Freeman won for Best Supporting Actor.
6. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Cecil Kellaway was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Beah Richards was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
7. The English Patient: Juliette Binoche won for Best Supporting Actress.
8. Sunset Boulevard: Erich von Stroheim was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Nancy Olson was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
9. A Streetcar Named Desire: Karl Malden won for Best Supporting Actor. Kim Hunter won for Best Supporting Actress.
10. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Sandy Dennis won for Best Supporting Actress. George Segal was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
11. Reds: Maureen Stapleton won for Best Supporting Actress. Jack Nicholson was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
12. Silver Linings Playbook: Robert de Niro was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Jackie Weaver was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
13. Bonnie and Clyde: Estelle Parsons won for Best Supporting Actress. Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard were both nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
14. American Hustle: Bradley Cooper was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
15. Going My Way: Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same role in Going My Way ; he won the latter award, losing the former to his co-star, Bing Crosby. The Academy subsequently amended its rules to prevent such recurrences.

References

1. "Films with Awards for Best Picture, Directing, Actor, Actress and Writing". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.