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