This is a list of films with performances that have been nominated in all of the Academy Award acting categories.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually bestows Academy Awards for acting performances in the following four categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.
As of the 96th Academy Awards (2023), there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.
In the following list, award winners are listed in bold with gold background; others listed are nominees who did not win. No film has ever won all four awards.
No film has won all four awards; however, there are two films that hold the distinction of winning three out of the four categories they were nominated in:
(Note: In 2022, Everything Everywhere All at Once also won three of the four acting awards, but is not included here because it was not nominated for Best Actor.)
Four of the nominated films hold a total of five nominations, each with an additional nomination within one of the four categories:
Three of the nominated films failed to win any of the four awards:
Five performers were nominated for their work in two different films that received nominations in all acting categories (winners in bold):
Only one director has directed two films that received nominations in all four categories:
The 40th Academy Awards (1967) was the only ceremony in which multiple films held at least one nomination in all four acting categories:
Only two of the nominated films won Best Picture:
Only one of the nominated films was not nominated for Best Picture:
Only one of the nominated films was omitted from the Best Director and Best Screenplay categories:
All of the other films, with the exception of the aforementioned two, were also nominated for each of the non-acting "Big Five" categories: Best Picture, Best Director, and the applicable Best Screenplay (Original) or Adapted; or other Writing categories that have since been discontinued).
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Bruce L. Cohen is a film, television, and theater producer. He is best known for his production of the Academy Award nominated films Milk, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Beauty, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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The 40th Academy Awards were held on April 10, 1968, to honor film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for April 8, the awards were postponed to two days later due to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony.
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The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California to honor films released in 1936. They were hosted by George Jessel, with music by the Victor Young Orchestra, with Spike Jones on drums. This year marked the introduction of the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, and was the first year that the awards for directing and acting were fixed at five nominees per category.
The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson; accepting the award for Best Actress, Garson spoke for nearly six minutes, considered to be the longest Oscars acceptance speech. A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio.
The 21st Academy Awards were held on March 24, 1949, honoring the films of 1948. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to the Academy's own theater, primarily because the major Hollywood studios had withdrawn their financial support in order to address rumors that they had been trying to influence voters. This year marked the first time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, and the first time an individual (Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance.
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