List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
This is a list of films that have been nominated for the so-called Big Five Academy Award categories. The Big Five Academy Awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.
As of the 92nd Academy Awards, 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, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Silence of the Lambs. Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated in each category.
List of films
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 : Adapted Screenplay / : Original Screenplay | Notes |
| 7th | 1934 | 5 | 5 | 5 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | Clark Gable | Claudette Colbert | Robert Riskin | |
| 48th | 1975 | 9 | 5 | 5 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | Jack Nicholson | Louise Fletcher | Lawrence Hauben / Bo Goldman | |
| 64th | 1991 | 7 | 5 | 5 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | Anthony Hopkins | Jodie Foster | Ted Tally | |
| 12th | 1939 | 13 | 8 | 4 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable | Vivien Leigh | Sidney Howard | |
| 15th | 1942 | 12 | 6 | 4 | Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler | Walter Pidgeon | Greer Garson | George Froeschel / James Hilton / Claudine West / Arthur Wimperis | |
| 50th | 1977 | 5 | 4 | 4 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen / Marshall Brickman | |
| 72nd | 1999 | 8 | 5 | 4 | American Beauty | Sam Mendes | Kevin Spacey | Annette Bening | Alan Ball | |
| 26th | 1953 | 13 | 8 | 3 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | Montgomery Clift / Burt Lancaster | Deborah Kerr | Daniel Taradash | |
| 33rd | 1960 | 10 | 5 | 3 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Billy Wilder / I. A. L. Diamond | |
| 49th | 1976 | 10 | 4 | 3 | Network | Sidney Lumet | Peter Finch / William Holden | Faye Dunaway | Paddy Chayefsky | |
| 51st | 1978 | 8 | 3 | 3 | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | Jon Voight | Jane Fonda | Robert C. Jones / Waldo Salt / Nancy Dowd | |
| 54th | 1981 | 10 | 3 | 3 | On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | Henry Fonda | Katharine Hepburn | Ernest Thompson | |
| 77th | 2004 | 7 | 4 | 3 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | Hilary Swank | Paul Haggis | |
| 4th | 1930–31 | 7 | 3 | 2 | Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles | Richard Dix | Irene Dunne | Howard Estabrook | |
| 13th | 1940 | 6 | 2 | 2 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | James Stewart | Katharine Hepburn | Donald Ogden Stewart | |
| 20th | 1947 | 8 | 3 | 2 | Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan | Gregory Peck | Dorothy McGuire | Moss Hart | |
| 24th | 1951 | 9 | 6 | 2 | A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | Montgomery Clift | Shelley Winters | Harry Brown / Michael Wilson | |
| 27th | 1954 | 7 | 2 | 2 | The Country Girl | George Seaton | Bing Crosby | Grace Kelly | George Seaton | |
| 32nd | 1959 | 6 | 2 | 2 | Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | Laurence Harvey | Simone Signoret | Neil Paterson | |
| 40th | 1967 | 10 | 2 | 2 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy | Katharine Hepburn | William Rose | |
| 41st | 1968 | 7 | 3 | 2 | The Lion in Winter | Anthony Harvey | Peter O'Toole | Katharine Hepburn | James Goldman | |
| 49th | 1976 | 10 | 3 | 2 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Sylvester Stallone | |
| 69th | 1996 | 12 | 9 | 2 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Ralph Fiennes | Kristin Scott Thomas | Anthony Minghella | |
| 89th | 2016 | 14 | 6 | 2 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | Ryan Gosling | Emma Stone | Damien Chazelle | |
| 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 | |
| 12th | 1939 | 7 | 1 | 1 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Sam Wood | Robert Donat | Greer Garson | R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, and Eric Maschwitz | |
| 13th | 1940 | 11 | 2 | 1 | Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | Laurence Olivier | Joan Fontaine | Robert E. Sherwood / Joan Harrison | |
| 21st | 1948 | 12 | 1 | 1 | Johnny Belinda | Jean Negulesco | Lew Ayres | Jane Wyman | Irma von Cube / Allen Vincent | |
| 23rd | 1950 | 11 | 3 | 1 | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | William Holden | Gloria Swanson | Charles Brackett / Billy Wilder / D. M. Marshman, Jr. | |
| 24th | 1951 | 12 | 4 | 1 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando | Vivien Leigh | Tennessee Williams | |
| 39th | 1966 | 13 | 5 | 1 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | Richard Burton | Elizabeth Taylor | Ernest Lehman | |
| 40th | 1967 | 7 | 1 | 1 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | Dustin Hoffman | Anne Bancroft | Calder Willingham / Buck Henry | |
| 47th | 1974 | 11 | 1 | 1 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | Robert Towne | |
| 54th | 1981 | 12 | 3 | 1 | Reds | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty | Diane Keaton | Warren Beatty / Trevor Griffiths | |
| 85th | 2012 | 8 | 1 | 1 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | Bradley Cooper | Jennifer Lawrence | David O. Russell | |
| 31st | 1958 | 7 | 0 | 0 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks | Paul Newman | Elizabeth Taylor | Richard Brooks / James Poe | |
| 34th | 1961 | 9 | 2 | 0 | The Hustler | Robert Rossen | Paul Newman | Piper Laurie | Sidney Carroll / Robert Rossen | |
| 40th | 1967 | 10 | 2 | 0 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | Warren Beatty | Faye Dunaway | David Newman / Robert Benton | |
| 43rd | 1970 | 7 | 1 | 0 | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | Ryan O'Neal | Ali MacGraw | Erich Segal | |
| 47th | 1974 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Lenny | Bob Fosse | Dustin Hoffman | Valerie Perrine | Julian Barry | |
| 54th | 1981 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Burt Lancaster | Susan Sarandon | John Guare | |
| 66th | 1993 | 8 | 0 | 0 | The Remains of the Day | James Ivory | Anthony Hopkins | Emma Thompson | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| 86th | 2013 | 10 | 0 | 0 | American Hustle | David O. Russell | Christian Bale | Amy Adams | Eric Warren Singer / David O. Russell | - |
Milestones
, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan and Mike Nichols are the only four 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 both writing and acting in Rocky. Clint Eastwood is credited for both 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 one with two films.