List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of "Big Five" Academy Award winners and nominees. This list includes films that have either won or been nominated for each of the five major Academy Awards in any given year. The major Awards are: the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Academy Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Academy Award for Best Writing. A film that wins all five of these Academy Awards (also called Oscars) is said to have won the "Big Five" or an "Oscar ". In the 80-year history of the Academy Awards, only three films have won the Big Five, while 40 films have been nominated. This list also includes films that have nearly won the Big Five, but (due to an unsuccessful or a lacking nomination) narrowly missed doing so by only one Award. This list is current as of the 80th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 24, 2008.

Winners

The following three films won the Big Five Academy Awards.

"It Happened One Night"

At the 7th Academy Awards ceremony for 1934, this film received the following five Academy Awards from five nominations:
#Academy Award for Best Picture: "It Happened One Night"
#Academy Award for Best Director: Frank Capra
#Academy Award for Best Actor: Clark Gable
#Academy Award for Best Actress: Claudette Colbert
#Academy Award for Best Writing: Robert Riskin

"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

At the 48th Academy Awards ceremony for 1975, this film received the following five Academy Awards from nine nominations:
#Academy Award for Best Picture: "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
#Academy Award for Best Director: Miloš Forman
#Academy Award for Best Actor: Jack Nicholson
#Academy Award for Best Actress: Louise Fletcher
#Academy Award for Best Writing: Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman

"The Silence of the Lambs"

At the 64th Academy Awards ceremony for 1991, this film received the following five Academy Awards from seven nominations:
#Academy Award for Best Picture: "The Silence of the Lambs"
#Academy Award for Best Director: Jonathan Demme
#Academy Award for Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins
#Academy Award for Best Actress: Jodie Foster
#Academy Award for Best Writing: Ted Tally

Nominees

In addition to the three films listed above that won all five major awards, the following 38 films were also nominated for the "Big Five" Academy Awards.

Four awards won

#"Gone With The Wind" (1939) (Lost Actor- Clark Gable)
#"Mrs. Miniver" (1942) (Lost Actor - Walter Pidgeon)
#"Annie Hall" (1977) (Lost Actor - Woody Allen)
#"American Beauty" (1999) (Lost Actress - Annette Bening)

Three awards won

#"From Here to Eternity" (1953) (Lost Actor - Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Actress - Deborah Kerr); the film also won for both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
#"The Apartment" (1960) (Lost Actor - Jack Lemmon, Actress - Shirley MacLaine)
#"Network" (1976) (Lost Picture, Director)
#"Coming Home" (1978) (Lost Picture, Director)
#"On Golden Pond" (1981) (Lost Picture, Director)
#"Million Dollar Baby" (2004) (Lost Actor - Clint Eastwood, Screenplay)

Two awards won

#"Cimarron" (1930/1931) (Lost Director, Actor - Richard Dix, Actress - Irene Dunne)
#"The Philadelphia Story" (1940) (Lost Picture, Director, Actress - Katharine Hepburn)
#"Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) (Lost Actor - Gregory Peck, Actress - Dorothy McGuire, Screenplay)
#"A Place in the Sun" (1951) (Lost Picture, Actor - Montgomery Clift, Actress - Shelley Winters)
#"The Country Girl" (1954) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Bing Crosby)
#"Room at the Top" (1959) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Laurence Harvey)
#"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Spencer Tracy)
#"The Lion in Winter" (1968) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Peter O'Toole)
#"Rocky" (1976) (Lost Actor - Sylvester Stallone, Actress - Talia Shire, Screenplay)
#"The English Patient" (1996) (Lost Actor - Ralph Fiennes, Actress - Kristin Scott Thomas, Screenplay)

One award won

#"A Star Is Born" (1937) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Fredric March, Actress - Janet Gaynor)
#"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939) (Lost Picture, Director, Actress - Greer Garson, Screenplay)
#"Rebecca" (1940) (Lost Director, Actor - Laurence Olivier, Actress - Joan Fontaine, Screenplay)
#"Johnny Belinda" (1948) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Lew Ayres, Screenplay)
#"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - William Holden, Actress - Gloria Swanson)
#"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Marlon Brando, Screenplay)
#"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Richard Burton, Screenplay)
#"The Graduate" (1967) (Lost Picture, Actor - Dustin Hoffman, Actress - Anne Bancroft, Screenplay)
#"Chinatown" (1974) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Jack Nicholson, Actress - Faye Dunaway)
#"Reds" (1981) (Lost Picture, Actor - Warren Beatty, Actress - Diane Keaton, Screenplay)

No awards won

#"The Pride of the Yankees" (1942) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Gary Cooper, Actress - Teresa Wright, Screenplay)
#"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Paul Newman, Actress - Elizabeth Taylor, Screenplay)
#"The Hustler" (1961) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Paul Newman, Actress - Piper Laurie, Screenplay)
#"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Warren Beatty, Actress - Faye Dunaway, Screenplay)
#"Love Story" (1970) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Ryan O'Neal, Actress - Ali MacGraw, Screenplay)
#"Lenny" (1974) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Dustin Hoffman, Actress - Valerie Perrine, Screenplay)
#"Atlantic City" (1980) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Burt Lancaster, Actress - Susan Sarandon, Screenplay)
#"The Remains of the Day" (1993) (Lost Picture, Director, Actor - Anthony Hopkins, Actress - Emma Thompson, Screenplay)

At the 40th Academy Awards ceremony for 1967, three out of the five Best Picture nominees were also Big Five nominees: "Bonnie and Clyde", "The Graduate", and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". The other two nominees were "Doctor Dolittle" and "In the Heat of the Night" (which won Best Picture).

Four wins for four big nominations

The following 14 films were nominated for and won four of the Big Five Academy Awards. In all but one case, the lack of a fifth big nomination was due to one of the following:
* The lead actress portraying the only significant female role was nominated for Best Supporting Actress instead.
* The lead actress was not nominated for her performance.
* There was no significant or lead female role.The exception is "Terms of Endearment," in which Jack Nicholson, playing the primary "male" role, was nominated for and won Best Supporting Actor instead.

No significant or lead female role

#"The Lost Weekend" (1945) won all but Best Actress; the film had no significant female role
#"The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) won all but Best Actress; the film had no significant female role
#"Patton" (1970) won all but Best Actress; the film had no significant female role
#"The French Connection" (1971) won all but Best Actress; the film had no significant female role

ignificant female role nominated for supporting actress

#"Marty" (1955) won all but Best Actress; Betsy Blair, the only significant female role, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress
#"A Man for All Seasons" (1966) won all but Best Actress; Wendy Hiller, the only significant female role, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress

ignificant male or female role won for supporting actor/actress

#"On the Waterfront" (1954) won all but Best Actress; Eva Marie Saint won for Best Supporting Actress in the primary female role of the film
#"Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979) won all but Best Actress; Meryl Streep won for Best Supporting Actress in the primary female role of the film
#"Terms of Endearment" (1983) won all but Best Actor; Jack Nicholson won for Best Supporting Actor in the primary male role of the film

Female lead not nominated

#"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) won all but Best Actress; the only female lead, Myrna Loy, was not nominated
#"Gandhi" (1982) won all but Best Actress; the only female lead, Rohini Hattangadi, was not nominated
#"Amadeus" (1984) won all but Best Actress; the only female lead, Elizabeth Berridge, was not nominated
#"Forrest Gump" (1994) won all but Best Actress; Robin Wright Penn was not nominated for Best Actress
#"Rain Man" (1988) won all but Best Actress; Valeria Golino, who played the only significant female role, was not nominated