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 (either Best Adapted Screenplay or Best Original Screenplay).
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As of the 89th 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 (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 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. This list is current as of January 24, 2017, when the nominees were announced for the 89th Academy Awards ceremony to be held on February 26, 2017, honoring films of 2016.
Milestones
David O. Russell, 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, Dame 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.
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 the 54th with three films each. Other ceremonies with multiple "Big Five" nominees are the 12th, the 13th, the 24th, the 47th and the 49th, each one with two films.