List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of films which have either been nominated in all of the so-called "Big Five" Academy Award (Oscar) categories, or else won four of the five categories. The "Big Five" Awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and screenplay — either Best Adapted Screenplay or Best Original Screenplay. A film that wins all five of is said to have won an "Oscar Grand Slam". Only three films have won the Big Five, while 40 films have been nominated. This list is current as of the 81st Academy Awards ceremony held on 22 February 2009.

Winners are listed in bold with yellow background; others are nominees who did not win.

Oscars	Year	Noms	Wins	Picture	Director	Actor	Actress	Screenwriter (Adapted/Original)	Notes
7	1934	5	5	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	Clark Gable	Claudette Colbert	Robert Riskin (A)
48	1975	5	5	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	Jack Nicholson	Louise Fletcher	Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman (A)
64	1991	5	5	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Anthony Hopkins	Jodie Foster	Ted Tally (A)
12	1939	5	4	Gone With The Wind	Victor Fleming	Clark Gable	Vivien Leigh	Sidney Howard (A)
15	1942	5	4	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	Walter Pidgeon	Greer Garson	George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis (A)
50	1977	5	4	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	Diane Keaton	Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (O)
72	1999	5	4	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	Kevin Spacey	Annette Bening	Alan Ball (O)
26	1953	5[n 1]	3	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster	Deborah Kerr	Daniel Taradash (A)	Also won for both Best Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra) and Best Supporting Actress (Donna Reed)
33	1960	5	3	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	Jack Lemmon	Shirley MacLaine	Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (O)
49	1976	5	3	Network	Sidney Lumet	Peter Finch	Faye Dunaway	Paddy Chayefsky (O)
51	1978	5	3	Coming Home	Hal Ashby	Jon Voight	Jane Fonda	Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd (O)
54	1981	5	3	On Golden Pond	Mark Rydell	Henry Fonda	Katharine Hepburn	Ernest Thompson (A)
77	2004	5	3	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	Clint Eastwood	Hilary Swank	Paul Haggis (A)	Morgan Freeman also won for Best Supporting Actor
4	1931	5	2	Cimarron	Wesley Ruggles	Richard Dix	Irene Dunne	Howard Estabrook (A)
13	1940	5	2	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	James Stewart	Katharine Hepburn	Donald Ogden Stewart (A)
20	1947	5	2	Gentleman's Agreement	Elia Kazan	Gregory Peck	Dorothy McGuire	Moss Hart (A)
24	1951	5	2	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens	Montgomery Clift	Shelley Winters	Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (A)
27	1954	5	2	The Country Girl	George Seaton	Bing Crosby	Grace Kelly	George Seaton (A)
32	1959	5	2	Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	Laurence Harvey	Simone Signoret	Neil Paterson (A)
40	1967	5	2	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	Spencer Tracy	Katharine Hepburn	William Rose (O)
41	1968	5	2	The Lion in Winter	Anthony Harvey	Peter O'Toole	Katharine Hepburn	James Goldman (A)
49	1976	5	2	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	Sylvester Stallone	Talia Shire	Sylvester Stallone (O)
69	1996	5	2	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	Ralph Fiennes	Kristin Scott Thomas	Anthony Minghella (A)
10	1937	5	1	A Star Is Born	William A. Wellman	Fredric March	Janet Gaynor	William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell (O)
12	1939	5	1	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Sam Wood	Robert Donat	Greer Garson	R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz (A)
13	1940	5	1	Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock	Laurence Olivier	Joan Fontaine	Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison (A)
21	1948	5	1	Johnny Belinda	Jean Negulesco	Lew Ayres	Jane Wyman	Irma von Cube, Allen Vincent (A)
23	1950	5	1	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	William Holden	Gloria Swanson	Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr. (O)
24	1951	5	1	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	Marlon Brando	Vivien Leigh	Tennessee Williams (A)
39	1966	5	1	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	Richard Burton	Elizabeth Taylor	Ernest Lehman (A)
40	1967	5	1	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	Dustin Hoffman	Anne Bancroft	Calder Willingham, Buck Henry (A)
47	1974	5	1	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	Jack Nicholson	Faye Dunaway	Robert Towne (O)
54	1981	5	1	Reds	Warren Beatty	Warren Beatty	Diane Keaton	Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths (O)
31	1958	5	0	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks	Paul Newman	Elizabeth Taylor	Richard Brooks, James Poe (A)
34	1961	5	0	The Hustler	Robert Rossen	Paul Newman	Piper Laurie	Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen (A)
40	1967	5	0	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	Warren Beatty	Faye Dunaway	David Newman, Robert Benton (O)
43	1970	5	0	Love Story	Arthur Hiller	Ryan O'Neal	Ali MacGraw	Erich Segal (A)
47	1974	5	0	Lenny	Bob Fosse	Dustin Hoffman	Valerie Perrine	Julian Barry (A)
54	1980[n 2]	5	0	Atlantic City	Louis Malle	Burt Lancaster	Susan Sarandon	John Guare (O)
66	1993	5	0	The Remains of the Day	James Ivory	Anthony Hopkins	Emma Thompson	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A)
18	1945	4	4	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	Ray Milland	—	Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder (A)	Jane Wyman, the female lead, was not nominated
19	1946	4	4	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	Fredric March	—	Robert E. Sherwood (A)	Myrna Loy, the female lead, was not nominated
27	1954	4	4	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	Marlon Brando	—	Budd Schulberg (O)	Eva Marie Saint, the female lead, won Best Supporting Actress
28	1955	4	4	Marty	Delbert Mann	Ernest Borgnine	—	Paddy Chayefsky (A)	Betsy Blair, the female lead, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress
30	1957	4	4	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Alec Guinness	—	Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Pierre Boulle (A)	the film had no significant female role. Foreman and Wilson were blacklisted and received awards in 1984.
39	1966	4	4	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	Paul Scofield	—	Robert Bolt (A)	Wendy Hiller, the female lead, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress
43	1970	4	4	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	George C. Scott	—	Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North (A)	the film had no significant female role
44	1971	4	4	The French Connection	William Friedkin	Gene Hackman	—	Ernest Tidyman (A)	the film had no significant female role
52	1979	4	4	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	Dustin Hoffman	—	Robert Benton (A)	Meryl Streep, the female lead, won Best Supporting Actress
55	1982	4	4	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	Ben Kingsley	—	John Briley (O)	Rohini Hattangadi, the female lead, was not nominated
56	1983	4	4	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	—	Shirley MacLaine	James L. Brooks (A)	Jack Nicholson, the male lead, won Best Supporting Actor
57	1984	4[n 3]	4	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce	—	Peter Shaffer (A)	Elizabeth Berridge, the female lead, was not nominated
61	1988	4	4	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	Dustin Hoffman	—	Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass (O)	Valeria Golino, the female lead, was not nominated
67	1994	4	4	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Tom Hanks	—	Eric Roth (A)	Robin Wright Penn, the female lead, was not nominated
23	1950	4[n 4]	3	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	—	Anne Baxter and Bette Davis	Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A)	George Sanders, the male lead, won Best Supporting Actor
70	1997	4	2	As Good as It Gets	—	Jack Nicholson	Helen Hunt	Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks (O)	James L. Brooks, the director, was not nominated
71	1998	4	1	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	Tom Hanks		Robert Rodat (O)	the film had no significant female role
73	2000	4	2	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	Russell Crowe	—	David Franzoni (O)	Connie Nielsen, the female lead, was not nominated

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).

At the 54th Academy Awards ceremony for 1981, three out of the five Best Picture nominees were also Big Five nominees: On Golden Pond, Atlantic City, and Reds. Chariots of Fire won Best Picture.

[edit] References

1. ^ 6 nominations: 2 for Best Actor
2. ^ Not released in the U.S. till 1981, hence nominated at the 54th Oscars rather than the 53rd.
3. ^ 5 nominations: 2 for Best Actor
4. ^ 5 nominations: 2 for Best Actress