This is a list of films which have been nominated for the so-called "Big Five" Academy Award (Oscar) 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. This list is current as of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony held on 26 February 2012.
The list is sorted on the number of Big Five nominations the film won. Winners are listed in bold with green background; others are nominees who did not win.
| Ceremony |
Year |
Noms |
Big Five Wins |
Film |
Director |
Lead Actor |
Lead Actress |
Screenwriter (Adapted/Original) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th | 1934 | 5 | 5 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | Clark Gable | Claudette Colbert | Robert Riskin (A) |
| 48th | 1975 | 9 | 5 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | Jack Nicholson | Louise Fletcher | Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman (A) |
| 64th | 1991 | 7 | 5 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | Anthony Hopkins | Jodie Foster | Ted Tally (A) |
| 12th | 1939 | 13 | 4 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable | Vivien Leigh | Sidney Howard (A) |
| 15th | 1942 | 12 | 4 | Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler | Walter Pidgeon | Greer Garson | George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis (A) |
| 50th | 1977 | 5 | 4 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (O) |
| 72nd | 1999 | 8 | 4 | American Beauty | Sam Mendes | Kevin Spacey | Annette Bening | Alan Ball (O) |
| 26th | 1953 | 13 | 3 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster |
Deborah Kerr | Daniel Taradash (A) |
| 33rd | 1960 | 10 | 3 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (O) |
| 49th | 1976 | 10 | 3 | Network | Sidney Lumet | Peter Finch | Faye Dunaway | Paddy Chayefsky (O) |
| 51st | 1978 | 8 | 3 | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | Jon Voight | Jane Fonda | Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd (O) |
| 54th | 1981 | 10 | 3 | On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | Henry Fonda | Katharine Hepburn | Ernest Thompson (A) |
| 77th | 2004 | 7 | 3 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | Hilary Swank | Paul Haggis (A) |
| 4th | 1931 | 7 | 2 | Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles | Richard Dix | Irene Dunne | Howard Estabrook (A) |
| 13th | 1940 | 6 | 2 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | James Stewart | Katharine Hepburn | Donald Ogden Stewart (A) |
| 20th | 1947 | 8 | 2 | Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan | Gregory Peck | Dorothy McGuire | Moss Hart (A) |
| 24th | 1951 | 9 | 2 | A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | Montgomery Clift | Shelley Winters | Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (A) |
| 27th | 1954 | 7 | 2 | The Country Girl | George Seaton | Bing Crosby | Grace Kelly | George Seaton (A) |
| 32nd | 1959 | 5 | 2 | Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | Laurence Harvey | Simone Signoret | Neil Paterson (A) |
| 40th | 1967 | 10 | 2 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy | Katharine Hepburn | William Rose (O) |
| 41st | 1968 | 7 | 2 | The Lion in Winter | Anthony Harvey | Peter O'Toole | Katharine Hepburn | James Goldman (A) |
| 49th | 1976 | 10 | 2 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Sylvester Stallone (O) |
| 69th | 1996 | 12 | 2 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Ralph Fiennes | Kristin Scott Thomas | Anthony Minghella (A) |
| 10th | 1937 | 7 | 1 | A Star Is Born | William A. Wellman | Fredric March | Janet Gaynor | William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell (O) |
| 12th | 1939 | 7 | 1 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Sam Wood | Robert Donat | Greer Garson | R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz (A) |
| 13th | 1940 | 11 | 1 | Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | Laurence Olivier | Joan Fontaine | Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison (A) |
| 21st | 1948 | 12 | 1 | Johnny Belinda | Jean Negulesco | Lew Ayres | Jane Wyman | Irma von Cube, Allen Vincent (A) |
| 23rd | 1950 | 11 | 1 | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | William Holden | Gloria Swanson | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr. (O) |
| 24th | 1951 | 12 | 1 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando | Vivien Leigh | Tennessee Williams (A) |
| 39th | 1966 | 13 | 1 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | Richard Burton | Elizabeth Taylor | Ernest Lehman (A) |
| 40th | 1967 | 7 | 1 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | Dustin Hoffman | Anne Bancroft | Calder Willingham, Buck Henry (A) |
| 47th | 1974 | 11 | 1 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | Robert Towne (O) |
| 54th | 1981 | 12 | 1 | Reds | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty | Diane Keaton | Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths (O) |
| 31st | 1958 | 7 | 0 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks | Paul Newman | Elizabeth Taylor | Richard Brooks, James Poe (A) |
| 34th | 1961 | 9 | 0 | The Hustler | Robert Rossen | Paul Newman | Piper Laurie | Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen (A) |
| 40th | 1967 | 10 | 0 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | Warren Beatty | Faye Dunaway | David Newman, Robert Benton (O) |
| 43rd | 1970 | 7 | 0 | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | Ryan O'Neal | Ali MacGraw | Erich Segal (A) |
| 47th | 1974 | 6 | 0 | Lenny | Bob Fosse | Dustin Hoffman | Valerie Perrine | Julian Barry (A) |
| 54th | 1981 | 5 | 0 | Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Burt Lancaster | Susan Sarandon | John Guare (O) |
| 66th | 1993 | 8 | 0 | The Remains of the Day | James Ivory | Anthony Hopkins | Emma Thompson | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A) |
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