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 (either Best Adapted Screenplay or Best Original Screenplay).

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.

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^[update], honoring films of 2016.

David O. Russell, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan and Mike Nichols are the only four directors with two movies on this list.

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