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 Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay ) . As of the 90th 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
90th Academy Awards
90th Academy Awards
List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees