List of Big Three Academy Award winners and nominees
The Big Three Academy Award Winners and Nominees is the list of films which have been nominated in the "Big Three" Academy Award (Oscar) categories. The "Big Three" Awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director and screenplay — either Best Adapted Screenplay or Best Original Screenplay.
List of films - winners are listed in bold with yellow background; others are nominees who did not win - (this list is not complete):
Oscars |
Year |
Wins |
Picture |
Director |
Screenwriter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 |
1934 |
3 |
It Happened One Night |
Frank Capra |
Robert Riskin (A) |
12 |
1939 |
3 |
Gone With The Wind |
Victor Fleming |
Sidney Howard (A) |
15 |
1942 |
3 |
Mrs. Miniver |
William Wyler |
George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis (A) |
18 |
1945 |
3 |
The Lost Weekend |
Billy Wilder |
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder (A) |
19 |
1946 |
3 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
William Wyler |
Robert E. Sherwood (A) |
26 |
1953 |
3 |
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann |
Daniel Taradash (A) |
27 |
1954 |
3 |
On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
Budd Schulberg (O) |
28 |
1955 |
3 |
Marty |
Delbert Mann |
Paddy Chayefsky (A) |
30 |
1957 |
3 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
David Lean |
Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Pierre Boulle (A) |
33 |
1960 |
3 |
The Apartment |
Billy Wilder |
I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder (O) |
39 |
1966 |
3 |
A Man for All Seasons |
Fred Zinnemann |
Robert Bolt (A) |
43 |
1970 |
3 |
Patton |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North (A) |
44 |
1971 |
3 |
The French Connection |
William Friedkin |
Ernest Tidyman (A) |
48 |
1975 |
3 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Miloš Forman |
Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben (A) |
50 |
1977 |
3 |
Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (O) |
52 |
1979 |
3 |
Kramer vs. Kramer |
Robert Benton |
Robert Benton (A) |
55 |
1982 |
3 |
Gandhi |
Richard Attenborough |
John Briley (O) |
56 |
1983 |
3 |
Terms of Endearment |
James L. Brooks |
James L. Brooks (A) |
57 |
1984 |
3 |
Amadeus |
Miloš Forman |
Peter Shaffer (A) |
61 |
1988 |
3 |
Rain Man |
Barry Levinson |
Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass (O) |
64 |
1991 |
3 |
The Silence of the Lambs |
Jonathan Demme |
Ted Tally (A) |
67 |
1994 |
3 |
Forrest Gump |
Robert Zemeckis |
Eric Roth (A) |
72 |
1999 |
3 |
American Beauty |
Sam Mendes |
Alan Ball (O) |
79 |
2006 |
3 |
The Departed |
Martin Scorsese |
William Monahan (A) |
80 |
2007 |
3 |
No Country for Old Men |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (A) |
81 |
2008 |
3 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
Danny Boyle |
Simon Beaufoy (A) |
4 |
1931 |
2 |
Cimarron |
Wesley Ruggles |
Howard Estabrook (A) |
13 |
1940 |
2 |
The Philadelphia Story |
George Cukor |
Donald Ogden Stewart (A) |
20 |
1947 |
2 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
Elia Kazan |
Moss Hart (A) |
24 |
1951 |
2 |
A Place in the Sun |
George Stevens |
Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (A) |
27 |
1954 |
2 |
The Country Girl |
George Seaton |
George Seaton (A) |
49 |
1976 |
2 |
Rocky |
John G. Avildsen |
Sylvester Stallone (O) |
69 |
1996 |
2 |
The English Patient |
Anthony Minghella |
Anthony Minghella (A) |
45 |
1972 |
2 |
The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo (A) |
71 |
1998 |
2 |
Shakespeare in Love |
John Madden |
Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard (O) |
73 |
2000 |
2 |
Traffic |
Steven Soderbergh |
Stephen Gaghan (A) |
77 |
2004 |
2 |
Million Dollar Baby |
Clint Eastwood |
Paul Haggis (A) |
78 |
2005 |
2 |
Brokeback Mountain |
Ang Lee |
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (A) |
78 |
2005 |
2 |
Crash |
Paul Haggis |
Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco (O) |
10 |
1937 |
1 |
A Star Is Born''' |
William A. Wellman |
William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell (O) |
13 |
1940 |
1 |
Rebecca |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison (A) |
23 |
1950 |
1 |
Sunset Boulevard |
Billy Wilder |
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr. (O) |
24 |
1951 |
1 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
Elia Kazan |
Tennessee Williams (A) |
32 |
1959 |
1 |
Room at the Top |
Jack Clayton |
Neil Paterson (A) |
40 |
1967 |
1 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Stanley Kramer |
William Rose (O) |
40 |
1967 |
1 |
The Graduate |
Mike Nichols |
Calder Willingham, Buck Henry (A) |
41 |
1968 |
1 |
The Lion in Winter |
Anthony Harvey |
James Goldman (A) |
47 |
1974 |
1 |
Chinatown |
Roman Polanski |
Robert Towne (O) |
49 |
1976 |
1 |
Network |
Sidney Lumet |
Paddy Chayefsky (O) |
51 |
1978 |
1 |
Coming Home |
Hal Ashby |
Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd (O) |
54 |
1981 |
1 |
On Golden Pond |
Mark Rydell |
Ernest Thompson (A) |
54 |
1981 |
1 |
Reds |
Warren Beatty |
Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths (O) |
69 |
1996 |
1 |
Fargo |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (0) |
71 |
1998 |
1 |
Saving Private Ryan |
Steven Spielberg |
Robert Rodat (O) |
73 |
2000 |
1 |
Gladiator |
Ridley Scott |
David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson (O) |
75 |
2002 |
1 |
Chicago |
Rob Marshall |
Bill Condon (A) |
80 |
2007 |
1 |
Juno |
Jason Reitman |
Diablo Cody (O) |
12 |
1939 |
0 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
Sam Wood |
R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz (A) |
21 |
1948 |
0 |
Johnny Belinda |
Jean Negulesco |
Irma von Cube, Allen Vincent (A) |
31 |
1958 |
0 |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
Richard Brooks |
Richard Brooks, James Poe (A) |
34 |
1961 |
0 |
The Hustler |
Robert Rossen |
Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen (A) |
39 |
1966 |
0 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Mike Nichols |
Ernest Lehman (A) |
40 |
1967 |
0 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
Arthur Penn |
David Newman, Robert Benton (O) |
43 |
1970 |
0 |
Love Story |
Arthur Hiller |
Erich Segal (A) |
47 |
1974 |
0 |
Lenny |
Bob Fosse |
Julian Barry (A) |
54 |
1980 |
0 |
Atlantic City |
Louis Malle |
John Guare (O) |
66 |
1993 |
0 |
The Remains of the Day |
James Ivory |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A) |
75 |
2002 |
0 |
The Hours |
Stephen Daldry |
David Hare (A) |
78 |
2005 |
0 |
Good Night, and Good Luck. |
George Clooney |
George Clooney, Grant Heslov (O) |
78 |
2005 |
0 |
Munich |
Steven Spielberg |
Tony Kushner, Eric Roth (A) |
79 |
2006 |
0 |
Babel |
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
Guillermo Arriaga (O) |
79 |
2006 |
0 |
The Queen |
Stephen Frears |
Peter Morgan (O) |
80 |
2007 |
0 |
Michael Clayton |
Tony Gilroy |
Tony Gilroy (O) |
80 |
2007 |
0 |
There Will Be Blood |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
Paul Thomas Anderson (A) |
81 |
2008 |
0 |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
David Fincher |
Eric Roth (A) |
82 |
2009 |
3 |
The Hurt Locker |
Kathryn Bigelow |
Mark Boal (O) |
82 |
2009 |
1 |
Precious |
Lee Daniels |
Geoffrey Fletcher (A) |
82 |
2009 |
0 |
Up in the Air |
Jason Reitman |
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (A) |
82 |
2009 |
0 |
Inglourious Basterds |
Quentin Tarantino |
Quentin Tarantino (O) |