When voters rewarded the ultimate a part of Peter Jackson’s epic J. R. R. Tolkien adaptation, they had been actually giving the Oscars to the genre-defining trilogy as an entire. The movie received all 11 classes wherein it was nominated; solely its shocking omission from the cinematography line-up prevented it from changing into the most-garlanded Oscar film of all time. As it’s, it stays the one movie in Academy Award historical past to have been nominated in additional than 10 classes and received all of them together with greatest image.

Movies which have received the 5 high Oscars

Three movies have taken dwelling the so-called “Huge 5”—greatest image, greatest director, greatest actor, greatest actress, and greatest screenplay (both tailored or authentic).

It Occurred One Night time (1934)

It Occurred One Night time successfully invented the screwball comedy because it despatched the ill-matched Claudette Colbert (as a runaway heiress) and Clark Gable (as a newspaper reporter) out on the street collectively. However its director Frank Capra had suffered humiliation the earlier 12 months when “Frank” was introduced as one of the best director winner: Capra was effectively on his method to the rostrum, when he realized that the Oscar had gone to Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade. A 12 months later, greatest director and greatest image had been his, however he was understandably sluggish to maneuver when host Irvin Cobb opened one of the best director envelope and stated: “Come and get it, Frank.”

In one of the best actor class, Gable received regardless that, beneath the previous studio system, he had been loaned to Columbia by MGM as a punishment for his wage calls for. In one of the best actress class, there had been such outrage that Bette Davis hadn’t obtained a nomination for her sensational efficiency in Of Human Bondage that the Academy had allowed her identify to be written on the poll. Everybody assumed her victory was a accomplished deal, so although she was current on the ceremony, none of her opponents had been. Colbert was truly on a prepare, ready to go on vacation to New York; she was rushed again to the Biltmore Resort within the sidecar of a police bike to gather her award.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)