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It Happened One Night was the first film to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing). As of 2022 [update] , only two films have matched this feat: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), 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 ...
7th Academy Awards; Date: February 27, 1935: Site: Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California: Hosted by: Irvin S. Cobb: Highlights; Best Picture: It Happened One Night: Most awards: It Happened One Night (5) Most nominations: One Night of Love (6)
It Happened One Night (1934) became the first film to win all five top Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay). Written by Robert Riskin , it is one of the first screwball comedies , and with its release in the Great Depression , critics considered it an escapist story and a celebration of the ...
Colbert was initially reluctant to appear in the screwball comedy It Happened One Night (1934). The studio agreed to pay her $50,000 for the role and guaranteed filming would be done within four weeks so she could take a planned vacation. [37] She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film. [38]
Tomei is excellent and Oscar-winning as Vinny’s long-suffering, foot-stomping paramour Mona Lisa Vito. ... to It Happened One Night, to Meet John Doe – would fit right in on this list. But his ...
Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939).
Tatum O’Neal walked into Smashbox Studios using a cane, a vestige of the stroke she had in 2020 after an overdose. As she was getting a manicure, she struggled to remember the names of important ...