What movies won 4 Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role?

Answer 1

Eight films have won four Oscars and produced a Best Actor winner (Best Picture winners are in bold):

• "The Informer" (1935). Best Actor: Victor McLaglen.
• "The Lost Weekend" (1945). Best Actor: Ray Milland.
• "Hamlet" (1948). Best Actor: Sir Laurence Olivier.
• "High Noon" (1952). Best Actor: Gary Cooper.
• "Marty" (1955). Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine.
• "Network" (1976). Best Actor: Peter Finch (posthumously).
• "Rain Man" (1988) Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman.
• "The King's Speech" (2010) Best Actor: Colin Firth.

Answer 2

The following three films have won the trifecta of Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress:

• It Happened One Night (1934): Best Actor - Clark Gable, Best Actress - Claudette Colbert
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975): Best Actor - Jack Nicholson, Best Actress - Louise Fletcher
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991):Best Actor - Anthony Hopkins, Best Actress - Jodie Foster

These three films also won Best Director and Best Screenplay, earning them the "Big Five" Oscars.

Answer 3

1. The Artist
2. The King's Speech
3. Gladiator
4. American Beauty
5. Forrest Gump
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. Rain Man
8. Gandhi
9. Kramer Vs. Kramer
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
11. The Godfather
12. The French Connection
13. Patton
14. In the Heat of the Night
15. A Man for All Seasons
16. My Fair Lady
17. Ben Hur
18. The Bridge of the River Kwai
19. Marty
20. On the Waterfront
21. All the King's Men
22. Hamlet
23. The Best Years of Our Lives
24. The Lost Weekend
25. Going My Way
26. It Happened One Night