Oscar Trivia - January 4, 2008 - Movies That Swept Major Oscars

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"Oscar Trivia: Day 2"
The Only Movies To SWEEP The Major Award Categories
by Tim Nasson
January 4, 2008

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Think of the thousands upon thousands of movies released in movie theaters during the past - nearly - 100 years. Only three have won the five TOP Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

"I can smell your c-u-n- t" - remember that line from the mouth of Dr. Hannibal Lechter (Anthony Hopkins) to Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)... in "The Silence of the Lambs?"

More amazing than the quote, at least for the folk, such as me, (thirty six and getting older by the day), "The Silence of the Lambs" is almost 20 years old.

If you want to see how "Hannibal" started out... watch the "Hannibal Rising Trailer"

OK. For the list of the movies that cleaned up at the Oscars... Only three!!!

No, not "Titanic." No, not even "Gone With The Wind." Nor "All About Eve."

The only three movies to win the five Major Oscars in Academy Awards history...

"Silence Of The Lambs" 1991

Best Picture

Best Director - Jonathan Demme

Best Actor - Anthony Hopkins

Best Actress - Jodie Foster

Best Screenplay (Adapted) - Ted Tally, based on the Thomas Harris novel.

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" 1975

Best Picture

Best Director - Milos Forman

Best Actor - Jack Nicholson

Best Actress - Louise Fletcher

Best Screenplay - Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman, based on the Ken Kesey novel.

"It Happened One Night" 1934

Best Picture

Best Director - Frank Capra

Best Actor - Clark Gable*

Best Actress - Claudette Colbert+

Best Original Screenplay

* In 1996, Steven Spielberg anonymously purchased Clark Gable's Oscar to protect it from further commercial exploitation, gave it back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commenting that he could think of "no better sanctuary for Gable's only Oscar than the Motion Picture Academy".

+ Claudette Colbert was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar to write-in nominee Bette Davis that she didn't attended the ceremony orignally. She was summoned from a train station to pick up her Academy Award.

Keep in mind, the above mentioned movies won the Top 5 Oscars, but there have been many, many more movies that have won more than 5 Oscars... Tomorrow, the most Oscar Winning Movies.

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