List of films with all four Academy Award acting category nominations

This is a list of films with performances that have been nominated in all of the Academy Award acting categories.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually bestows Academy Awards for acting performances in the following four categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Films

As of the 96th Academy Awards (2023), there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.

In the following list, award winners are listed in bold with gold background; others listed are nominees who did not win. No film has ever won all four awards.

Yearin Film AwardsCere-mony Film TotalNomina-tions TotalAwards ActingNomina-tions ActingAwards BestActor BestActress BestSupporting Actor BestSupporting Actress Best Picture 1936 9th My Man Godfrey 6 0 4 0 William Powell Carole Lombard Mischa Auer Alice Brady Not Nominated 1942 15th Mrs. Miniver 12 6 5 2 Walter Pidgeon Greer Garson Henry Travers Teresa Wright WinnerMay Whitty 1943 16th For Whom the Bell Tolls 8 1 4 1 Gary Cooper Ingrid Bergman Akim Tamiroff Katina Paxinou Nominee 1948 21st Johnny Belinda 12 1 4 1 Lew Ayres Jane Wyman Charles Bickford Agnes Moorehead Nominee 1950 23rd Sunset Boulevard 11 3 4 0 William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Nominee 1951 24th A Streetcar Named Desire 12 4 4 3 Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Karl Malden Kim Hunter Nominee 1953 26th From Here to Eternity 13 8 5 2 Montgomery Clift Deborah Kerr Frank Sinatra Donna Reed WinnerBurt Lancaster 1966 39th Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 13 5 4 2 Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor George Segal Sandy Dennis Nominee 1967 40th Bonnie and Clyde 10 2 5 1 Warren Beatty Faye Dunaway Gene Hackman Estelle Parsons NomineeMichael J. Pollard Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 10 2 4 1 Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Cecil Kellaway Beah Richards Nominee 1976 49th Network 10 4 5 3 Peter Finch Faye Dunaway Ned Beatty Beatrice Straight NomineeWilliam Holden 1978 51st Coming Home 8 3 4 2 Jon Voight Jane Fonda Bruce Dern Penelope Milford Nominee 1981 54th Reds 12 3 4 1 Warren Beatty Diane Keaton Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Nominee 2012 85th Silver Linings Playbook 8 1 4 1 Bradley Cooper Jennifer Lawrence Robert De Niro Jacki Weaver Nominee 2013 86th American Hustle 10 0 4 0 Christian Bale Amy Adams Bradley Cooper Jennifer Lawrence Nominee

Superlatives

No film has won all four awards; however, there are two films that hold the distinction of winning three out of the four categories they were nominated in:

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Network (1976)

(Note: In 2022, Everything Everywhere All at Once also won three of the four acting awards, but is not included here because it was not nominated for Best Actor.)

Four of the nominated films hold a total of five nominations, each with an additional nomination within one of the four categories:

Mrs. Miniver (1942) – two nominations for Best Supporting Actress From Here to Eternity (1953) – two nominations for Best Actor Bonnie and Clyde (1968) – two nominations for Best Supporting Actor Network (1976) – two nominations for Best Actor

Three of the nominated films failed to win any of the four awards:

My Man Godfrey (1936) – also failed to win any other Academy Awards Sunset Boulevard (1950) American Hustle (2013) – also failed to win any other Academy Awards

Five performers were nominated for their work in two different films that received nominations in all acting categories (winners in bold):

William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, Network) Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde, Reds) Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde, Network) Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle) Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle)

Only one director has directed two films that received nominations in all four categories:

David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle)

The 40th Academy Awards (1967) was the only ceremony in which multiple films held at least one nomination in all four acting categories:

Bonnie and Clyde (5) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (4)

Only two of the nominated films won Best Picture:

Mrs. Miniver (1942) From Here to Eternity (1953)

Only one of the nominated films was not nominated for Best Picture:

My Man Godfrey (1936) — Additionally nominated for Best Director (Gregory La Cava) and Best Adapted Screenplay

Only one of the nominated films was omitted from the Best Director and Best Screenplay categories:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) — Nominated for Best Picture, plus several below-the-line categories

All of the other films, with the exception of the aforementioned two, were also nominated for each of the non-acting "Big Five" categories: Best Picture, Best Director, and the applicable Best Screenplay (Original) or Adapted; or other Writing categories that have since been discontinued).

See also List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees List of films with two or more Academy Awards in an acting category

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