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Michael Ovitz's Big Five

When he co-founded the Creative Artists Agency in 1975, Michael Ovitz set out to watch every movie that won an Oscar in the "big five categories" - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Screenplay.

Here are the movies he saw, combining the early years when there were multiple Best Picture categories, and merging all the screenplay winners.

  • Wings
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • Two Arabian Knights
  • 7th Heaven
  • The Last Command
  • The Way of All Flesh
  • Street Angel
  • Underworld
  • The Broadway Melody
  • The Divine Lady
  • In Old Arizona
  • Coquette
  • The Patriot
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Disraeli
  • The Divorcee
  • The Big House
  • Cimarron
  • Skippy
  • A Free Soul
  • Min and Bill
  • The Dawn Patrol
  • Grand Hotel
  • Bad Girl
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Sin of Madelon Claudet
  • The Champ
  • Cavalcade
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • Morning Glory
  • One Way age
  • Little Women
  • It Happened One Night
  • Manhattan Melodrama
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The Informer
  • Dangerous
  • The Scoundrel
  • The Great Ziegfeld
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • The Life of Emile Zola
  • The Awful Truth
  • Captains Courageous
  • The Good Earth
  • A Star Is Born
  • You Can't Take It with You
  • Boys Town
  • Jezebel
  • Pygmalion
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Rebecca
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Kitty Foyle
  • The Great McGinty
  • How Green Was My Valley
  • Sergeant York
  • Suspicion
  • Citizen Kane
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Woman of the Year
  • Casablanca
  • Watch on the Rhine
  • The Song of Bernadette
  • Princess O'Rourke
  • Going My Way
  • Gaslight
  • Wilson
  • The Lost Weekend
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Marie-Louise
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • To Each His Own
  • The Seventh Veil
  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • A Double Life
  • The Farmer's Daughter
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Hamlet
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Johnny Belinda
  • The Search
  • All the King's Men
  • A Letter to Three Wives
  • The Heiress
  • Battleground
  • All About Eve
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Born Yesterday
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • An American in Paris
  • A Place in the Sun
  • The African Queen
  • A Streetcar Named Desire