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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.

  • The Red Balloon
  • Min and Bill
  • One Way age
  • Morning Glory
  • The Sin of Madelon Claudet
  • Coquette
  • The Scoundrel
  • The Lavender Hill Mob
  • Dangerous
  • The Great McGinty
  • The Divorcee
  • Skippy
  • High Noon
  • The Champ
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • Underworld
  • The Big House
  • The Last Command
  • The Producers
  • Disraeli
  • Bad Girl
  • Marty
  • The Informer
  • The Awful Truth
  • The Three Faces of Eve
  • Two Arabian Knights
  • A Free Soul
  • Manhattan Melodrama
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • The Way of All Flesh
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Princess O'Rourke
  • The Seventh Veil
  • Lilies of the Field
  • In Old Arizona
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  • Boys Town
  • Pygmalion
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
  • The Defiant Ones
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • The Farmer's Daughter
  • Cat Ballou
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Titanic
  • Separate Tables
  • The Divine Lady
  • Suspicion
  • Marie-Louise
  • Two Women
  • Save the Tiger
  • The Broadway Melody
  • The Lost Weekend
  • Street Angel
  • Johnny Belinda
  • Pillow Talk
  • A Man and a Woman
  • Jezebel
  • Casablanca
  • A Letter to Three Wives
  • Born Yesterday
  • Charly
  • The Hospital
  • A Double Life
  • The Search
  • The Country Girl
  • Divorce Italian Style
  • The French Connection
  • It Happened One Night
  • The African Queen
  • Anastasia
  • Interrupted Melody
  • The Miracle Worker
  • The Graduate
  • A Touch of Class
  • The Dawn Patrol
  • Kitty Foyle
  • On the Waterfront
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • All the King's Men
  • BUtterfield 8
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Candidate
  • A Star Is Born
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Grand Hotel
  • Cavalcade
  • Hud
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • The Patriot
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • An American in Paris
  • Midnight Cowboy
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Woman of the Year
  • Watch on the Rhine