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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.

There are 149 films in this list available on Apple TV US.

  • Wings
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • Street Angel
  • The Broadway Melody
  • In Old Arizona
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Divorcee
  • The Big House
  • Cimarron
  • A Free Soul
  • Grand Hotel
  • Bad Girl
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Champ
  • Cavalcade
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • Morning Glory
  • Little Women
  • It Happened One Night
  • Manhattan Melodrama
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The Informer
  • Dangerous
  • The Great Ziegfeld
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • 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
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Kitty Foyle
  • 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
  • Going My Way
  • Gaslight
  • Wilson
  • The Lost Weekend
  • Mildred Pierce
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Greatest Show on Earth
  • The Quiet Man
  • High Noon
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
  • The Bad and the Beautiful
  • The Lavender Hill Mob
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Stalag 17
  • Roman Holiday
  • Titanic
  • On the Waterfront
  • The Country Girl
  • Marty
  • The Rose Tattoo
  • Interrupted Melody
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Giant
  • The King and I
  • Anastasia
  • The Red Balloon
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • The Three Faces of Eve
  • Deg Woman
  • Gigi
  • Separate Tables
  • I Want to Live!