Big Five winners: It Happened One Night - 1935, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1976, The Silence of the Lambs - 1992 all win the five biggest prizes: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing
Romantic-comedy It Happened One Night stars Claudette Colbert a rich, spoilt brat in the movie who runs away from home and meets a journalist played by Clark Gable. It Happened One Night was the first movie to win all the top five categories at the Academy Awards.
Next was the Jack Nicholson starrer One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on the acclaimed novel by Ken Kesey about power and gender politics in a mental asylum.
Then came thriller The Silence of the Lambs starring Jodie Foster as an FBI agent tracking down a serial killer with the help of another cannibalistic, serial killer played by Anthony Hopkins.