An unofficial film-history fan game

The Big Five

Only three films in history have swept the Big Five —Picture · Director · Actor · Actress · Screenplay.

Assemble the fourth.

Greenlight a Picture →

The only three, ever

1934
It Happened One Night
5 FOR 5
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
5 FOR 5
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
5 FOR 5

How it plays

  1. 1
    The package
    You’re handed a genre and a title. A ’70s crime picture. A wartime romance. That’s what you’re making.
  2. 2
    Seven booking windows
    Each spin opens one studio, one year — Miramax ’94, MGM ’39 — and its real slate of people. You keep exactly one. Take the director, lose the movie star. Forever.
  3. 3
    The tracking numbers
    Before a frame screens, the town projects your picture’s fate. Then you find out what it’s really worth.
  4. 4
    Festival → box office → the envelopes
    Premiere it. Watch the grosses. Then sit through awards night, category by category, and try to breathe.