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TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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