One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the five major Academy Awards the year it was released, the second film to do so.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film) . The film was the second to win all five major Academy Awards ( Best Picture , Actor in Lead Role , Actress in Lead Role , Director , and Screenplay ) following It Happened One Night in 1934 , an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by The Silence of the Lambs .