The David di Donatello awards have just announced, and the Academy of Italian Cinema has given its Best Foreign Film award to One Battle After Another. This is a list of the notable Best Picture prizes that the movie has now won:
- Academy Award — Best Picture
- BAFTA Award — Best Film
- DGA Award — Feature Film
- PGA Award — Theatrical Picture
- Golden Globe — Best Comedy
- Critics Choice — Best Picture
- AACTA Award — Best Film
- NYFCC — Best Film
- NSFC — Best Film
- LAFCA — Best Picture
- NBR — Best Film
- London Critics — Film of the Year
- Toronto Critics — Best Picture
- Chicago Critics — Best Picture
- Cesar Awards — Best Foreign Film
- David di Donatello — Best Foreign Film
This is a comprehensive sweep, and is pretty much unprecedented in the modern era. In fact, the only notable awards that One Battle After Another failed to win are:
- Japanese Academy — Best Foreign Film
- Boston Critics — Best Film
The last movie to achieve this kind of a sweep is probably Schindler's List, which won most of these awards in addition to Best Foreign Film at the Japanese Academy and Best Film at Boston Critics (both of which One Battle After Another lost). However, it failed to win the Cesar and David di Donatello awards for Best Foreign Film, so the movies are pretty much on even footing.
That leads me to the conclusion that Schindler's List and One Battle After Another are the two biggest Best Picture sweepers in awards season history. Is there any other movie that can compete with these two juggernaut sweepers? I've looked deep into awards season history, and I don't believe there is one.
Note: I am only talking about the Best Film/Picture prizes when I am talking about sweepers. Movies like Titanic may have won more Oscars and movies like Argo may have won more Guilds, but they didn't sweep the Best Picture prizes to quite the same extent, because they may have lost at BAFTA or the foreign academy awards. In this thread, I am more interested in exploring Best Picture sweepers across various awards bodies.