Statistics are valid through the 2007 (80th) Academy Awards, presented on February 24, 2008. [document last updated 3/08]
FILMS WINNING BOTH BEST ACTOR AND BEST ACTRESS
1934 (7th) Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert -- It Happened One Night
1975 (48th) Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher -- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 (49th) Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway -- Network
1978 (51st) Jon Voight, Jane Fonda -- Coming Home
1981 (54th) Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn -- On Golden Pond
1991 (64th) Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster -- The Silence of the Lambs
1997 (70th) Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt -- As Good As It Gets