Starting in 1995, major awards collectively from the four most prestigious American film top industry guilds' associations, the so-called "Big Four":
Similar to the film critics' awards, these four guilds' awards in a single (or more than once) film/s secure its wins significantly increase its chances to the eventual winner of the Academy Awards, often seen as a strong indicator of future award success.
As of 2025, "American Beauty", "No Country for Old Men", "Slumdog Millionaire", "Argo" and "Everything Everywhere All at Once" are the only five films to have won all four guilds' awards and ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Picture at their respective annual years.
Milestones.
Three awards.
All five films have won three awards (PGA, DGA, SAG) and also Best Picture but failed to win the Writers Guild of America Awards for categories. These included "Chicago", "", "The King's Speech", "Birdman", and "Oppenheimer"; "The Return of the King", "The King's Speech" and "Birdman" instead winning the Academy Award for writing categories. "Apollo 13" is the only film to win all three but failed both to win Best Picture and WGA.
PGA and DGA.
Since 1990, both PGA and DGA are extremely attached each other can have a high possibility of chances to the eventual winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Directing. With the exception of first four films (1990–1994), only twenty-three films have won two out of four guilds' awards with the remaining fifteen also win both Best Picture and Directing; each five films have won overall with the most consecutive years (2007–2011). The remaining eight films failed to win Best Picture or Directing: exceptional films did not win Best Picture including "Apollo 13", "Saving Private Ryan", "Brokeback Mountain", "Gravity", "La La Land" and "1917"; exceptional films did not win Best Directing including "Apollo 13", "Chicago", "Argo", and "1917"; only "Apollo 13" and "1917" are the only films failed to win Academy Awards.