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1. This is an image from which 1947 Best Picture nominee? 2. Name the only dog to receive an Oscar® nomination. 3. Name the only pair of sisters to win Oscars® for acting. 4. Here is an audio clip from a 2007 Best Picture nominee. Can you name it? 5. Who won the Oscar® for Best Actor of 1940? 6. This is an image from which 1934 Best Picture nominee? 7. This film received 4 nominations for 1957. Can you name it? 8. Here's the Italian poster for a 1958 Best Picture nominee. Do you know its title in English? 9. Name the youngest winner of the Oscar® for Best Director. 10. Here's another film clip. Which Best Picture winner is it from? 11. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier both received Best Actor nominations for this film. Can you name it? 12. She received 4 nominations for Best Actress - for My Sister Eileen, Sister Kenny, Mourning Becomes Electra and Auntie Mame. Who is she? 13. She received a Supporting Actress nomination for Babel (2006). Who is she? 14. It was the first film to receive nominations in all 4 acting categories (1936). Can you name it? 15. Name the only brother and sister pair to win Academy Awards® for Acting. 16. Name the youngest performer to win a competitive Oscar® for Acting. 17. In 1938, this film became the first produced in a language other than English to be nominated for Best Picture. Can you name it? 18. Name the only X-rated film to win Best Picture. 19. This 1986 film became the first Best Picture nominee ever directed by a woman. Can you name it? 20. He leads all directors with 12 films nominated for Best Picture. Who is he? 21. Name the first film made by a British studio to be nominated for Best Picture. 22. Name the first film to receive 14 Oscar® nominations. 23. What is the number of the most Acting nominations received by a single film? 24. What is the most recent film with 3 performers nominated in the same category? 25. What is the most-honored foreign-language film with 10 nominations and 4 Awards? 26. What is the most recent year in which all 4 of the winners for Acting were not born in the USA? 27. What is the only film to win Best Picture with no other nominations or Awards? 28. Several actors have been nominated in Leading and Supporting categories for the same year. Who is the first one to win Best Actor/Actress for that year? 29. Which performer sang the most Best Song winners in their original films? 30. Who is the only person to receive a Nobel Prize and an Oscar®? 31. Who said, in 1999: "No, I didn't win, but I did get to meet Monica Lewinsky -- that's not bad"? 32. In which year did Steven Spielberg win his first Award for directing? 33. Which of the following is not the title for a foreign release of Gone With the Wind? 34. This 1969 film holds the distinction of being the Best Picture nominee with the shortest title. Can you name it? 35. Two people have directed themselves to a Best Acting Oscar®. Can you name them? 36. Name the Best Picture winner with the longest running time at its original release. 37. I'm the oldest performer ever nominated for an Award. Who am I? 38. I'm the youngest person ever to win the Award for Best Actress. Who am I? 39. What Shakespearean play has had the most film adaptations nominated for Best Picture? 40. What is the only Best Picture winner to have its title song win Best Song as well? 41. Which two roles have yielded the most Oscar® nominations for Acting? 42. This is an image from which 1944 film? 43. I am the first person who refused to accept an Oscar®. Who am I? 44. What is the greatest number of nominations before a performer's first win? 45. Name the only performer to receive 2 nominations for the same performance. 46. Here is an audio clip from a Best Song nominee for 1984. Can you name the film it's from? 47. This 2000 film was nominated for 4 Academy Awards®. It won for its screenplay. Can you name it? 48. This film won Best Picture for 1996. Can you name it? 49. Who is the only person actually named "Oscar" to receive an Academy Award® statuette? 50. Name the most recent year for which the film that won the most Awards did not win Best Picture. 51. Name the first animated feature-length film to be nominated for Best Picture. 52. For which of these films did Bette Davis not receive a nomination for Best Actress? 53. When not being threatened by monsters, I received 3 Oscars® (even though the IMDb only credits me with 2) and an Honorary Award for my Short Subjects. Who am I? 54. Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo won a 1956 Oscar® under an assumed name. What name did he use? 55. Who is the youngest Best Actress nominee to date? 56. Who is the only American woman to be nominated for Best Director? 57. Who has won the most Oscars® for Best Director to date? 58. I was the first woman to win two Academy Awards® for Writing, for 1929-30 (Writing) and for 1931-32 (Original Story). Who am I? 59. Perhaps better known as a director and producer, I received Academy Awards® for writing or co-writing 3 Best Picture winners. Who am I? 60. What nominated film, in 1995, boasted the greatest number of credited writers (7)? 61. What is the only Best Picture winner not to feature a screenplay credit? 62. Who is Joseph Farnham, and why is he (or should be) memorable? 63. Who is the only person to have won Oscars® for both Actress and Screenplay? 64. I've won Oscars® for writing 2 Best Picture winners. Who am I? 65. Only two women have twice won solo writing Oscars®: Frances Marion for 1929-'30 and 1931-'32, and me for 1986 and 1992. Who am I? 66. What film featured this Best Song winner for 2005? 67. Which of the following Best Picture winners was not subsequently re-made into a theatrical release? 68. In the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest movies, what is the highest-ranking film that received zero Oscar® nominations? 69. Who was at the microphone when Robert Opal streaked across the stage at the 1974 (46th) Academy Awards ceremonies? 70. Foreign directors are common nominees (and infrequent winners) in the Best Director category. But which famous foreign director never received a nomination for Best Director from the Academy? 71. No movie has ever won all four acting awards, but in 1976 Network became just the second film to win three of the four: Actor, Actress and Supporting Actress. Name the first film to win three of the four acting awards. 72. An American in Paris, The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days and Gigi were all Best Picture winners in the 1950s. What else did they have in common? 73. Name the Best Picture winner that features this snappy dialogue: 74. Name the only film to have 3 nominees for Best Actor. 75. Name the only film to have 3 nominees for Best Supporting Actress. 76. Name the film that won the greatest number of Oscars® without winning Best Picture. 77. Dance Direction was a competitive category from 1935-1937. What film since then won an Honorary Oscar® specifically for its choreography? 78. What 2006 film is the only picture to receive the most Oscar® nominations of any film in a year (8) without being nominated for Best Picture? 79. What distinguished Robert De Niro & Sissy Spacek's Best Actor & Actress wins at the ceremonies in 1981? 80. Which film director has coaxed - whether with tender care, merciless whipping, or death threats - the largest number of Academy Award®-nominated performances? 81. Here's a clip from another Best Picture winner. Can you name it? 82. Busby Berkeley was known for choreographing "on the fly." Here's a clip of his surreal masterpiece "Lullaby of Broadway". Can you name the picture it's taken from? (He came in third the year it was nominated.) 83. Sacheen Littlefeather delivered Marlon Brando's refusal to accept the Oscar® for his performance in The Godfather at the ceremonies in 1973. What is her birthname? 84. Everyone remembers Adrien Brody kissing Halle Berry when he came up to accept his Award. When did it happen? 85. In 2004, the Academy awarded an Honorary Oscar® to a legendary comedy filmmaker. Who was he? 86. Jack Lemmon is one of 11 performers to date to win Oscars® for both Leading and Supporting roles. For which film did he win Best Actor? 87. She had one of the best lines in 1945's Mildred Pierce: "Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young." Who is she? 88. This Best Picture winner ended with "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Can you name it? 89. What is the only studio to tally a Best Picture win in every decade from the 1930s through the 1980s? 90. This song won Best Song for 1996. What picture is it from? 91. What do these four Oscar®-nominated films have in common? 92. What stage play (later, an Oscar®-nominated film) inspired a party game centering around Kevin Bacon? 93. Frequently working in Europe, Anthony Quinn starred in this 1954 road picture that became the first import to be honored in the Academy's new Category in 1956: Foreign Language Film. Can you name it? 94. Time for another exit line: What Oscar®-winning film ends with: "Well, nobody's perfect."? 95. What future Oscar®-winner got his start in the comedy Carbon Copy, a flat variation on the plot of a black child and his white parent? 96. Besides being nominated for 3 writing Oscars® (and winning one), Sidney Howard holds what other distinction that's relevant to this quiz? 97. Name the first performer to win a competitive Oscar® for a musical role. 98. Who received the most Oscars® at a single ceremony? 99. Who holds the record for the most times hosting or co-hosting the Academy Awards® ceremony? 100. These two brothers (seen here flanking their father) have 5 Academy Awards® between them, 2 for directing and 3 for writing. What is their last name? 101. Here's a photo of a happy group of 5 nominees at the New York branch of the Oscar® ceremonies for 1950. Which pair was really happy after the Awards were handed out? 102. What is the only remake of a Best Picture winner that also received a Best Picture nomination? 103. What school did Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe's character in All About Eve) graduate from? 104. Within a 1-month period, three best supporting actor winners -- George Burns, Martin Balsam & Dr. Haing S. Ngor -- all died. What was the year? 105. In the 1990s, Oscar® winners Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks tied for the most appearances in films nominated for Best Picture. In how many BP nominees did each of them appear? 106. Time for another quote. Who said: "It's been an evening of ups and downs, hasn't it... Care to continue the motion?" 107. What fledgling studio tallied a remarkable four Best Picture wins (plus 2 other BP noms) in eight years (1984 - 1991) -- and then went bankrupt? 108. Name the film in which Doris Day sang this Best Song winner. 109. Another audio clip: Name the film that featured this Best Song winner: (which became the first hit for Maureen McGovern) 110. For what picture did Shirley Booth win an Oscar® in her film debut? 111. Which of these title songs did not win Best Song for their films? 112. I'm the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Oscar® for adapting that work to the screen. Who am I? 113. I was nominated as Best Director 5 times, yet I never won; nor did I ever receive an Honorary Oscar®. As such, I'm one of the most overlooked directors in Oscar history. Who am I? 114. If you're a male actor, what type of role is most likely to garner an Oscar® nomination from your peers? 115. If you're a female actor, what type of role is most likely to garner an Oscar® nomination from your peers? 116. With the exceptions of Leading and Supporting Actors, what is the only Oscar® category in which no woman has ever been nominated? 117. I appeared in only 5 feature films in my career, but they were all nominated for Best Picture. Who am I? 118. In this 1960 Oscar® winner, all the bad (Roman) guys are played by Brits (or at least by actors with British accents), while all the good (slave) guys are played by Americans. Can you name it? 119. Here's a seminal image from Alfred Hitchcock's Best Picture winner for 1940. Can you name it? 120. This Oscar®-winning film was released as Meet Whiplash Willie in Britain. What is its US title? 121. In a career that began in silent films and stretched to the mid-1970s, I staged and performed stunts in hundreds of films; in 1967, I became the only stuntman to receive an Honorary Academy Award®. Who am I? 122. What do these Oscar® winners have in common? 123. I am the first African-American performer to be nominated for a leading role. Who am I? 124. Marlon Brando received his 8th nomination for acting in this 1989 film. Can you name it? 125. Meryl Streep received her record 14th nomination for acting in this 2006 film. Can you name it? 126. Amy Adams starred in this 2007 Disney release that received 3 nominations for Best Song. Can you name it? 127. Who were the first performers to receive statuettes in supporting categories? 128. Who holds the record for the most nominations in consecutive years? 129. What 1976 film featured this winner for Best Song? 130. Name the first performer nominated for playing a member of the opposite sex. 131. Who is the first person to win an Oscar® for playing an Oscar-winning actor/actress? 132. Who is the first person to win an Oscar® for playing an Oscar loser? 133. Who won Best Actress and, while accepting the Award, famously forgot to thank or mention the real-life person she played? 134. At the ceremonies in 1934, when the host and presenter Will Rogers announced the winner for Directing by saying, "Well, well, well, what do you know. I've watched this young man for a long time. Saw him come up from the bottom, and I mean the bottom. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Come and get it, Frank," who incorrectly began to make his way toward the stage to accept the Award? 135. Which film earned Martin Scorsese his first Academy Award® for Best Director? 136. Which performer is the youngest to receive a 5th Oscar® nomination for Acting? 137. Seven men have won 3 or more Academy Awards® in a single year. But, so far, there is only one woman who has won 3 competitive awards in a single year. Who is she? 138. Which performer has the longest interval between Academy Award® nominations (i.e., with no intervening nominations)? 139. Of the many pictures that have won in every category in which they were nominated, which picture received the most Awards? 140. Name the only song from a documentary to win in the Best Song category. 141. Which of these Foreign Language Film winners was not also nominated for Best Picture? 142. In 2008, Marion Cotillard became the second woman to win the Best Actress Award for a performance in a foreign language film. Who was the first to do so? 143. Persepolis, a nominee for Best Animated Feature of 2007, is based on an autobiographical graphic novel set in a war torn Middle Eastern country in the 1980s. What country does the author/central character leave? 144. What country was the filming location for all these Oscar®-nominated movies: Black Hawk Down about Somalia; Gladiator about ancient Rome; The Man Who Would Be King about "Kafiristan"; and Kundun about the life of Tibet's dalai lama? 145. Name the production compnay, formed in 1919, that did not win for Best Picture until 1955's Marty, which it distributed for Hecht-Lancaster. 146. Four men have been nominated for Best Actor for performances in Italian films. Who is the only one of them to win the Oscar® for that performance? 147. From these films, choose the only one not to win the Oscar® for Best Picture and the BAFTA Best British Film Award (awarded 1949-1968). 148. Since the Cannes Film Festival began limiting its award of the Palme d'Or to one or two films each year (beginning in 1949), what is the only film to win both the Golden Palm and the Academy Award® for Best Picture? 149. Which actress caused controversy when she used her Best Supporting Actress acceptance speech to criticize "militant Zionist hoodlums"? 150. Here's an Oscar® ceremony staged for 1954's A Star Is Born. What was James Mason's character's name in the film? 151. Unlike the previous "Godfather" films, the third [The Godfather, Part III (1990)] only had one actor nominated for an Academy Award®. Who was this actor? 152. This legendary film actress has only received one Oscar® nomination: for her (supporting) performance in 1996's The Mirror Has Two Faces, in which she played Barbra Streisand's mother. Can you name her? 153. This woman won her second Supporting Actress Oscar® for a 1994 Woody Allen film. Her first win came 8 years earlier for another Woody Allen film. Can you name her? 154. Which one of these actors from The Exorcist (1973) did not receive an Oscar® nomination for acting? 155. Name the film that holds the record [alongside The Turning Point (1977)] for the film with the most Oscar® nominations (11) without a single win. 156. Raging Bull was a clear frontrunner for Best Picture of 1980. Can you name the film that unexpectedly snatched the Award instead? 157. This Robert Altman film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture; however, it won only for its Screenplay -- which was ironic since the screenwriter practically disowned the movie when he saw that very little of his original script made it into the final cut. Can you name the film? 158. Which of Fred Astaire's dancing partners won an Oscar® for Best Actress? 159. Which B-movie classic did Oscar®-winner George Clooney appear in? 160. In 1992, this 73-year-old Oscar®-winner showed his virility at the Awards by doing one-armed push-ups. Can you name him? 161. At the Awards in 1963, he accepted his Oscar® for Best Director with a 10-word speech: "This Limey is deeply touched and greatly honoured. Thank you." Can you name him? 162. In his acceptance speech in 1994, Best Actor winner Tom Hanks thanked his high school drama teacher, Rollie Farnsworth, calling him one of the "finest gay Americans." This surprise announcement inspired what Oscar®-nominated film? 163. This 2002 film was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! (1968). Can you name it? 164. Complete this quote: At the ceremonies in 1977, co-host Richard Pryor said (of growing up in Peoria, IL): "No movie ever opened that..." 165. At the ceremonies in 1993, this revered Italian filmmaker received an Honorary Award® from the Academy "in recognition of his cinematic accomplishments that have thrilled and entertained worldwide audiences." Can you name him? 166. Katharine Hepburn was a presenter only once at the Oscar® ceremonies. What year was it, and which Award did she present? 167. Before she wrote the Oscar®-winning screenplay for Juno (2007), what job did Diablo Cody famously hold? 168. Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen have also been nominated twice for Best Film Editing, but under their frequent pseudonym. What is it? 169. The first Awards ceremony was held in 1929 in a Hollywood hotel that shared its name with which U.S. ex-President? 170. Tony Gilroy was nominated for his film directing debut (Michael Clayton, 2007), but he was a co-writer for a popular film series. Can you name it? 171. The scheduled Oscar® ceremony has been interrupted only three times in its entire history. Which of the following was not a reason? 172. Brevity is the name of the game for Oscar® Night. Which Academy Award® winner defied convention and gave the longest acceptance speech in history, speaking for 5½ minutes? 173. Who has received the most Scientific and Technical Academy Awards® (11)? 174. Which two actors are tied for the most Best Actor nominations? 175. Which actor has not received an Oscar® nomination for a role in a film directed by Mike Nichols? 176. Who was the first actress to win an Oscar® for performing in a film directed by her husband? 177. Name the last film shot entirely in black-and-white to win the Oscar® for Best Picture. 178. In another upset, Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas looked like a slam dunk for Best Picture at the Awards in 1991. Not so. Which picture waltzed away with the Oscar® for B.P. that night? 179. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was nominated for 9 Awards for 1941 and went on to be considered one of the finest motion pictures ever made. How many Oscars® did it win? 180. One of the most recent upsets in Oscar® history occurred in 2006 when the Academy did not choose Brokeback Mountain as Best Picture. Which film did they go with instead? 181. The Queen and The Last King of Scotland (both 2006) yielded Best Acting Oscars® to their stars, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker, respectively. What other important thing did the films have in common? 182. This man, known as a producer of film and theatre, received an Oscar® for his first important film role in The Paper Chase (1973). Can you name him? 183. Cate Blanchett won an Oscar® for playing Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004). What Oscar nominee did Leonardo DiCaprio play in that film? 184. Known for his painstaking method of painting individual frames in oil on glass, this Russian animator won an Oscar® for his 1999 film The Old Man and the Sea. Can you name him? 185. Here's the ending of a 1942 Bette Davis tearjerker. She received her 6th Best Actress nomination for this film. Can you name it? 186. This Wolfgang Petersen film, set in World War II, received 6 nominations - the most for a Foreign Language film up to its time - but no Oscars®. Can you name it? 187. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's Road to Morocco (1942) received 2 Oscar® nominations. In all, how many of their "Road" movies were nominated? 188. Which film series has averaged the most box-office receipts in the US per film? 189. Which Oscar®-nominated film from 1982 features this wonderful scene? 190. Jorge Drexler got to perform his Oscar®-winning song at the ceremonies in 2005. What film featured "Al otro lado del rio (The Other Side of the River)"? 191. Which of the following was the most recent change in categories at the Academy Awards®? 192. Which of the following has been a regular competitive category for the Academy Awards® for the longest time? 193. Who received the first Academy Award® ever presented? 194. What year were the Academy Awards® ceremonies televised for the first time? 195. Final winners in most categories of the Academy Awards® (and Best Picture nominees) are determined by whom? 196. The Academy Awards® ceremonies have only been held once on a Saturday night. What year did this happen? 197. Which facility has served as the venue for the most Academy Awards® ceremonies? 198. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová starred in the small independent Once (2007). What is the title of their Oscar®-winning song from that film? 199. "You Light Up My Life" won Best Song for 1977 and became a huge hit for Debby Boone. Whose voice do we hear singing this Oscar®-winning song in the film? 200. Who is the only Best Actor nominee to be nominated for playing three roles in the same film?