2007 Ultimate Oscar Quiz
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OSCAR QUIZ
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1. Name the two motion picture trilogies that have received a BestPicture nomination for each installment.
“The Godfather” trilogy in 1972, 1974 and 1990 and “The Lord ofthe Rings” trilogy in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
2. Who is the youngest Best Actress nominee to date?
Keisha Castle-Hughes, at 13, for “Whale Rider” in 2003.
3. Who is the youngest male to win a Best Actor Oscar?
Adrien Brody, at 29 years and 343 days, became the youngest maleto win for Best Actor, in 2002 for “The Pianist.” Richard Dreyfuss, who held the title for 25 years, was 30 years and 156 days when hewon the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in “The GoodbyeGirl” in 1977.
4. Who is the only American woman to be nominated in the Directing category?
Sofia Coppola in 2003 for “Lost in Translation.” Other women nominated in the Directing category are Lina Wertmüller in 1976, for “Seven Beauties,” and Jane Campion in 1993, for “The Piano.”
5. Name the two most-nominated films and how many nominations they received.
“All about Eve” (1950) and “Titanic” (1997), 14 nominations. Eight other motion pictures have received 13 nominations.
6. Who has received the most acting nominations?
Meryl Streep, with 14. . At the 75th Academy Awards, her nomination for Supporting Actress in “Adaptation” broke a tie with Katharine Hepburn. With her nomination for "The Devil Wears Prada" Streep has eclipsed all other actors. All of Hepburn’s nominations were for performances in leading roles, while Streep's include recognition for eleven leading roles and three supporting ones.
7. Who is the most-nominated male performer?
His 12th nomination, in 2002 for his leading performance in “About Schmidt” allowed Jack Nicholson to extend his lead. Laurence Olivier has received ten nominations for acting (Olivier was alsonominated in the Directing category and received two Honorary Oscars). Spencer Tracy and Paul Newman have each receivednine acting nominations.
8. What is the only film adapted from a teleplay to win a Best Picture Oscar?
“Marty,” in 1955.
9. Name the two families that boast three generations of Oscar- winning talent.
With Sofia Coppola’s win in 2003 for her original screenplay for“Lost in Translation,” the Coppolas became the second family tohave three generations of Oscar winners, with Carmine, Francis Ford and Sofia having won. The first were the Hustons: Walter, John and Anjelica.
10. Name the only two married couples to win Oscars for acting.
Laurence Olivier (1948) and Vivien Leigh (1951) (who were not yetmarried when Leigh won her first Academy Award® for Best Actress in 1939); Paul Newman (1986) and Joanne Woodward (1957).
11. Name the only two pairs of performers nominated for playing thesame character in the same film.
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Gloria Stuart as Old Rose in “Titanic” (1997) and Kate Winslet as Young Iris Murdoch and Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch in “Iris” (2001).
12. One character in movie history was played by two different actors in two different films, with each performance earning anAcademy Award. Name the performers and the role they shared.
Marlon Brando won a Best Actor Oscar in 1972 for his performanceas Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather,” and in 1974, Robert De Niro won a Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Vito Corleone in“The Godfather Part II.”
13. What was unusual about the second of those performances?
It was the only Oscar-winning performance in an American picture in which all of the character’s dialogue was in a foreign language (Italian).
14. Name the individuals with the most Oscars for directing and the most nominations for directing.
The director to receive the most Academy Awards is John Ford, who took home Oscars four of the five times he was nominated (he also received a nomination for Best Picture). The director to receive the most directing nominations is William Wyler, with 12. His three wins rank him just behind Ford (and tied with Frank Capra).
15. Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo won a 1956 Oscar under an assumed name. What name did he use?
Trumbo’s story for “The Brave One” had been written under the pseudonym “Robert Rich.” No one came to the podium to receivethe award when Rich’s name was announced, and Trumbo did not receive his statuette until 1975, a year before his death. Trumbo received a second Oscar posthumously, for his story for “Roman Holiday” (1953), which had originally been credited to Trumbo’s friend and fellow writer, Ian McLellan Hunter.
16. Of the 78 films named Best Picture, only three have been Westerns. Name them and the years in which they won.
“Cimarron” in 1930/31, “Dances With Wolves” in 1990 and “Unforgiven” in 1992.
17. Who was the first black performer to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel, for her supporting performance in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.”
18. Name the only director in Oscar history to direct both his father and his daughter in Academy Award-winning performances.
Walter Huston was Best Supporting Actor of 1948 for “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” directed by his son John Huston. Thirty-seven years later John Huston directed “Prizzi’s Honor,” for which his daughter Anjelica was named Best Supporting Actress.
19. Name the only persons to direct themselves to an Oscar-winning performance.
Laurence Olivier, who was named Best Actor in 1948 for “Hamlet,” also directed the film. Roberto Benigni directed “Life Is Beautiful,” for which he was named Best Actor in 1998.
20. What films hold the record for an awards sweep, winning in all the categories for which it was nominated?
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King " (2004) with 11 awards for 11 nominations. Two films, "Gigi" (1958) and "The Last Emperor" (1987), won 9 awards for 9 nominations. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) won 8 awards for 8 nominations.
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