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1
There are 24 categories to honor films. Which
5
are regarded to be the
major Academy Awards
?
B Picture, B Actor, B Actress, B Director, B Visual Effects
B Picture, B Actor, B Actress, B Supp Actor, B Supp Actress
B Picture, B Actor, B Actress, B Director, B Screenplay
B Picture, B Actor, B Actress, B Film Editing, B Screenplay
2
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
received 4 Academy Awards. In which category did it NOT win?
Best Villain
Best Make Up
Best Sound Editing
Best Visual Effects
3
When
Charlie Chaplin
received his honorary Oscar, he received
the longest standing ovation
.
12 minutes
5 minutes
10 minutes
16 minutes
4
A ticket
to
the 1
st
Oscars
at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on 16 May, 1929,
cost
_____ .
$10
$5
$15
$20
5
Anthony Hopkins won The Best Actor for
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
with only ___ of screentime.
26 minutes
36 minutes
16 minutes
20 minutes
6
Kate Winslet won her only
Oscar
for her role in _____ .
Reader (2009)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2005)
Titanic (1997)
Steve Jobs (2015)
7
The
1
st
televised Oscar ceremony
was held on 19 March, in _____ .
1960
1944
1964
1953
8
With
14 wins
, which
country
has the biggest number of Oscars for
Foreign Language Film
?
Italy
France
Spain
Japan
9
Who was
the 1
st
African-American actress
to win Best Actress?
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple (1985)
Viola Davis – The Help (2011)
Halle Berry – Monster‘s Ball (2001)
10
Roughly,
how many Oscars
have been awarded in all categories since the awards began?
over 3000
6500
over 5000
1500
11
Who was the 1
st
female
Best Director
winner?
Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation (2003)
Barbara Streisand – The Prince of Tides (1991)
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (2008)
Jane Campion – The Piano (1993)
12
What is
the official name
of
the Oscar statuette
?
Academy Award of Caliber
Academy Award of Quality
Academy Award of Merit
Academy Award of Excellence
13
The record of having won
the most Oscars
(
11
) by a single film belongs to 3 films. Which ones?
Titanic (1997), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), LaLaLand (2016)
Gandhi (1982), Schindler‘s List (1993), Titanic (1997)
Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), The Lord of the Rings (2003)
Forrest Gump (1994), Titanic (1997), Gravity (2013)
14
In which year was the
1
st
Academy Awards
ceremony
held?
1932
1926
1929
1934
15
Titanic (1997)
was nominated in
14 categories
. How many Academy Awards did it win?
9
11
12
10
16
Which film was NOT directed by a two-time Academy Award winner
Quentin Tarantino
?
Fight Club (1999)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
17
What is the only, second film
in a franchise
, to win
Best Picture
?
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
18
How much does the Oscar statuette weigh?
5kg
3,8kg
3kg
2,5kg
19
How many
silent movies
have won
Best Picture
?
2
3
1
none
20
Who played the part of
Maximus
in Oscar winning film
Gladiator (2000)
?
Ridley Scott
Hugh Jackman
Mel Gibson
Russel Crowe
21
Who has won
the most Oscars
(4) for
Best Actress
?
Meryl Streep
Ingrid Bergman
Katharine Hepburn
Cate Blanchett
22
How many people attended the 1
st
Academy Awards?
270
1200
540
860
23
Who holds
the record
for
the most total Oscar nominations
(21) for acting?
Marlon Brando
Meryl Streep
Jack Nicholson
Katharine Hepburn
24
Oscar winners are given _____ to say
Thank-You speech
.
30 seconds
45 seconds
1 minute
2 minutes
25
Alfred Hitchcock
was nominated
5 times
for
Best Director
. How many Oscars did he win?
3
2
1
0
26
Which individual has been awarded
the most total
Oscars
?
Steven Spielberg
John Ford
Walt Disney
Clint Eastwood
27
The
male
actor with
the most Oscar nominations
(12) is _____ .
Jack Nicholson
Marlon Brando
Leonardo DiCaprio
Anthony Hopkins
28
Which Oscar nominated film’s tagline “
Don’t let go
” is it?
The Revenant (2015)
Gravity (2013)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
29
A truck driver stole
52 Oscar trophies
in 2000. Where were they found?
in a trash bin
at his house
still missing
melted
30
In 2014, Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres took
the most retweeted star-packed selfie
of all time.
4,4 million retweets
4 million retweets
2,4 million retweets
3,4 million retweets
31
„... they may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom.“
Which Oscar-winning film?
Braveheart (1995)
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Schindler‘s List (1993)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
32
Meryl Streep holds
the record for the most Oscar nominations (21)
, with how many wins?
2
4
5
3
33
Welcome to the _____
ACADEMY AWARDS
! Are You Ready?
96
90
99
92
34
In 2013 Adele won the
1st Oscar for Best Original Song
for which
Bond film
?
Spectre
Skyfall
Casino Royale
Die Another Day
35
The film, which won
Oscar
for
Best Animated Feature
, is the best-selling DVD title of all time.
Frozen (2013)
Finding Nemo (2003)
WALL-E (2008)
Ratatouille (2007)
36
Quote
“Houston, we have a problem”
comes from which
Apollo
film nominated for 9 Academy Awards?
Apollo 11 (1996)
Apollo 18 (2011)
Apollo 13 (1995)
37
With a worldwide box-office gross of over
$2.92 billion
,
the highest-grossing film of all time
.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Titanic (1997)
Avatar (2009)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
38
Which actor, 22 years after his 1
st
nomination, won Oscar in 2016?
Johnny Depp
Will Smith
Leonardo DiCaprio
Tom Cruise
