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1.
  May the Best Win   best quiz  
Collection Quiz
 10 Qns
Famous Best Picture Snubs
In the history of the Academy Awards, the noble sentiment in the title has often been disregarded, as some movies now widely recognized as masterpieces of cinema have been cheated of the coveted Best Picture award. How many can you pick out?
Average, 10 Qns, LadyNym, Mar 07 24
Average
LadyNym gold member
Mar 07 24
627 plays
2.
  Which Movies Were Best Picture Oscar Winners?   popular trivia quiz  
Collection Quiz
 15 Qns
Simply pick out the movies here that actually won the Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Difficult, 15 Qns, Billkozy, Jul 15 24
Difficult
Billkozy
Jul 15 24
640 plays
3.
  A Night of Stars   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Walking down me, the red carpet, tonight are actors and actresses from 10 different Best Picture winners, but, being a carpet, I don't actually know which films they're from. I'm sure you'll be able to identify them, right?
Very Easy, 10 Qns, eburge, Mar 20 12
Very Easy
eburge gold member
2364 plays
4.
  Why Didn't This Film Win?   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Whether a film is considered worthy of awards is of course an entirely subjective matter. This quiz, my 150th, looks at ten Academy decisions which generated significant debate around a film's Best Picture status. Enjoy!
Easier, 10 Qns, jonnowales, Jun 25 13
Easier
jonnowales gold member
1590 plays
5.
  And the Oscar Goes To...    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
All of these movies were successful in securing the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards. Can you successfully match the winners to the directors and actors?
Very Easy, 10 Qns, leith90, Mar 18 20
Very Easy
leith90 gold member
Mar 18 20
972 plays
6.
  Best Picture Winners and Some They Beat: 1935-1964   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Oscars night is a great show, but do they always pick the right winner? This quiz features ten winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture and some nominees that would have been worthy winners.
Easier, 10 Qns, Upstart3, Jun 04 16
Easier
Upstart3 gold member
1019 plays
7.
  A Best Picture Well Worth a Read   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Many of the winners of the Oscar for Best Picture are based on books. Can you recognize them from these brief descriptions?
Average, 10 Qns, LadyNym, Mar 18 20
Average
LadyNym gold member
Mar 18 20
590 plays
8.
  Best Picture Oscar Winners (1927-1937)   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Winning an Oscar for Best Picture has become one of the greatest honours in film. Do you know the first ten films that were tagged with such a designation? (The name of the award has changed over the decades but Best Picture has been used here).
Easier, 10 Qns, jonnowales, Jul 04 13
Easier
jonnowales gold member
1414 plays
9.
  The Oscar for Best Picture Goes To...   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I'll name the year and give a fact or two about the movie and you choose the title. Good luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, Coonielady, Aug 14 20
Easier
Coonielady
Aug 14 20
1704 plays
10.
  Oscar's Best Pictures: 2000s   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Year by year for the 2000s, all of the Best Picture winners of the decade. Remember that Oscars are handed out the year after the movie's release.
Easier, 10 Qns, napierslogs, Dec 04 14
Easier
napierslogs
2618 plays
trivia question Quick Question
From the eighties, which film is about an assassinated Indian peace activist?

From Quiz "Oscars by the Decade"




11.
  Decades of Best Picture Directors    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The first Oscars awards ceremony took place in 1929. We're going to review some of the Best Picture winners across the decades: all you need to do is match the movie titles to their directors.
Easier, 10 Qns, malik24, Mar 19 20
Easier
malik24
Mar 19 20
534 plays
12.
  War Movies as Best Picture    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
There have been a number of war movies that have received the Oscar for Best Picture. I will nominate the movie and you only need to identify a leading actor or actress.
Easier, 10 Qns, zambesi, Apr 27 20
Easier
zambesi
Apr 27 20
716 plays
13.
  Best Picture Non-Winners    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Every year there are several great movies that are nominated for Best Picture but don't win. Can you name these Best Picture nominees from the year nominated and their outline?
Average, 20 Qns, Misregistered, Sep 28 17
Average
Misregistered
7346 plays
14.
  Best Pictures of the '60s    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the motion pictures that won the Academy Awards from 1960 thru 1969. These are multiple choice to make it a little easier. Have fun and good luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, califredrose, Jul 20 23
Easier
califredrose
Jul 20 23
7090 plays
15.
  Best Pictures of the 1940s   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the motion pictures that won the Academy Awards from 1940 thru 1949. These are multiple choice to make it a little easier. Have fun and good luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, califredrose, Dec 27 21
Easier
califredrose
Dec 27 21
5317 plays
16.
  Oscar's Best Pictures   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I recently finished watching every movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture. Here's ten tidbits of trivia from these four score and more feature films.
Tough, 10 Qns, toekneek, Aug 12 09
Tough
toekneek
3218 plays
17.
  Do You Remember Who Won the Oscar?   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Welcome to "Do You Remember Who Won the Oscar?". This quiz will challenge you to identify the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. I hope that you enjoy it. Good Luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, CrowDad, Aug 10 16
Easier
CrowDad
1967 plays
18.
  Academy Awards: Best Picture    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on past Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards. Information is taken from the book "The Academy Awards: The Complete History of Oscar" by Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, Zacksboy, Jun 06 23
Average
Zacksboy
Jun 06 23
7075 plays
19.
  Oscar Winning Films - The Second Decade   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
As with the first quiz in this series, all of the films in this quiz were nominated for Best Picture Oscars. Those that did not win often won in other categories. The quiz covers the period from 1940 - 1949. Have fun.
Easier, 15 Qns, Coriolanus, Jul 27 14
Easier
Coriolanus
795 plays
20.
  Best Pictures Of The 50's    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is the motion pictures that won the Academy Awards from 1950 thru 1959. These are multiple choice to make it a little easier. Have fun and good luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, califredrose, Jun 09 16
Easier
califredrose
5905 plays
21.
  Best Picture Omissions    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I list the winning Best Picture and the year it won. You select the film that was NOT nominated for Best Picture that year. (The top awards I mention are: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress.)
Average, 10 Qns, lowtechmaster, Jun 07 23
Average
lowtechmaster
Jun 07 23
855 plays
22.
  The Oscars: Best Picture Winners    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the movies which have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. I decided to create this quiz after watching through all of the movies that won Best Picture.
Average, 10 Qns, MovieMaster14, Mar 14 23
Average
MovieMaster14
Mar 14 23
1392 plays
23.
  Best Picture Winners in the 1970s   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Can you name every best picture winner in the 1970s?
Easier, 10 Qns, Beast776, Apr 22 18
Easier
Beast776
Apr 22 18
2059 plays
24.
  Oscars by the Decade   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I will give a brief summary of a 'Best Picture', starting with 2010, and working back through the decades to the first awards in 1929. Good luck!
Very Easy, 10 Qns, yency, Oct 21 13
Very Easy
yency
1411 plays
25.
  Best Picture Winners    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
This quiz is for Oscar lovers. Give the title of the film that won for Best Picture for the 'fill in the blank' ones. Good luck and have fun!
Tough, 25 Qns, sprinkles, Mar 07 11
Tough
sprinkles
9442 plays
26.
  Best Picture Quotes    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
I give you the quote and you tell me what Best Picture it's from.
Difficult, 20 Qns, zee93, Sep 02 04
Difficult
zee93
5793 plays
27.
  Oscar Winning Films - The First Decade    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
All of the films in this quiz were nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards between 1928 and 1939 (so a little more than a decade). Although not all of them won, many were winners in other categories. Good luck.
Average, 15 Qns, Coriolanus, Sep 04 13
Average
Coriolanus
571 plays
28.
  Best Picture Upsets    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The 2005 Best Picture winner "Crash" was a huge upset, as most people anticipated the win would go to "Brokeback Mountain". Though this may be the biggest surprise Best Picture winner, it's certainly not the first.
Tough, 10 Qns, zee93, Jan 23 13
Tough
zee93
2739 plays
29.
  Oscar Jeopardy    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is presented in the 'Jeopardy Quiz Show' format. The answer, which refers directly to the title of an Oscar nominated or winning Best Picture is given. You have to come up with the question. I've supplied the 'What is' part.
Tough, 10 Qns, ckdexterhaven, Aug 08 17
Tough
ckdexterhaven
1692 plays
30.
  Oscar! Oscar! Oscar!    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
I know it's not that time of year, however, I'll give you the year and the film that won the Oscar for Best Picture of that year. Of the four choices, you pick the film that WAS NOT nominated for Best Picture that particular year.
Difficult, 15 Qns, angiekus, Aug 21 06
Difficult
angiekus
3681 plays
31.
  Oscar Best Picture Nominees 1991 - 2006    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A look at best picture nominees and the people who worked on them in the 15 year period, between 1991 (the year of "Dances With Wolves") and 2006 (when "Crash" won). Note: All years refer to the date of the Oscar ceremony, NOT the year of release.
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, evenlater, Oct 29 23
Very Difficult
evenlater
Oct 29 23
3037 plays
32.
  Who Beat It?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I will give a Best Picture winner (not necessarily modern) that only lost a few of its nominations, and you will give me the movie(s) that beat it.
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, zee93, Feb 07 07
Very Difficult
zee93
3049 plays

Oscars - Best Picture Trivia Questions

1. The 1935 version of "Mutiny on the Bounty" won Best Picture, beating off perhaps the best and certainly the most commercially successful collaboration by the immortal Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Which movie was that?

From Quiz
Best Picture Winners and Some They Beat: 1935-1964

Answer: Top Hat

"Mutiny on the Bounty" was based on a true story from the late eighteenth century. It starred Charles Laughton as Captain William Bligh of the Royal Navy, whose ship, The Bounty, was subject to a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian (played by Clark Gable). In the middle was Midshipman Roger Byam, played by Franchot Tone. All three were nominated for Best Actor, but missed out to Victor McLaglen in "The Informer". Also nominated that year, "Top Hat"'s plot of mistaken identity and confusion was a perfect vehicle for Astaire and Rogers' song and dance numbers such as "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" and "Cheek to Cheek" by the great Irving Berlin. Other movies nominated in 1935 included "David Copperfield", starring W. C. Fields, and "Captain Blood", starring Errol Flynn, who had appeared in an earlier film treatment of the story of The Bounty in 1933.

2. This 1929 film was the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar. Directed by Harry Beaumont, it starred Charles King, Bessie Love and Anita Page. What was this historically important film?

From Quiz Oscar Winning Films - The First Decade

Answer: The Broadway Melody

Although primitive even by the standards of a couple of years later, "The Broadway Melody" is important in the history of the Oscars, not only for being the first musical, but also for being the first sound film to win for Best Picture. Bessie Love and Anita Page play sisters who have a vaudeville act, and come to Broadway to appear in Eddie's (Charles King's) act. Harriet (Love) is in love with Eddie (King), but he is in love with Queenie (Page). The songs were by Nacio Herb Brown, and Arthur Freed, who went on to produce some of the greatest musicals in Hollywood history: "The Band Wagon", "Singin' In the Rain", "Meet Me In St Louis", "Gigi" - the list speaks for itself.

3. (2010) This film, starring Colin Firth and Geoffery Rush, concerns the speech difficulties of King George VI.

From Quiz Oscars by the Decade

Answer: The King's Speech

Colin Firth plays King George VI, Helena Bonham Carter is Queen Elizabeth and Geoffrey Rush is the speech therapist who helps the King overcome his problem.

4. Which movie starring Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Talia Shire, and Robert Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1974?

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Picture Winners

Answer: The Godfather, Part II

"The Godfather Part II" was the first second instalment of a series to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. "The Godfather, Part II" follows the life of a young Vito Corleone, growing up to become the Godfather, as well as showing the family after his son Michael takes over in the 1950s. Director Francis Ford Coppola also directed 1973 Best Picture nominee "The Conversation".

5. Which movie won the Best Picture Oscar in 2000? This movie also had leading acting nominations but none for its supporting cast.

From Quiz Oscar's Best Pictures: 2000s

Answer: American Beauty

Kevin Spacey won for Best Lead Actor and Annette Bening was nominated for Best Lead Actress. It was also the first feature film for Best Director Sam Mendes. "American Beauty" (1999) was about a middle-aged married couple trying to survive suburbia. The supporting cast featured Thora Birch as Spacey and Bening's daughter, Mena Suvari as her friend, and Wes Bentley as the mysterious neighbour.

6. What movie, which also won Best Director, was Best Picture of 1970?

From Quiz Best Picture Winners in the 1970s

Answer: Patton

"Patton" was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred George C. Scott. "Patton" is a biographical war film about George S. Patton.

7. "Wings" won Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards in 1927. What was unique about it?

From Quiz Oscar's Best Pictures

Answer: it was a silent film

"Wings" was a WWI story about two fighter pilots who are both in love with the same woman. It stars Clara Bow and "Buddy" Rogers with Gary Cooper. It won a total of two Oscars: Best Picture (called Best Production in 1927) and Best Engineering Effects. The score was written and composed with a Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. Modern revival showings often seek to use the same instrument for realism. This was Edith Head's first film as a costume designer. She went on to win eight Oscars for her work in films like "All About Eve" and "The Sting". Edith was also parodied with her trademark horn-rimmed glasses in "The Incredibles".

8. The last Best Picture upset before "Crash" was when this romantic comedy beat out a Spielberg favorite. Which movie won?

From Quiz Best Picture Upsets

Answer: Shakespeare in Love

The 1998 winner "Shakespeare in Love" beat Spielberg's war movie "Saving Private Ryan". The film detailed Shakespeare's inspiration to write "Romeo and Juliet" after falling in love with his beautiful muse Viola.

9. Which movie was the first to win the Best Picture award at the very first Academy Awards ceremony?

From Quiz Academy Awards: Best Picture

Answer: Wings

William Wellman directed "Wings", and it tells the story of World War One aerial battles. The effects used in "Wings" were state-of-the-art for the time, and it received good reviews. The movie itself had a famous cast including Gary Cooper and (with a change from her role as a gossip columnist) Hedda Hopper.

10. 2001: Satine must choose between the love of a young writer and another man's obsession in 1898 Paris. They hang out at a freaky nightclub.

From Quiz Best Picture Non-Winners

Answer: Moulin Rouge!

Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in a acid-trip movie that rivaled "The Wall". Not for all tastes, but the critics almost universally loved it.

11. "Annie Hall" was nominated in five categories and won four. Who beat it?

From Quiz Who Beat It?

Answer: The Goodbye Girl

In 1977, "The Goodbye Girl" beat "Annie Hall" in the Best Actor category. "Annie Hall" won in the Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Actress categories.

12. 'Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!'

From Quiz Best Picture Quotes

Answer: All About Eve

Bette Davis' sensual Margo Channing getting ready for her date with new beau Addison Dewitt in 1950's "All About Eve".

13. The Best Picture of 1960 starred Jack Lemmon. What is this movie called?

From Quiz Best Pictures of the '60s

Answer: The Apartment

Billy Wilder got Best Director for this movie. Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon were nominated for Best Actor and Actress, but did not win. It got best art and set direction, story and screenplay awards.

14. The Best Picture of 1950 starred Bette Davis. What was this movie called?

From Quiz Best Pictures Of The 50's

Answer: All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Best Director for this movie. Best Supporting Actor was George Sanders. This movie also won Best Costumes. Marilyn Monroe was in this movie too.

15. The Best Picture of 1940 starred Joan Fontaine. What was the movie called?

From Quiz Best Pictures of the 1940s

Answer: Rebecca

This was Hitchcock's first American film and his only for directing. Joan Fontaine was nominated for Best Actress and Laurence Olivier was nominated for Best Actor as well.

16. Named because the floor was the color of faded limes. What is ____________?

From Quiz Oscar Jeopardy

Answer: The Green Mile

'The Green Mile', nominated for Best Picture for 1999, was the second adaptation of a Stephen King story that was directed by Frank Darabont. The first was 'The Shawshank Redemption', another Best Picture nominee.

17. The 1937 movie "The Life of Emile Zola" won the Best Picture Oscar ahead of - I won't lie to you - a sparkling comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. What was that movie called?

From Quiz Best Picture Winners and Some They Beat: 1935-1964

Answer: The Awful Truth

"The Life of Emile Zola" was a film biography of the great nineteenth century French novelist and campaigner. Paul Muni played the title role and the movie was directed by William Dieterle. It told the story of Zola's life from struggling in a garret with Paul Cezanne, through to his hard-hitting stories of the underbelly of French society. It featured Zola's brave campaign to clear the name of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French Army, who had been convicted of treason and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Despite this being a notorious example in the history of antisemitism, it is noticeable that no reference was made to Dreyfus's Jewishness in the movie. "The Awful Truth" is a screwball comedy about a married couple set on divorce due to mutual distrust, who proceed to sabotage each other's attempts to find romance elsewhere, and end up reconciling in the nick of time. Director Leo McCarey won an Academy Award. Irene Dunne, some say Grant's best movie partner, with whom he made two further movies, as the wife, and Ralph Bellamy as her new love interest, were both nominated for Oscars. Cary Grant, the husband, missed out on Academy recognition. Mind you, the competition that year was fierce: Spencer Tracy ("Captains Courageous") won ahead of Paul Muni ("The Life of Emile Zola"), Fredric March ("A Star Is Born"), Charles Boyer ("Conquest") and Robert Montgomery ("Night Must Fall"). Other 1937 Best Picture nominations included: "Lost Horizon" and "A Star is Born".

18. "Rebecca" won Best Picture of 1940. The film NOT nominated did receive an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, accepted by the first man who won three such awards. [He shares a name with Walter Cronkite.] Which film is it?

From Quiz Best Picture Omissions

Answer: The Westerner

"The Westerner" is about the complex relationship between a drifter (Gary Cooper) and "the hanging judge", Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan). In awarding Best Supporting Actor to Brennan, the Academy was recognizing a truly outstanding performance. The film, however, was not nominated for any other top award. Walter Brennan also won Best Supporting Actor for "Come and Get It" (1936) and "Kentucky" (1938). Also for 1940, James Stewart won Best Actor for "The Philadelphia Story", and Ginger Rogers was Best Actress for her role in "Kitty Foyle".

19. The Best Picture winner for 1941 centered around a family living in a Welsh mining village. It was adapted from a best selling novel by Richard Llewellyn, and was directed by John Ford. What was the name of this film?

From Quiz Oscar Winning Films - The Second Decade

Answer: How Green Was My Valley

"How Green Was My Valley" starred Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood and Roddy McDowell. The story is told largely from the point of view of Huw Morgan, the youngest son of a large mining family, and played by Roddy McDowell. The climax and highlight of the film is the mine disaster in which young Huw loses not only his father but his innocence. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won in four categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp) and Best Black and White Cinematography. There are those today who consider it somewhat of a scandal that it won Best Picture ahead of "Citizen Kane", "The Maltese Falcon", "Suspicion" and "Sergeant York", all of which have certainly stood the test of time better than this.

20. Also nominated for Best Picture of 1929 was a Western, "In Old Arizona". Although it did not win in that category, its star won the Oscar for Best Actor. Who was the actor who played The Cisco Kid in the film?

From Quiz Oscar Winning Films - The First Decade

Answer: Warner Baxter

Directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, and starring Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe and Dorothy Burgess, "In Old Arizona" is also of historical importance for being the first sound film to be largely shot on location outside of a studio. Warner Baxter began his career in films in 1914, playing uncredited bit parts in a number of films before working up to leading roles by the mid 1920s. Apart from his role as the Cisco Kid, he is best known today for his role as the producer Julian Marsh in "42nd Street". He worked right up to his death in 1951, at age 62.

21. From the 'noughties', which film is about the life of John Nash, a mathematical genius who develops mental health issues?

From Quiz Oscars by the Decade

Answer: A Beautiful Mind

Directed by Ron Howard, starring Russell Crowe and featuring Christopher Plummer, this film traces the life of schizophrenic genius and Nobel prize winner John Nash. It also won Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscars.

22. Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2001? It also had the most nominations for the year with 12.

From Quiz Oscar's Best Pictures: 2000s

Answer: Gladiator

Russell Crowe won the Best Actor Oscar; however, it was widely reputed that he was difficult to work with. He was also not the first choice for the role - Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas were both considered but turned down the role of Maximus. In "Gladiator" (2000), Russell Crowe played a Roman gladiator who returned to Rome to seek revenge for the murder of his family.

23. What movie was Best Picture of 1971? This movie's lead actor won Best Actor, but he did not win another Oscar until 1992.

From Quiz Best Picture Winners in the 1970s

Answer: The French Connection

"The French Connection" was directed by William Friedkin and is a crime film in which the two main detectives' real life counterparts also appeared in the film. Gene Hackman played the lead role and won Best Actor; he also won Best Supporting Actor for "Unforgiven" in 1992.

24. "Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" was a Popeye Doyle catchphrase in the 1971 Best Picture, "The French Connection". Who did Popeye work for?

From Quiz Oscar's Best Pictures

Answer: New York Police Department

Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner Cloudy (Roy Scheider) play good cop/bad cop with a dealer they have chased down near the beginning of the movie. Popeye is dressed in a Santa suit as he loudly accuses the terrified suspect of sticking his finger between his toes and picking his feet. Popeye used this nonsensical questioning to confuse the suspect into giving up information. The filmmakers didn't get permission to film the car chase scenes under the El in New York City. Many of the dangerous scenes were completed without the public being aware that filming was happening.

25. What actress appeared in more Best Picture nominees between 1991 and 2006 than any other?

From Quiz Oscar Best Picture Nominees 1991 - 2006

Answer: Cate Blanchett

Blanchett was in all three "Lord of the Rings" pictures plus "Elizabeth" (99) and "The Aviator" (04). Thompson was in four: "Howards End" (93), "Remains of the Day" (94), "In the Name of the Father" (94), and "Sense and Sensibility" (96). Winslet ("Sense and Sensibility", "Titanic", "Finding Neverland") and Thomas ("Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The English Patient" and "Gosford Park") were in three each.

26. What Oscar winner literally gasped before uttering the name of the Best Picture winner "Crash"?

From Quiz Best Picture Upsets

Answer: Jack Nicholson

The sound of the word "Crash" made the movie's entire cast and crew jump into the air like bloodhounds, as everyone expected to hear "Brokeback Mountain". The Academy obviously preferred a film demonstrating multi-layered racial conflicts in Los Angeles, over a western about two gay cowboys hiding their love affair from a homophobic 1960s society.

27. Which movie was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture at the ceremony in 1936?

From Quiz Academy Awards: Best Picture

Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty

"Mutiny on the Bounty" beat odds-on favourites "The Informer", "David Copperfield", "Ruggles of Red Gap", "Alice Adams" and "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" to win the Best Picture award. It starred Charles Laughton and was directed by Frank Lloyd. Both of these were nominated for Oscars themselves but failed to win. All in all, "Mutiny on the Bounty" was nominated for six Academy Awards.

28. 2000: A trashy legal assistant stumbles onto a very large class action case, and browbeats her ambulance-chaser boss into investigating.

From Quiz Best Picture Non-Winners

Answer: Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts won the Best Actress award for her part as the trashy but very endearing Brockovich.

29. "The Godfather" was nominated in ten categories and won three. Who beat it?

From Quiz Who Beat It?

Answer: Both of These

In 1972, "Cabaret" beat "The Godfather" in the Best Director, Supporting Actor, Sound and Film Editing categories; "Travels With My Aunt" beat it in the Best Costume Design category. "The Godfather" also won in the Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Actor categories.

30. 'I'm walking here. I'm walking here.'

From Quiz Best Picture Quotes

Answer: Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman's crippled Rizzo Ratso nearly getting run over on the mean New York streets in 1969's "Midnight Cowboy".

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