Match the 2022 Best Picture Nominee with a Quote Quiz

Answer: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

Ke Huy Quan won the Best Supporting Actor award for playing Waymond Wang in "Everything, Everywhere All At Once". It is he who laments this sad quote in that film to his wife, Evelyn Wang, played by Michelle Yeoh, the Best Actress winner for this film.

It is toward the end of the film, as the gentle Waymond confronts Evelyn and they discuss the regrets about life that weigh on her. She counters that she never said she thought they'd be better off, but he tells her, "You didn't have to. It's the way you look at me." And as the ultimate stand on how he feels about her, he heart-breakingly tells her, "So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."

Answer: All Quiet On The Western Front

Felix Kammerer plays Paul Bäumer, the lead character through whose eyes we see the battle scenes in "All Quiet On The Western Front". He says this during his attempt to sneak into a farmer's enclosure, along with his friend Stanislaus Katczinsky, played by Albrecht Schuch.

They are seeking to see what sort of farm animal they might be able to steal, as the two soldiers are close to starving during the final days of World War I and German forces are being depleted more and more.

Answer: Avatar: The Way of Water

These are the last lines spoken by Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, in James Cameron's sumptuously depicted CGI endeavor, "Avatar: The Way of Water". The film has come to a climactic battle involving his people, the Na'vi beings, against the humans of the Resources Development Administration (RDA) who seek to colonize the planet Pandora.

After staving off the attempt, but losing loved ones in the defense, Jake prefaced that quote's realization with "I see now. I can't save my family by running."

Answer: The Banshees of Inisherin

In one of the most remarkable performances I've ever seen in a film, actor Barry Keoghan, playing Dominic Kearney, gets up the courage to approach his friend's sister Siobhan Súilleabháin (Best Supporting Actress nominee Kerry Condon) and asks if she'd consider a relationship. Dominic is something of a simpleton, but deceptively so as at subtle moments in the film he exhibits signs that there's more to him than one might expect. Mr. Keoghan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance here in the tragicomedy "The Banshees of Inisherin".

Answer: Elvis

This scene occurs in "Elvis" and takes place right up there on the hill, standing underneath the famous HOLLYWOOD sign, as Elvis Presley talks with a group of TV producers about possibly making a television Christmas special. As Elvis reminisces, he is sitting on one of the "O"s in the Hollywood sign, and he speaks to producer Steve Binder (Dacre Montgomery) and record producer Bones Howe (Gareth Davies). Austin Butler was Oscar nominated for Best Actor in a widely-acclaimed performance.

He likes this team of producers because he admired that they teamed up The Rolling Stones and James Brown, which seems like the perfect sort of blending of Elvis's musical styles.

Answer: The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg's filmic memoir "The Fabelmans" recounts his childhood and beginnings of filmmaking in a way that is far from the cloying sentimentality that some people often accuse him of. This is a bittersweet meditation of the nature of being an artist and the toll it can take on one's relationships. Sammy Fabelman's father Burt tells him "You can't just love something, you also have to take care of it".

He is referring to Sammy's treatment of his electric train set which he has rejoiced in filming with his Super-8 camera. Sammy wanted to recreate the train wreck from the movie "The Greatest Show On Earth" which enthralled him when his parents took him to the movies for the first time.

But the line can also be applied to family and, ironically, the ways that Burt himself may have taken his family for granted. And of course it also applies to Sammy's love of his art, his passion for filmmaking.

Answer: Tar

A few scenes into the movie "Tar" an account of a fictional character named Lydia Tar, played by Cate Blanchett, we see her teaching a class in conducting at the famous music school in New York City Julliard. Things are going well, and then Tar advises a student named Max that he should listen to Bach more and to play Bach more.

The student precociously responds that "white, cis male composers is just not my thing." Tar counters saying, "Don't be so eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring conformity" but that's just the beginning of her humiliating the student.

The scene resonates of the cancel culture afflicting the arts these days, as she warns Max, "If Bach's talent can be reduced to his gender, birth country, religion, sexuality, and so on, then so can yours."

Answer: Top Gun: Maverick

In 2022's mega-blockbuster hit "Top Gun: Maverick" (the movie that "saved the film industry"), Tom Cruise reprised his role Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, and once again is tasked with teaching the Top Gun class how to become expert fighter pilots.

In this scene he has arranged for the cancellation of one of the pilots' Naval Academy Application, for reasons kept from that pilot. He tells the pilot that that he needs to trust his own instincts, that he shouldn't think, he should just do. "You think up there, you're dead. Believe me" he tells him. To which the young pilot charges: "My dad believed in you. I'm not gonna make the same mistake"; this charge stings harshly because the young pilot blames Maverick for letting his father down in the most serious way possible.

Answer: The Triangle of Sadness

While on a luxury vacation ship, Carl (played by Harris Dickinson) is having deck side conversation with Winston (Oliver Ford Davies) and his wife Clementine (Amanda Walker). The small talk naturally turns to what they do for a living and Winston mentions that he and his wife have a family business together, involving the precise engineering of products used to uphold "democracy all over the world." When Carl pursues the topic Winston and Clementine agree that their "best-selling product is the hand grenade." It's just one of the hundreds of socio-political ironies that are peppered throughout this unique film.

Answer: Women Talking

That is one of my favorite lines out of the many quotable lines in the film. Written and directed by Sarah Polley, "Women Talking" is based on the same-titled novel by Miriam Toews. The story is based on the true-life circumstances surround a group of Mennonite women who were betrayed by the men in their colony, and now the women must debate amongst themselves what steps to take next.

They wrestle with the concept of forgiveness which their strong religious beliefs takes seriously, but perhaps too strictly, as some of the women in the group argue from a perspective of justice and safety and security. Also importantly, as the film points out, they think about the future of the boys being raised in the various families and what they can do so that the young males won't repeat the cycle of violence perpetrated by their elders.

The quote is an astute observation that people can often mistake forgiveness for permission, as pointed out by one of the elder women, Agatha, portrayed by Judith Ivey.