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1. I was nominated for Best Actress playing a real person. In my acclaimed performance I got to lip sync 'Proud Mary' and my character's husband beat me up a lot. What actress am I?
2. I finally got my one ond only acting nomination and I won Best Supporting Actor for it! I played a good old boy who ran a pool hall in Texas. Who am I?
3. Clark Gable didn't like my style and used his influence to boot me off my director's chair on 'Gone With The Wind'. But I showed him! I got an Oscar for directing 25 years later. Who am I?
4. Of these actors, who won on their first try for their performances (as of 2001)?
5. I won my Oscar nomination playing John Merrick. In what movie?
6. I received my Oscar for playing a kooky dog walker with a heart of gold but I had a supporting part before that in which of these films? Ignore any 'the' in answers, the key word begins with 'f'.
7. My acting nabbed the only nomination for 'The Big Chill'. Who am I?
8. Two actresses from the film I was in were nominated. One played a doting mother and the other a mean and deadly child. I didn't get a nomination playing the dim witted, and eventually dead, guy who took care of their building and grounds. Who am I?
9. The Oscar winning film 'Cabaret' was based on what original play?
10. Both Rock Hudson and I were nominated for our performances in the same film. We both lost. Who am I?
11. I earned a nomination playing a nurse in Korea in a film that came out in the 1970s. What is my last name?
12. I never won an Oscar but was up for one playing Constance MacKenzie. Who am I?
13. My wife won an Oscar, but not for her role as Mrs. Robinson. Who am I?
14. First there was Janet Gaynor, then Mary Pickford. But I picked up the third Best Actress statue in 1930. What was my first name?
15. The one of the three musicals to get a Best Picture award in the 1960s. What is it?
16. I went from being a host of the cable show 'Talk Soup' to having a shockingly notable career as a film actor. My first nomination at the Academy Awards came for my playing a fellow who did what as a vocation?
17. I am the 'Q' who won two Oscars for Acting. What's my last name?
18. I won an Oscar playing an idiot savant riding around with a shifty brother. What's my character's name?
19. I was the first lead actress to win an Oscar for a foreign language film. Who am I this time?
20. Because I promised someone that I would, here's a pretty simple one: I've been a cross dresser on TV, a guy in love with a 'fishy' girl in the movies and I eventually got a couple of acting Oscars. Everybody loves me! Who am I?
21. I won my Oscar playing a pretty odd, hysterically pregnant woman who spends an all nighter with some equally strange people. Martha and George were not what my character expected in the movie. I later went on to star in which film?
22. When multiple Oscar winner Jack Lemmon lost at the Golden Globes to me I respectfully offered my award to him. I appeared to feel unworthy! What's my first name?
23. I got my Oscar directing Fredric March and Teresa Wright in the 1940s on the same film. It got Best Picture, too. Who am I?
24. This was the first movie to start with the letter 'Y' to win Best Picture. Which one?
25. Robert Downey, Jr., that brilliant but troubled actor, was nominated for 'Chaplin'. He was in another movie prior to that. 'Less Than ____?'
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