Keep Your Eyes on the Prize Trivia Quiz

Answer: Walter Brennan

The first Academy Awards were presented in 1929, but the categories of Best Actor (and Best Actress) in a Supporting Role were not added until 1936, when Walter Brennan won for his portrayal of Swan Bostrom in 'Come and Get It'. Swan is the father of Lotta (whose mother he had married after the central character, Barney Glasgow, had abandoned her in search of success), who becomes involved with Barney's son.

The movie was based on a novel by Edna Ferber. This was the first of three Oscars that Brennan was to win as a supporting Actor.

The second was for the part of Peter Goodwin in 'Kentucky' (1938), and the third for portraying Judge Roy Bean in 'The Westerner' (1940). If you're not a fan of old movies, you may remember him better for being Grandpa Amos McCoy in the television series 'The Real McCoys', which originally aired between 1957 and 1963.

Answer: Fred Astaire

The Golden Globe Awards (awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) originally only had a single set of categories for films when they started in 1944, but in 1952 they split everything into separate categories for Drama and for Musical or Comedy. Fred Astaire won the first prize for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Bert Kalmar in the 1950 film 'Three Little Words', a biography of the songwriting team of Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar.

The movie included some of their best-loved hits, including 'Who's Sorry Now?' and 'I Wanna Be Loved by You'.

Answer: Ralph Richardson

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has awards for both film and television. From 1952 to 1967, the film awards were divided into two categories - one for a British actor, and one for a foreign actor; in 1968 the two were combined into a single category.

The winner of the first BAFTA for Best British Actor in a Leading Role was Ralph Richardson, who played John Ridgefield in David Lean's 1952 film 'The Sound Barrier', about the efforts to develop a plane that could fly faster than sound.

The winner of Best Foreign Actor in that year was Marlon Brando, for 'Viva Zapata!'; the following year Brando won the same award for his portrayal of Mark Antony in 'Caesar', a film which included John Gielgud as Cassius, a performance awarded Best British Actor.

Answer: Eve Arden

The Emmy Awards (first awarded by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1949) recognise achievements in American television. The first acting awards were added in 1953, and Eve Arden won the first award for Outstanding Lead Actress (there was no distinction between comedy and drama) in recognition of her portrayal of the title character in the series 'Our Miss Brooks', a role she had initiated on radio in 1948 before the series moved to television in 1952.

She beat out some big names: Lucille Ball and Loretta Young (both subsequent winners) were also nominated, along with Imogen Coca and Dinah Shore.

Answer: Domenico Modungo

In 1957 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was established, with plans to set up a range of awards for their industry comparable to the Oscars for film and the Emmies for television. The name chosen was the Gramophone Awards, which was qiuckly shortened to the Grammy Awards.

The first ceremony was held in 1959, and the award for Record of the Year went to Domenico Modungo for 'Nel blu dipinto di blu' ('In the blue that is painted blue'), commonly known by the alternative title 'Volare' ('Flying'), which also won the award for Song of the Year.

It had already won international acclaim as the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival, and becoming the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. Although it only came in third that year, a 2005 poll to celebrate 50 years of Eurovision saw it voted the second most popular entrant, beaten only by ABBA's 'Waterloo'.

Answer: Graham Kennedy

The Logie Awards (Australian television awards) were initially called the TV Week Awards, because that magazine initiated them in 1960. People who bought the magazine could fill in a coupon and vote for the categories relating to popularity (which is most of them). Since 2008, internet voting has been available, so there is no longer a need to buy a copy of 'TV Week'.

When Graham Kennedy won the first award for Star of the Year, he suggested the name for the whole spectrum of awards be the Logies, in tribute to television pioneer John Logie Baird, and the award he received be called the Gold Logie. Kennedy had achieved his popularity on the show 'In Melbourne Tonight', which was modelled on the American 'Tonight Show'.

This was the first of six Gold Logies that Gra-gra (pronounced with a long a) was to receive, along with a Special Gold Logie for Star of the Decade in 1967, and being inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame in 1998.

He also won ten Silver Logies (the state-based level of award).

Answer: Bobby Darin

In 1960, NARAS added the category of Best New Artist for the second year of their awards, and it was won by Bobby Darin, who also won Record of the Year with 'Mack the Knife'. The song, from 'The Threepenny Opera' by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, was translated into English by Marc Blitzstein and Turk Murphy, and had previously been recorded by Louis Armstrong. Darin included the song as a track on his album 'That's All', in which he was trying to show that he could sing more than pop music. Point made.

Answer: Peter Marshall

In 1974 the Emmy awards were split into two separate awards, the Prime Time Awards, and the newly-created Daytime Awards. The first broadcast was hosted by Barbara Walters and Peter Marshall, who took home the prize in the category of Game Show Host for his performance as host of 'Hollywood Squares', the game show in which players try to complete a row of circles or crosses on a grid of nine boxes (styled on a tic-tac-toe board) by deciding whether the celebrity sitting in the box had given the correct answer to a question.

Although the game was real, the show often seemed to be more about giving the celebrities a chance to strut their stuff with "impromptu" (often scripted) responses before getting down to the business of offering their serious response.

The show has inspired similar shows in many countries.

Answer: Neil Diamond

The Golden Raspberry Awards, often shortened to the Razzies, are possibly not the prize on which the winners had set their eyes, as they are awarded for what the judges consider to be the worst, rather than the best, achievements in film. The awards have been presented the day before the Academy Awards since 1981 (for films released in 1980), when the Razzie for Worst Actor went to Neil Diamond for his performance as Yussel Rabinovitch in 'The Jazz Singer' (a remake of the 1927 classic). Losing nominees that year included Robert Blake, Michael Caine (for two different movies), Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss and Anthony Hopkins.

Other inaugural Razzie winners included Brooke Shields as Worst Actress for 'Blue Lagoon'. 'Can't Stop the Music' was decreed not only to be the worst film, but to have had the worst screenplay; it led the way with seven nominations, more than any other film.

Answer: John Farnham

The Australia Recording Industry Association was established in 1983, and organised its first awards ceremony (hosted by Elton John) in 1987. John Farnham won Album of the Year for 'Whispering Jack' and Single of the Year for 'You're the Voice' (both of which also won the title of Best-Selling Album/Single). 'Whispering Jack' also won the award for Best Adult Contemporary Album, and earned him the title of Best Male Artist. Over the years, Farnham has won 20 ARIA awards, from 56 nominations.