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Quiz about Best Picture Oscar Winners vs AFI Listmakers

Best Picture Oscar Winners vs. AFI Listmakers Quiz

According to the 'AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies' list, some of the Best Picture Oscar winners are not the best movies of the year. Here are questions on that.

A multiple-choice quiz by zee93. Estimated time: 7 mins.

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Question 1 of 10

1. What is the only 90's Best Picture not to be deemed the best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: (Three Words, "The _______ ________")

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Question 2 of 10

2. How many 80's Best Picture winners were deemed the best of the year by the AFI? Hint

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Question 3 of 10

3. 3 Best Picture winners of the 70's were deemed the best of the year by the AFI. Which of these is not one of the three? Hint

The Deer Hunter

The Godfather

Patton

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Question 4 of 10

4. Only one Best Picture winner of the 40's made the AFI list.

True

False

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Question 5 of 10

5. The 1950s is the decade with the most movies on the AFI list. Every year of the decade has at least one movie on the list. Which of these statements are true? Hint

Every Best Picture winner is on the list, yet not necessarily the highest of the year

There is only one year in which the Best Picture winner is the only movie on the list

Four Best Picture winners were deemed best of the year by the AFI

1952's Best Picture winner "The Greatest Show on Earth" was not even nominated for the AFI list

6. 1967's Best Picture winner "In the Heat of the Night" did not make the AFI list. Three of the other Best Picture nominees that year, however, did make it. Which one of those nominees is not on the list? Hint

Bonnie and Clyde

Doctor Dolittle

The Graduate

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the only Best Picture winner that could NOT be deemed best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: (One Word, "H______")

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Question 8 of 10

8. The 1990s is the decade with the least Best Picture winners deemed best of the year by the AFI.

True

False

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is the only actor to star in three Best Picture winners that are also deemed best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: (Two Words -- Full Name or Surname, think "Gone with the Wind")

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Question 10 of 10

10. How many Best Picture winners were deemed best of the year by the 'AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies' list? Hint

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the only 90's Best Picture not to be deemed the best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: The English Patient

1996's "The English Patient" was absent from the list, but its main Oscar competitor, "Fargo", made it at #84.

2. How many 80's Best Picture winners were deemed the best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: 2

1984's "Amadeus" made the list at #53, the only movie of the year to make it. 1986's "Platoon", also the only movie of the year to make the list, was at #83. 1980's "Ordinary People" was bested by "Raging Bull" (#24). 1981's "Chariots of Fire" was bested by "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (#60). 1982's "Gandhi" was bested by "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (#25) and "Tootsie" (#62).

3. 3 Best Picture winners of the 70's were deemed the best of the year by the AFI. Which of these is not one of the three?

Answer: Patton

1970's "Patton" (#89) was bested by "MASH" (#56). 1971's "The French Connection" (#70) was bested by "A Clockwork Orange" (#46). 1973's "The Sting" was bested by "American Graffiti" (#77). 1974's "The Godfather Part II" (#32) was bested by "Chinatown" (#19). 1976's "Rocky" (#78) was bested by "Taxi Driver" (#47) and "Network" (#66). 1977's "Annie Hall" (#31) was bested by "Star Wars" (#15). 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer" was bested by "Apocolypse Now" (#28).

4. Only one Best Picture winner of the 40's made the AFI list.

Answer: False

Two Best Picture winners made the list. However, only one was deemed best of the year by the AFI. 1943's "Casablanca" roared at #2, while 1946's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (#37) took a back seat to the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" (#11).

5. The 1950s is the decade with the most movies on the AFI list. Every year of the decade has at least one movie on the list. Which of these statements are true?

Answer: There is only one year in which the Best Picture winner is the only movie on the list

1957's Best Picture winner "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (#13) is the only movie of the year to make the list. Four Best Picture winners did not make the list, including 1952's "The Greatest Show on Earth", which was nominated by the AFI, 1955's "Marty", 1956's "Around the World in Eighty Days", and 1958's "Gigi".

The only Best Picture winners that were deemed best of the year by the AFI were 1957's "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (#13), 1954's "On the Waterfront" (#8) and 1953's "From Here to Eternity" (#52).

Answer: Doctor Dolittle

"The Graduate" is at #7. "Bonnie and Clyde" is at #27. And "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" at #99.

7. What is the only Best Picture winner that could NOT be deemed best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: Hamlet

1948's "Hamlet" was filmed and financed in Great Britain. It is not an American film.

8. The 1990s is the decade with the least Best Picture winners deemed best of the year by the AFI.

Answer: False

The 1990s is the decade with the most Best Picture winners deemed best of the year by the AFI. Those winners are 1990's "Dances with Wolves" (#75), 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" (#65), 1992's "Unforgiven" (#98), 1993's "Schindler's List" (#9) and 1994's "Forrest Gump" (#71). Ironically, the 1990s are the most disadvantaged in the situation because the list only goes up to 1996.

9. Who is the only actor to star in three Best Picture winners that are also deemed best of the year by the AFI?

Answer: Clark Gable

Gable starred in 1934's "It Happened One Night" (#35), 1935's "Mutiny on the Bounty" (#86) and 1939's "Gone with the Wind" (#4).

10. How many Best Picture winners were deemed best of the year by the 'AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies' list?

Answer: 21

There are 4 films from the 30's, 1 film from the 40s, 3 films from the 50's, 3 films from the 60's, 3 films from the 70's, 2 films from the 80's and 5 films from the 90's for a grand total of 21 films.

Source: Author zee93

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