Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #2 Quiz

Answer: musical

"Noshing a pieroGI GIves me heartburn."

During the Belle Époque in Paris, Gigi (Leslie Caron) is mentored by her grandmother to become an educated courtesan, a mistress to high society wealthy men. Gigi has a dear platonic friendship with her male friend Gaston, who is a rich aristocrat-playboy. Will their friendship become more than platonic?
"Gigi" (1958) was the first film to win nine Academy Awards, including its Best Picture win. It also won the Oscar for Best Original Music. Some of the more familiar songs you've heard include "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" and "I Remember It well." In fact, it had won all nine Oscars that it was nominated for. However, that record was short-lived, as only one year later the film "Ben-Hur" won eleven Oscars.

Answer: Embassy

"Longshoreman unloaded the cARGO into Iran." Ben Affleck directed and starred in this depiction of the real life story of a CIA agent named Tony Mendez who planned an operation to rescue Americans who were being sheltered by ambassador Ken Taylor inside his own Canadian Embassy, in Tehran when the U.S. Embassy was seized by a militant Iranian student group in 1979.

When "Argo" won its Best Picture Oscar in 2013, it was the first film in seven years to win Best Picture, without winning the Oscar for Best Director.

It was also the first movie in 23 years to win Best Picture, without being nominated for Best Director. "Argo" was also the first Best Picture winner since "Grand Hotel" (1932) to not be nominated for Best Director or for either of the lead acting categories. And here's a fascinating Oscar fact about "Argo": It is the first Best Picture winner in which one of its characters is someone who won an Oscar in real life. If that's confusing I'll explain it this way: In "Argo", actor John Goodman plays real-life make-up artist John Chambers, who had won an Oscar for his make-up work on 1969's "Planet of the Apes."

Answer: war

"The family had a sWING Set and barbecue pit in their backyard."
"Wings" (1927) is the very first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It was about two best friends who are fighter pilots during World War I and are in love with the same woman. Until "The Artist" won Best Picture in 2012, "Wings" had been the only silent movie to win Best Picture (although back then it was called Best Production). Like "Argo", "Wings" is also one of the very few films to win Best Picture without also being nominated for Best Director.

Answer: David Cronenberg film title

"The toxiC RASH erupted in blisters in the mad doctor's patient."

Eight years before Paul Haggis's Oscar winning "Crash" was made in 2004, film director David Cronenberg had also made a film called "Crash", this one in 1996. It had a bizarre plot concept even for a Cronenberg film, and although it received no Oscar nominations, it was about car culture as was the Oscar-winner "Crash" film of 2004. The 2004 "Crash" used car culture to link various Los Angeles citizens whose travels weave stories about race relations.
"Crash" pulled off an upset win for Best Picture over "Brokeback Mountain" back in 2006, as it painted a bleak picture of modern day Los Angeles, jumping from one character to another in its collage of people in the West Coast's largest city. "Crash" turned out to be one of the lowest grossing Best Picture winners at the the box office.

Answer: war

"So that the poet breaTHED E'ER, HUN TERrorists never attacked writers and artists."
"The Deer Hunter" was an extraordinarily emotional and suspenseful film about the Vietnam War and its affect on friends and family in a small Pennsylvania steel town. Its war scenes were notably horrific, depicting devastatingly intense scenes of prisoners of war being forced to play Russian Roulette.

Answer: a type of rose

"As a Mormon video gAMER, I CAN BE A UT Yearly supporter of that postal code for Utah."

An American Beauty rose is a breed of rose deep pink in color, originally cultivated in late 19th century France.
Of all the scenes in the film "American Beauty" the one people seem to remember best is the one in which actress Mena Suvari lies naked on a massive bed completely covered in red rose flower petals. More rose petals fall from above covering her body in strategically unoffensive places. The scene is a fantasy that we are witnessing the lead character, Lester Burnham obsess over. Lester was played by Kevin Spacey who won an Oscar for Best Lead Performance by an Actor.

Answer: biodrama

"It took an exPAT TO Notice how much culture changed in his home country."

This biodrama on "Old Blood and Guts" General George S. Patton focuses on his exploits during World War II. George C. Scott won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance. The story begins with Patton's career in North Africa and follows him through the invasion of Europe and the fall of the German Third Reich. "Patton" was the only film that director Franklin J. Schaffner was nominated for a Best Director Oscar, and he did wind up winning that Award. Producer Frank McCarthy had worked for two decades to make a film about George S. Patton. McCarthy himself was a retired brigadier general who served under General George C. Marshall, and McCarthy wound up donating his Oscar statue to the George C. Marshall Museum at Virginia Military Institute. The Oscar is till there on display.

Answer: governess

"Look, the tune doesn't sooTHE, SO UNDO F MUSICal keys from the composition!" Julie Andrews played Maria in this classic film musical, a woman at a nunnery who is sent to become the governess for Navy Captain Georg Von Trapp's seven mischievous children. Since Robert Wise was a director and producer on the film, he won two Oscars on April 18, 1966 for "The Sound of Music" but he was unable to attend due to shooting another film in Hong Kong. Julie Andrews accepted his Oscars on his behalf.

The night the movie won the prize for Best Picture, was the first time that the ceremony was broadcast in color on television.

Answer: disaster film

"For a cake like that you want to geT IT AN ICing that won't melt easily under the lights"
Speaking of "The Sound of Music", in 1998 "Titanic" became the first film since "The Sound of Music" to win the Oscar for Best Picture but not even be nominated for its screenplay.
On April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg and began to slowly take on water on its way to sinking into a watery abyss in the Atlantic Ocean. Amidst the real-life characters, the film concentrates on two fictitious ones, a pair of star-crossed lovers: a seventeen-year-old aristocratic young woman named Rose DeWitt and the kindly yet poor artist named Jack Dawson.
With its 14 Oscar nominations, "Titanic" became the most Oscar-nominated film not to win in any acting categories. Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" was the first song to win the Best Song Oscar from a non-musical Best Picture winner. The Best Song Oscar had been won by a Best Picture winner twice before, but both those films were musicals: "Going My Way" and "Gigi."

Answer: The man from Alabama

"Can you either stop acting like a gooF, OR REST GUM Popping for the remainder of the class?"
The title character, played by Tom Hanks who won an Oscar for his performance, is a man from Alabama with a 75 IQ. The film follows his life as it becomes a reflection of American politics, history and culture during the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
"Forrest Gump" is the first Best Picture Oscar winner to also win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. With this film, Steve Tisch became the first person to win an Academy Award and an NFL Super Bowl Championship. He won his Oscar for being a producer on Best Picture winner "Forrest Gump" and his two Super Bowl Championships (XLII and XLVI) as co-owner of the New York Giants.