Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #3 Quiz

Answer: In black and white

"A stouT HEART IS The key to perseverance."

An unusual choice in modern times, the filmmakers chose to shoot 2011's Best Picture winner, "The Artist" in black and white. The film told the story of the silent film era during its transition into talkies, and how this change affected a big star of the silent era as he developed a relationship with a younger up and coming ingenue. In truth, the film was actually filmed in color, but then converted to black and white for theatrical showings. Some films that are intended to be shown in black and white, are filmed in color to allow for the option of returning it to color, but the other reason for filming in color is that it allows for more control as to mapping the colors to black and white. Mark Bridges, who won the Best Costume Design for "The Artist" said that the film was originally shot in color "because there was a chance that in some markets it would be shown in colour."

Answer: Scandal

"IS POT LIGHTer in nicotine content than cigarettes?"

"Spotlight" revealed the true story of how reporters for the Boston "Globe" investigated and reported on the pervasive scandal of child molestation and its cover-up in a local Catholic Archdiocese. The whole Catholic Church was rattled by the story. "Spotlight" marked the second consecutive film to win Best Picture that starred Michael Keaton. Keaton played editor Walter Robinson in 2015's "Spotlight" and the year before had starred in the Best Picture winner "Birdman."

Answer: Butcher and teacher

"MARTYrdom may suit sad sacks but saints prefer dignity."

Ernest Borgnine is the titular butcher of 1955's "Marty" who falls in love with a teacher named Clara (Betsy Blair) when they meet at a dance. He has come to a crossroads in his life when he must choose between his overbearing mother and siblings, or pursuing a chance at love with Clara. "Marty" may be the only film in which the producers spent more money on a film's Academy Award publicity campaign ($400,000) than they spent on actually making the movie ($343,000). It was first Best Picture Oscar winning movie that was based on a TV program: Rod Steiger had originated the title role in "The Philco Television Playhouse: Marty"in 1953.

Answer: Sports

"After organizers called the moCHA RIOTS OFF, I REached for my morning java."

The setting is the 1924 Summer Olympics and the focus is on two British track and field athletes and how their religious philosophy squares with their competitive calling. "Chariots of Fire" (1981) was the first movie that was a non-American production to win the Best Picture Oscar since 1968 when "Oliver!" won. "Chariots of Fire's" Oscar statuette is on exhibit at The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

Answer: Musical

"In order to look CHIC, A GOwn's hem should fall below the mid-calf."

Based on the Broadway musical "Chicago" which was nominated for the 1976 Tony Award for Best Musical (it lost to "A Chorus Line"), the film version won the Academy Award for Best Film. The jazzy musical is about two women on death row in the 1920s who struggle for fame and the affections of a slick lawyer. "Chicago" is one of the rare Best Picture winners to not win either Best Screenplay Oscar or the Best Director Oscar.

Answer: Broadway

"You can drive a ThunderBIRD MANually or with automatic transmission."

Michael Keaton plays an actor named Riggan who had become famous for playing a superhero (mirroring Keaton's own experience as the first of the Batman characters when that film series took off in 1989). Riggan then makes a play for aesthetic respectability by reviving his acting career by writing, directing and starring in a play for Broadway. When the Award for Best Film came up at the Academy award ceremony, an awkward moment came up as actor Sean Penn announced the winner saying, "And the Oscar goes to... Who gave this son of a bitch his green card? 'Birdman'!" Penn was referring to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is from Mexico, but many found the comment offensive. Iñárritu said he took it as a joke, since he has been friends with Penn ever since they worked together in 2003 on the film "21 Grams".

Answer: Western

"If you're wondering what's a handgUN FOR, GIVE NRA members a phone call."

"Unforgiven" a western directed by Clint Eastwood, deals with the ethical questions that arise from acts of retribution and revenge, in the late 19th century. Eastwood plays a retired gunslinger named William Munny who after not much success as a farmer decides to go ahead and attempt finding the cowboys who have had bounties placed on their heads for disfiguring a prostitute. "Unforgiven" was the third western to win a Best Picture Oscar, after "Cimarron" and "Dances With Wolves."

Answer: Ghost story and murder

"As we mourn the passing of Billy GraHAM, LET's remember a man who served God."

Prince Hamlet of Denmark played in 1948 by the great Laurence Olivier suspects that his uncle has murdered his father to usurp the throne, marrying Hamlet's mother in the process. The ghost of Hamlet's father comes to him and reveals the truth, that he was indeed murdered, and now Hamlet ponders how to exact revenge, or even whether to.
"Hamlet" was the first non-American film to win the Best Picture Oscar, and it was the only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year not to be nominated for any writing Oscar.

Answer: Historical drama

"When you dance in the catacomB RAVE, HEAR The thumping beat to hypnotize yourself." Mel Gibson felt he was too old for the role, but he played William Wallace in "Braveheart", the Scottish warrior who sparked the rebellion of Scottish countrymen against England's King Edward I, (played by the great Patrick McGoohan).

While no other awards group or critics organization awarded "Braveheart" an award or citation as the best film of the year, the Academy Awards weren't swayed by that, and they picked it as the best of the year.

It was a year with very stiff competition in that category: "Babe", "Apollo 13", "Il Postino", and "Sense and Sensibility." "Apollo 13" was predicted to be the winner by most Oscar-watching prognosticators.

Answer: Mystery

"The three-stringed medieval instrument played with a bow, called a REBEC CAn sound a little like a violin."

Based on the Daphne DuMaurier novel, this mystery by Alfred Hitchcock tells the tale of a woman whose name we never learn, but becomes known simply as Mrs. De Winter (Joan Fontaine) after she meets Maxim De Winter (Laurence Olivier) while on a Monte Carlo vacation, and then later marries him. Mrs. De Winter finds that upon their settling into the Manderley estate, that Maxim's deceased first wife still has a hold on the estate, and Mrs. De Winter is faced with a particularly disapproving housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
"Rebecca" is the only film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that won a Best Picture Oscar, but he didn't win Best Director for it. That award went to John Ford that year for "The Grapes of Wrath."