Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #4 Quiz

Answer: Title has a character's name in it

"GrANNIE HALLucinated due to her dementia."
Woody Allen plays Alvy Singer, who like Allen is a Jewish comedian, who muses endlessly on his failed relationships over the years, especially the romance he had with the eponymous ex-lover played by Diane Keaton who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role. Annie wants to become a nightclub singer.
When "Annie Hall" won its 1977 Best Picture Oscar it was the second shortest film at 93 minutes to win a Best Picture Academy Award. "Marty" was the shortest at 91 minutes. Woody Allen became the first actor to give an Oscar nominated performance in a film for which he won the Oscar for Best Director.

Answer: Sports

"It's a total cROCK You've been lying about for years."
Sylvester Stallone famously held out on giving over his screenplay--insisting that he had to play the lead in "Rocky" his tale of a boxing palooka who gets a shot at fighting the world champion. Stallone's gamble paid off as the film made him a superstar.
"Rocky" won the Oscar for Best Picture and happened to be the only nominee in that category that year to also be nominated for Best Song ("Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti). "Rocky" is the only film in the entire series of "Rocky" films to win an Oscar. "Rocky III" and "Creed" had received Oscar nominations in various categories but neither of those two films won an Oscar.

Answer: Set in Europe

"MamA MADE US take piano lessons with the school marm."
The screenplay tells the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his relationship with his musical rival Antonio Salieri who seethes with jealousy over Mozart's genius.
The film is one of the few Best Picture winners whose Broadway source also won a Tony Award for Best Play. "A Man for all Seasons" had also won both awards: The Best Picture Oscar for the film, and the Best Play Tony for the Broadway stage production. "Amadeus" has the unfortunate distinction of also being one of the few Best Picture Academy Award winners that never was in the Top 5 films at the box office during its run. "Amadeus" was the first Best Picture winner to also win the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Answer: Illumination

"The electrician attended the deMO ON LIGHT-saving techniques."
Who can forget that most awkward moment in Oscar history when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the winner for Best Picture as "La La Land", only to summon forth a suspicious commotion in the background after "La La Land's" producers already gave thanks in speeches. As it turned out the wrong film was called out. The true winner was "Moonlight", the story of an African-American young man who struggles to find his sexual identity in a world where gang violence is a danger, and true love is hard to figure out.
Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, was the accounting firm responsible for tabulating the results, and they issued an apology to all the people involved for their mix-up in handing out the envelopes.

Answer: Set in Asia

"In a broTHEL A STEM PERORates euphemistically over getting watered."
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, "The Last Emperor" is the epic-sized story of the Pu-Yi, who was the last emperor in China's history--he lived from 1906 to 1967. The film follows his short-lived reign in The Forbidden City. When Revolution came, he was arrested as a war criminal in 1950 by the Red army and he was imprisoned in that same Forbidden City where he spent an exalted childhood. Via flashbacks and flash forwards, we track his life all the way to his ironic end as peasant worker in the People's Republic after his release from prison in 1959.
"The Last Emperor" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won them all. Of the Best Picture nominees in 1987, "The Last Emperor" was the only nominee also nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Costume Design.

Answer: Family drama

"It has been shown that ear infections are due to bacteria growth that has come to midTERM, SO FEND EAR MENTalism off with more scientific otology."

"Terms of Endearment", the story of a tumultuous and loving relationship between a mother and daughter saw Shirley MacLaine take home the Best Actress Oscar over the also-nominated Debra Winger. And Jack Nicholson won the Supporting Actor Oscar over the also-nominated John Lithgow.
The film received 11 Oscar nominations in all, the most that year, and won five of them: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium.

Answer: Set in New York City

"On a huMID NIGHT, COW BOYcotts by vegetarians only serve to sever pasta markets from us."

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are unforgettable in this film, one of my father's favorites, playing Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo respectively. Joe Buck, a naive would-be gigolo comes to New York City to make his fortune hustling rich beautiful women. Or so he hoped. He winds up forging a friendship of sorts with Ratso, a sickly con artist and the two of them form a pathetic and yet somehow moving bond.

"Midnight Cowboy" has been the answer to a popular trivia question that has circulated for years: What was the only X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture? Well, that had been been true for a while because when the film was released in 1969 it did indeed have the X-rating attached to it. The ratings system was relatively new, so what happened was, pornography filmmakers made abundant use of the X-rating and so very shortly, X-ratings became virtually synonymous with pornography, which "Midnight Cowboy" was not. Subsequently the film's rating was changed to an R (under 17 years old required an adult accompaniment).

Answer: war film

"PLATO ONce wrote "The Republic" which remains a classical work of philosophy."

Chris Taylor is a young American who has put college off in order to serve his country as a soldier in the Vietnam War. He experiences something of a comeuppance as the other more experienced soldiers don't seem to value his presence very much. Chris soon learns how to deal with the two NCOs of his platoon, Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and Sergeant Elias Grodin. Those two men represent flip sides of the coin that is the wartime soldier--one evil, and the other a good man in a bad situation.
"Platoon" was the only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year that was also nominated for Best Sound. According to "Platoon's" DVD commentary, Oliver Stone was the first Vietnam veteran to direct a major motion picture about the Vietnam War.

Answer: Has a character's name in the title

"Throw the experiments from that dismAL LAB OUT EVEn if they did seem ground-breaking!"

A tale of life behind the scenes in the theatre world with all the sniping and conniving and manipulating one can imagine. It's Bette Davis's best performance, playing Margo Channing, a Broadway star who is in a duel with Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter who has professed great admiration, but all the while plots to supplant Margo as the toast of the town.
"All About Eve" is the first film to receive 14 Academy Award nominations. "Titanic" and "La La Land" have since then also received 14 nominations each. "All About Eve" was the first Best Picture Oscar winner to also win the Oscar for Best Costume Design, and for Best Sound Mixing.

Answer: 19th century A.D.

"In Apartment 12Y, EARS AS LAVEnder-scented as flowers on the occupants, are due to the perfumed earrings they wear."

"12 Years a Slave" is based on the life of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) an African-American violinist who was a free man before the Civil War, living in upstate New York, Saratoga Springs with his wife and children. In 1841, he was hired by two men on the pretense of working a two-week tour with a theatre company in Washington, D.C. He was kidnapped however, and sold into slavery in New Orleans, and given the nickname Platt. The slave master was cruel, and it was a struggle for Solomon to stay alive working on the plantation. One day, he meets a Canadian abolitionist named Bass (played by Brad Pitt) while working alongside him with some other workers. Solomon asks Bass if he would write letters to his people back in Saratoga Springs and Bass promises to do so.
"12 Years a Slave " (2013) is the first film by an African-American director (Steve McQueen) to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. And it marked the second year in a row whereby the Best Picture winner did not also win the Best Director Award. The previous year, Best Picture winner "Argo" failed to win Best Director for Ben Affleck.