Find a Best Picture Oscar Hidden in a Sentence #1 Quiz

Answer: con games

The answer is "con games" because "The Sting" is the film hidden in the sentence "He ran the furTHEST IN Gym class trials."
"The Sting" was 1973's Best Picture winner. It also won Best Director for George Roy Hill who utilized many film-making techniques and styles appropriate to the 1930s era in which the film about poker playing con men took place. For instance he used the old-timey Universal Pictures logo for the start of the film, along with editing scene transitions such as wipes and iris-in shots, all in the service of putting the audience back into a nostalgic frame of mind.

Answer: ex-prize fighter

You'll find "On The Waterfront" hidden in "Why wON'T HE WATER FRONT porch flower beds as well as the backyard's beds?" The movie starred Marlon Brando as an ex-boxer named Terry Malloy ("I coulda been a contenda..." who became a longshoreman who eventually stood up to his union bosses who ran a corrupt organization.

The extraordinary cast included Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Eva Marie Saint. Brando won the Oscar for Best Actor, but according to his autobiography, when he was shown the completed picture, he thought his performance was an utter failure.

He walked out of the screening room without saying a word to the director Elia Kazan.

Answer: world leader

There walks "Gandhi" in the sentence "He only cared about love, people, livinG AND HImself" the biography of the lawyer Mohandas K. Gandhi who was forced off of a South African train in 1893 for being an Indian, and who then embarked on a mission of non-violent protest for the rights of Indians in South Africa.

The Guinness Book of Records cited "Gandhi" has having the record for the number of extras in a scene. This record will probably never be broken at this point due to the technological advancements made by CGI in film-making. Over 300,000 extras were filmed in the funeral sequence mourning Gandhi. Roughly 200,000 of them were volunteers, and 94,560 were paid a contractual nominal fee.

The scene was filmed January 31, 1981, on the 33rd anniversary of Gandhi's actual funeral. Eleven film crews were employed to shoot over 20,000 feet of film. That footage was edited down to two minutes and five seconds in the final film.

Answer: 18th-century England

There goes "Tom Jones" reveling in the sentence: "The worst grade is at the botTOM, J, ONE Step down from I." The film was director Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's 1749 novel "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" published February 28, 1749 in London.

The film retains the 18th-century time and location in England as it recounts the tale of Tom Jones, who was an illegitimate son of a Jenny one of Squire Allworthy's servants who had Tom via a dalliance with a man named Partridge, who was the local barber. Allworthy raised Tom as his own after he sent Jenny away.

The film has the distinction of being the first film to have three nominees for Best Supporting Actress (Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans, and Joyce Redman). Three films have had three nominees for Best Supporting Actor.

Answer: "The People's Court"

Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for Best Actor as the the title character Raymond Babbitt in "Rain Man": "If you're hunting New Yorkers there is a plethoRA IN MANhattan." Raymond is autistic and throughout the film is obsessed with making sure he gets to watch Judge Wapner on the TV show "The People's Court." He repeats mantras along the line of "Wapner in four minutes." Raymond's compulsion is so great that it causes his brother Charlie (Tom Cruise) to tell a woman who answers the door, "That man right there is my brother and if he doesn't get to watch 'People's Court' in about 30 seconds, he's gonna throw a fit right here on your porch. Now you can help me or you can stand there and watch it happen." For several years, "Rain Man" was the biggest grossing Best Picture Oscar winner.

But that distinction was overtaken six years later by "Forrest Gump" (1994). Several other movies have overtaken that record since then.

Answer: "We'll always have Paris."

"When he saw la chiCA'S AB, LANCAster Gordon felt like his own tummy was flabby.' "Casablanca" has the most quotes of any film in AFI's ballot of the Top 100 Movie Quotes. "We'll always have Paris" was ranked 43rd. "Here's looking at you, kid" was Casablanca's highest ranked quote at #5. Humphrey Bogart plays Rick who tells Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) "We'll always have Paris" when he refers to their brief romance on the cusp of the start of World War II.

They were in Paris, France romancing each other, but it came to a quick halt when things started getting dangerous upon the Nazi invasion of France. Rick delivered this line to Ilsa in the film's final scene as they stand in the airfield and he insists Ilsa get on the plane without him.

Answer: takes place in Asia

"You boxers shall go ahead and sPAR AS I TEach the others how to uppercut." "Parasite" is the first non-English language film to win the Best Picture Oscar.
The film tells the bizarre story of how a poor family insinuate themselves into the lives of a well-to-do family by becoming servants to them. It was also the first South Korean film to be nominated and to win the "Best International Film" Oscar which is what was formerly called "Best Foreign Film". "Parasite" is the 12th Best Picture Oscar winner that had no nominations for acting.

Answer: road trip

"If you bet on Streisand's "EverGREEN", BOOKmakers gave you two to one odds." "Green Book" features Viggo Mortensen as Tony, a working-class Italian-American bouncer who gets a job driving Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), African-American classical pianist.

The two ride all around the American South during the 1960s, Tony taking Don from music venue to music venue. To help with their journey, they've been given a copy of "The Negro Motorist Green Book" by Don's record studio. It is a guide book written for black travelers to take safe routes throughout the South. With his Academy Award win for this film, Mahershala Ali became the first black performer to win two Oscars in the supporting acting category.

He is also the second black person to win two competitive Oscars for acting. (Denzel Washington was the first winning in both the lead and supporting categories.

Answer: William Shakespeare

"Looking at the election from the feWEST SIDES, TORY Party members voted prematurely." This musical retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" pits two separate gangs against each other in New York City, the Sharks and the Jets, with a pair of star-crossed lovers, Tony and Maria, who come from different sides of the rival gangs.

But their love for each other overcomes any allegiance to a gang that is pressured upon them. "West Side Story" was the first film to award a Best Director Oscar to two directors: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

It was the only film Robbins ever directed. It would happen again 46 years later when brothers Joel and Ethan Coen also shared Best Director for "No Country for Old Men" (2007). The film's 10 Academy Awards, made it the biggest Oscar-winning musical of all time.

Answer: on a bender

"BoTH ELO'S TWEE KEN Dolls were stolen by fans after their stage show."

Directed by Billy Wilder, "The Lost Weekend" follows a four day bender in the life of an alcoholic, Don Birnam, played by Ray Milland. Milland won Best Actor for the movie, and gave probably the shortest acceptance speech on record when he simply acknowledged the applause and then left the podium without saying anything. It would be his only Oscar nomination ever.