More Academy Award History Trivia Quiz

Answer: Forrest Gump

'Forrest Gump' (1994), earned $329.7m at theaters in the USA, 'Gone With The Wind' (1939) $198.5m. 'The Sound Of Music' (1965) grossed $163.2m, and 'The Silence Of The Lambs' (1991) $130.7m.

Answer: Star Wars

'Star Wars' (1977) won a total of 6 Oscars. 'E.T.' (1982) and 'The Matrix' (1999) each won 4 Oscars, and 'Jurassic Park' (1993) won 3 Oscars.

Answer: Katharine Hepburn

Bette Davis appeared in 'All About Eve', which won Best Picture of 1950, James Stewart was in the 1952 winner, 'The Greatest Show On Earth', and Jack Lemmon starred in 'The Apartment', which won the Best Picture Oscar for 1960. Katharine Hepburn, having won 4 Oscars for her acting, has never appeared in a movie that took home the top honor.

Answer: John F. Kennedy's assassination

In 1938, severe floods in Los Angeles caused the Oscar ceremony to be postponed for 1 week. In 1968, the Academy Awards were scheduled for April 8th, which was the same day as Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, so they were postponed for 2 days. In 1981, Ronald Reagan was scheduled to appear via sattelite on the Oscar telecast, but was shot on the same day, postponing the Awards for 1 day.

Although the U.S. was devastated by the assassination of JFK, it occurred in November of 1963, several months before the Oscar ceremonies.

Answer: Bette Davis

Jason Robards won back-to-back Best Supporting Actor Oscars for 'All The President's Men' (1976), and 'Julia' (1977). Katharine Hepburn won Best Actress Oscars for 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner' (1967), and also for 'The Lion In Winter' (1968). Spencer Tracy won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actor in 'Captains Courageous' (1937), and 'Boys Town' (1938). Bette Davis' Oscars were for 'Dangerous' (1935), and 'Jezebel' (1938).

Answer: The Ten Commandments

There was no category for visual effects until 1964, so unfortunately, 'The Ten Commandments' (1956) could not win the award.

Answer: Star Wars

Oscars for Best Make-up were not given out until 1980, so that was not one of the six categories for which "Star Wars" (1977) received an Academy Award.

Answer: Mike Nichols

Robert Redford won a Best Director Oscar for 'Ordinary People' (1980), James L. Brooks for 'Terms Of Endearment' (1983), and Sam Mendes for 'American Beauty' (1999), each of which was a feature directorial debut. Mike Nichols won for 'The Graduate' (1967), but directed his first picture, 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?' (1966) the year before.

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

Robert De Niro won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 'The Godfather, Part II' (1974), Jack Nicholson won for 'Terms of Endearment' (1983), and Kevin Spacey for 'The Usual Suspects' (1995) . Dustin Hoffman won his first Oscar for 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979), and again for 'Rain Man' (1988), but both were for Best Actor in a lead role.

Answer: Sally Field

Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 'Murder On The Orient Express' (1974), Meryl Streep won for 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979), and Jessica Lange for 'Tootsie' (1982). Sally Field won for 'Norma Rae' (1979), and again for 'Places In The Heart' (1984), but both were for Best Actress in a lead role.

Answer: Casablanca

At the end of the film C'asablanca', Capt. Louis Renault watches Rick Blain shoot the nazi, Heinrich Strasser. Louis then tells his men, 'Major Strasser's been shot... round up the usual suspects.'

Answer: MGM-UA

With 16 Best Picture Oscar-winners between them, the merged Metro Goldwyn Mayer and United Artists studios won the most. Columbia put out movies with 10 of these awards, Paramount had 11, and Fox had 10. The latter two studios sharing the honor for the films 'Braveheart' (1995), and 'Titanic' (1997) for which they shared production costs.

Answer: Each won an Oscar for their first screenplay

Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her adaptation of 'Sense And Sensiblity' (1995), Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won for 'Good Will Hunting' (1997), and Alan Ball for 'American Beauty' (1999), all of which were first attempts at screenwriting.

Answer: Randy Newman

Barbra Streisand won an Oscar for co-writing the song 'Evergreen', from the film 'A Star Is Born' (1976). Stevie Wonder won for 'I Just Called To Say I love You', from 'The Woman In Red' (1984). Bruce Springsteen won for 'The Streets Of Philadelphia', from the movie 'Philadelphia' (1993). Randy Newman won the 2001 Oscar for Best Music for the song "If I Didn't Have You" from the film "Monsters, Inc." (2001).

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan served as President of the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), and the United States of America (USA), but never as President of AMPAS, which is responsible for the Academy Awards.

Answer: As Good As It Gets

Jack Nicholson (April, 1937) is 26 years, 2 months older than his co-star, Helen Hunt (June, 1963). Rex Harrison (March, 1908) was 21 years, 2 months older than Audrey Hepburn (May, 1929). Harvey Keitel (May, 1939) is 18 years, 10 months older than Holly Hunter (March, 1958). And Humphrey Bogart (January, 1899) was 16 years, 7 months older than Ingrid Bergman (August, 1915).

Answer: The Sound of Music

'The Sound Of Music' (1965), was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Answer: George Lucas

Charlie Chaplin won an Oscar for best dramatic score for 'Limelight' (1952), Mel Brooks won for best original screenplay for 'The Producers' (1968), and Isaac Hayes won for best original song with 'Theme From Shaft' (1971). George Lucas' films have won Oscars, and his company, Industrial Light and Magic is responsible for many Oscars, but he himself has never won ... in 1992 he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at that year's Oscars ceremony.

It is voted by the Academy's Board of Governors and is presented to "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." It is an occasional award, as it is not awarded every year.

Answer: Hamlet

Although 'Shakespeare In Love' won a Best Picture Oscar, it is a fictional story, not written by the Bard. 'West Side Story' is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, but Hamlet was the first one of Shakespeare's plays to have been made into a movie that won an Academy Award for best picture ... 54 different versions of Hamlet have been put on film, but the Laurence Olivier version (1948) has the only Oscar.

Answer: James Caan

Diane Keaton won an Oscar for Best Actress in 'Annie Hall' (1977), Robert Duvall for Best Actor in 'Tender Mercies' (1983), and Al Pacino for 'Scent Of A Woman' (1992). James Caan has not yet won an Oscar.

Answer: John Lithgow

Montgomery Clift was nominated for his debut in 'The Search' (1948), Oprah Winfrey received a nomination for her first movie, 'The Color Purple' (1985), and Edward Norton was nominated for 'Primal Fear' (1996), his debut film. John Lithgow's first nomination came for 'The World According To Garp' (1982), his first major role, but his eighth film.

Answer: Jessica Capshaw

Kate Hudson's mother is Goldie Hawn, who won an Oscar for her performance in 'Cactus Flower' (1969). Angelina Jolie's father is Jon Voight, best actor winner for 'Coming Home' (1978). Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of three-time Academy Award winner, Ingrid Bergman. Jessica Capshaw is the daughter of Bob and Kate Capshaw, and her stepfather is Steven Spielberg.

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

Robert De Niro appeared in 'The Godfather, Part II' (1974) and 'The Deer Hunter' (1978). Al Pacino starred in 'The Godfather' (1972) and 'The Godfather, Part II' (1974). Dustin Hoffman has been in 'Midnight Cowboy' (1969), 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979), and 'Rain Man' (1998).

Answer: How The West Was Won

'How The West Was Won' featured Oscar winners Walter Brennan, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, and John Wayne, totaling 7. 'Heartburn' had 6: Milos Forman, Jack Nicholson, Mercedes Ruehl, Kevin Spacey, Maureen Stapleton, and Meryl Streep. 'Shakespeare In Love' starred Ben Affleck, Judi Dench, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. 'Raising Arizona' featured Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, and Frances McDormand.

Answer: John Ford

John Ford won Best Director Oscars 4 times, for 'The Informer' (1935), 'The Grapes Of Wrath' (1940), 'How Green Was My Valley' (1941), and 'The Quiet Man' (1952). He directed 142 films, with Oscar winning actors such as James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Lee Marvin, and James Stewart, but John Ford was best known for his westerns that featured John Wayne.

Some people consider him the best director ever, but al ot can be said for Frank Capra and William Wyler, who each won 3 times, as well as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, who never won.