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Answer: Best Original Song

"A Star Is Born" (2018) won the Best Original Song Oscar for "Shallow", a song written by Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando and Mark Ronson. It was performed in the movie by the film's leading actors, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. The pair re-performed the song live at the Oscars telecast, where they were also nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress.

The 1954 version of "A Star is Born" went home Oscar-less after being nominated for six awards, and the 1977 version of "A Star Is Born" also only won one Oscar for Best Original Song ("Evergreen").

Answer: Best Original Screenplay

"Pulp Fiction" (1994) is a fast-talking, action-fueled crime drama starring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta as a pair of mob hitmen. The film was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and the Best Original Screenplay win was his first Oscar. He was later nominated for Best Original Screenplay for "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained".

"Pulp Fiction" was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman), Best Director (Quentin Tarantino) and Best Film Editing (Sally Menke).

Answer: Best Costume Design

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (2016) marked the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, the author of the "Harry Potter" series. A fantasy film and a period film set in the 1920s, it was nominated for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design and won for the latter. It also became the first "Wizarding World" movie to win an Oscar. It is set in a secret community of witches and wizards in 1920s New York City.

The winning costume designer is Colleen Atwood, a prolific designer who has three previous Oscar wins to her name, including: "Alice in Wonderland", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Chicago".

Answer: Best Supporting Actor

"Goodfellas" (1990) is the story of a mob boss and his relationships. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Lorraine Bracco), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. The film features Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta but Joe Pesci was the one who walked away with the Supporting Actor Oscar.

It was Joe Pesci's first win, but second nomination following "Raging Bull".

Answer: Best Visual Effects

Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver, "Alien" is a horror/sci-fi classic taking place on a commercial spaceship making an emergency landing on a distant moon. Its two Oscar nominations were for Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects, only winning for the latter.

The film's box office success and gradual critical acclaim has helped cement it as an original classic of the genre, having spawned comic books, video games, and multiple sequels in the film franchise.

Answer: Best Makeup

"Beetlejuice" (1988) stars an unrecognizable Michael Keaton as the title poltergeist, a mischievous and malicious spirit hired to drive a family off their home. It was considered a critical and commercial success, but received only the one Academy Award nomination, Best Makeup, which it then won for.

The Oscars did not have an official Best Makeup Oscar until 1981, as a result of complaints that "The Elephant Man" (1980) would end up going unrecognized for their makeup work. In 2013 the name of the category was then changed to Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Answer: Best Adapted Screenplay

"Call Me By Your Name" (2017) was based on the same-titled novel by Andre Aciman and adapted for the screen by James Ivory. When James Ivory won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, he became the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar at the age of 89. It was his first Oscar and first screenplay nomination, previously receiving Best Director nominations.

At the 2018 ceremony when he accepted his award, Ivory was wearing a dress shirt with the face of the film's young star, Timothee Chalamet, who was also nominated for Best Actor.

Answer: Best Picture

"Grand Hotel" (1932) is a star-studded drama set at a luxurious hotel in Berlin. It has the unique claim to fame of winning only Best Picture, with no other nominations to its name. It received a home video release on DVD in 2004 and a Blu-Ray release in 2013, and has officially been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry for its cultural and historical significance.

The film was based on a same-titled play by its screenwriter William A. Drake which was adapted from the Austrian novel "Menschen im Hotel". The film then served as inspiration for a 1945 remake "Week-End at the Waldorf" and a 1989 stage musical.

Answer: Best Supporting Actress

Set during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, "The Help" (2011) centers on the point of view of the African American maids. It received four Academy Award nominations, including two in the Best Supporting Actress category for Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, but it was Spencer who went home with the film's only win. Octavia Spencer was later nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "Hidden Figures" and "The Shape of Water".

Answer: Best Foreign Language Film

"Tsotsi" (2005) is a South African film starring Presley Chweneyagae as Tsotsi, a teenaged criminal living a gang life in a violent neighbourhood in Johannesburg. Best Foreign Language Film was its only Oscar nomination and win.

"Tsotsi" was the second South African film to be nominated for an Oscar. The first occurred just a year earlier in the Best Foreign Language Film category for Darrell Roodt's drama "Yesterday" (2004) about an HIV-positive woman.

Answer: Best Actor

"Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) stars Nicolas Cage as an alcoholic screenwriter and Elisabeth Shue as a prostitute. Cage, Shue and writer/director Mike Figgis were all nominated for Oscars, but Cage was the only one to win the Oscar which was also his first. Cage was later nominated for his leading role in "Adaptation." (2002).

"Leaving Las Vegas" is based on the same-titled semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, the basis for Cage's character. The writer committed suicide in 1994 shortly after learning that his novel was going to be adapted into a film.

Answer: Best Film Editing

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011) is directed by David Fincher and adapted from the Swedish novel and 2009 Swedish film of the same title (translated from "Man som hatar kvinnor"). The winners of the Film Editing Oscar, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, are both frequent collaborators with David Fincher.

They won the same award in the previous year for "The Social Network" (2010) and nominated two years before that for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008).

Answer: Best Director

"Giant" (1956) is an epic set on a Texas ranch starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. It was James Dean's final movie; the actor died in a car crash one week after principal photography finished. The film's director, George Stevens, had previously won for "A Place in the Sun" (1951) and had won the honorary Oscar the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1954 for consistently delivering high quality of work in motion picture production.

Answer: Best Cinematography

"Road to Perdition" (2002) is a story of redemption and revenge starring Tom Hanks and Tyler Hoechlin as his son on the run from the mob. It's based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner. The bleak, rain-soaked cinematography of depression-era Chicago worked well to tell the visual story.

The film won cinematographer Conrad L. Hall his third and final Oscar, as he died just 11 weeks before the Oscar ceremony. He was also posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: Best Actress

"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974) stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow trying to make a new life for herself. The film was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Diane Ladd) and Best Original Screenplay (Robert Getchell). Ellen Burstyn did not attend the awards ceremony, reportedly due to fear of pressure and the attention. Director Martin Scorsese accepted the Oscar on her behalf.

She did end up attending the ceremony for later roles that she was nominated for.