Academy Awards Flashcards
Which legendary comedian, who dies in 2003 aged 100, hosted the Oscar ceremony a record number of times?
Bob Hope
For which 1997 film did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor and Helen Hunt Best Actress?
As Good As It Gets
At the first Academy Awards ceremony, who was initially nominated as Best Actor for The Circus, but was eventually given a special award instead?
Charlie Chaplin
How old was Tatum O’Neal when she won the award for Best Supporting Actress in 1974, for her role in Paper Moon?
Ten
When Humphrey Bogart won his Oscar for The African Queen, the other three acting Oscars were all won by which film?
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Academy statuette, which came to be referred to as an “Oscar” was designed by which MGM Art Director?
Cedric Gibbons
Which Aardman Animations film, starring Wallace and Gromit, won the Award in 2006 for Best Animated Feature?
The Curse of the Were-rabbit
In 1972, who became the first Oscar Winner to have parents who had also both won Oscars?
Liza Minelli
Which Ang Lee film won an Award in 2001 for Best Foreign Language Film and was also nominated for Best Picture?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In 1999, who said of her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, “I feel for eight minutes on the screen I should only get a little bit of him”?
Judi Dench
What did Robert Opal famously do at the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony?
Streaked
Robert De Niro won Best Actor in 1981 for his portrayal of which boxer in Raging Bull
Jake La Motta
Which film starring Elizabeth Taylor was the last to win the black-and-white Cinematography award, before the category was combined with that for colour films?
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Whose filme Le monde Sans Soleil - The World Without Sun - won the 1964 award for Best Documentary Feature?
Jacques Cousteau
With which song di The Beatles win the 1970 Oscar for Best Original Song Score?
Let It Be
Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the wife of which American Artist
Jackson Pollock
Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek won the 1985 award for Best Make-Up, for which film starring Cher?
Mask
Who refused his Oscar for Best Actor in the title role of Patton on the grounds that he disagreed with competitive acting awards?
George C Scott
in1999, Roberto Benigni became the first person in a foreign language film to win a Best Actor Oscar. For which film?
Life Is Beautiful
Which film composer won Best Original Score Oscars for Jaws, Star Wars and Schindler’s List?
John Williams
The 1931 film Cimarron was the first film of which genre to win the Best Picture Oscar?
Western
Which actress won a Best Supporting Actress award in 2003 for playing the real-life Oscar winning actress Katherine Hepburn?
Cate Blanchett
Before the success of Chicagoat the 2002 Awards, what was the last film based on a stage musical to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Oliver!
Who made the notorious boast “The British Are Coming” at the 1981 Academy Awards ceremony, after receiving the Oscar for Best Screenplay for Chariots of Fire?
Colin Welland
In 1991, which Disney production became the first animated feature to be nominated for Best Film?
Beauty and the Beast?
Who had never won an Oscar during his lengthy career and was presented with an Honorary Award in 1980, then won Best Actor the following year?
Henry Fonda
For which film did Dr Haing N’Gor win the 1984 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor; it was his first film performance.
The Killing Fields
Who became the first person to win a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, when he shared the 1938 award for Best Screenplay with Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and WP Lipscomb
George Bernard Shaw
What You Wish Upon A Star was the Academy Award winning song from which Walt Disney film?
Pinocchio
Which 73 year old actor entertained the audience at the 1991 ceremony, by performing one armed press-ups while collecting his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor?
Jack Palance
