Academy Awards

Question 1

Which legendary comedian, who dies in 2003 aged 100, hosted the Oscar ceremony a record number of times?

Answer 1

Bob Hope

Question 2

For which 1997 film did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor and Helen Hunt Best Actress?

Answer 2

As Good As It Gets

Question 3

At the first Academy Awards ceremony, who was initially nominated as Best Actor for The Circus, but was eventually given a special award instead?

Answer 3

Charlie Chaplin

Question 4

How old was Tatum O’Neal when she won the award for Best Supporting Actress in 1974, for her role in Paper Moon?

Answer 4

Ten

Question 5

When Humphrey Bogart won his Oscar for The African Queen, the other three acting Oscars were all won by which film?

Answer 5

A Streetcar Named Desire

Question 6

The Academy statuette, which came to be referred to as an “Oscar” was designed by which MGM Art Director?

Answer 6

Cedric Gibbons

Question 7

Which Aardman Animations film, starring Wallace and Gromit, won the Award in 2006 for Best Animated Feature?

Answer 7

The Curse of the Were-rabbit

Question 8

In 1972, who became the first Oscar Winner to have parents who had also both won Oscars?

Answer 8

Liza Minelli

Question 9

Which Ang Lee film won an Award in 2001 for Best Foreign Language Film and was also nominated for Best Picture?

Answer 9

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Question 10

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”?

Answer 10

Judi Dench

Question 11

What did Robert Opal famously do at the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony?

Answer 11

Streaked

Question 12

Robert De Niro won Best Actor in 1981 for his portrayal of which boxer in Raging Bull

Answer 12

Jake La Motta

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

Question 14

Whose filme Le monde Sans Soleil - The World Without Sun - won the 1964 award for Best Documentary Feature?

Answer 14

Jacques Cousteau

Question 15

With which song di The Beatles win the 1970 Oscar for Best Original Song Score?

Answer 15

Let It Be

Question 16

Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the wife of which American Artist

Answer 16

Jackson Pollock

Question 17

Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek won the 1985 award for Best Make-Up, for which film starring Cher?

Answer 17

Mask

Question 18

Who refused his Oscar for Best Actor in the title role of Patton on the grounds that he disagreed with competitive acting awards?

Answer 18

George C Scott

Question 19

in1999, Roberto Benigni became the first person in a foreign language film to win a Best Actor Oscar. For which film?

Answer 19

Life Is Beautiful

Question 20

Which film composer won Best Original Score Oscars for Jaws, Star Wars and Schindler’s List?

Answer 20

John Williams

Question 21

The 1931 film Cimarron was the first film of which genre to win the Best Picture Oscar?

Answer 21

Western

Question 22

Which actress won a Best Supporting Actress award in 2003 for playing the real-life Oscar winning actress Katherine Hepburn?

Answer 22

Cate Blanchett

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

Oliver!

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

Colin Welland

Question 25

In 1991, which Disney production became the first animated feature to be nominated for Best Film?

Answer 25

Beauty and the Beast?

Question 26

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?

Answer 26

Henry Fonda

Question 27

For which film did Dr Haing N’Gor win the 1984 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor; it was his first film performance.

Answer 27

The Killing Fields

Question 28

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

Answer 28

George Bernard Shaw

Question 29

What You Wish Upon A Star was the Academy Award winning song from which Walt Disney film?

Answer 29

Pinocchio

Question 30

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?

Answer 30

Jack Palance