Academy Awards Flashcards
In 2004 which film won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated and was also the second sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar?
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Who holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations?
Walt Disney
The running time for which film which won Best Picture in 1939 is 221 minutes (234 minutes including the overture intermission and exit music)?
Gone with the Wind
Steven Spielberg won his first Academy Award for Best Director for which film shot primarily in black and white?
Schindler’s List
Who declined the Oscar he won for The Godfather choosing instead to send a Native American campaigner to collect the award for him?
Marlon Brando
For which film did Woody Allen win his only Academy Award for Best Director? The film also won three other Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Annie Hall
Who is the most frequent host of the Academy Awards with 19 appearances?
Bob Hope
In 2002 who became the first (and to date the only) black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster’s Ball?
Halle Berry
Which American composer has won five Academy Awards from 50 nominations and has composed the music for all but two of Steven Spielberg’s feature films?
John Williams
In 1974 who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress aged 10 in a film also starring her father?
Tatum O’Neal
Which 1969 film was the only X-rated film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture though its rating has since been changed to R?
Midnight Cowboy
Who has more nominations for an Academy Award than any other actor or actress (20 nominations as of 2017)?
Meryl Streep
Which 1927 American silent film set during the First World War won the first Best Picture award in 1929?
Wings
Which song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1969?
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD
Who the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Patton in 1970)?
George C Scott
Which theatre in Los Angeles formerly known as the Kodak Theatre has hosted the Academy Awards annually since 2002?
Dolby Theatre
Who became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy in 1989?
Jessica Tandy
Which 1950 film received 14 Academy Awards nominations and won six including Best Picture?
All about Eve
Despite having less than 25 minutes of screen time who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992?
Anthony Hopkins
Who won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2008 for his role in The Dark Knight?
Heath Ledger
Which 1991 romantic fantasy film was the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Beauty and the Beast
Who received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1962 was nominated for the award another seven times and holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for acting without a win?
Peter O’Toole
Katherine Hepburn won the second of her four Academy Awards for her role as Christina Drayton in which film directed by Stanley Kramer?
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Who received 15 Academy Award nominations winning twice and directed both his father and daughter to Oscar wins in different films?
John Huston
Which 1972 film holds the record for most Academy Awards (eight) earned by a film not honoured for Best Picture?
Cabaret
Starring in the 1941 film Suspicion who is the only actress to ever win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
Joan Fontaine
Who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way?
Bing Crosby
There is an urban legend that which dog received the most votes for Best Actor at the first Academy Award competition in 1929?
Rin Tin Tin
After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role in Mrs. Miniver who made the longest-ever Oscar acceptance speech at five minutes and 30 seconds?
Greer Garson
Who sung Secret Love in Calamity Jane and Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) in The Man Who Knew Too Much both of which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
Doris Day
At the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony who introduced Idina Menzel by saying “Please welcome the wickedly talented one and only Adele Dazeem”?
John Travolta
Who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936 1938 and 1940? He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing a preacher in Sergeant York in 1941.
Walter Brennan
In 2002 who won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29 making him the youngest actor to win in that category?
Adrien Brody
Who was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for Silkwood When Harry Met Sally… and Sleepless in Seattle?
Nora Ephron
Elizabeth Taylor won the first of her two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performance in which film in 1960?
Butterfield 8
What was the first film to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture Director Actor Actress and Screenplay)?
It happened one night
Who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beginners in 2012 at the age of 82 to become the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award?
Christopher Plummer
Also known as a photographer who won the Academy Award for Costume Design for the Lerner and Loewe film musicals Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964)?
Cecil Beaton
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday 16 May 1929 at which hotel in Hollywood?
Hotel Roosevelt
Who won the Academy Award for for Best Original Dramatic Score for Titanic in 1998?
James Horner
What is the official name of the Oscar statuette?
Academy Award of Merit
Which Academy Award category was inaugurated in 1972 and discontinued in 1995? John Lasseter was the last winner of the award.
Special Achievement
In 1964 Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in which film?
Lilies of the Field
Who is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette and also won the Academy Award for Best Production Design 11 times?
Cedric Gibbons
Which song written and produced by Georgio Moroder and performed by an American new wave band won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986?
Take my Breath Away
To be eligible for an Academy Award a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more how many minutes?
Forty
Winning in 1932 which is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category?
Grand Hotel
Which American won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973?
Edith head
Who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1983 for her role as the male Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously becoming the first person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex?
Linda Hunt
Which Chicago-based company has been the official manufacturer of the Oscar statuette since 1982?
R. S. owens
