Oscars

Question 1

Alfred Hitchcock never won a Best Director Oscar but he did direct one Best Picture, which one?

Answer 1

Rebecca

Question 2

Winning 4 Oscars in 1954 alone, this man has the record for most Academy Awards, with 22

Answer 2

Walt Disney

Question 3

With 10 nominations, this 2000 movie holds the record for nominations for a foreign language film

Answer 3

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Question 4

Alan Menken won back-to-back Oscars for the song “Beauty and the Beast” in 1991 and this song in 1992

Answer 4

A Whole New World

Question 5

Appearing for only 16 minutes and 10 seconds, the actor who played this legendary 1991 character had the second-shortest screen time to earn the Best Actor Award

Answer 5

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter

Question 6

At 238 minutes with overture, entr’acte and exit music, this is the longest movie to win Best Picture

Answer 6

Gone with the Wind

Question 7

She’s the only person to win an Academy Award for acting and another for writing

Answer 7

Emma Thompson (Howard’s End acting, Sense and Sensibility - adapted screenplay)

Question 8

In 1962 Omar Sharif became the first Middle Eastern actor nominated for an acting Oscar for his role in this David Lean film

Answer 8

Lawrence of Arabia

Question 9

A.R. Rahman won the 2008 Oscar for Best Song for this Slumdog Millionaire song

Answer 9

Jai Ho

Question 10

Luise Rainer won back-to-back Best Actress Oscars for 1936’s the Great Ziegfeld and this 1938 movie based on a Pearl Buck novel

Answer 10

The Good Earth

Question 11

In 1980, this actor won’t the Academy Award for Best Directing in his directorial debut for Ordinary People

Answer 11

Robert Redford