1) Which of the following people have not helped host an academy award ceremony?
a. Goldie Hawn
b. Chevy Chase
c. Robin Williams
d. Sally Field
2) How many Western genre films won best picture?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
3) Which actor besides Tom Hanks won 'Best Actor' twice in a row?
a. Marlon Brando
b. Clark Gable
c. Humphrey Bogart
d. Spencer Tracy
4)Name the leading lady who HASN'T won at least two Best Actress Oscars.
a) Sissy Spacek
b) Jane Fonda
c) Jodie Foster
d) Vivien Leigh
e) Sally Field
f) Elizabeth Taylor
5) Only three films in the past 71 years have grabbed all five of the major awards, they are?
a) ''Ben-Hur,'' ''It's a Wonderful Life,'' ''Ordinary People''
b) ''Citizen Kane,'' ''The English Patient,'' ''Forrest Gump''
c) 'The Godfather,'' ''Gone With the Wind,'' ''Schindler's List''
d) ''The Godfather II,'' ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' ''West Side Story''
e) 'It Happened One Night,'' ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' ''Silence of the Lambs''
6. Name the actor who wasn't nominated for an Academy Award as a child.
a) Jodie Foster
b) Henry Thomas (ET)
c) Shirley Temple
d) Tatum O'Neal
e) Anna Paquin
7) Who Bought Clark Gable's Oscar?
a) Steven Spielberg
b) Madonna
c) Lauren Bacall
d) Tom Hanks
8) Name the TWO Best Picture Winners where a main character makes clothes out of window drapes.
------------
---------
-------
----
--
-
Answers
1) c. Robin Williams
2) b. 3 cimarron, dances with wolves, unforgiviven
3) d.
1938 Spencer Tracy - ''Boys' Town''
1937 Spencer Tracy - ''Captains Courageous''
4) a. Sissy Spacek has earned only one Best Actress Oscar, for her turn as Loretta Lynn in 1981's ''Coal Miner's Daughter.'' The other leading ladies all have at least two Best Actress awards: Sally Field (''Norma Rae,'' ''Places in the Heart''); Jane Fonda (''Klute,'' ''Coming Home''); Jodie Foster (''The Accused,'' ''The Silence of the Lambs''); Vivien Leigh (''Gone With the Wind,'' ''A Streetcar Named Desire''); and Elizabeth Taylor (''Butterfield 8,'' ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'').
5) e. The only three movies to win Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay in Oscar's 71-year history are: ''It Happened One Night''; ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''; ''Silence of the Lambs.''
6) B. ''E.T.'''s Henry Thomas was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1982, but not for an Academy Award. Tatum O'Neal (''Paper Moon'') and Anna Paquin (''The Piano'') won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress in 1974 and 1994, respectively. Jodie Foster (''Taxi Driver''was nominated for her supporting role in 1977.
7) A. Steven Spielberg paid $550,000 at auction for Clark Gable's Best Actor Oscar® from It Happened One Night
8) Scarlett in "Gone With The Wind" makes a dress out of her velvet green drapes and Maria in "Sound Of Music" makes play clothes for the children out of her old drapes that were in her room.
This page has been visited