These aren't exactly easy, so good luck with them.
1. What is the only film in Oscar history to win two acting prizes, Best Screenplay and Best Picture but without a prize for Best Director?
2. In the last 20 years, which director has directed the most Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress Oscar wins (with five)?
3. In the past 40 years, four actors/actresses have starred in back-to-back Best Picture Oscar winners. Who are they?
4. With Heath Ledger expected to take home Best Supporting Actor this year, who was the first person to ever win an Oscar posthumously?
5. Only three directors have ever won acting Oscars and directed an Oscar-winning performance. Which two directed themselves to Best Actor Oscars?
6. Who is the only director to win an acting Oscar, direct an Oscar-winning performance and not direct himself to the win?
7. Only six directors have ever had their first two films nominated for Best Picture. Who was the last one to do it?
8. Many Best Picture winners are adapted from plays, books and even other movies, but which Best Picture winner was adapted from a television show?
9. Only one actor/actress has ever been nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie for the same performance. Who was it and for what film?
10. In the past 25 years, who is the only director to direct two Oscar-winning performances in the same year but for different films?
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Okay without cheating...
ReplyDelete1. Dunno.
2. Woody Allen?
3. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, hmm... can't think of the third
Ben, I too started a movie blog this year :) I like yours a lot, so I will link it.
Thanks a bunch, I'm actually going to expand this to ten questions and I wil like you too.
ReplyDeleteThanks again.
1. Shakespeare In Love
ReplyDelete2. Clint Eastwood
3. No clue other than Russell Crowe
4. Peter Finch
5. Laurence Olivier & Roberto Benigni
6. Tim Robbins
7. No idea
8. No idea
9. No idea
10. Steven Soderbergh - Julia Roberts & Benicio Del Toro for Erin Brockovich & Traffic, respectively.
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1. Correct
ReplyDelete2. Correct
3. Russell Crowe is right, but Tom Hanks is wrong
4. Wrong
5. Correct
6. Correct
7-9. They're tough for a reason
10. Correct
7. Frank Darabont
ReplyDelete7. Stephen Daldry
ReplyDelete3. Meryl Streep. Third one's not coming to mind.
ReplyDelete4. Probably not an actor; James Dean never won. No clue.
8. Marty was based on a TV movie. Does that count?
9. I don't know.
9. Amy Irving. Yentl 1983
ReplyDeletePeter Finch is the only posthumous oscar winner isnt he?
ReplyDelete7. Mike Nichols?
Come to think of it, #2 isn't Woody Allen. Those double acting Oscars for Hannah and her Sisters were more than 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteClint Eastwood? Oscars for Hackman, Swank, and Freeman. And the Mystic River boys, Penn and Robbins. There you go.
3. John Gielgud
ReplyDelete4. Sidney Howard, Gone with the Wind
9. There are actually two-Amy Irving and James Coco. I think everyone's guessed all the remaining ones correctly.
ReplyDeleteI knew them all. But then I'm something of an Oscar historian.
ReplyDelete7 is Stephen Daldry, right?
ReplyDeleteAlright, I'll divulge all the correct answers except one that no one has gotten.
ReplyDelete1. Shakespeare in Love
2. Clint Eastwood (Hackman, Penn, Robbins, Swank, Freeman)
3. Russell Crowe (Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind) and Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer) are right but no one has gotten the third one yet
4. Sidney Howard won Best Screenplay in 1939 for Gone with the Wind but died before the ceremony in a car crash
5. Lawrence Olivier and Roberto Benigni
6. Tim Robbins
7. Frank Darabont (Daldry didn't have Billy Eliot nominated for BP)
8. Marty
9. Amy Irving, Yentl
10. Steven Soderberg (Roberts and Del Toro in 01)
The third name is someone who is still around. They are very famous and won an Oscar for one of the films.
John Gielgud was the third (Chariots of Fire and Gandhi), just need the fourth. He's had two nominations and one win. His last nominations was in the 2000s.
ReplyDeleteGreat quiz but #9 is wrong. There are two: See fact in Irving's trivia section.
ReplyDeleteSorry, here is the link. James Coco in "Only When I Laugh" is the other: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001388/bio
ReplyDeleteMichael Pena was in both Million Dollar Baby and Crash. I guess he would be the 4th one right?
ReplyDeleteIt's Christopher Walken!
ReplyDeleteAnd I mentioned the James Coco thing above.
Also I figured out the fourth name but it was only through poring over the IMDB list of winners and thinking really hard. His role in the film which did NOT win him the Oscar is VERY VERY VERY VERY small, but unforgettable! Haha! Great question!
ReplyDeleteChristopher Walken for The Deer Hunter & Annie Hall.
ReplyDeleteBut there are 2 other actors who starred in back to back best picture winners within the last 40 years:
John Gielgud in Chariots of Fire('81) & Gandhi('82)
Ian Charleson in Chariots of Fire & Gandhi
Now, I'll give you the fact that Charleson and Pena were in back-to-back, but that is one of those things that are minute. I forgot to mention Gielgud and I included Christopher Walken just because he's actually listed on the Annie Hall poster credits.
ReplyDeleteI'm taking a blind stab at this for kicks. I haven't read any of the other comments either:
ReplyDelete1. "Shakespeare in Love" ?? I know it won a bunch and that Spielberg took Director home that year for "Saving Private Ryan."
2. Clint Eastwood - 2 for M$B, 2 for Mystic River, and I think someone for Unforgiven?
3. Too hard! *itches brain* (1) Russell Crowe in "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind" (2) Meryl Streep with "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer"... And that's where my knowledge ends.
4. I'm certain of only Peter Finch winning posthumously for "Network," but I remember reading in one of my Oscar books about someone involved with "Gone with the Wind" winning the first posthumous Oscar. Maybe the cinematographer?
5. I immediately thought of Kevin Costner for "Dances with Wolves" and Mel Gibson for "Braveheart." But I don't think either of them actually won. Maybe Laurence Olivier for something (didn't he win for "Hamlet")? Can't think of a second.
6. I'm *pretty* sure that'd be Warren Beatty who won Supporting for "Shampoo" and separately won Director for "Reds."
7. Drawing a blank here. Thinking maybe Todd Field or Sam Mendes? But no, they don't fit. Steven Soderbergh maybe? How long was it between "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and his "Erin Brokovich"/"Traffic" double nom? I give up.
8. I immediately thought "M*A*S*H" and then realized that was the other away around (movie made into most successful show of all time). Lulz. I'll have to go with "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."
9. Faye Dunaway for "Mommie Dearest?" I'm not sure if she got an Oscar nom, but I know she eventually won worst actress of the decade or something at the Razzies for that performance.
10. That'd be Stevie Soderbergh: Julia Roberts in "Erin Brokovich" and Benicio Del Toro in "Traffic." Nuff said.
Post the results soon, k??
Thanks for everyone who participated. I'll try to do this more often and polish it up a little better.
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