Academy Awards Trivia Question and Answers
1.
Which actor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "The Godfather: Part II" movie?
Answer:
Robert De Niro
2.
Which Alfred Hitchcock directed film won an Academy Award for best picture?
Answer:
Rebecca
3.
Who won Oscars for "The Piano"?
Answer:
Holly Hunter And Anna Paquin
4.
For which film did George Burns receive an Oscar for his performance?
Answer:
The Sunshine Boys
5.
Who was the first actor to win two consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards?
Answer:
Spencer Tracy
6.
Who won an Academy Award for writing an adapted screenplay of a movie she also starred in?
Answer:
Emma Thompson
7.
Who has won the most Academy Awards in the documentary categories (Feature & Short Subject)?
Answer:
Walt Disney
8.
For which movie did Walter Matthau win his one and only Academy Award for?
Answer:
The Fortune Cookie
9.
What two actresses won the 1968 Best Actress Award Category?
Answer:
Katharine Hepburn & Barbra Streisand
10.
Which actor took home the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer:
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
11.
For which film did Lee Marvin win an Oscar?
Answer:
Cat Ballou
12.
What film did Rex Harrison take home the Oscar in 1964 for Best Actor?
Answer:
My Fair Lady
13.
What film did Yul Brynner take home the Oscar in 1956 for Best Actor?
Answer:
The King And I
14.
For what film did James Cagney take home the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942?
Answer:
Yankee Doodle Dandy
15.
For which film did Gary Cooper win an Oscar in 1941?
Answer:
Sergeant York
16.
What film did James Stewart take home the Oscar in 1940 for Best Actor?
Answer:
The Philadelphia Story
17.
For which film did Robert Donat win an Oscar?
Answer:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
18.
What film did Spencer Tracy take home the Oscar in 1938 for Best Actor?
Answer:
Boys Town
19.
For which film did Spencer Tracy win an Oscar?
Answer:
Captains Courageous
20.
For what film did Clark Gable take home the Oscar in 1934 for Best Actor?
Answer:
It Happened One Night
21.
For which film did Charles Laughton win an Oscar?
Answer:
The Private Life Of Henry VIII
22.
What film did Wallace Beery take home the Oscar in 1932 for Best Actor?
Answer:
The Champ
23.
Who earned an Oscar for his role as veteran Chicago cop Jimmy Malone in 1987's "The Untouchables"?
Answer:
Sean Connery
24.
Who wore a swan outfit to the 2001 Oscars?
Answer:
Bjork
25.
Cate Blanchett earned an Oscar nomination for playing Queen Elizabeth I, what was the name of the movie?
Answer:
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
26.
How many Academy Awards did "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" win in 1975?
Answer:
5
27.
Sally Field won Academy Awards for Best Actress in which two years?
Answer:
1979 & 1984
28.
Who was booed at the Academy Awards when she condemned Zionist hoodlums?
Answer:
Vanessa Redgrave
29.
What film garnered Mel Brooks an Academy Award?
Answer:
The Producers
30.
Who is the youngest actor/actress ever to be nominated for an Oscar?
Answer:
Justin Henry For "Kramer Vs Kramer"
31.
How many Academy Awards did "The Godfather: Part II" win?
Answer:
6
32.
In 1945, who was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same role in the same film?
Answer:
Barry Fitzgerald, "Going My Way"
33.
For which film did Burt Lancaster take home the Oscar for Best Actor in 1960?
Answer:
Elmer Gantry
34.
For which film did Paul Lukas win an Oscar?
Answer:
Watch On The Rhine
35.
Who was nominated for an Oscar for playing gangster Mickey Cohen in the 1991 movie "Bugsy"?
Answer:
Harvey Keitel
36.
What composer finally got his first Oscar for Original Song at the 2002 Oscars?
Answer:
Randy Newman
37.
For which film did Dustin Hoffman win the Oscar for Best Actor in 1979?
Answer:
Kramer Vs. Kramer
38.
Charlize Theron was nominated by the Academy for her acting in the role of Aileen Wuornos, in what film?
Answer:
Monster
39.
Prior to "Schindler's List" in 1993, which was the last black and white film to win the Best Picture Oscar?
Answer:
The Apartment
40.
How many Academy Awards did "Mary Poppins" win for Disney?
Answer:
Five
41.
Who is the first actress to win back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actress?
Answer:
Luise Rainer
42.
Who were the first pair of siblings to win acting Oscars?
Answer:
Lionel & Ethel Barrymore
43.
How many Oscar nominations did it take before Elizabeth Taylor won her first Oscar?
Answer:
Four
44.
Who won an Oscar nomination for her role as the psychotically evil mother in "The Manchurian Candidate"?
Answer:
Angela Lansbury
45.
Which actress took home the Oscar for Best Actress of 1985?
Answer:
Geraldine Page (The Trip To Bountiful)
46.
What was the name of the episode of Columbo directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg?
Answer:
Columbo: Murder By The Book
47.
How many Academy Awards did "The Godfather" win?
Answer:
3
48.
Which 1989 film won the Best Cinematography Oscar?
Answer:
Glory
49.
Where was the first Academy Awards ceremony held?
Answer:
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
50.
How many Oscar nominations did the 1939 film "Ninotchka" garner?
Answer:
Four
51.
Which famous star hosted the Academy Awards in 1951?
Answer:
Fred Astaire
52.
What film did William Wyler earn his second Oscar for directing?
Answer:
The Best Years Of Our Lives
53.
How many total acting nominations did "Bonnie and Clyde" receive in 1967?
Answer:
5
54.
How many Best Actress nominations did Greer Garson receive over the span of her career?
Answer:
7
55.
Which film is the only one to win an Oscar for Best Unique and Artistic Picture?
Answer:
Sunrise
56.
Who gained infamy as the man who streaked the Academy Awards?
Answer:
Robert Opel
57.
Who was the first posthumous Oscar winner?
Answer:
Sidney Howard
58.
Who was the first person to refuse an Oscar?
Answer:
Dudley Nichols
59.
Who actually received the Oscar when "The Godfather" was awarded Best Picture in 1972?
Answer:
Albert S. Ruddy
60.
What film did Paul Muni take home the Oscar in 1936 for Best Actor?
Answer:
The Story Of Louis Pasteur
61.
For which film did Victor Mclaglen win an Oscar?
Answer:
The Informer
62.
In what category did Patrick Doyle win an Oscar for the film "Sense and Sensibility"?
Answer:
Musical Score
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