Which actor won his Oscar posthumously?
Heath Ledger
Peter Finch
James Dean
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for ‘The Dark Knight’ (2009) after his death in 2008, becoming the second actor to win posthumously.
At what age did Jennifer Lawrence become the second-youngest Best Actress winner?
20 years
22 years
24 years
26 years
Lawrence won for ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012) at age 22, second only to Marlee Matlin who won at 21 for ‘Children of a Lesser God’.
Which actor won his first Oscar after being nominated 8 times?
Al Pacino
Peter O’Toole
Richard Burton
Paul Newman
Al Pacino finally won his first Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman’ (1992) after seven previous unsuccessful nominations.
What year did Halle Berry become the first African American woman to win Best Actress?
1998
2000
2002
2004
Berry won for her role in ‘Monster’s Ball’, delivering an emotional acceptance speech that addressed the historic nature of her win.
Which actor won an Oscar for playing a character who had previously won an Oscar for another actor?
Robert De Niro
Heath Ledger
Marlon Brando
Anthony Hopkins
De Niro won for playing Vito Corleone in ‘The Godfather Part II’ (1974), a role that had won Marlon Brando an Oscar two years earlier.
Which actor holds the record for most Oscar wins in the Best Actor category?
Marlon Brando
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jack Nicholson
Spencer Tracy
Daniel Day-Lewis has won the Academy Award for Best Actor three times (1989, 2007, 2012), making him the only performer to win three awards in this category.
In what year did Katharine Hepburn win her record-breaking fourth Oscar?
1971
1974
1981
1984
Hepburn won her fourth Oscar for ‘On Golden Pond’, setting a record for most acting Academy Awards that still stands today.
Which actor won an Oscar for the shortest amount of screen time?
Judi Dench
Anthony Hopkins
Beatrice Straight
David Niven
Straight won Best Supporting Actress for ‘Network’ (1976) with only 5 minutes and 40 seconds of screen time.
How old was Christopher Plummer when he became the oldest acting Oscar winner?
80 years
82 years
84 years
86 years
Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for ‘Beginners’ (2012) at age 82, making him the oldest person to win an acting Oscar.
Which actor won consecutive Best Actor Oscars in 1937 and 1938?
Clark Gable
Spencer Tracy
James Stewart
Gary Cooper
Tracy won for ‘Captains Courageous’ and ‘Boys Town’, becoming the first actor to win consecutive Best Actor awards.
What was Meryl Streep’s first Oscar-winning role?
Sophie’s Choice
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Iron Lady
Out of Africa
Streep won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ (1979), launching her record-setting Oscar career.
Which actor declined his Oscar win for Best Actor?
Marlon Brando
George C. Scott
Paul Newman
Richard Burton
Scott declined his Oscar for ‘Patton’ (1970), calling the Academy Awards ceremony a ‘meat parade’.
How many years passed between Paul Newman’s first and only Oscar win?
20 years
25 years
30 years
35 years
Newman finally won in 1986 for ‘The Color of Money’, 30 years after his first nomination for ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’.
Which actor won an Oscar for their first-ever film role?
Julie Andrews
Jennifer Hudson
Lupita Nyong’o
Anna Paquin
Hudson won Best Supporting Actress for ‘Dreamgirls’ (2006), her film debut after appearing on American Idol.
In what year did siblings Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine both receive Oscar nominations?
1967
1977
1981
1983
Both were nominated in 1981 – Beatty for ‘Reds’ and MacLaine for ‘The Turning Point’, a unique moment in Oscar history.
Which actor has received the most Oscar nominations without winning?
Glenn Close
Peter O’Toole
Richard Burton
Albert Finney
O’Toole received 8 nominations without winning a competitive Oscar, though he was given an Honorary Academy Award in 2003.
What was the age difference between the youngest and oldest Best Actor winners?
52 years
58 years
62 years
66 years
Adrien Brody (29) and Anthony Hopkins (83) represent a 58-year age gap between the youngest and oldest Best Actor winners.
Which actor won an Oscar for playing a real Oscar winner?
Cate Blanchett
Robert Downey Jr.
Michelle Williams
Eddie Redmayne
Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in ‘The Aviator’ (2004), the first time an actor won an Oscar for playing an Oscar winner.
How many minutes of screen time did Anthony Hopkins have in his Oscar-winning role in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’?
16 minutes
24 minutes
32 minutes
40 minutes
Hopkins won Best Actor for just 16 minutes of screen time as Hannibal Lecter, one of the shortest performances to win in that category.
Which year saw the first tie in Oscar history for Best Actor?
1928
1932
1968
1974
Fredric March and Wallace Beery tied at the 5th Academy Awards, with only one vote separating them (a tie was declared for a three-vote margin or less).
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