What was the first film to win all five major Academy Awards (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay)?

Gone with the Wind

It Happened One Night

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Godfather

The 1934 romantic comedy achieved this feat, which has only been repeated twice: by ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.

What film made history in 2020 as the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture?

Roma

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Life is Beautiful

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won 4 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film.

Which actress won her first Oscar at age 21, making her the youngest Best Actress winner in history?

Jennifer Lawrence

Marlee Matlin

Audrey Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Matlin won for her role in ‘Children of a Lesser God’ (1986), also becoming the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award.

What 1959 film holds the record for most Oscar wins (11) tied with Titanic and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King?

The Ten Commandments

Ben-Hur

Spartacus

Cleopatra

Ben-Hur’s 11 wins from 12 nominations stood as the record for 38 years until Titanic matched it in 1998.

Which director won Best Director for two consecutive years (2013 and 2014)?

Steven Spielberg

Martin Scorsese

Alfonso Cuarón

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Iñárritu won for ‘Birdman’ (2014) and ‘The Revenant’ (2015), becoming only the third director to win in consecutive years.

What was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture?

Toy Story

The Lion King

Beauty and the Beast

Snow White

The 1991 Disney film broke this barrier, though it would take until 2009 for the Academy to nominate another animated film (Up).

Which actor holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (8)?

Glenn Close

Richard Burton

Peter O’Toole

Albert Finney

O’Toole received 8 nominations between 1962 and 2006, finally receiving an Honorary Award in 2003.

What was the first color film to win Best Picture?

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

An American in Paris

The Greatest Show on Earth

The 1939 epic won 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, setting new standards for color cinematography.

Which 2011 film won 5 Oscars without speaking a single word of dialogue?

Hugo

War Horse

The Artist

Midnight in Paris

This modern silent film won Best Picture, Director, Actor, Costume Design, and Original Score.

What was the longest film to win Best Picture, with a runtime of 238 minutes?

Lawrence of Arabia

Ben-Hur

Gone with the Wind

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

The 1959 epic’s nearly 4-hour runtime made it the longest Best Picture winner, though Gone with the Wind comes close at 234 minutes.

Which actress won her first Oscar for a film she was in for only 8 minutes of screen time?

Judi Dench

Rita Moreno

Beatrice Straight

Juliette Binoche

Dench won Best Supporting Actress for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ (1998) despite appearing in just 8 minutes of the film.

What film won Best Picture in 2017 after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner?

Hidden Figures

Moonlight

Manchester by the Sea

Fences

The mix-up created one of the most memorable moments in Oscar history when the correction was made on live television.

Which 1973 film became the first horror movie to be nominated for Best Picture?

The Omen

Rosemary’s Baby

The Exorcist

Carrie

The film received 10 nominations and won 2 Oscars, paving the way for horror films to be taken seriously by the Academy.

What age was Christopher Plummer when he became the oldest person to win an acting Oscar?

80

82

84

86

Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for ‘Beginners’ (2012) at age 82, making him the oldest acting winner in Oscar history.

Which Best Picture winner was filmed entirely using iPhones?

Birdman

The Florida Project

Tangerine

Moonlight

While not a Best Picture winner, this 2015 film made history as the first major motion picture shot entirely on iPhone 5s smartphones.

What was the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination?

The Dark Knight

Black Panther

Wonder Woman

Spider-Man 2

The 2018 Marvel film broke new ground for superhero movies at the Oscars, receiving 7 nominations including Best Picture.

Which actor won posthumous Oscar 14 months after his death?

Heath Ledger

James Dean

Peter Finch

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for his role as The Joker in ‘The Dark Knight’ (2009), following his death in January 2008.

What was the first sports film to win Best Picture?

Rocky

Chariots of Fire

Million Dollar Baby

Raging Bull

The 1976 film about an underdog boxer won 3 Oscars including Best Picture, Director, and Film Editing.

Which director has the most Best Director nominations (12)?

Steven Spielberg

William Wyler

Martin Scorsese

John Ford

Wyler received 12 nominations between 1936 and 1965, winning 3 times for ‘Mrs. Miniver’, ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’, and ‘Ben-Hur’.

Which 1942 film holds the record for most Oscar nominations (11) without winning a single award?

The Magnificent Ambersons

Citizen Kane

The Little Foxes

Kings Row

The Little Foxes, starring Bette Davis, received 11 nominations but went home empty-handed, a record that stood until 1977’s The Turning Point matched it.

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