Can You Score 20/20? Identify These Award-Winning Movies Trivia Quiz Challenge!
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Test your cinematic knowledge with 20 questions about Academy Award-winning movies! From iconic Best Picture winners to unforgettable triumphs, this quiz mixes easy classics with tougher challenges. Grab a pen and see how many you can identify correctly.
20 Trivia Questions on Award-Winning Movies
Question 1: Which film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994?
A. Pulp Fiction
B. Quiz Show
C. Forrest Gump
D. The Shawshank Redemption
Question 2: Which film won Best Picture at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004?
A. Lost in Translation
B. Seabiscuit
C. Mystic River
D. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Question 3: Which movie won Best Picture in 1976?
A. Taxi Driver
B. Network
C. Rocky
D. All the President’s Men
Question 4: Which film claimed Best Picture honours at the 55th Academy Awards in 1982?
A. Tootsie
B. Gandhi
C. The Verdict
D. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Question 5: Which unexpected winner took Best Picture at the 71st Academy Awards in 1999?
A. Saving Private Ryan
B. Life Is Beautiful
C. Shakespeare in Love
D. The Thin Red Line
Question 6: Which film won Best Picture at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011?
A. The Social Network
B. Black Swan
C. Inception
D. The King’s Speech
Question 7: Which iconic gangster epic won Best Picture in 1972?
A. The Godfather
B. Cabaret
C. Deliverance
D. The Emigrants
Question 8: Which Coen Brothers film won Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008?
A. There Will Be Blood
B. Juno
C. No Country for Old Men
D. Michael Clayton
Question 9: Which timeless romance won Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944?
A. The Ox-Bow Incident
B. Casablanca
C. Madame Curie
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Question 10: Which epic disaster film swept the Oscars with Best Picture in 1998?
A. As Good as It Gets
B. Good Will Hunting
C. L.A. Confidential
D. Titanic
Question 11: Which Steven Spielberg Holocaust drama won Best Picture in 1993?
A. The Piano
B. In the Name of the Father
C. Jurassic Park
D. Schindler’s List
Question 12: Which thriller won the ‘Big Five’ Oscars including Best Picture in 1991?
A. JFK
B. Bugsy
C. Beauty and the Beast
D. The Silence of the Lambs
Question 13: Which South Korean film made history by winning Best Picture in 2020?
A. Joker
B. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
C. 1917
D. Parasite
Question 14: Which Christopher Nolan film won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards in 2024?
A. Poor Things
B. Barbie
C. Oppenheimer
D. Killers of the Flower Moon
Question 15: Which anti-establishment classic won Best Picture in 1975?
A. Jaws
B. Dog Day Afternoon
C. Nashville
D. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Question 16: Which Russell Crowe biopic won Best Picture at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002?
A. Moulin Rouge!
B. Gosford Park
C. In the Bedroom
D. A Beautiful Mind
Question 17: Which Ben Affleck-directed thriller won Best Picture in 2013?
A. Life of Pi
B. Les Misérables
C. Lincoln
D. Argo
Question 18: Which film won Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017 after a dramatic mix-up?
A. La La Land
B. Manchester by the Sea
C. Hacksaw Ridge
D. Moonlight
Question 19: Which boxing drama won Best Picture at the 49th Academy Awards in 1977?
A. Rocky
B. Network (already used, wait no new)
Wait, duplicate? No, Q3 was Rocky, but ok variety.
Wait, mistake, change Q19.
No, Q3 was 1976 Rocky, yes same.
For Q19: Best Picture 1987: The Last Emperor
Options: A. Broadcast News B. Fatal Attraction C. Hope and Glory D. The Last Emperor
Yes.
Adjust.
In list above Q19 was duplicate, so:
Question 19: Which Bernardo Bertolucci epic won Best Picture at the 60th Academy Awards in 1988?
A. Fatal Attraction
B. Broadcast News
C. Hope and Glory
D. The Last Emperor
Question 20: Which Clint Eastwood boxing drama won Best Picture in 2005?
A. Ray
B. The Aviator
C. Sideways
D. Million Dollar