Can You Score 20/20? Ultimate Oscars and Award Winners Trivia Quiz Challenge

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Think you know your Academy Award winners and other major film honours? Test your knowledge with these 20 multiple-choice questions on Oscars and more, from classic Best Picture triumphs to record-breaking achievements and prestigious prizes like Cannes’ Palme d’Or. They range from easy warm-ups to seriously challenging ones – good luck!

20 Trivia Questions on Award Winners: Oscars and More

Question 1: Which film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2024?

A. Poor Things
B. Killers of the Flower Moon
C. Oppenheimer
D. American Fiction

Question 2: Who won the Oscar for Best Director for Schindler’s List (1993)?

A. Martin Scorsese
B. Robert Redford
C. Steven Spielberg
D. Quentin Tarantino

Question 3: Which actress holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins?

A. Meryl Streep
B. Bette Davis
C. Katharine Hepburn
D. Ingrid Bergman

Question 4: What was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?

A. The Jazz Singer
B. Sunrise
C. Wings
D. The Broadway Melody

Question 5: How many Academy Awards did Titanic (1997) win?

A. 9
B. 11
C. 8
D. 12

Question 6: Who was the youngest person ever to win a competitive Oscar?

A. Anna Paquin
B. Tatum O’Neal
C. Abigail Breslin
D. Jodie Foster

Question 7: Which film was the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture?

A. Life Is Beautiful
B. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
C. Parasite
D. Amour

Question 8: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for Joker (2019)?

A. Heath Ledger
B. Joaquin Phoenix
C. Jack Nicholson
D. Willem Dafoe

Question 9: Which film won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars?

A. Top Gun: Maverick
B. The Banshees of Inisherin
C. Everything Everywhere All at Once
D. Women Talking

Question 10: Which director won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for Pulp Fiction in 1994?

A. Steven Soderbergh
B. Quentin Tarantino
C. Robert Altman
D. Neil Jordan

Question 11: Which actor has won competitive Oscars for Best Actor in three different decades?

A. Jack Nicholson
B. Dustin Hoffman
C. Daniel Day-Lewis
D. Tom Hanks

Question 12: Which was the first animated feature film nominated for Best Picture?

A. Toy Story
B. The Lion King
C. Beauty and the Beast
D. Up

Question 13: Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once?

A. Stephanie Hsu
B. Hong Chau
C. Ke Huy Quan (actor)
D. Jamie Lee Curtis

Question 14: Who is the oldest recipient of the Best Actor Oscar?

A. Henry Fonda
B. Christopher Plummer
C. Anthony Hopkins
D. Jack Nicholson

Question 15: Besides It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which film swept the ‘Big Five’ Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay)?

A. Forrest Gump
B. The Silence of the Lambs
C. American Beauty
D. Gone with the Wind

Question 16: Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002?

A. Monsters, Inc.
B. Spirited Away
C. Shrek
D. Finding Nemo

Question 17: Who won the Best Actress Oscar for Monster (2003)?

A. Nicole Kidman
B. Charlize Theron
C. Naomi Watts
D. Scarlett Johansson

Question 18: Which film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1948?

A. Hamlet
B. Bicycle Thieves
C. Oliver Twist
D. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Question 19: Who won Best Director at the 2021 Oscars for Nomadland?

A. Emerald Fennell
B. Chloé Zhao
C. Lee Isaac Chung
D. Sarah Polley

Question 20: Which performer won BAFTA Best Actor for The King’s Speech in 2011?

A. Geoffrey Rush (supporting)
B. Colin Firth
C. Helena Bonham Carter (supporting actress)
D. Guy Pearce

Answers

  1. C. Oppenheimer – Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards on 10 March 2024; the others were nominated but lost to it.
  2. C. Steven Spielberg – Spielberg won Best Director for Schindler’s List at the 1994 Oscars; the others were nominated that year for different films.
  3. C. Katharine Hepburn – Hepburn won four Best Actress Oscars (Morning Glory 1934, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1968, The Lion in Winter 1969, On Golden Pond 1982); others have three or fewer.
  4. C. Wings – Wings (1927/28) was the first Best Picture winner at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929; the others were early nominees or sound pioneers but not winners.
  5. B. 11 – Titanic tied the record for most Oscars (11 wins from 14 nominations) shared with Ben-Hur (1959) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
  6. B. Tatum O’Neal – O’Neal won Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon at age 10 in 1974; others were young winners but older (Paquin was 11).
  7. C. Parasite – Parasite (2019) was the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars; the others were historic nominees.
  8. B. Joaquin Phoenix – Phoenix won Best Actor for Joker at the 2020 Oscars; Ledger won Supporting posthumously for The Dark Knight.
  9. C. Everything Everywhere All at Once – It won Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards in 2023; others were strong nominees.
  10. B. Quentin Tarantino – Tarantino won the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival; others had films in competition.
  11. C. Daniel Day-Lewis – He won Best Actor for My Left Foot (1990, 1980s film), There Will Be Blood (2008), and Lincoln (2013); others have two.
  12. C. Beauty and the Beast – Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated film nominated for Best Picture in 1992; others came later.
  13. D. Jamie Lee Curtis – Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once at the 2023 Oscars, her first win after decades of nominations.
  14. C. Anthony Hopkins – Hopkins won Best Actor for The Father at age 83 in 2021; Fonda was 76 for On Golden Pond.
  15. B. The Silence of the Lambs – The Silence of the Lambs (1992 Oscars) is one of only three films to win all five major Oscars; Gone with the Wind missed Screenplay.
  16. C. Shrek – Shrek (2001) won the inaugural Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002; Spirited Away won the next year.
  17. B. Charlize Theron – Theron won Best Actress for her transformative role as Aileen Wuornos in Monster at the 2004 Oscars; others were nominated that year.
  18. B. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) won the Golden Lion at Venice; Olivier’s Hamlet won the Grand Prize that year.
  19. B. Chloé Zhao – Zhao became the second woman (first of colour) to win Best Director for Nomadland (which also won Best Picture) at the 2021 Oscars.
  20. B. Colin Firth – Firth won BAFTA Best Actor for The King’s Speech (2010 film, 2011 awards); Rush won Supporting Actor.

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