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Academy Awards Trivia Questions

Total Questions: 21

Who won the Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film 'Tootsie'?

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jessica lange

Which actress earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Frances Farmer in the film 'Frances'?

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jessica lange

What is the only X-rated movie that won the Best Picture Oscar and later had its rating changed to R?

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midnight cowboy

Who won the Oscar for Best Actor for their role in 'Shine'?

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geoffrey rush

Which 1994 film earned Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?

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pulp fiction

Who is the actress that won an Oscar for 'The Three Faces of Eve' nine years after leaving LSU?

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joanne woodward

Which actress won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'My Cousin Vinny'?

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marisa tomei

Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for their role in 'The Usual Suspects'?

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kevin spacey

Who won the Academy Award for Best Director for the movie 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'?

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john huston

For which 1961 Italian film, co-starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, did Sophia Loren first win an Oscar?

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two women

Who is the 11-year-old girl that won an Oscar for her role in a 1993 film?

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anna paquin

Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in 'The Year of Living Dangerously'?

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linda hunt

Which actress won the Oscar for her role in 'Blue Sky'?

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jessica lange

Who won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film 'You Can't Take It with You'?

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frank capra

Which lyricist, who passed away in 1991, won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Song together with Alan Menken for 'Beauty and the Beast'?

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howard ashman

Which pianist, portrayed by Geoffrey Rush in the film 'Shine', made a surprise appearance at the Oscars?

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david helfgott

Who won the Best Director award for the film 'Gandhi'?

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richard attenborough

Which actor won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film 'Cocoon'?

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don ameche

What is the name of the Persian Gulf country featured in the 1992 IMAX film 'Fires of' that was nominated for an Academy Award?

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kuwait

Who was the Academy's humanitarian award named after, which honors a late character actor and former Academy president?

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jean hersholt

Who earned an Oscar nomination for her fiery performance as Nick Nolte's daughter in 'Cape Fear'?

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juliette lewis

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