The Oscars Quiz – Random Academy Awards Questions

The quote is from The African Queen, a 1951 adventure film directed by John Huston. The role of Charlie Allnutt won Humphrey Bogart his only Academy Award.

In 2012, Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in The Iron Lady. The film is based on the life of Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1979 to 1990.

The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British film directed by James Marsh. It is an adaption of a book by Jane Wilde Hawking about her life with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Award for his role as Stephen Hawking. The film won British Academy Film Awards: Outstanding British Film, Best Leading Actor (for Redmayne), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Anthony McCarten).

The King's Speech won four awards, all in major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay.

At the 15th Academy Awards in 1942, Irving Berlin won an award for White Christmas from the film Holiday Inn. White Christmas is the most-recorded Christmas song. There have been over 500 recorded versions of the song in several languages.

At the 85th Academy Awards ceremony in 2013, Amour won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated in four other categories, including Best Picture. The film is a French-language drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. It was submitted by Austria.

1990 Daniel Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989).

At the 60th Academy Awards in 1988, Cher won the Best Actress award for her role in Moonstruck. Alfie (1967) and After All (1989) are two songs sung by Cher, both nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Song.

Moonlight won three awards, including Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards. La La Land was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture before Moonlight was clarified to be the winner.

The Shape of Water is a 2017 drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. The film got 13 nominations at the 90th Academy Awards 2018. It won Best Picture, Best Director (Guillermo del Toro), Best Production Design, and Best Original Score.