The Oscars – Best Picture Awards

# 1: Which film won the Best Picture Award at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015?

Boyhood

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

The Theory of Everything

Whiplash

Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) won the Best Picture Award in 2015.

# 2: The first Academy Awards were presented in what year?

1929 1938 1944 1917

The first Academy Awards were presented on 16 May 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.

# 3: Mel Gibson produced and directed this winner from 1995:

The Man Without a Face Ransom The Shawshank Redemption Braveheart

# 4: At the 45th Academy Awards in 1973, which film by Francis Ford Coppola won the award for Best Picture?

Apocalypse Now Patton The Godfather Chinatown

The Godfather won three Oscars in 1973, Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Puzo and Coppola). Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, was nominated at the 47th Academy Awards. That year the Best Picture Award went to The Godfather Part II.

# 5: Which remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Martin Scorsese in 2007?

The Departed Notes on a Scandal The Aviator The Blood of Yingzhou District

The Departed won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Martin Scorsese. It was Scorsese's first Oscar after eight nominations. The Departed is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg.

# 6: Which film, directed by Ben Affleck, won the Best Picture award at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013?

Life of Pi Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Argo

Argo won three awards, including Best Picture. Life of Pi won four awards including Best Director for Ang Lee.

# 7: Which film by the Italian director Federico Fellini won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975?

Intervista Amarcord Satyricon Scent of a Woman

The 47th Academy Awards in 1975, Amarcord won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Writing (Original Screenplay). Scent of a Woman was directed by Dino Risi and nominated for an award in 1976.

# 8: Which of these films won the Best Picture Award in 1982?

Missing

Gandhi

Tootsie

The Verdict

Gandhi, Tootsie, The Verdict, ans Missing were all nominated at the 55th Academy Awards. Gandhi written by John Briley, produced and directed by Richard Attenborough, and with Ben Kingsley in the title role won the Award. Gandhi was nominated in eleven categories, winning eight, including Best Director for Attenborough and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley.

# 9: From which Oscar-winning picture is this quote: “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

Titanic Gone with the Wind Forrest Gump American Beauty

The quote is from Forrest Gump, 1994. The film won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Robert Zemeckis, Best Actor for Tom Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects and Best Film Editing.

# 10: All of the following has been awarded an Oscar for Best Picture, except:

Born on the Fourth of July

The Last Emperor

The Silence of the Lambs

Dances with Wolves

The Last Emperor got the Best Picture Award in 1987, Dances with Wolves  in 1990, and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July was nominated in 1989 but lost to Driving Miss Daisy.

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Do You Remember Which Films Got an Oscar?

This quiz with 10 questions and answers takes you back in time to some of the most influential films and the ones that were awarded with the Best Picture Award.

The winners aren’t always what experts anticipated, many great films and actors have been ignored. Still, the Oscars have a great impact on the movie business. An Oscar or a nomination gives a film or an artist’s career a real boost, and regardless if an Oscar is well-deserved or not, the films that have been awarded an Oscar for Best Picture are all worth seeing.

How many of them do you remember?