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

The Shawshank Redemption The Man Without a Face Braveheart Ransom

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

1929 1938 1917 1944

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: In what year were these films nominated for Best Picture: The Deer Hunter, Heaven Can Wait, and Midnight Express?

1989 1979 1969 1999

Five films were nominated at the 51st Academy Awards in 1979. Two of the films, Coming Home and The Deer Hunter, were anti-war films that reflected the nation's growing resentment over the Vietnam War. The other three nominations were Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, and An Unmarried Woman. The Deer Hunter won five awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Michael Cimino).

# 4: Which film directed by Steve McQueen won the Best Picture award at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014?

Beasts of the Southern Wild The Impossible American Hustle 12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup. It is the third feature film directed by Steve McQueen written by John Ridley. In 2014, the film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama, and won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Nyong'o) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ridley).

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

The Silence of the Lambs

The Last Emperor

Born on the Fourth of July

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.

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

Argo Life of Pi Zero Dark Thirty Silver Linings Playbook

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

# 7: Which was the first color film to win an Oscar for Best Picture?

The Wizard of Oz Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Gone With the Wind Wuthering Heights

At the 12th Academy Awards held in 1940, Gone with the Wind set a record for wins and nominations. It won eight Oscars from a total of 13 nominations. It was the first color movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

# 8: The following films were all nominated for Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards (1965). Which film won the Award?

Zorba the Greek

My Fair Lady

Dr. Strangelove

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film directed by George Cukor. It is adaptation of the musical of the same name, which originally was based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. At the 37th Academy Awards (1965), My Fair Lady won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.

# 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.”

American Beauty Gone with the Wind Forrest Gump Titanic

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: In 1993, the winner of Best Picture is about retired Old West gunslinger William Munny, who reluctantly takes on one last job. The film?

Tombstone Pale Rider Unforgiven The Crying Game

At the 65th Academy Awards in 1993, Unforgiven won four Oscars out of nine nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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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?