The Oscars – Best Picture Awards

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

Mary Poppins

Zorba the Greek

My Fair Lady

Dr. Strangelove

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.

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

1969 1989 1979 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).

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

The Crying Game Tombstone Pale Rider Unforgiven

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

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

The Godfather Chinatown Apocalypse Now Patton

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: Mel Gibson produced and directed this winner from 1995:

The Man Without a Face Braveheart The Shawshank Redemption Ransom

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

1944 1929 1917 1938

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.

# 7: 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.

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

Gandhi

The Verdict

Missing

Tootsie

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

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

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.

# 10: Which was the first film of Oliver Stone’s trilogy about the Vietnam War, awarded with an Oscar in 1987?

Hamburger Hill Platoon Heaven & Earth Born on the Fourth of July

Platoon is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films by Oliver Stone (followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth). The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987. It also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.

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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?