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

Tootsie

Missing

Gandhi

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.

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

Ransom Braveheart The Man Without a Face The Shawshank Redemption

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

Apocalypse Now Chinatown The Godfather 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.

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

1999 1969 1979 1989

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).

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

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

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).

# 6: 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.

# 7: 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.”

Gone with the Wind Titanic 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.

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

1938 1944 1929 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.

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

Dances with Wolves

Born on the Fourth of July

The Silence of the Lambs

The Last Emperor

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.

# 10: 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 Aviator The Departed Notes on a Scandal 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.

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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?