The Oscars Quiz – Random Academy Awards Questions

At the 67th Academy Awards in 1995, Forrest Gump 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.

Milos Forman's Amadeus was the big winner at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985. The film received 11 nominations and won 8 Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Milos Forman, and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. Milos Forman had previously received the Award for Best Director for his film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

John Ford was famous primarily for his Westerns, such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. But he was also famous for adaptations of classic American novels such as The Grapes of Wrath. He won Academy Awards for Best Director in 1935, 1941, 1942, and 1953.

My Week with Marilyn is a 2011 British drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Adrian Hodges. The film was nominated as Best Motion Picture in Musical or Comedy at the 69th Golden Globe Awards but NOT nominated for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012. Michelle Williams was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Motion Picture for her portrayal of Monroe. She also earned Best Actress nominations from the Academy and British Academy Film Awards.

Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock won the Best Original Song with Take My Breath Away Academy Award at the 59th Academy Awards in 1987. The song was performed by Berlin and featured in Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott.

Gandhi was nominated for Academy Awards in eleven categories, winning eight at the 55th Academy Award in 1983, including Best Picture. Richard Attenborough won for Best Director, and Ben Kingsley for Best Actor.

Five films were nominated for the 61st Academy Awards in 1989: Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, and Working Girl. Rain Man won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Dustin Hoffman.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play members of different social classes who fall in love aboard Titanic during its maiden voyage. At the 1998 Academy Awards, Titanic was nominated in 14 categories. The same number as the record set in 1950 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve. Titanic won a record-tying 11 awards, including Best Director for James Cameron and Best Picture. Neither Leonardo DiCaprio nor Kate Winslet won a prize. In Romeo + Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio plays against Claire Danes.

With Rebecca, the British director Alfred Hitchcock made his first American movie. The film starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. The film was nominated in nine categories and won Best Picture and Best Cinematography, Black and White. Orson Welles was not British.

Gwyneth Paltrow plays in films such as Seven (1995), Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), and A Perfect Murder (1998). In 1999, she received an Oscar for her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998), also winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.