The Oscars Quiz – Random Academy Awards Questions

Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the biographical film Capote. He was nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor. Also, he received three Tony Award nominations for his work in theater. He died in February 2014.

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American film directed by Peter Weir. Robin Williams plays the role of John Keating, an English teacher who encourages his students to make their lives extraordinary. The film was nominated in four categories: Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Actor. It won in only one category: Best Original Screenplay (Tom Schulman).

The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British film directed by James Marsh. It is an adaption of a book by Jane Wilde Hawking about her life with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Award for his role as Stephen Hawking. The film won British Academy Film Awards: Outstanding British Film, Best Leading Actor (for Redmayne), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Anthony McCarten).

For her performance in Room, Brie Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

At the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony 2010, Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first female to win the Oscar for Best Director. With The Hurt Locker she won the award over her ex-husband James Cameron.

Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), 1961.

Pelle the Conqueror, which won an award in 1988, is not a film by Bergman. It was directed by the Danish director Bille August. Jacob the Liar is a 1975 East German-Czechoslovakian Holocaust film directed by Frank Beyer.

1990 Daniel Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989).

John Ford won his third award for Best Director with How Green Was My Valley. He became the second director to accomplish three wins in that category and the first to win in consecutive years. The year before, he won the award for The Grapes of Wrath. This year Citizen Kane was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories. Experts widely thought the film would win most of the nominated awards, but it only won Best Writing (Original Screenplay).

Emma Stone won the Best Actress Award for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. Viola Davis won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences.

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.