The Oscars Quiz – Random Academy Awards Questions

At the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010, Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress award for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

James Dean was nominated posthumously for the 1956 Academy Awards as Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in East of Eden. It was the first official posthumous acting nomination in Academy Awards history. Dean received his second posthumous Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his role in Giant, which was released in 1956 after his death.

Bradly Cooper was nominated for Best Actor in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Sniper (2014). He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in American Hustle (2013). He did not win any of the 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. Top Gun was nominated in four categories: Best Effects (Sound Effects Editing), Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Music (Original Song).

At the Academy Awards in 2013, Let It Go by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music and lyrics) got the Oscar for Best Original Song in competition with:

• Happy from Despicable Me 2
• The Moon Song from Her
• Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Lost Stars from Begin Again was nominated for Best Original Song the year after.

Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor Award for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.

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.

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.

Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) wants to go to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect a $1 million sweepstakes prize he has won.

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).