The Oscars Quiz – Random Academy Awards Questions

Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress. This number of nominations is surpassed only by Meryl Streep. Hepburn also holds the record for the most extended period between the first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years.

Let the River Run was featured in the 1988 film Working Girl. Composed and written by Carly Simon, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1989.

Citizen Kane was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories. Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay). Many critics consider it the greatest film ever made. Citizen Kane failed to win Best Picture, which was awarded to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley instead.

Spotlight is a 2015 American film directed by Tom McCarthy. It stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci. It follows the Boston Globe's investigative journalist unit and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous Roman Catholic priest.

Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Will Jennings won the Academy Award for Best Original Song with Up Where We Belong at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. The song was featured in An Officer and a Gentleman. It was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes and reached #1 on Billboard Hot 100 in November 1982.

The quote is from Godfather. The Godfather won three Oscars in 1973, Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Puzo and Coppola).

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.

In 1990, Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director with Born on the Fourth of July. The film is considered part of Stone's trilogy of films about the Vietnam War: following Platoon (1986) and preceding Heaven & Earth (1993). The film is on the best-selling autobiography by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two, for Best Director and Best Film Editing.

For her role as Minny in The Help, Octavia Spencer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

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.