Oscar Trivia: Test Your Movie Knowledge
© Jason O'Brien
1. Five individuals have won back to back Oscars one year after another, can you name them?
- Luise Rainer was the first, in 1936 and 1937.
- Spencer Tracy won the lead acting Oscar two years in a row, 1937 and 1938.
- Katharine Hepburn won the Lead Actress Oscar two years in a row in 1967 and 1968.
- Jason Robards won the Supporting Actor Oscar two years back to back in 1976 and 1977.
- Most recently, Tom Hanks won back to back Oscars in 1993 and 1994 for two very different performances, a gay lawyer dying of AIDS in Philadelphia, and a simple man making his way through life in Forrest Gump.
2. Best Picture winners are typically films with long running times, but which three films are the longest? Three run more than three and a half hours ...
- Gone With the Wind
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Ben-Hur
3. Speaking of length, what Oscar ceremony was the longest in history?
- Well, it was the most recent one ... the 1998 telecast ran four hours and two minutes long, the first telecast to run past four hours!
4. It wasn't until 1985 that all 10 leading acting nominees were Americans!
5. Only two actors have won Oscars for a performance in a foreign language film ...
- Sophia Loren in Two Women
- Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful
6. Who has hosted the Oscar telecast the most?
- No surprise here, Bob Hope is the reigning champ, hosting the show 18 different times between 1939 and 1977.
- Billy Crystal is the next runner up, having hosted six times.
- Johnny Carson did it five times.
- Jack Lemmon did it four times.
- Whoopi Goldberg and David Niven each hosted the Oscars three times.
7. It's still hard to believe, but in 1941, when Orson Welles won the Screenplay Oscar for his immortal classic Citizen Kane, the film almost universally regarded as one of the greatest of all time, he was actually booed by the Oscar audience at the time. Some genuises just are not recognized in their time.
8. Did you know that there are still two Oscar categories in which no women have ever been nominated? Best Cinematography and Best Sound!
9. There is actually one Best Picture winning film that was originally a television series : Marty, the Best Picture winner of 1955.
That's it for this week!
Go To Page: 1
