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Oscar trivia answers

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1-B: Michael Stuhlbarg had supporting roles in “Call Me By Your Name,” “The Post” and “The Shape of Water.”

2-C: Barbra Streisand was never nominated for directing a movie. The other two female nominees are New Zealand’s Jane Campion (“The Piano”) and Italy’s Lina Wertmuller (“Seven Beauties”). 3-C: Gloria Stuart was 87 when she was nominated as best supporting actress for “Titanic,” in 1998.

4-B: Jackie Cooper was 9 when nominated for “Skippy” in 1931, and still holds the record as the youngest bestactor nominee of all time. (Justin Henry, at age 8, was nominated for best supporting actor for “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1979.)

5-C: “Boyz n the Hood” was the film directing debut for John Singleton. Lee Daniels and Barry Jenkins had both directed films before they were nominated, respective­ly, for “Precious” and “Moonlight.”

6-A: Director Guillermo del Toro cites the “Gill-Man” from the “Creature from the Black Lagoon” (1954) as the inspiratio­n for the creature in “The Shape of Water.”

7-A: Peggy Lee was nominated as best supporting actress for “Pete Kelly’s Blues” in 1956. Courtney Love and Madonna both received Golden Globe nomination­s for best actress in 1997, but neither was Oscar-nominated. 8-A: Kobe Bryant’s film “Dear Basketball” is nominated for best animated short film. 9-B: “All About Eve” was nominated for 14 Oscars in 1951. It won six awards, including best picture.

10-C: Cloris Leachman won an Oscar as best supporting actress for “The Last Picture Show” (1971) and Emmys as best supporting actress for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (1974 and 1975). 11-B: Jonny Greenwood plays lead guitar and keyboards for Radiohead.

12-A: In the third Academy Awards (1930), George Arliss won the best actor award for playing Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in “Disraeli.” Judi Dench won supporting actress for playing Queen Elizabeth I in “Shakespear­e in Love” (1998). Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

13-C: John Ratzenberg­er has voiced characters in every Pixar full-length feature to date. For “Coco,” he was the voice of Juan Ortodoncia, a skeleton with bad teeth.

14-C: The answer is five. John Williams was nominated for all three films in the original trilogy, plus the two most recent entries in the series.

15-A: Marguerite Gachet is a character in “Loving Vincent,” a film about Vincent van Gogh. She was the daughter of van Gogh’s doctor, and the subject of two of his paintings.

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