QUIZ OF THE WEEK

OSCARS TRIVIA

1. Which silent film released in 1928, based on World War I pilots, was the very first Best Picture winner?

2. What was the first film sequel to win an award for Best Picture?

3. Peter Finch and which other Australian actor are the only film stars to have posthumously won oscars for acting?

4. Which singer turned heads at the 2001 ceremony when she walked down the red carpet wearing a “swan dress”?

5. Which Irish playwright is the only person to have won an

Oscar and a Nobel Prize?

6. With winning roles in films such as Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and On Golden Pond, who holds the record for most acting honours with four Best Actress awards?

7. Lupita Nyong’o was the most recent person to win an award in her film debut. She was awarded Best Supporting Actress for the role of Patsey in which 2013 drama?

8. When presenting the award for Best Make-Up at the 2010 Academy Awards, actor Ben

Stiller made the unusual decision to dress up as a character from which newly released sci-fi film directed by James Cameron?

9. Winning the award for Best Supporting Actress in My Left

Foot, who was the first Irish woman to win an oscar?

10. Parasite, the winner of four Academy Awards in 2020 including becoming the first foreign language film to win Best Picture, was filmed and set in which Asian country?

11. Since 1981 on the night before the Academy Awards take place, an parody award ceremony is held honouring the worst of cinema for the past year. What is the event called?

12. At 29-years-old for his performance in The Pianist in 2002, who is the youngest ever recipient of the award for Best Actor?

13. When accepting his award for Best Director for Titanic in 1998, what famous line from the film did James Cameron shout?

14. In 2008, which Irish star, pictured below, was launched onto the world stage with an oscar nomination at just 13 years old for her role in Atonement?

15. Meryl Streep has received 19 oscar nominations in her career to date. Her first nomination was for

Best Supporting Actress in which 1978 war drama?

16. At the 1973 Academy Awards, which Best Actor nominee and subsequent winner boycotted the show due to Hollywood’s treatment of Native American actors, sending a Native American actress in his place to turn the award down on stage?

17. Which comedian and actor made a record 19 hosting and cohosting performances at the Academy Awards between 1940 and 1978?

18. At the 1978 Academy Awards, British actress Maggie Smith won an award for her role in California Suite as a character who ironically fails to do what?

19. Which actor, best known for appearing in Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter, is the only person to be nominated for an oscar in every film he ever appeared in?

20. From 1943 to 1945, oscars were made from plaster due to a metal shortage. What was the reason for the shortage?

21. At the 2017 Academy Awards, the cast of La La Land were on stage to accept their award for Best Picture before it was announced that there had been a mix-up in the envelopes. What was the name of the film which actually won Best Picture that year?

22. Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person to win the Best Actor award on three occasions. His wins were for performances in My Left Foot, Lincoln and which other film?

23. Receiving her award in 2010 for The Hurt Locker, who is the only woman to be named Best Director?

24. Which Sligo-born director was nominated for an award at the 1993 awards for The Crying Game?

25. At the 2014 Academy

Awards, the famous ‘Oscar Selfie’ took place which included a group of famous faces such as Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lawrence. Although it is often credited to Ellen DeGeneres, which actor actually took the snap?

26. Another memorable moment from the 2014 ceremony saw John Travolta introduced Frozen star “Adele Dazeem”. Which name was he actually trying to say?

27. Despite her status as one of the greatest stars of her generation, so far as to be dubbed ‘The Queen of Technicolour’, which Irish actress never received an oscar nomination for any of her performances?

28. In 1964 who became the first African-American actor to win an oscar for his performance in Lillies of the Field?

29. Which actor is the currently the oldest person to have won the award for Best Director, receiving the accolade in 2004?

30. Which 1991 Disney film was the first animated movie to be nominated in the

Best Picture category?

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