MOVIE QUIZ
Sunday is the movie world’s biggest night, the 95th Academy Awards. And you’ll hear a lot about who should win, who will lose and who’s going to slap whom.
Then there’s always talk about the infamously un- Oscared, the actors and movies that shockingly never claimed the big prize, like eight-time nominee Peter O’toole or the 11-time nominated “The Color Purple.”
But what about those people and films that never scored a single nomination, not in any category? Call it the Mandela Effect, that phenomenon where a large part of the population is convinced something happened that never really did, but surely Steve Martin has had at least one Oscar nomination, right? (Wrong, though in 2014 the Academy did give him an honorary award.)
In each of the following 20 groupings of four, pick the only performer or picture that can claim “Oscar nominee” among their accomplishments.
1. Kurt Russell; Kevin Bacon; Richard Gere; Alec Baldwin
2. “The Big Lebowski”; “The Big Chill”; “The Big Heat”; “The Big Sleep”
3. Ava Gardner; Lucille Ball; Rita Hayworth; Marilyn Monroe
4. “King Kong ” (1933); “A Quiet Place”; “The Shining ”; “Frankenstein” (1931)
5. Danny Glover; Steve Buscemi; Andy Garcia; Bruce Willis
6. “Mulholland Drive”; “Heat”; “Mean Streets”; “Uncut Gems”
7. Meg Ryan; Mia Farrow; Isabella Rossellini; Oprah Winfrey
8. “Bringing Up Baby”; “His Girl Friday”; “The Lady Eve”; “The Man Who Came to Dinner”
9. Hugh Grant; Wesley Snipes; Dan Aykroyd; John Goodman
10. “Wyatt Earp”; “The Searchers”; “My Darling Clementine”; “Rio Bravo”
11. Lena Horne; Alfre Woodard; Pam Grier; Regina Hall
Richard Pryor during one of his two stints hosting the Academy Awards. That's two more than the number of Oscar nominations the actor, writer, director and arguably greatest comedian of all time amassed during his lifetime.
12. “Wonder Woman”; “… And God Created Woman”; “The Woman King ”; “The Woman in Red”
13. Donald Sutherland; Jeff Daniels; Martin Sheen; Ryan O’neal
14. “The 400 Blows”; “Lady and the Tramp”; “Tokyo Story”; “Harold and Maude”
15. Ellen Barkin; Emily Blunt; Kathleen Turner; Shirley Temple
16. “Don’t Look Now”; “Bang the Drum Slowly”; “High Plains Drifter”; “Soylent Green”
17. Buster Keaton; Jackie Gleason; Jim Carrey; Adam Sandler
18. “Modern Times”; “Once Upon a Time in America”; “Once Upon a Time in the West”; “Somewhere in Time”
19. Mae West; Jean Harlow; Carole Lombard; Myrna Loy
20. “The Birds”; “Rope”; “Dial M for Murder”; “The Wrong Man”
—C.J. Lais Jr.