The 97th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025. The show will air live at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. on ABC and will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It will also be live-streamed on the ABC app, which requires a cable subscription. For the first time ever, the awards will be streamed live on Hulu. Other streaming services such as YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, FuboTV, Sling TV and DirectTV Stream will also provide access to the event through ABC on their platforms. This year's Oscars will be hosted by Conan O'Brien. As you prepare for the big night, why not challenge yourself and try Number 16's 13th annual Oscars quiz. There are 11 questions. Good luck!
NUMBER 16 OSCARS QUIZ
1. British actor Ralph Fiennes has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar this year or his performance as Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave, a film that explores the intrigue behind the election of a new Pope. Has Ralph Fiennes ever won an Oscar?
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| Ralph Fiennes |
A, Yes, for The English Patient
B. Yes, for Schindler's List
C. Yes, for In Bruges
D. Yes, for Quiz Show
E. He has never won an Oscar.
2. Jack Nicholson has won three Academy Awards. He won an Oscar in the Best Actor category for his roles as Randie McMurphy in the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He also won a Best Actor Oscar as a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder in As Good as It Get (1997), a romantic comedy in which he co-starred with Helen Hunt. Nicholson's third Oscar was in the Best Supporting Actor category. For which film did he win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor?
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| Jack with Oscar in 1998 |
A. Easy Rider
B. Chinatown
C. Terms of Endearment
D. Five Easy Pieces
E. Prizzi's Honor
3. Which movie is the most decorated Oscar winner of all time (counting both wins and nominations)?
A. Ben-Hur
B. All About Eve
C. La La Land
D. Titanic
E. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Ben-Hur (1959) won 11 Academy Awards at the 1960 Oscars. It only lost in one of the categories for which it was nominated. What was that category?
A. Best Adapted Screenplay
B. Best Sound
C. Best Art Direction (Color)
D. Best Special Effects
E. Best Film Editing
5. Which is the only animated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture?
A. Frozen
B. Shrek
C. Toy Story
D. Up
E. No animated film has won an Oscar for Best Picture
6. How many times has Emma Stone been nominated for an Oscar.?
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| Emma Stone |
A. Five times
B. Two times
C. Three times
D Once
E. None of the Above
7. Citizen Kane (1941) is Orson Welles' masterpiece. Along with Casa Blanca, it is considered by many as one of the finest films ever made. However, Citizen Kane did not win an Oscar for Outstanding Motion Picture from the films of 1941 (at the awards ceremony in 1942). Which film won the Best Picture Oscar, beating out Citizen Kane?
B. How Green Was My Valley
C. Hold Back the Dawn
D. Suspicion
E. Sergeant York
8. Who is currently the oldest person to win an acting Oscar?
A. Jessica Tandy
B. Christopher Plummer
C. Anthony Hopkins
D. George Burns
E. Melvyn Douglas
9. Bob Hope hosted the Oscars a record 19 times. In what year did he first host the Academy Awards?
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| Bob Hope hosting the Oscars |
A. 1939
B. 1949
C. 1942
D. 1941
E. 1940
10. Angelina Jolie has won two Oscars. She received her second Academy Award in 2014, but it was not an acting award. It was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. For which film did Angelina Jolie win an acting Oscar?
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| Angelina Jolie |
A, Changeling
B. Girl, Interrupted
C. A Mighty Heart
D. The Tourist
E. In the Land of Blood and Honey
11. Adrien Brody has been nominated for an Oscar this year for his performance in The Brutalist (2024). For which movie did he win an Oscar for Best Actor?
A. The Thin Red Line
B. Detachment
C. The Pianist
D. The Jacket
E. Midnight in Paris
ANSWERS:
1. E. Ralph Fiennes has never won a Oscar.
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| Ralph Fiennes in Conclave |
Ralph Fiennes received a Best Actor nomination for his performance in Schindler's List (1983), but did not win. He was also nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The English Patient (1996), but did not win. Conclave represents his third Academy Award nomination.
2. C Terms of Endearment
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| Nicholson in Terms of Endearment |
Jack Nicholson won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of former astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983).
3. D. Titanic
1997's Titanic won 11 Oscars and earned an additional 3 nominations. Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King also received 11 Academy Awards. Ben-Hur swept 11 of the 12 categories for which it was nominated, including Best Picture and Best Director. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated.
La La Land was nominated for 14 Oscars, but took home 6, including Best Director and Best Actress. All About Eve also won 6 of its 14 nominations.
4. A. Best Adapted Screenplay
At the 32nd Academy Awards in 1960, Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars in the following categories - Best Motion Picture, Best Directing (William Wyler), Best Actor (Charlton Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hugh Griffith), Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture), Best Sound, Best Cinematography (Color), Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design (Color), Best Art Direction (Color) and Best Special Effects. The film received in an Oscar in every category it was nominated for, except Best Adapted Screenplay.
5. D. Up
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| Scene from Up |
The 2009 animated film Up received the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2010. Up is a comedy-drama adventure film featuring the voices of Ed Asner and Christopher Plummer. Produced by Pixar Animation Studio for Disney Pictures, Up is the first and only animated film to win the coveted Best Picture award.
6. A. Five times
Emma Stone has received five Oscar nominations. She has one two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her roles as Bella Baxter in Poor Things (2023) and Amelia "Mia" Dolan in La La Land (2016). In 2024, she was also nominated for a second Academy Award as the producer of Poor Things, which she did not win.
In 2015, Emma was nominated For Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Sam in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014). She lost the award to Patricia Arquette for Boyhood.
In 2019, Emma was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Abigail Masham in the satirical comedy-thriller The Favourite. She lost out to Regina King, who won the Oscar for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk.
7. B. How Green Was My Valley
Citizen Kane lost out to How Green Was My Valley, John Ford's film about a hard-working Welsh mining family. It starred Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon. The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion and Sergeant York were also nominated the same year as Citizen Kane.
8. C Anthony Hopkins
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| Anthony Hopkins |
Anthony Hopkins was 83 years old in 2021 when he won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a man diagnosed with dementia in the film Father. The Welsh actor was born on December 31, 1937.
In 2012. Christopher Plummer (born December 13, 1929) was 82 years old when he won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in the film Beginners (2011). The Canadian-born actor was also nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in All the Money in the World, a 2017 crime thriller. Plummer was 88 years old when he received the nomination, but did not win.
In 1990, at the age of 80, Jessica Tandy won Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy. At the time, she was the oldest person to win an acting Oscar. She remains the oldest woman to win an acting Oscar. (In 2014, Maureen O'Hara received an Academy Honorary Award at the of 94).
9. E 1940
Beginning in 1940, Bob Hope hosted the Academy Awards 19 times, either by himself or with cohosts. In 1953, he hosted the first Oscar broadcast on television. In 1966, he hosted the first Oscar show televised in colour. In 1978, Bob Hope hosted the Oscars for the final time.
10. B. Girl, Interrupted
In 2000, Angelina Jolie won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the American drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). She was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 2008 mystery crime drama Changeling, but did not win.
11. C. The Pianist
Brody also appeared in The Thin Red Line (1998), Detachment (2011), The Jacket (2005) and Midnight in Paris (2011).
- Joanne
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