Oscar Awards Quiz

1. Which was the first colour movie to win the Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Who holds the record of winning the Best Director award most no.of times ?
3. Which art director designed the Oscar statuette ?
4. Who was the first to win an Oscar for Best Actress for a role in a foreign language film ?
5. Which Oscar winning movie was a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion ?
6. Who directed the Oscar winning film The Last Emperor, based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu-Yi ?
7. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 8 minutes long role in 1998 film Shakespeare in Love ?
8. Which two actors share the distinction of being nominated for Oscar 7 times without a single win ?
9. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando win his first Oscar ?
10. Who became the youngest to win a Best Actor Oscar in 2002 ?
11. The Oscar winning film Braveheart is based on the life of which English king ?
12. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta ?
13. Which film by William Wyler based on Bible won a record 11 Oscars in 1959 ?
14. In which name the Oscar winning actor Krishna Bhanji became popular ?
15. Which 1985 Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Oscars, without winning a single award ?
16. Who was the director of 1976 film Dersu Uzala that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film ?
17. Who is the only woman to have won a Best Director Oscar ?
18. Which musical won 8 Oscars in 1958 ?
19. Who was the first to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1928 ?
20. The Oscar nominated film The Miracle Worker tells the story of which famous teacher and student ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. John Ford, 4 times
3. Cedric Gibbons
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. My Fair Lady, 1964
6. Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Judi Dench
8. Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton
9. On the Waterfront, 1954
10. Adrien Brody
11. William Wallace
12. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull in 1980
13. Ben-Hur
14. Ben Kingsley
15. The Colour Purple
16. Akira Kurasowa
17. Katheryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Gigi
19. Janet Gaynor
20. Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

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