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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Oscars - General Trivia
| Who received a Best Actor nomination for portraying a person who also was nominated for Best Actor? | Oscar Trivia
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Robert Downey Jr.. Robert Downey Jr. played Charlie Chaplin and was nominated for Best Actor of 1992. Mr. Chaplin himself received a Best Actor nomination in 1940 for 'The Great Dictator'.
| Who is the first person to receive a Best Actor nomination for portraying a non-human? | Oscar Trivia
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Jeff Bridges . Jeff Bridges received a Best Actor nomination for portraying an alien in 1984's 'Starman'.
all of these (leeches, mosquitoes, Germans). I just re-watched this movie today. A great one!
| What sitcom star showed up in the movie starring Oscar nominated Jessica Lange in 'Sweet Dreams'? | Yet More Oscar Trivia
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Never. Marilyn never got her due....
| OK. So we're all happy that Julia Roberts won an Oscar. But her brother Eric was nominated once, too. For what film? | Yet More Oscar Trivia
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Runaway Train. Both he and Jon Voigt were up. Neither won----nor deserved to!
| Mira Sorvino, a Best Supporting Actress winner, has a famous Dad. On what TV show did he star? | Yet More Oscar Trivia
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Law And Order. He left the hit show to pursue a career in opera.
Aquitaine. She and her king husband did great dramatic battle in that one! And why hasn't Peter O'Toole ever nabbed an Oscar?
Wendy Hiller. A great film and an outstanding performance by Wendy Hiller. (That was an easy one, eh?, you brainiacs!)
| The movie "Rat Race" (2001) starred two Oscar winning black actors, the first such pair to be featured in the same film. Whoopi Goldberg was one. Who was the other? | Yet More Oscar Trivia
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Cuba Gooding, Jr.. Whoopi and Cuba doing a comedy together!
| Jane Fonda won an Oscar for 'Coming Home'. Her co-star, Bruce Dern, was nominated for best supporting actor in it. They played together in what earlier film? | Yet More Oscar Trivia
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. Bruce played a destitute dancer in the marathon who had a pregnant wife (played by Bonnie Bedelia). Poor Jane got herself shot in the end!
| I got an basically undeserved Oscar for 'Butterfield 8' but I deserved the one I got later! I later played in a film, not so much a great film, called 'X,Y and ___'. What? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Zee . Liz Taylor got what was, in my opinion, a 'pity' Oscar for 'Butterfield 8'. Her win for 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?' came for an awesome performance!
Yentl . Amy Irving, the former Mrs. Steven Spielberg, was nominated for her role as the unsuspecting bride-to-be of another woman pretending to be a man. Hmmm. She seemed smarter than that.
| Being in Woody Allen movies got me two Oscars! I'm now on a prime time TV show. What is my last name? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Wiest . Dianne Wiest won for 'Hannah And Her Sisters' and again for 'Bullets Over Broadway'. She's now on 'Law And Order' on NBC.
| I was so sure I'd get a nomination for my performance in 'Psycho' playing Janet Leigh's sister. But I didn't, even though she did. I guess I should have jumped in a shower! What actress am I? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Vera Miles . Vera Miles was an overlooked actress throughout her career but became a notable director as she went.
| I am of Asian descent and got an Oscar for my acting in the 1950s. What is my last name in real life? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Umeki. Miyoshi Umeki won for 'Sayonara' and eventually ended up on the TV show 'The Courtship Of Eddie's Father' as the housekeeper.
| I won an Oscar for Best Actress. Nic Cage won an Oscar for Best Actor. We starred together in this essential film flop. He was looking after me, as per his job description. What was my character's name? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Tess. Another easy one. 'Guarding Tess' was about a secret service man protecting a former first lady. The movie stunk, but it was fun watching these two actors together.
| I got my most recent Oscar nomination playing a rather dim-witted brother who ends up dead after I help to discover a wrecked plane with a lot of money on board. Everything goes wrong after that. We had a plan in the film----what adjective describes it? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Simple . That's Billy Bob Thornton for 'A Simple Plan'. I thought it was an excellent movie!
| I used to write screenplays with my husband Garson Kanin but, as an older woman, I won my acting Oscar for playing a too attentive neighbor to a pregnant woman. Who am I? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Ruth Gordon . Ruth Gordon won for 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1968.
| This was a movie about corrupt game programs on TV in the 1950s, directed by Robert Redford. What was the film called? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Quiz Show . 'Quiz Show' was up for some Oscars but came back with none, if any. I thought it was a pretty interesting movie, though.
| As of November 2001, I won the last Best Supporting Actress Oscar. In my role, I was married to a man devoted to which vocation? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Painting. Marcia Gay Harden won for 'Pollock' and was a rather surprised winner. Ed Harris played her husband, the gifted Jackson Pollock.
| This Oscar winning song was nearly thrown out of the picture because it was thought to slow down the action. It's now a classic. Why, oh why, do these things happen? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Over The Rainbow . There was a gift! If you missed that one then shame, shame, shame, a million times shame on you! LOL.
| I won mine for 'Coal Miner's Daughter'. My co-star in this film had won two! We were both nominated again for our movie together, directed by Costa-Gravas. What flick am I talking about? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Missing . Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon were both nominated for 'Missing'.
| I won an Oscar for acting and my Dad won for directing. He won 14 years before I did. Who am I? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Liza Minnelli . Liza got hers in 1972 for 'Cabaret'. Her father, Vincente, in 1958 for directing 'Gigi'. Anjelica Houston had a grandfather who won before her.
| I was nominated three times for acting but haven't won yet, as of November 2001. Who am I? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Joan Allen. Joan Allen was up for 'The Contender', 'Nixon' and 'The Crucible'. Christie won for 'Darling' in 1965, Tilly was nominated once and Depp will get his, I hope, one of these days.
| Not too many films have won Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director over the years. Which was the first? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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It Happened One Night . 'It Happened One Night' was the first in 1934, winning for Columbia Studios, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Frank Capra. 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Silence Of The Lambs' later matched it---some 40 years later!
| I got my directing Oscar for maneuvering two actors, Newman and Redford, when they didn't probably need much help. But I was happy to win anyway. What is my last name? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Hill. George Roy Hill won in 1973 for directing 'The Sting'.
| I won two acting Oscars 22 years apart, both times playing complicated men in some form of law enforcement. One in the 1970s, the other in the 1990s. Who am I? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Gene Hackman . Gene Hackman won for 'The French Connection' in 1971 and for 'Unforgiven' in 1992.
| I was one of three men nominated for Best Actor for the original film version of 'Mutiny On The Bounty'. Which am I? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Franchot Tone. Tone, Clark Gable and Charles Laughton all lost to Victor McLaglen in 'The Informer' in 1935.
| I was nominated for playing a blind girl enamored with a man who was not of my skin color. I lost but somebody did win an acting Oscar from this film. What actress am I, though? | Oscars ABC Quiz
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Elizabeth Hartmann . Shelley Winters won playing a total shrew of a mother in 'A Patch Of Blue' but Elizabeth Hartmann was nominated, too, playing the sweet blind girl who became friendly with Sidney Poitier's character. The film came out in 1965.
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