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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 1990s   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The actresses below won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for films from the 1990s. Your task is to match them to the film for which they won the award. The year listed is the year of the ceremony, not the film.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, PDAZ, Oct 28 19
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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 2000s   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The actresses below won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for films from the 2000s. Your task is to match them to the film for which they won the award. The year listed is the year of the ceremony, not the film.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, PDAZ, Nov 11 19
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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 1970s   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The actresses below won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for films from the 1970s. Your task is to match them to the film for which they won the award. The year listed is the year of the ceremony, not the film.
Easier, 10 Qns, PDAZ, Jul 29 19
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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 1980s   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The actresses below won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for films from the 1980s. Your task is to match them to the film for which they won the award. The year listed is the year of the ceremony, not the film.
Easier, 10 Qns, PDAZ, Aug 08 19
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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 1960s   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The actresses below won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for films from the 1960s. Your task is to match them to the film for which they won the award. The year listed is the year of the ceremony, not the film.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, PDAZ, Jul 23 19
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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 1950s   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The actresses below won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for films from the 1950s. Your task is to match them to the film for which they won the award. The year listed is the year of the ceremony, not the film.
Easier, 10 Qns, PDAZ, Jun 18 19
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  The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
'Once more unto the breach'...Match the name (where applicable) and character description to the actress who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with it.
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  Match the Best Supporting Actress - 1930s/40s   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 15 Qns
The Best Supporting Actress was first awarded at the 1937 ceremony. Here you'll match the actresses to the 1930s/40s films for which they won the award. One honorary Oscar is also included. The year listed is for the ceremony, not the film.
Easier, 15 Qns, PDAZ, May 29 19
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  Best Supporting Actresses - 2007-2016   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Just match the Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress with the movie for which she won.
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  Who Won It    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the Actress with the movie in which their performance won them a Best Supporting Oscar. All films are pre-1975.
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trivia question Quick Question
Mrs. Van Daan, attempting to hide from the Nazis in WWII Holland:

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  Best Supporting Actresses over the Years    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
There have been some great actresses who have portrayed supporting roles in many movies. Here are a few of them who have won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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  Notable Oscar Snubs: Supporting Actress    
Multiple Choice
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Each of these actresses received at least three Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations. Can you pick the role that was ignored by Academy voters?
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Oscars - Best Supporting Actress Trivia Questions
1. Amy Adams has risen to become one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood. But not every role gets recognized by Oscar. Which one got snubbed?

From Quiz Notable Oscar Snubs: Supporting Actress

Answer: Julie Powell, "Julie and Julia" (2009)

Amy Adams was not nominated for "Julie and Julia" (2009), although Meryl Steep was for her role as Julia Child. A year earlier, both Adams and Streep were nominated for their roles as nuns in "Doubt" (2008). Adams was nominated for playing Peggy Dodd, the wife of a charismatic cult leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in "The Master" (2012). Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix were both nominated for the film, which made many critics' top ten lists for the year. Amy Adams received her first nomination for "Junebug" (2005), in which she plays a pregnant girl who loses her baby in North Carolina. She was also nominated for playing Dick Cheney's wife in "Vice" (2018) and as Charlene Fleming, the girlfriend of Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) in the 2010 boxing film "The Fighter." Adams was also nominated for Best Actress for "American Hustle" (2013). Adams had her film debut as airhead cheerleader Leslie Miller in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (1999).

2. Helen, a child trying to exist in a world she cannot see or hear:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Patty Duke

Duke won for her portrayal of real-life author Helen Keller in 'The Miracle Worker' in 1962, opposite Best Actress winner Anne Bancroft. Many years later, Duke portrayed Anne Sullivan, Bancroft's character, in a TV remake. Keller was played by Melissa Gilbert.

3. Lulu Bains, a preacher's daughter turned prostitute and love interest of an evangelist:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Shirley Jones

Jones, (step)mother of actors David and Shaun Cassidy, was WAY out of character when she won for 'Elmer Gantry', opposite Burt Lancaster, in 1960.

4. "Key Largo" (1948) was the fourth and final pairing of the married couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the movie as the washed-up nightclub singer. Who am I?

From Quiz Best Supporting Actresses over the Years

Answer: Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor (1910-2000) won for her role as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo", however, she did have two other Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in "Dead End" (1937) and "The High and the Mighty" (1954). Her career in films spanned from 1937-1987. "Key Largo" is the story of a veteran (Humphrey Bogart) who visits an ex-buddy's family hotel that has some interesting guests, with one of them being a gangster. As a hurricane approaches the area the two confront each other. Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) was an American actress who began her career as a model. She was a stage actress who also appeared in musicals and romantic comedies. She was married to Humphrey Bogart and when he passed away she married Jason Robards. Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) was an American actress who had four Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Barbara Del Geddes (1922-2005) was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1948 in "I Remember Mama". She is possibly best remembered as Miss Ellie in the TV series "Dallas" in which she appeared from 1978-1990.

5. 'Mammy', a matronly slave to an Antebellum family and, in particular, a spoiled southern belle:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Hattie McDaniel

The first black recipient of an Academy Award, McDaniel won, opposite McQueen, Olivia DeHavilland and Vivien Leigh, in the immortal 'Gone With The Wind' in 1939.

6. Mona Lisa Vito, a wisecracking girlfriend to a New York lawyer on his first case, saving a relative from a murder rap in Alabama:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Marisa Tomei

Tomei won, opposite Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio and Fred Gwynne, in his final film appearence, in 'My Cousin Vinny' in 1992. Ruehl won the same award the year before for 'The Fisher King'.

7. Billy Kwan, a diminutive half-Chinese photographer living in Indonesia at odds with the reporter HE is assigned with:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt, portraying a man, won the Oscar, opposite Mel Gibson, in 'The Year Of Living Dangerously' in 1983.

8. While Frances McDormand is famous for "Fargo" she has received several supporting nominations. Which role was ignored by the Academy?

From Quiz Notable Oscar Snubs: Supporting Actress

Answer: Linda Litzke, "Burn After Reading" (2008)

McDormand was not nominated for playing Linda, a somewhat dim gym employee, in "Burn After Reading" (2008). The film was directed by the Coen Brothers, and also stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton. McDormand did receive a Golden Globe nomination. Frances McDormand won her first nomination as the wife of a deputy sheriff in "Mississippi Burning" (1988). The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers in 1964 Mississippi. Her second nomination was as the mother of a young journalist (Patrick Fugit) who was a reporter for "Rolling Stone" in the Cameron Crowe film "Almost Famous" (2000). Kate Hudson was also nominated as Penny Lane. In "North Country" (2005), McDormand plays an iron miner dying of ALS. Charlize Theron was also nominated for playing Josey Aimes. Frances McDormand won her first Oscar as sheriff Marge Gunderson in the 1994 Coen Brothers comedy "Fargo" and her second as a grieving mother in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017). McDormand has won the Triple Crown of Acting: An Academy Award ("Fargo"), a Tony Award ("Good People" in 2011) and an Emmy Award ("Oliver Kittridge" in 2014).

9. Veta Louise Simmons, a refined woman saddled with a brother who is convinced his best friend is a huge rabbit:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Josephine Hull

Hull, best known for her role as one of Cary Grant's murderous aunts in the comedy, 'Arsenic and Old Lace', won for her role opposite Jimmy Stewart in 'Harvey' in 1950.

10. Although I had appeared regularly on a TV show it was for my third film "Cactus Flower" that I won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress opposite Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman. Who am I?

From Quiz Best Supporting Actresses over the Years

Answer: Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn (b.1945) is an American actress, producer and director. She appeared on TV in "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" during the 1960s and 1970s. "Cactus Flower" (1969) is a comedy and Goldie plays the role of Toni Simmons and attempts suicide following the break up of her relationship with Dr. Julian Winston (Walter Matthau). She is saved from the suicide attempt by her neighbour with whom she eventually falls in love. Goldie has appeared in many movies and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in "Private Benjamin" (1980) but lost out to Sissy Spacek in "Coal Miner's Daughter". Donna Reed (1921-1986) was an American film, television actress and producer. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "From Here to Eternity" (1953). Carol Channing (b.1921) is an American actress, comedienne, dancer and singer. She appeared on numerous TV shows and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967). Carolyn Jones (1930-1983) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "The Bachelor Party"(1957). However, she is better known as Morticia Addams in the TV series "The Addams Family".

11. Toni Simmons, a free-spirited girlfriend to a philandering dentist:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Goldie Hawn

Hawn was a regular cast member of 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' when she won the Oscar for 'Cactus Flower' in 1969. The dentist was played by Walter Matthau.

12. Lynn Bracken, a Hollywood call-girl who dresses up like a movie star for the entertainment of her clients:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Kim Basinger

All the women listed either won or were nominated for playing a prostitute, but this role was Basinger's, for 'L.A. Confidential' in 1997.

13. Sophie MacDonald, a woman who lost both spouse and child, left in a life of drugs and abusive men:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Anne Baxter

Baxter, best known for her role as Nefretiri in 'The Ten Commandments', won for 'The Razor's Edge' in 1946.

14. Stella Kowalski, caught in an emotional tug-of-war between her brutish husband and her neurotic sister:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Kim Hunter

HEY STELLAAAAAA! Hunter won, opposite Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh and Karl Malden, for Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' in 1951.

15. Oda Mae Brown, a hack clairvoyant and petty criminal, assisting in a murder mystery with the help of the spirit of the murdered man:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Goldberg won for her role in the emotionally charged 'Ghost', opposite Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, in 1990.

16. Edie Doyle, sister to a murdered longshoreman who sees more to a self-professed 'bum' than he sees in himself:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Eva Marie Saint

Saint won for 'On The Waterfront' opposite Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger, in 1954. Van Fleet won the same Oscar the year after for 'East Of Eden'.

17. 'Ma' Joad, a world-weary Depression mother trying to hold her family together as they journey to California:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Jane Darwell

A truly memorable role, Darwell won for 'The Grapes of Wrath' in 1940. Blandick and Hamilton achieved Hollywood immortality the year before...as Antie Em and the Wicked Witch, respectively, in 'The Wizard Of Oz'.

18. Mrs. Brown (1), mother to a headstrong girl with a passion for racing horses:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Anne Revere

The stern-faced Revere won for her portrayal of Elizabeth Taylor's mother in 'National Velvet' in 1945.

19. Mrs. Brown (2): mother to a severely physically challenged son who instills a sense of worth in what he can do, as opposed to what he can't:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Brenda Fricker

Fricker won, opposite Best Actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis, in the true story of brain palsied author and painter Christy Brown, 'My Left Foot', in 1989.

20. Sandra Kovak, an obnoxious concert pianist entangled in a complicated love triangle involving a child and a formerly-dead husband:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Mary Astor

Astor, famous for her role in 'The Maltese Falcon', won the Oscar opposite Bette Davis and George Brent for 'The Great Lie' in 1941.

21. Gaye Dawn, an alcoholic mistress to a ruthless gangster who takes over a hotel in the path of a hurricane:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Claire Trevor

Trevor won opposite Humphrey Bogart in 'Key Largo' in 1948.

22. Mrs. Van Daan, attempting to hide from the Nazis in WWII Holland:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Shelley Winters

The first of two Supporting Actress Oscars for Winters, this was for 'The Diary Of Anne Frank' in 1959. She would win the same award six years later opposite Sidney Poitier in 'A Patch of Blue'.

23. Addie Loggins, an orphan girl who becomes the ward of a scam artist in the Dust Bowl of Depression-era midwest U.S.:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Tatum O'Neal

O'Neal, the youngest recipient of an Academy Award, won for her role, opposite real-life father Ryan, in 'Paper Moon' in 1973. Paquin won the same award for 'The Piano', in 1993. Temple won a 'juvenile' Oscar, no longer used, and while Foster was an acomplished child actress, her Academy Awards came well into adulthood.

24. Minnie Castevet, an elderly homebody in an apartment complex with a hidden agenda for her young, pregnant next-door neighbor:

From Quiz The Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Ruth Gordon

Gordon won for her quirky-turned-sinister role in the horror flick, 'Rosemary's Baby', in 1968. Hayes won the same award two years later in 'Airport' and Straight won it for 'Network' in 1976.

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