Some sample questions from this category:
* Best Supporting Actress: the elder of two actresses who portrayed Rose DeWitt Bukater Calvert in the same film:
* Best Supporting Actor: Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of a dockers union:
* Best Actress: Ripley, a space traveller forced to return to a planet populated by creatures that murdered her former crew:
* Best Supporting Actor: Tybalt, a hot-headed member of an Italian family at odds with a relative's romance with a rival.
* Best Supporting Actress: Marion Crane, a woman on the run with ill-gotten money, who blunders into the life of a deranged killer:
* Best Supporting Actor: Lt. Daniel Taylor, a handicapped Vietman veteran, who owes his life to a not-too-bright subordinate who has a habit of being in the right place at the right time:
* Best Actor: Nick Charles, a retired detective hired to find a missing inventor, assisted by his ditsy wife and their wirehaired terrier:
* Best Actor: The title character, an enigmatic multi-millionaire publisher whos life is chronicled after his death to find meaning to his mysterious last word:
* Best Supporting Actor: Dil, paramour to a captured British soldier, with an more-than-unusual secret:
* Best Actress: She was known only as the second Mrs. deWinter, a frail woman having to contend with her new husband's deceased wife:
* Best Supporting Actor: Mr. Miyagi, a gardener-turned-karate instructor who trains a teen in self defense, along with some valuable moral and spiritual lessons:
* Best Actor: Tevye, a poor Russian dairy farmer trying to marry off his daughters:
* Best Actor: 'Pepe' LeMoko, a small time crook who seeks refuge in an Algerian cafe, the Casbah:
* Best Actress: Phyllis Dietrichson, a 'femme fatale' who conspires with an insurance agent to murder her husband for the right price:
* Best Supporting Actor: Mickey, an world-weary former boxer turned trainer with one last chance to manage a long shot to the heavyweight title:
* Best Supporting Actress: Regan McNeil, a precocious child posessed by an other-worldly spirit:
* Best Supporting Actor: Real-life pool shark 'Minnesota Fats', challenged to an all-night tournament by an up-and-comer:
* Best Actor: This actor was nominated for three roles in the same {film;} a British group captain caught up with an ultra-whacko American general, a mysterious handicapped political advisor and the President of the United States:
* Best Supporting Actor: Captain Louis Renault, chief of police in Vichy territory in W.W.II, in an uneasy allience with a local nightclub owner:
* Best Supporting Actor: Max Von Mayerling, former Hollywood director, now man-servant to an aging star of the Silent Screen:
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