And, The Winter Is Trivia Quiz

Answer: Best Actor

Peter O'Toole was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, but alas he lost out to Cliff Robertson for "Charly." Katharine Hepburn won Best Actress in a Leading Role and so did Barbra Streisand for "Funny Girl"; it was the first time this has happened for actresses in Academy Award history. James Goldman won the award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium; it was the only nomination he ever received. And the legendary John Barry won for Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical).

Answer: Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Maria Schneider was the winning composer in this Best Contemporary Classical Composition category. Dawn Upshaw won Best Classical Vocal Solo for this album, an album which also won Best Engineered Album, Classical at the 56th Grammys. David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, were the engineers with Tim Martyn as mastering engineer.

Answer: Winter's Bone

"Winter's Bone" starring a breakthrough performance from Jennifer Lawrence was one of those 10 "Movies of the Year" in 2010. The other nine were "Black Swan" (written by my friend John McLaughlin) "The Fighter", "Inception", "The Kids Are All Right", "The Social Network", "The Town", "Toy Story 3" and "True Grit".

"Mrs. Winterbourne" came out in 1996, "Winter's Tale" in 2014, and "Dead of Winter" in 1987.

Answer: Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter, was the winning artist. Paul Nelson was the album's producer. Mike "Metal" Goldberg & Brendan Muldowney were the engineers/mixers.

Edgar Winter is Johnny's younger brother and had a monster hit in 1972 with the instrumental recording of "Frankenstein." Alex Winter you may know as the actor who played Bill in the "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movies. And Maximillian de Winter was the owner of Manderlay in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel "Rebecca" and played by Sir Laurence Olivier in the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation.

Answer: The Winter's Tale

"The Winter's Tale" by none other than William Shakespeare of course. In 1993 Adrian Noble won a Globe Award for Best Director for his Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation, and as Ben Brantley noted on April 22, 1994 in his "Critics Notebook", in "The New York Times", the production was then successfully brought to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1994.

"A Nanking Winter" is a Canadian plays written by Marjorie Chan, ""A Winter Reunion" is by Henry Miller, better known as the writer of "The Tropic of Cancer" and "the Tropic of Capricorn." "Winterset" is the 1935 lay by Maxwell Anderson that became a 1936 film directed by Alfred Santell.

Answer: "Golden Hour" and "24K Magic"

"Golden Hour" and "24K Magic" were the albums that won "Album of the Year" at this past 60th and 61st Grammy Awards in 2018 and 2019. How soon we forget. All those other albums were Paul Winter Consort's Best New Age Album winners.

For "Spanish Angel": Paul Winter Consort (Eugene Friesen, Paul Halley, Rhonda Larson, Glen Velez, Eliot Wadopian, Paul Winter), artist.
For "Prayer For The Wild Things": Paul Winter, artist.
For "Celtic Solstice": Paul Winter & Friends, artist.
For "Silver Solstice": Paul Winter Consort (Bill Cahn, Eugene Friesen, Scott Sloan, Paul Sullivan, Satoshi Takeishi, Glen Velez, Eliot D. Wadopian, Paul Winter), artist. Dixon Van Winkle, engineer/mixer. Dixon Van Winkle, producer.
For "Crestone": Paul Winter Consort (Richard Cooke, Eugene Friesen, Don Grusin, Peter May, Paul McCandless, Koji Nakamura, John-Carlos Perea, Glen Velez, Paul Winter), artist. Dixon Van Winkle & Steve Van Zandt, engineers.
For "Miho: Journey To The Mountain": Paul Winter Consort (Eugene Friesen, Steve Gorn, Don Grusin, Paul McCandless, Arto Tuncboyacivan, Paul Winter), artist. Akira Kato & Dixon Van Winkle, engineers/mixers. Dixon Van Winkle, producer.

Answer: Sylvia Sidney

Ms. Woodward and Ms. Sidney were also Oscar-nominated for those roles but both lost. In the film, Joanne Woodward's character Rita, is a depressed New York woman at a crossroads in her life, panicked that she has settled for an inferior life. She is estranged from her sister, and her son and daughter. She thinks she settled for her husband instead of her childhood crush on the farm she grew up on. Rita is also at odds with her mother (Ms. Sidney) and when the mother dies, dealing with her estate adds even more stress; a nervous breakdown looms.

The other actresses also won National Board of Review Awards for Supporting Actress in other years. Cloris Leachman for "The Last Picture Show", Vivien Merchant for "Alfie", and Virginia Maskell for "Interlude."

Answer: Crank(y) Calls

In 1996 Jonathan Winters won for "Crank(y) Calls". Those other titles listed were other nominees that year: Jeff Foxworthy for "Games Rednecks Play", Judy Tenuta for "In Goddess We Trust" and Don Imus for "God's Other Son." Martin Lawrence for "Funk It" was also nominated.

It was Jonathan Winters eighth nomination in that category. And the first time he won in that category. He did win another Grammy: in 1975 for Best Album for Children for his contribution to "The Little Prince."

Answer: I Am a Camera

Elizabeth Ashley won this same Tony Award, but a decade later in 1962 for "Take Her, She's Mine." Elizabeth Wilson won it for "Sticks and Bones" in 1972, and Judith Light won it for "Other Desert Cities" in 2012.

"I Am a Camera" was written by by John Van Druten who adapted it from the novel "Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood. The play then became the basis for the Broadway musical "Cabaret."

Answer: Nintendo Award for Video Game Sound FX Based on an Action Film

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" also won the Golden Trailer Award for Best Action TV Spot. And it also won the Matchflick Flicker Awards: Best Superhero Film. That Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC was sponsored by the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association. Richard Epper won that Stunt Rigging Award.