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Quiz about Oscars Best Pictures 2000s
Quiz about Oscars Best Pictures 2000s

Oscar's Best Pictures: 2000s Trivia Quiz


Year by year for the 2000s, all of the Best Picture winners of the decade. Remember that Oscars are handed out the year after the movie's release.

A multiple-choice quiz by napierslogs. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
napierslogs
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
321,579
Updated
Dec 03 21
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which movie won the Best Picture Oscar in 2000? This movie also had leading acting nominations but none for its supporting cast. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2001? It also had the most nominations for the year with 12. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2002? This movie was "based" on the life of American mathematician John Nash. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2003? This film was based on a Broadway musical which was based on a book which was based on a play which was based on a real-life story. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which movie won the Best Picture Oscar in 2004? It was the third film of a trilogy. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2005? This film was not based on a real-life person. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2006? This film won Best Cast by the Casting Society of America and the Screen Actors Guild but received only one acting nomination at the Oscars. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2007? This film also won Best Directing and Best Adapted Screenplay. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2008? This film was based on a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2009? This film had two directors, for location purposes. Hint



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1. Which movie won the Best Picture Oscar in 2000? This movie also had leading acting nominations but none for its supporting cast.

Answer: American Beauty

Kevin Spacey won for Best Lead Actor and Annette Bening was nominated for Best Lead Actress. It was also the first feature film for Best Director Sam Mendes. "American Beauty" (1999) was about a middle-aged married couple trying to survive suburbia. The supporting cast featured Thora Birch as Spacey and Bening's daughter, Mena Suvari as her friend, and Wes Bentley as the mysterious neighbour.
2. Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2001? It also had the most nominations for the year with 12.

Answer: Gladiator

Russell Crowe won the Best Actor Oscar; however, it was widely reputed that he was difficult to work with. He was also not the first choice for the role - Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas were both considered but turned down the role of Maximus. In "Gladiator" (2000), Russell Crowe played a Roman gladiator who returned to Rome to seek revenge for the murder of his family.
3. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2002? This movie was "based" on the life of American mathematician John Nash.

Answer: A Beautiful Mind

I put "based" in quotation marks because much has been said about Akiva Goldsman's interpretation of Nash's life, which is semifictional at best. In fact, Goldsman's writing is credited as "written by" instead of "screenplay by" because the Writers Guild of American concluded that Goldsman's omissions were "glaring and peculiar". (WGA's quoted conclusions are from Wikipedia.) They therefore used the credits as a way to note how far off he was from the source material, which was Sylvia Nasar's biography "A Beautiful Mind".

In "A Beautiful Mind" (2001), we met John Nash as a young man and very promising mathematician, but he had to battle the demons within himself.
4. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2003? This film was based on a Broadway musical which was based on a book which was based on a play which was based on a real-life story.

Answer: Chicago

"Chicago" (2002) was the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar since "Oliver!" (1968) won in 1969. The story of "Chicago" was about two jazz-era female killers - with lots of song and dance.
5. Which movie won the Best Picture Oscar in 2004? It was the third film of a trilogy.

Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003) was the only one of the three "Lord of the Rings" movies to win the Best Picture Oscar, though all three did receive nominations. In "Return of the King", we saw the final battle of Middle Earth and the destruction of the mystical ring.
6. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2005? This film was not based on a real-life person.

Answer: Million Dollar Baby

"Million Dollar Baby"(2004) starred Hilary Swank as a female boxer and Clint Eastwood as her trainer. Although it seems like a "based on a true story" movie, it was actually a fictional movie based on stories by F.X. Toole. "Finding Neverland" (2004) was about real-life author J.M. Barrie, "Ray" (2004) was about real-life singer Ray Charles, and "The Aviator" (2004) was about real-life aviator and director Howard Hughes. All three received Best Picture nominations in 2005.
7. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2006? This film won Best Cast by the Casting Society of America and the Screen Actors Guild but received only one acting nomination at the Oscars.

Answer: Crash

Matt Dillon was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "Crash" (2005). The film was set in Los Angeles with many interweaving storylines with characters all having to deal with racial issues in one way or another. "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "Capote" (2005) and "Walk the Line" (2005) all received a couple of acting noms. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for "Capote", Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress for "Walk the Line", and "Brokeback Mountain" received three acting nominations for Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michelle Williams.
8. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2007? This film also won Best Directing and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Answer: The Departed

"The Departed" (2006) was adapted from "Infernal Affairs" (2002), the Best Picture at that year's Hong Kong Film Awards. The films were about moles from the mafia and the police department who went undercover to discover their enemies.
9. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2008? This film was based on a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy.

Answer: No Country for Old Men

This was the year of adaptations. Cormac McCarthy's novel was also titled "No Country for Old Men". "Atonement" was adapted from Ian McEwan's 2001 novel "Atonement", "There Will Be Blood" was adapted from the 1927 novel "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair, and "Away From Her" was based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain".
In "No Country for Old Men"(2007), a rural hunter found $2 million and ran away with it, but it put a psychopathic killer on his trail, and then a retiring sheriff on the path of the killer.
10. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar in 2009? This film had two directors, for location purposes.

Answer: Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle is a British director who received the only Best Directing Oscar for the film. However, Loveleen Tandan was credited as co-director: India, to give the film a "broader cultural compass" (from an interview between Tandan and Kevin Maher for The Times Online).

She was also the casting director and was responsible for finding all the young Indian actors. "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008) was primarily set in Mumbai, India and followed a teen from the slums as his life experiences helped prepare him for "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?".
Source: Author napierslogs

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