Find the Best Picture Oscar in Each Sentence (4) Quiz

Answer: Sword and Sandal

You can find the film in the sentence: "The loud gongs from Big BEN HURt..."
"Ben-Hur" is a quintessential sword and sandal epic film from 1959, starring Charlton Heston, as a wealthy Jewish prince/merchant from Jerusalem who is betrayed by his childhood friend, Messala, and sentenced to slavery. Set in first-century Jerusalem and Rome during the Roman occupation of Judea, the film is based on Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, often described as a "toga novel" the literary counterpart to the sword and sandal film genre.
The film won 11 Academy Awards out of its 12 nominations, including Best Picture, at the 32nd Academy Awards on April 4, 1960.

Answer: Proper noun

You can find the film in the sentence: "The blood of the MARTYrs..."
Marty is a proper noun, specifically a given name (a masculine first name) and is also the title of the Best Picture Oscar winner for the 1955 film year, presented on March 21, 1956. As the title character, actor Ernest Borgnine won Best Actor, playing Marty Piletti, a 34-year-old lonely Italian-American butcher living with his mother. He's constantly pressured by his family and friends to get married, and finally does find romance.

Answer: Gothic psychological thriller

You can find the film in the sentence: "...the REBEC CAn evoke..."
Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940) is about a young woman (Joan Fontaine) who marries a wealthy widower (Laurence Olivier), only to find herself seemingly tormented by the haunting presence of his dead first wife, a memory that she finds it hard to compete with.
It is the only film directed by Alfred Hitchcock to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Answer: A young dancer

You can find the film in the sentence: "...has a pANORAmic view..."
"Anora" (2024) is about a young exotic dancer (Mikey Madison who won Best Actress) working in the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn who dives into whirlwind marriage to the spoiled son (Ivan) of a Russian oligarch. The events spiral out of control when his family finds out about the marriage and intervene, sending their fixers to find the young man who has run away and force an annulment. Anora is saddled with these bumbling fixers (Toros, Garnick, and Igor) as they search Brooklyn for Ivan before his parents arrive.

Answer: War

You can find the film in the sentence: "...warmonger sPAT TONs of..."
"Patton" is a biographical war film following the World War II career of the controversial and firebrand American General George S. Patton, Jr. played by George C. Scott who won Best Actor. At the 43rd Academy Awards, "Patton" won seven Oscars out its ten nominations including Best Picture.
The film's famous opening scene features Patton on a stage with a large American flag backdrop, giving a speech to the Third Army. We then see the events of his major military campaigns, including the victories in North Africa against Rommel, and his procession across Europe after D-Day.

Answer: Musical

You can find the film in the sentence: "That model wore as CHIC A GOwn as I have ever..."
Based on the blockbuster Broadway musical, "Chicago" is the satirical adaptation about two dancers (Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones) in 1920s Chicago who commit murder and manipulate the media and a slick lawyer (Richard Gere) to spin their crimes into celebrity fame.
This 2002 film musical won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was the first musical to win the top Oscar since "Oliver!" in 1968.

Answer: Tearjerker

You can find the film in the sentence: "...are long TERM, SO FEND EAR MENTal images..."
"Terms of Endearment" is a comedy-drama tearjerker about the complicated relationship between a mother (Shirley MacLaine) and daughter (Debra Winger) spanning roughly three decades, as they both navigate their own separate love lives and their family life.
It won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (James L. Brooks), Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine, who competed against castmate Debra Winger), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson), and Best Adapted Screenplay (James L. Brooks).

Answer: Police drama

You can find the film in the sentence: "...like the FRENCH CONNECT IONs through...."
"The French Connection" is a gritty crime drama about two New York City narcotics detectives - Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman who won Best Actor for this role) and his partner Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider). The two men investigate and try to track down and intercept a massive $32 million shipment of pure heroin coming from France. The film is noted for having perhaps the most iconic car chase sequence in the history of police dramas, as Doyle chases an overhead NYC subway train.
At the 44th Academy Awards, "The French Connection" won five out of eight Oscars, the first R-rated film to win Best Picture. "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) won Best Picture at the 1970 Oscars, but was rated X at the time, and was reclassified R in 1971, so doesn't count as the first film to win while carrying an R rating.

Answer: Romantic comedy-drama

You can find the film in the sentence: "...Johann Wolfgang von GoeTHE, A PART MEN Tried to audition for..."
"The Apartment" (1960) is a romantic comedy with dramatic undertones about a lonely office clerk who finds himself lending out his apartment to his philandering bosses from work, in the hope that he'll get a promotion. Things get complicated though, when he falls in love with the elevator operator who is his boss's mistress.
At the 33rd Academy Awards, "The Apartment" won five Oscars from ten nominations, as Billy Wilder became the first person to win Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay for the same film.

Answer: Two brothers road picture

You can find the film in the sentence: "It would be easier to tRAIN MANatees..."
In "Rain Man", Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is a self-absorbed car dealer in Los Angeles, who learns that he's been left almost no inheritance when his father dies, and adding salt to the wound, learns that most of the $3 million estate went to an unnamed trustee. This trustee he finds out is to go to Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic older brother that Charlie never knew about, and who has been living in a mental institution for decades.
At the 61st Academy Awards, "Rain Man" won four Oscars of its eight nominations, and made history as the first film to win both the Best Picture Oscar and the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.