Awards and Festivals Trivia and Quizzes

Some more than deserving movie icons, never actually won an Oscar! Can you name them? Good luck!

Many individuals have won the Academy Award for Best Actor or Best Actress. Can you identify the character that they portrayed that won them the Oscar during the 1920s-1940s?

Indians haven't made much of an impression at the Academy Awards barring a few exceptions. There was just about enough material for this quiz though.

While many actors would kill to get an Academy Award, this quiz focuses on actors who won for playing characters who died. Warning: Some spoilers.

In honor of 30 years of Golden Raspberry Awards (1980-2010), a celebration of films that are (in the words of Roger Ebert) "Awesome in their badness".

This quiz makes you pick the film for which 10 actors and actresses won an Oscar for Best Actor or Best Actress. Don't be fooled by choices where the actor or actress won in the supporting category!

Can you identify these ten famous actors and the various characters they portrayed?

I'll give you a series of directors, all of whom directed a particular actor or actress to an Academy Award nomination (and, in some cases, a win). You name the performer. For help, the directors (and thus, the nominations) are listed chronologically.

Most of the time the winner of the Best Director Oscar is the same as the winner for Best Picture. There are a few exceptions, however.

A quiz about the successes and failures of movies at the Oscars awards ceremonies throughout the years. All of the questions or answers have a numbers connection.

Can you identify these ten famous actors and the various characters they portrayed?

Academy Award and Golden Globe knowledge is essential for this quiz. Good luck and I really appreciate your comments, questions, and suggestions. Thank you.

Oscar is at it again! Here is another collection of ten questions about movies the Academy liked, which happen to feature the ever-busy ladies of the evening. Good Luck!

Does an Oscar nomination guarantee a successful acting career? Not all are lucky. Here is a quiz that will ask you for a star nominated for an Oscar or the film for which a star has been nominated. Good luck!

We know many by heart. It's no surprise that these animated shorts also have Academy Awards to their credit. (All questions as of March 2001.)

There are many film festivals around the world with prizes for "Best Film" and many of these awards are described as golden. Match the award to the film festival it could have been won at in the pre-covid 21st century.

How is your knowledge of film awards - Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the SAG? All you have to do in this quiz is identify a star or a film that has been nominated or has been awarded with a prize. Have fun!

Portraying characters that have physical or mental disabilities has resulted in many Oscar nominations and wins. This quiz will test your knowledge of these performances.

This was one of the first books on "bad" films that I ever read and it was somewhat of a pioneering work in the field. Here's a quiz about some of these legendary awards from the book by Harry and Michael Medved.

Some of the best known stars have only been nominated once for academy awards never winning. In this quiz I give you their name you have to guess for which film they received their one and only nomination.

"Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" tied the record for most Academy Awards for a movie, but also set a new record for biggest sweep. This quiz deals with other movies and people that have won every Oscar nomination they received.

Here are some very rare and odd results that have occurred on Oscar night. How many are you aware of? All answers are valid through the 74th Academy Awards, March 24, 2002.

More and more actors are finding greater success as directors. This quiz looks at how the Oscars have treated those performers who wear two hats. Questions are valid throught the 73rd Academy Awards, March 25, 2001.

Oscars are not the only film awards. Here the questions focus on films that have won (or not) at the annual Czech Lions Awards.

Let's see how many of the Oscar Hosts you really know about.

A lot of Oscar winners got their start on television before they won their Oscar. I have listed series that they have played on. All you do is guess who they are.

This is a short quiz on movies that won major awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. Have fun and good luck!

This quiz is all about film producers who have won Oscars for producing Best Film winners. Important note: whenever a year is mentioned it relates to the year a film was made not when it won the Oscar.