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And the Award-Winning Movie Is...? Quiz


I'll provide clues to a series of movies from the 1950s, all of them nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. All you have to do is identify the film.

A multiple-choice quiz by EnglishJedi. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
EnglishJedi
Time
5 mins
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Multiple Choice
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379,992
Updated
Dec 03 21
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Question 1 of 10
1. "All About Eve" dominated the Oscars for 1950. This Billy Wilder film, also nominated for Best Picture, won in the Best Writing, Story and Screenplay category and two others. William Holden and Gloria Swanson were nominated in the lead role categories, and Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson for best supporting actor and actress. Which movie is this? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Our next film was nominated for 12 Oscars, including all seven major categories. Although it did not win for Best Picture, three of its four stars, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter, won in their respective acting categories. Which 1951 movie is this? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. This Best Picture nominee for 1952 is a drama starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor. John Huston (Director), Ferrer (Best Actor) and Colette Marchand (Best Supporting Actress) were all nominated for Oscars without winning. The cast also included Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Which movie is this? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This 1953 romantic comedy starred Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, the latter winning a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Princess Ann. There were Oscar nominations too for William Wyler (Best Director) and Eddie Albert (Supporting Actor). Which movie is this? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. The second-highest grossing movie of 1954 was nominated in seven Oscar categories, although it failed to collect a single statuette. Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray starred in this film directed by McCarthy-blacklisted Canadian Edward Dmytryk. Which movie is this? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Nominated for Best Picture of 1955 is a John Ford comedy-drama starring Henry Fonda and James Cagney. A 30-year old Jack Lemmon, in one of his first screen appearances, won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. At the other end of the scale, it was the final film appearance of William Powell. Which movie is this? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Our 1956 film is an epic with Yul Brynner in one of the leading roles. The all-star cast also includes Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo and Vincent Price. This was the final, and arguably most successful, movie made by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Which movie is this? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Our 1957 film is a courtroom drama based on an Agatha Christie play. Directed by Billy Wilder, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power (in his last completed film). Acting Oscar nominations for this film, though, went to both members of a real-life married couple. Which movie is this? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. This Best Picture nominee was directed by Stanley Kramer, resulting in the first of his three nominations in the directing category. This black-and-white 'film noir' featured legendary monster-player Lon Chaney Jr and starred Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, both of whom earned Best Actor nominations. Which 1958 movie is this? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Our final 1950s Best Picture nominee was filmed mostly on location in the Belgian Congo, so it seems appropriate that a Belgian-born actress, Audrey Hepburn, should head the cast list. Also starring in this Fred Zinnemann film are Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans and Dame Peggy Ashcroft. Which movie is this? Hint



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1. "All About Eve" dominated the Oscars for 1950. This Billy Wilder film, also nominated for Best Picture, won in the Best Writing, Story and Screenplay category and two others. William Holden and Gloria Swanson were nominated in the lead role categories, and Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson for best supporting actor and actress. Which movie is this?

Answer: Sunset Boulevard

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr collected the 1950 Screenwriting Oscar for the black comedy/film noir "Sunset Boulevard". The film tells the story of an unsuccessful screenwriter and a faded silent movie star dreaming of a successful return to the screen.

Widely acknowledged as a classic, it received nominations in all four acting categories although won in none. The film also featured appearances by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and silent film legend Buster Keaton.
2. Our next film was nominated for 12 Oscars, including all seven major categories. Although it did not win for Best Picture, three of its four stars, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter, won in their respective acting categories. Which 1951 movie is this?

Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan directed "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Tennessee Williams wrote the screen adaptation from his own play, although neither won in their respective Oscar categories. The only acting category in which it failed to win was Best Actor, where Marlon Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart ("The African Queen").

The film follows aristocrat Blanche Dubois when she is forced to move in with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans ghetto.

Having previously won for "Gone with the Wind", Vivien Leigh won her second Best Actress award for her performance as Blanche DuBois. Kim Hunter, who two decades later would star as Zira in the "Planet of the Apes" series, won her only Oscar playing Stella Kowalski. Karl Malden, later nominated for "On the Waterfront", also won the only Oscar in his long and distinguished career.
3. This Best Picture nominee for 1952 is a drama starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor. John Huston (Director), Ferrer (Best Actor) and Colette Marchand (Best Supporting Actress) were all nominated for Oscars without winning. The cast also included Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Which movie is this?

Answer: Moulin Rouge

Set in Paris in the late 19th century, "Moulin Rouge" following the life of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his involvement with the burlesque palace after which the film is named.

Co-writers John Huston and Anthony Veiller were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for "Moulin Rouge" but did not make the Oscar screenwriters' list. Not that Huston was short of Oscar nominations -- he received 15 in his illustrious career as actor, writer and director, winning twice (both writing and directing awards for the 1948 adventure movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"). He became the oldest nominee for Best Director for "Prizzi's Honor", at the age of 79.

"Moulin Rouge" collected two Oscars (for Art Direction and Costume Design) from its seven nominations. That year's Best Picture award went to Cecil b. de Mille's "The Greatest Show on Earth".
4. This 1953 romantic comedy starred Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, the latter winning a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Princess Ann. There were Oscar nominations too for William Wyler (Best Director) and Eddie Albert (Supporting Actor). Which movie is this?

Answer: Roman Holiday

Shot on location in the Italian capital, "Roman Holiday" follows a reporter as he tracks a princess's adventures around the city on her own. The film won three Oscars (Writing, Costume and Best Actress) from its nine nominations. It lost out to "From Here to Eternity" in the Best Picture category.

The 24-year old Brussels-born Audrey Hepburn not only won that year's Oscar for "Roman Holiday", but also the Golden Globe and BAFTA, making her the first actress ever to win all three awards for a single performance. She was subsequently nominated four more times for Best Actress (without winning again). She was also nominated for a BAFTA for each of those four other performances, winning twice. In 1993, she was posthumously honoured by the Academy with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
5. The second-highest grossing movie of 1954 was nominated in seven Oscar categories, although it failed to collect a single statuette. Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray starred in this film directed by McCarthy-blacklisted Canadian Edward Dmytryk. Which movie is this?

Answer: The Caine Mutiny

Based on the novel by the New York-born author Herman Wouk, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 2015, "The Caine Mutiny" tells the story of life aboard a destroyer/minesweeper during WWII along with the court-martial for mutiny.

Humphrey Bogart earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, later voted as one of the 100 most memorable movie villains, but lost out to Marlon Brando ("On the Waterfront").
6. Nominated for Best Picture of 1955 is a John Ford comedy-drama starring Henry Fonda and James Cagney. A 30-year old Jack Lemmon, in one of his first screen appearances, won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. At the other end of the scale, it was the final film appearance of William Powell. Which movie is this?

Answer: Mister Roberts

Set in the final days of WWII, "Mister Roberts" had begun as a 1946 novel before being adapted for a Broadway play starring Henry Fonda when it opened in 1948. The film centres on the crew of a United States Navy cargo ship in the latter days of WWII.

Three-time Oscar nominee William Powell retired at the age of 63 after making "Mister Roberts", although he would live almost another three decades. (He died aged 91 in 1984.) For Jack Lemmon, this was the first of his eight Oscar nominations. He would later win a second statuette, this time in the Best Actor category, for "Save the Tiger" (1973).
7. Our 1956 film is an epic with Yul Brynner in one of the leading roles. The all-star cast also includes Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo and Vincent Price. This was the final, and arguably most successful, movie made by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Which movie is this?

Answer: The Ten Commandments

"The Ten Commandments" was directed by Cecil B. de Mille, who in more than 40 years as a filmmaker had produced more than 70 films, silent and sound, as actor, director and producer. He won the Best Picture Oscar for "The Greatest Show on Earth", was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1950 and received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953. Already in his mid-70s when "The Ten Commandments" was made, it was de Mille's last film: he died aged 77 in 1959.

Filmed on location in and around Egypt, "The Ten Commandments" tells the biblical story of the life of Moses, played by a relatively young (33 year old) Charlton Heston, who earned his first Golden Globe nomination for his performance. Heston would go on to win a Best Actor Oscar (for "Ben-Hur") three years later. Although nominated for Best Picture, "The Ten Commandments" (and the other two alternative options above) lost out to "Around the World in 80 Days".
8. Our 1957 film is a courtroom drama based on an Agatha Christie play. Directed by Billy Wilder, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power (in his last completed film). Acting Oscar nominations for this film, though, went to both members of a real-life married couple. Which movie is this?

Answer: Witness for the Prosecution

The 1957 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution" follows the story of an Old Bailey murder trial. It was directed by Billy Wilder, who earned an Oscar nomination for this film (his sixth) and would, three years later, become the first person to win the producer, director and screenwriter Oscars for the same film (for "The Apartment").

The real-life married couple who were both nominated for their performances in "Witness for the Prosecution" are Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. For Laughton, this was his third nomination for Best Actor: he had won 25 years earlier for "The Private Life of Henry VIII". For Lanchester, perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 1935 horror film "The Bride of Frankenstein", this was her second nomination for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. It was also the couple's last (of twelve) film together: Laughton died aged 63 in 1962 and Lanchester returned to the screen in roles such as Katie Nanna (the nanny replaced by the title character) in "Mary Poppins" (1964).
9. This Best Picture nominee was directed by Stanley Kramer, resulting in the first of his three nominations in the directing category. This black-and-white 'film noir' featured legendary monster-player Lon Chaney Jr and starred Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, both of whom earned Best Actor nominations. Which 1958 movie is this?

Answer: The Defiant Ones

"The Defiant Ones" follows two escaped prisoners whose fates are, quite literally, bound together (or, at any rate, shackled). The white man and the black man are forced to co-operate in order to survive.

The film earned eight Oscar nominations, but won only two (screenwriting and cinematography), losing out to that's year's Best Picture winner ("Gigi") in most of the other categories. In addition to Bet Actor nominations for both Curtis and Poitier, there were nominations in both Supporting categories, for Theodore Bikel and Cara Williams.

Director Stanley Kramer would earn later directing nominations for "Judgement at Nuremberg" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1962.
10. Our final 1950s Best Picture nominee was filmed mostly on location in the Belgian Congo, so it seems appropriate that a Belgian-born actress, Audrey Hepburn, should head the cast list. Also starring in this Fred Zinnemann film are Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans and Dame Peggy Ashcroft. Which movie is this?

Answer: The Nun's Story

The Oscars for 1959 were dominated by "Ben-Hur", which was not only the most expensive film ever made at that time but also became the first film in Oscar history to win awards in 11 different categories. "The Nun's Story" is a tale based on real life experiences working with refugees in Europe following the end of the WWII.

It was nominated in eight categories but failed to collect a statuette, although Audrey Hepburn was beaten in the Best Actress category not by the "Ben-Hur" avalanche but by Simone Signoret (for "Room at the Top", another of the unsuccessful Best Picture nominees that year).

Hepburn was just one of 19 actors and actresses to receive Oscar nominations for their roles in films directed by Polish-born Fred Zinnemann. Zinnemann himself won four Oscars, two for directing, for "From Here to Eternity" and for "A Man for All Seasons". He earned the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director for "the Nun's Story".
Source: Author EnglishJedi

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