Hey, Where's MY Oscar? Trivia Quiz

Answer: M*A*S*H

Altman was nominated for "M*A*S*H" in 1970. The movie was an adaptation of Richard Hooker's 1968 novel about the lives of the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital unit during the Korean War. The movie would later spawn a successful TV series that ran from 1972-1983.
Altman was also nominated for "Nashville," "The Player," "Shortcuts," and "Gosford Park". Altman died in November 2006, never winning a competitive Oscar, but earning an honorary Oscar earlier that year.

Answer: Psycho

Hitchcock was nominated six times for a Best Director Oscar. The 1960 horror classic is about secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) who hides out at the motel owned by the creepy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who is still obsessed with his mother. Marion moves into the Bates Motel after she embezzles $40,000 to pay for her wedding to Sam (John Gavin).
A 1998 remake of "Psycho," which was dirercted by Gus van Sant, was a failure as it made less than the original, even before inflation.

Answer: False

He earned one for Special Effects in 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey". As for Best Director, Best Writing, and Best Picture, he went winless in eleven combined nominations.

Answer: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini

Fellini's earned his eighth nomination, for writing, with 1977's "Il Casanova di Federico Fellini", an adaptation of the autobiography of eighteenth century Italian womanizer Giacomo Casanova. Casanova, played by Donald Sutherland, has his life go into sexual abandonment, spends time in a Venetian prison, and goes to a frost fair in London after the Thames river freezes.
The Italian film legend also was also nominated four times for directing, also with no success.

Answer: Best Actress

Close was nominated for lead acting roles in "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Fatal Attraction", and earned Supporting Actress nominations for "The World According to Garp", "The Natural", and "The Big Chill".

Answer: True

Burton was nominated for a supporting role in 1952's "My Cousin Rachel". His next six nominations were for lead acting roles: 1953's "The Robe," 1964's "Becket," 1965's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 1969's "Anne of the Thousand Days," and 1977's "Equus".

Answer: Erin Brockovich

Finney's role as attorney Ed Masry in the 2000 film was the fifth nomination for the British-born actor. Finney has also been nominated four times in lead roles. "Erin Brockovich" is about a single mother, with no formal legal experience, who is instrumental in a 1993 lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric. If you look closely, you can see cameos by the real Erin Brockovich and Ed Masry.

Answer: Green Card

Weir earned a writing nomination for "Green Card" (a film which features Gerard Depardieu trying to fake a marriage to Andie McDowell so he can stay in the United States) and a Best Picture nomination for "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World", which had Russell Crowe pursuing a French frigate.

Answer: Spartacus

Douglas won nominations for "Champion" (1950), "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1953), and "Lust for Life" (1957).

Kirk received an honorary Oscar in 1996. Kirk's son Michael is a two-time Oscar winner ("Wall Street", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"); daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones won for "Chicago".

Answer: They went a combined 0-for-14 in Oscar nominations.

Scorcese had nominations in directing (five) and writing (two), but no honorary one. O'Toole, who earned an Honorary Oscar in 2003, had seven lead acting nominations. Prior to "Venus" O'Toole's last nomination was for 1982's "My Favorite Year". O'Toole won an Emmy for "Joan of Arc", while Scorsese was 0-for-3 in the Emmy category.

In 2007, Scorsese finally won a Best Director Oscar for "The Departed," while O'Toole earned the dubious honor of most acting nominations without a win, taking the title from Richard Burton.