Oscar Lore: Take A Trivia Test!

(CBS)  For years you scratched off your office Oscar pool ballot (Best Sound Editing? Hmmm....). You stay up late every year watching the broadcasts regardless of school nights, work or hangovers. You gaze at the glamorous stars, shake your head at the dance numbers, and sit in stunned disbelief as some glittering celeb takes the stage ... because this stuff matters!

You think you know your Academy Award trivia? Now's your chance to prove it!

1. What was the first film to win Best Animated Feature?

1. "Beauty and the Beast"
   
2. "Toy Story"
   
3. "Toy Story 2"
   
4. "Prince of Egypt"
   
5. "Shrek"

2. Golden Boys: What living actor has appeared in more films nominated for Best Picture?

1. Robert De Niro
   
2. Robert Duvall
   
3. Harrison Ford
   
4. Dustin Hoffman
   
5. Jack Nicholson

3. Now the ladies: What living actress has appeared in more films nominated for Best Picture?

1. Cate Blanchett
   
2. Olivia De Havilland
   
3. Shirley MacLaine
   
4. Meryl Streep
   
5. Elizabeth Taylor

4. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: He may be connected to every actor in Hollywood, but Bacon has appeared in only four films nominated for Best Picture. Name them.


5. Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize after a film about his global warming crusade, "An Inconvenient Truth," won the Oscar for Best Documentary, but he wasn't the first to be honored at award ceremonies in Hollywood and Scandinavia. There was a famed Nobel Laureate who later went on to win an Academy Award. Who?


6. Cate Blanchett is nominated this year for playing Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There." Who is the only actor/actress to win an Oscar for portraying the opposite gender?


7. What film won an Oscar 20 years after it was made?


8. Match the acceptance speech remarks with the actor/actress who made them:

1. "I deserve this."
   
2. "Losing would suck and winning would be really scary. And it's really, really scary."
   
3. "Oh, wow. This is the best drink of water after the longest drought of my life."
   
4. "My mom's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here's tonight. I'd like it if you see her tonight to congratulate her. She brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that."
   
5. "I would like you to listen to the beating of your own heart which is the most precious thing in the world."
   
6. "This is one night I wish I smoked and drank."
   
7. "Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub."

1. Ben Affleck
   
2. James Cameron
   
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman
   
4. Grace Kelly
   
5. Shirley MacLaine
   
6. Steven Spielberg
   
7. Dianne Wiest

9. Beginner's Luck: Who is the only person to win a Best Director Oscar for the first and only film he/she ever directed?

10. Who was Willie Fulgear?

1. He streaked across the Oscar show stage in 1974, prompting a memorable retort by David Niven.
   
2. He discovered 55 missing Oscar statuettes in a trash bin in 2000.
   
3. He was MGM's chief art director who designed the now-familiar statue, which replaced the scroll handed out at the first ceremony.
   
4. He was the "front" who was credited with the screenplay for 1952's "Roman Holiday," penned by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, and who ended up winning the award; in 1992 Trumbo was officially (and posthumously) awarded his Oscar.
   
5. He was the very first recipient of an award at the first ceremony held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, May 16, 1929.

For answers (no peeking!) go to Page Two.

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