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Answers:

1. The category of Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2001, when "Shrek" won the award. The 1991 "Beauty and the Beast" was the first (and only) animated feature ever to be nominated in the Best Picture category. The makers of the 1995 "Toy Story" received a special award for having created the first entirely computer-generated animated feature.


2. Jack Nicholson has 10 credited appearances in Best Picture nominees ("Five Easy Pieces," "Chinatown," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next," "Reds," "Terms of Endearment," "Prizzi's Honor," "Broadcast News," "A Few Good Men," "As Good As It Gets" and "The Departed"), and also made an unbilled cameo in "Ragtime." Dustin Hoffman and Harrison Ford each have 8 (though Ford also filmed a scene for "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" that was cut; you can view it here). Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro each have 7, though Duvall also made an uncredited appearance in "The Conversation."


3. In billed screen appearances, Olivia De Havilland's eight ("Captain Blood," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Anthony Adverse," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," "Gone With the Wind," "Hold Back the Dawn," "The Snake Pit" and "The Heiress") edges out Elizabeth Taylor's seven ("Father of the Bride," "A Place in the Sun," "Ivanhoe," "Giant," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"). But Taylor also made uncredited appearances in the epic "Quo Vadis" and in her then-husband Richard Burton's "Anne of the Thousand Days," narrowly beating De Havilland with a total of 9. They both leave Blanchett (6), Streep (5) and MacLaine (4) in the dust.


4. Kevin Bacon appeared in "JFK," "A Few Good Men," "Apollo 13" and "Mystic River."


5. George Bernard Shaw, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1925, won a Best Screenplay Oscar for the 1938 film version of "Pygmalion." John Steinbeck (nominated for the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat") and Harold Pinter (nominated for "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "Betrayal)" also each later earned Nobel Literature Prizes.


6. Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress as news photographer Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1983). Gwyneth Paltrow played a character who pretended to be a member of the opposite sex in "Shakespeare in Love," but we in the audience knew better.


7. Because of the blacklist against Charlie Chaplin which led to his exile from the United States, his 1952 film "Limelight" was never shown in Los Angeles until 1972, thus becoming eligible that year for the Academy Awards. Chaplin received an Oscar for Best Score, which he shared with arrangers Ray Rasch and Larry Russell (both of whom were already dead).

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9. Jerome Robbins, sitting behind the cameras for the first time on "West Side Story," was fired more than halfway through shooting because of concerns over time and cost overruns, but he later shared the Best Director Academy Award with Robert Wise. Robbins never directed another film.

10. Willie Fulgear received a $50,000 reward and two tickets to the 2000 Academy Awards ceremony after finding boxes containing 55 of 58 missing Oscar trophies, lost during shipping between the Chicago manufacturer and Los Angeles.

Truck driver Lawrence Edward Ledent was sentenced to six months in prison and five years' probation in connection with the robbery. In 2001, John Willie Harris (a half-brother of Fulgear) pleaded guilty to one count of receiving stolen property and was sentenced to six months in prison, and a dockworker at the shipping company, Anthony Keith Hart, pleaded no contest to receiving stolen property and was sentenced to three years' probation.

In curious codas to the discovery, Fulgear later reported that most of the reward money was stolen from his apartment. Three years later, one of the remaining missing Oscars was found during a drug investigation in Florida.

By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan.