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TRIVIA EXAM  Patricia Neal in "HUD" Black, gay or sex-changed? |
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1. Patricia Neal won the Best Actress Oscar for 1963's "Hud." The movie was based on Larry McMurtry's novel "Horseman, Pass By." In the book, the character Neal played was (choose one): 1. A black woman. 2. A man. 3. A homosexual.
2. True or False: Actress Maria Cruz actually rejected an Oscar at the ceremonies for the 1972 Academy Awards.
3. In 1944, 20 different movies were nominated in the category of musical scoring of a drama or comedy picture. Which picture won?
4. At the ceremonies for the 1938 Academy Awards, child star Shirley Temple presented one person with eight Oscars all at the same time. Who was the lucky winner?
5. Joe Pesci won a supporting actor Oscar for the 1970 gangster film "Good Fellas," which was based on a best-selling book. The film couldn't use the book's title because the studio thought people would confuse the movie with a popular TV show that already was using the same title. What was the book's title?
6. Composer John Williams has won Oscars for the scores of such films as "Fiddler on the Roof," "Jaws" and "Star Wars," but his first nomination in that category was for a 1967 schlock classic. Name it.
7. Name the movie nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 2000 that was based on a television miniseries originally broadcast in America on PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre."
8. Gale Sondergaard, who won the first Best Supporting Actress award for 1936's "Anthony Adverse," didn't receive her Oscar statuette until 38 years later. Why the long delay?
9. The classic Oscar-winning comedy of 1934--"It Happened One Night"--was remade in 1956 with a different title. Name it.
10. Name the only dead performer ever nominated for acting Oscars TWICE in two DIFFERENT years.
11. In 1953, Hollywood's biggest year for 3-D movies, only one of 20 acting nominations was for a film shot in the 3-D process. Who received that nomination?
12. In 1990, Kathy Bates and Jeremy Irons won the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars, but did so in films the Academy didn't deem worthy of nomination for Best Picture. Name the films.
13. At the 1954 Oscar ceremonies, Nancy Kelly accepted an honorary Oscar for a notoriously reclusive star. Was it: A. Greta Garbo; B. Norma Desmond; C. Mary Pickford; D. Mae West.
14. Rock Hudson, who rarely sang in public, performed "Baby, It's Cold Outside" at the 1957 Oscar ceremonies in a duet with what legendary Hollywood star?
15. Best actress nominee Shirley MacLaine couldn't be present at the 1960 Oscar ceremony, so they arranged for another actress to accept the award for her if she happened to win. Instead, the standby actress won the Oscar herself. Who was it?
16. Which Oscar winner was the first to win in a foreign language film: A. Anna Magnani; B. Sophia Loren; C. Lila Kedrova.
17.
Many of the Oscar-winning Best Films have been based on best-selling
novels. In the following list, match the films with the authors:
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B. Erich Maria Remarque C. Edna Ferber D. Pierre Boule E. Richard Llewelyn F. Thomas Harris G. James Jones |
2. Cimarron 3. From Here to Eternity 4. Mrs. Miniver 5. Bridge on the River Kwai 6. All Quiet on the Western Front 7. How Green Was My Valley |
18.
Name the Oscar winner who won for her debut performance in a
movie:
A. Mercedes McCambridge; B. Goldie Hawn; C. Celeste Holm.
19. Name the first film to win three of the four acting Oscars.
20.
In 1943, an Oscar-winning dramatic star nobody knew had a singing
voice sang the Frank Loesser song "They're Either Too Young
or Too Old" to an Oscar nomination as Best Song. Who was
it?
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