Oscars & Awards
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1.Which mafia classic won Best Picture in 1972?
- A. Cabaret
- B. The Candidate
- C. Deliverance
- D. The Godfather
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The Godfather
Did you know? Mafia films before it had been largely ignored.
2.Which boxing drama won Best Picture in 2004?
- A. Million Dollar Baby
- B. Sideways
- C. The Aviator
- D. Ray
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Million Dollar Baby
Did you know? Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the winner.
3.Which fantasy epic won Best Picture in 2003?
- A. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- B. Master and Commander
- C. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- D. Mystic River
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Did you know? It won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for.
4.Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1994, beating The Shawshank Redemption?
- A. The Shawshank Redemption
- B. Quiz Show
- C. Forrest Gump
- D. Pulp Fiction
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Forrest Gump
Did you know? Forrest Gump won six Oscars in total.
5.Which film won Best Picture in 2016 after an envelope mixup?
- A. Arrival
- B. La La Land
- C. Manchester by the Sea
- D. Moonlight
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Moonlight
Did you know? Warren Beatty opened the wrong envelope on stage.
6.Which film won Best Picture in 2020?
- A. The Trial of the Chicago 7
- B. Promising Young Woman
- C. Nomadland
- D. Mank
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Nomadland
Did you know? Chloe Zhao won Best Director for it.
7.Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2000?
- A. Erin Brockovich
- B. Gladiator
- C. Chocolat
- D. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Gladiator
Did you know? Russell Crowe also won Best Actor that year.
8.Which war film won Best Picture in 2009?
- A. Avatar
- B. Inglourious Basterds
- C. The Hurt Locker
- D. Up in the Air
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The Hurt Locker
Did you know? Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director.
9.Which South Korean film won Best Picture in 2019?
- A. Joker
- B. Ford v Ferrari
- C. Parasite
- D. 1917
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Parasite
Did you know? It was the first non-English Best Picture winner.
10.Which mental hospital drama won Best Picture in 1975?
- A. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- B. Jaws
- C. Barry Lyndon
- D. Nashville
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Did you know? It won all five major Oscars.
11.Which historical drama won Best Picture in 2013?
- A. American Hustle
- B. Philomena
- C. Gravity
- D. 12 Years a Slave
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12 Years a Slave
Did you know? Steve McQueen became the first Black Best Picture director.
12.Which British drama won Best Picture in 2010?
- A. The King's Speech
- B. Black Swan
- C. 127 Hours
- D. The Social Network
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The King's Speech
Did you know? Colin Firth won Best Actor for it.
13.Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1997?
- A. Titanic
- B. L.A. Confidential
- C. Good Will Hunting
- D. As Good as It Gets
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Titanic
Did you know? Titanic won 11 Oscars in total.
14.Which fantasy romance won Best Picture in 2017?
- A. Dunkirk
- B. Get Out
- C. Three Billboards
- D. The Shape of Water
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The Shape of Water
Did you know? Guillermo del Toro won Best Director for it.
15.Which biographical epic won Best Picture in 2023?
- A. Oppenheimer
- B. Maestro
- C. Killers of the Flower Moon
- D. Poor Things
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Oppenheimer
Did you know? Cillian Murphy won Best Actor for it.
16.Which Boston crime film won Best Picture in 2006?
- A. Babel
- B. Letters from Iwo Jima
- C. The Departed
- D. Little Miss Sunshine
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The Departed
Did you know? It was Martin Scorsese's first Best Picture win.
17.Which multiverse comedy won Best Picture in 2022?
- A. TAR
- B. Top Gun: Maverick
- C. The Banshees of Inisherin
- D. Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Did you know? It won seven Oscars in total.
18.Which boxing film won Best Picture in 1976?
- A. Rocky
- B. Taxi Driver
- C. All the President's Men
- D. Network
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Rocky
Did you know? Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay.
19.Which Gandhi biopic won Best Picture in 1982?
- A. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- B. Gandhi
- C. The Verdict
- D. Tootsie
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Gandhi
Did you know? Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for the title role.
20.Which backstage drama won Best Picture in 2014?
- A. The Grand Budapest Hotel
- B. Boyhood
- C. Whiplash
- D. Birdman
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Birdman
Did you know? It also won Best Director for Inarritu.
21.Which Holocaust drama won Best Picture in 1993?
- A. The Fugitive
- B. The Piano
- C. Schindler's List
- D. In the Name of the Father
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Schindler's List
Did you know? It was Spielberg's first Best Picture win.
22.Which CIA thriller won Best Picture in 2012?
- A. Zero Dark Thirty
- B. Life of Pi
- C. Lincoln
- D. Argo
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Argo
Did you know? Ben Affleck directed and starred in the winner.
23.Which Kevin Costner western won Best Picture in 1990?
- A. Ghost
- B. Dances with Wolves
- C. Goodfellas
- D. The Godfather Part III
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Dances with Wolves
Did you know? Costner won Best Director as well.
24.Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2001?
- A. Moulin Rouge!
- B. A Beautiful Mind
- C. In the Bedroom
- D. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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A Beautiful Mind
Did you know? Ron Howard won Best Director for the film.
25.Which thriller won Best Picture in 1991?
- A. JFK
- B. The Prince of Tides
- C. Beauty and the Beast
- D. The Silence of the Lambs
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The Silence of the Lambs
Did you know? It swept the five major Oscars.
26.Which film won Best Picture in 2008?
- A. Slumdog Millionaire
- B. Frost/Nixon
- C. Milk
- D. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Slumdog Millionaire
Did you know? A.R. Rahman won for its music.
27.Which road trip film won Best Picture in 2018?
- A. A Star Is Born
- B. Bohemian Rhapsody
- C. Green Book
- D. Roma
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Green Book
Did you know? Its win was debated among critics.
28.Which film about a deaf family won Best Picture in 2021?
- A. Dune
- B. CODA
- C. Belfast
- D. The Power of the Dog
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CODA
Did you know? CODA was released by a streaming service.
29.Which sequel became the first to win Best Picture in 1974?
- A. Chinatown
- B. The Towering Inferno
- C. The Godfather Part II
- D. Lenny
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The Godfather Part II
Did you know? It also won Robert De Niro Best Supporting Actor.
30.Which Woody Allen comedy won Best Picture in 1977?
- A. Annie Hall
- B. The Goodbye Girl
- C. Julia
- D. Star Wars
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Annie Hall
Did you know? Annie Hall beat Star Wars to the prize.
31.Which journalism drama won Best Picture in 2015?
- A. Brooklyn
- B. The Big Short
- C. The Revenant
- D. Spotlight
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Spotlight
Did you know? The film depicts the Boston Globe investigation.
32.Which African drama won Best Picture in 1985?
- A. Out of Africa
- B. Witness
- C. The Color Purple
- D. Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Out of Africa
Did you know? Meryl Streep starred in the winner.
33.Which film won Best Picture in 2007?
- A. Juno
- B. No Country for Old Men
- C. There Will Be Blood
- D. Michael Clayton
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No Country for Old Men
Did you know? The Coen brothers won Best Director for it.
34.Which musical won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2002?
- A. Dreamgirls
- B. Moulin Rouge!
- C. Chicago
- D. The Phantom of the Opera
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Chicago
Did you know? Rob Marshall directed the Best Picture winner.
35.Which film caused an upset by winning Best Picture in 2005?
- A. Brokeback Mountain
- B. Capote
- C. Munich
- D. Crash
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Crash
Did you know? Crash beat the favorite Brokeback Mountain.
36.Which wartime romance won Best Picture in 1996?
- A. Jerry Maguire
- B. The English Patient
- C. Shine
- D. Fargo
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The English Patient
Did you know? It won nine Oscars in total.
37.Which Bernardo Bertolucci epic won Best Picture in 1987?
- A. Platoon
- B. The Mission
- C. Hannah and Her Sisters
- D. The Last Emperor
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The Last Emperor
Did you know? It swept nine Oscars.
38.Which film won the very first Best Picture Oscar?
- A. Wings
- B. Sunrise
- C. The Jazz Singer
- D. Metropolis
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Wings
Did you know? The first ceremony honored films of 1927/28.
39.Which French silent film won Best Picture in 2011?
- A. Hugo
- B. The Artist
- C. Amour
- D. Midnight in Paris
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The Artist
Did you know? It was the first mostly silent Best Picture winner.
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