Test your Oscars knowledge with this trivia quiz

A lot of the finest films, you wish to return and watch once more. On this Oscar quiz, you’re going to have to return and have a look at your solutions once more — if you wish to rating a “excellent 10.”

1. Jane Campion is the primary lady to be nominated twice for the directing Oscar, and is closely favored to win this time in a rematch from 1994. That yr, her movie misplaced in each finest image and directing classes whereas she gained for screenplay. What movie gained the Oscars for finest image and directing that yr?

[Need a hint? It’s a rematch, so the director who won in 1994 is nominated this year. Want the answer? OK, check the BuzzMeter if you must!]

2. Three best-picture winners since 2005 have taken place in Los Angeles (“The Artist,” “Crash,” “Million Greenback Child”). Boston has had two in that point (“Highlight” and “The Departed”). Just one finest image winner within the final 40 years has taken place primarily within the state of New York. Which one, and in what metropolis?

[Need a hint? Here’s a clip from the next movie by the same director, which also won several major Oscars.]

3. Meryl Streep has been nominated for performances in a drama with music (“Music of the Coronary heart,” 2000) and a comedy-drama with music (“Florence Foster Jenkins,” 2017), however solely as soon as for an precise musical. What was it?

[Need a hint? Here’s a clip from the Meryl Streep musical you were probably going to guess — but it isn’t the one!]

4. Two movies maintain the doubtful document of being nominated for greater than 10 Oscars and profitable none. The primary was the 1977 ballet drama “The Turning Level.” What was the final one to perform that feat?

[Need a hint? Here’s a clip of the amazing Cynthia Erivo performing a song from the Broadway musical adaptation of the book on which that second film was based. Careful: After the performance, the host says the name of the show.]

5. Two-time winner Denzel Washington is nominated for his efficiency in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” Just one performer has ever gained for a Shakespearean function (Laurence Olivier for “Hamlet,” 1948), and solely two (to date) have triumphed for a reimagined adaptation of Shakespeare (each Rita Moreno and George Chakiris in “West Aspect Story,” 1961). Gwyneth Paltrow gained for her efficiency in a narrative that spins off and straight references a piece of the Bard’s. In “Shakespeare in Love,” her character carried out a job within the unique staging of what Shakespeare play?

[Need a hint? Here’s a clip from the film that shows her rehearsing the play without naming it.]

6. U2 has two Oscar nominations for unique songs from films, one from “Mandela: Lengthy Stroll to Freedom” (2014: “Abnormal Love”). What’s the opposite movie?

[Need a hint? Here’s the song without the film’s title.]

7. Two songs originated in film performances by Madonna have gained the Oscar. A kind of songs is “You Should Love Me” from “Evita” (1997). What’s the opposite one?

[Need a hint? here’s a trailer for the film without the song in it.]

8. What or whom do solutions 1 and 4 have in widespread?

9. What or whom do solutions 3 and seven have in widespread?

10. One film has solutions 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in widespread. What makes one model of that movie a “excellent 10,” Oscar-wise?

ANSWERS

1. “Schindler’s Record.” It gained finest image, director and tailored screenplay, whereas Campion’s “The Piano” was nominated for image and director and gained for unique screenplay (Campion).

2. “Birdman or (The Sudden Advantage of Ignorance)”; Manhattan (New York Metropolis). No, “Inexperienced Guide” doesn’t rely. It has scenes within the Bronx (New York Metropolis) however takes place primarily, because the query asks, on the street within the American South (Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, and many others.).

3. “Into the Woods” (2014). No, she wasn’t nominated for the a lot bigger-grossing “Mamma Mia!” (2008) — $603 million worldwide vs. $213 million worldwide for “Woods.” Actually, “Mamma Mia!” is by far her greatest grosser (the sequel “Mamma Mia! Right here I Go Once more” is No. 2 with $399 million) , although “Don’t Look Up” (2021) would possibly truly be her most seen movie … we could by no means know.

4. “The Coloration Purple” (1985).

5. “Romeo and Juliet.”

6. “Gangs of New York” (2003: “The Palms That Constructed America”).

7. “Sooner or Later” from “Dick Tracy” (1990).

8. Steven Spielberg directed each movies.

9. Stephen Sondheim wrote “Into the Woods” and wrote and gained the Oscar for “Sooner or Later.”

10. “West Aspect Story,” after all. Its lyrics are written by Sondheim, the brand new model is directed by Spielberg, it takes place in New York (Manhattan, to be exact), includes gangs of New York and is an adaptation of “Romeo & Juliet.” Why is it an ideal 10? The 1961 model (directed by Robert Sensible and Jerome Robbins) is the one movie to win precisely 10 Oscars.