O’Brien’s Irish Pub Quiz – February 18th, 2015 OSCAR QUIZ Quizmasters - Jonathan Dinerstein and Rebecca Ward ROUND ONE 1. Q: Name the only three Best Picture winners that are longer than 3½ hours. A: Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur. ½ point each 2. Q: What is the longest ever title of a film nominated for Best Picture? What is the longest title of a film nominated for Best Picture this year? A: Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 1 point each 3. Q: This year the same four people have won the acting awards given by BAFTA, SAG, and the Golden Globes (in a drama). Who are they? A: Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore, J.K. Simmons, Patricia Arquette. ½ point each 4. Q: J.K. Simmons, the odds-on favorite to win Best Supporting Actor, currently features in two long-running television ad campaigns, one live-action, and one a voice performance. Name the two products he pitches. A: Farmer’s Insurance, M&Ms (voice of the yellow M&M). 1 point each 5. Q: Only twice have non-professional actors won acting awards. In both cases, they were portraying fictionalized versions of real war victimhood they suffered. Name the films for which they won. A: The Best Years of Our Lives (Harold Russell, hooks for hands), The Killing Fields (Haing Ngor, doctor oppressed by Khmer Rouge). 1 point each 6. Q: Who is the only person to twice achieve the feat of receiving nominations for acting, writing and directing for the same film? A: Warren Beatty. (Heaven Can Wait, Reds) 1 point 7. Q: Match the films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film with their countries of origin. A: Ida - Poland, Leviathan - Russia, Tangerines - Estonia, Timbuktu - Mauritania, Wild Tales - Argentina. ½ point each 8. Q: Which of this year’s acting nominees had no speaking lines in his or her film debut in a named role? That debut performance came in a film nominated for Best Picture. A: Robert Duvall, who played Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird. 1 point 9. Q: Write down the names of the following actors: Cate Blanchett, Ben Kingsley, James Cromwell, James Caan. For each one, name the film nominated for Best Animated Feature in which they provide a voice performance. A: Blanchett - How To Train Your Dragon 2, Kingsley - The Boxtrolls, Cromwell - Big Hero 6, Caan - The Tale of Princess Kaguya. ½ point each. 10. Q: Of this year’s nominees for Best Director, two have had their last three feature films have begun with the same letter. Name both. A: Alejandro Iñárritu (Birdman, Biutiful, Babel), Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Midnight, Bernie) 1 point each 11. Q: In both 2011 and 2014, the same two actors appeared in Oscar-nominated films playing characters employed by MI6. Name the two actors and the two films. A: Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Imitation Game. ½ point each 12. Q: The Black List is annual inside-Hollywood industry survey of the most buzzed-about unproduced screenplays. Name the three films nominated for Best Picture this year that had previously appeared on the Black List. A: American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Whiplash. ½ point each 13. Q: Name the only two films for which two people shared the Best Director award. A: West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins), No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen).1 pt. each 14. Q: Adjusted for inflation, four of the ten lowest domestic grossing Best Picture winners of all time are films from the last ten years. Name those four. A: No Country for Old Men (2007 - $88M), 12 Years a Slave (2013 - $56M), The Artist (2011 - $47M), The Hurt Locker (2009 - $18M) ½ point each 15. Q: What is the most Oscar-nominated family? A: The Newmans. (Alfred - 45, Randy (nephew) - 20, Thomas (son) - 12, etc.) 1 point ROUND TWO 16. Q: Identify the following musical clips from the films nominated for Best Score (name the film). For a bonus, circle the two scores that were written by the same composer. A: 1 - The Imitation Game, 2 - Mr. Turner, 3 - Interstellar, 4 - The Theory of Everything, 5 - The Grand Budapest Hotel. 1 & 5 both composed by Alexandre Desplat. ½ point each 17. Q: Who is the only person to direct films which garnered nominations in all four acting categories, in back to back years? A: David O. Russell. (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle) 1 point 18. Q: What living person has won the most Oscars? A: Alan Menken (eight - 4 for song, for score). 1 point 19. Q: Who is the only non-Caucasian person to win Best Director? A: Ang Lee. 1 point 20. Q: Since the expansion of the Best Picture field from five to up to ten, who is the only person to be nominated for Best Director without his or her film also being nominated for Best Picture? A: Bennett Miller, for Foxcatcher. 1 point 21. Q: During the ceremony, the Oscar orchestra will, as usual, accompany the proceedings live. They won’t be, however, anywhere inside the Dolby Theater. Where will they be? A: Playing live remotely from the Capital Records building. 1 point 22. Q: When giving your acceptance speech, how long do you have before the orchestra begins to play you off? A: 45 seconds. 1 point 23. Q: Who was the only adult person to receive an official Oscar statuette from the Academy (not an Academy Juvenile Award) which was other than the standard size? (Including non-competitive recipients) A: In 1939, the Academy awarded a special Oscar, consisting of one regular sized statuette and seven miniature ones, in recognition of the achievement of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, to Walt Disney. 1 pt. 24. Q: Bradley Cooper has now been nominated for an acting Oscar in three consecutive years. If he is nominated again next year, he will tie a record among male actors, held by which two actors? A: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino. 1 point each 25. Q: What was the first Best Picture winner in color? A: Gone With the Wind. 1 point 26. Q: What is the only Bond song to win Best Song? A: “Skyfall.” 1 point 27. Q: According to Academy rules, how long must a film be to be eligible as a feature film? A: Forty minutes. 1 point 28. Q: There are two films tied for most nominations this year, with nine each. What actor appears in both of them? A: Ed Norton (Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel). 1 point 29. Q: What two characters have generated the most acting nominations for their portrayals? (Hint: real people.) A: Henry VIII (Charles Laughton, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton), Elizabeth I (Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett x2) 1 point each 30. Q: I will play four audio clips of people accepting Academy Awards. For each, name the recipient. A: Jack Palance, Adrien Brody, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin. ½ point each Tie Breaker Q: List as many as you can of the venues in Los Angeles County which have hosted the Academy Awards. A: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Ambassador Hotel, Biltmore Hotel, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Shrine Auditorium, Academy Aware Theater, Pantages Theatre, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Kodak/Dolby Theatre..