Oscar Quiz

Posted on February 28, 2016 at 3:14 pm

Get ready for Oscar night with an Oscar trivia quiz!

1. What Oscar-winning director is the son and father of Oscar-winning performers and what was his connection to their award-winning films?

2. What was the first film to win all five top awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay? (Extra credit if you can name the only other two films to sweep these categories.)

3. Who tied for Best Actress in 1969?

4. Who was speaking when a streaker interrupted the Oscar broadcast in 1974?

5. Who mangled the name of singer/actress Idina Menzel in 2014?

6. Which Best Actor winner swept presenter Halle Berry off her feet with a passionate kiss?

7. Who is the only person named Oscar to actually win an Oscar?

8. What was special about the special Oscar awarded to Walt Disney for “Snow White?”

9. Who was the first (and so far, only) woman to win the Best Director Oscar?

10. What is unusual about two-time Best Editing Oscar nominee Roderick Jaynes?

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Fandango’s Best Picture Movie Mashup

Posted on February 25, 2016 at 3:07 pm

You won’t see a better tribute to this year’s eight Best Picture nominees than this one, from Fandango. It made me want to watch all of them all over again.

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Moviepass Oscar Contest!

Posted on February 25, 2016 at 1:04 pm

Moviepass is a great deal for movie lovers — one price for unlimited movie tickets. And they have a great Oscar contest — guess the final winners and you can win an entire year of MoviePass for free! The runner up will receive 6 months.

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John Hanlon on the Oscar Nominees for Costume Design

Posted on February 16, 2016 at 7:22 pm

My friend and fellow critic John Hanlon has a great piece on Where To Watch about the nominees for Best Costume Design Oscars this year, including Sandy Powell, who is competing with herself with nominations for both “Carol” and “Cinderella.”

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Big Change at This Year’s Oscars: Thanked Names on Screen

Posted on February 10, 2016 at 8:40 am

Jezebel reports a long-overdue innovation in this year’s Oscar ceremony: nominees will have the opportunity to submit their list of people to thank before the show, so that they can run across the bottom of the screen. This will give the awardees the chance to say something more than a list of “who am I forgetting” names and give the people being thanked the recognition they deserve.

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