Trivia Quiz #2

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The Questions 1. In 4 consecutive years, 1978 - 1982, the actresses who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar all had the same initials. Who were they? The Answer 2. 6 films have won oscars for both the Best Actor and Best Actress categories. What were they? The Answer 3. This is said to be the year of Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Looking for Richard, and Hamlet all making appearances this year. But only one Shakepearean film has ever won the Best Picture Oscar. What was it? The Answer 4. Francis Ford Coppola won his first Academy Award not for a film he produced and directed, but for one in which he co-wrote the screenplay. What was the film? The Answer 5. Two actors have been nominated for the Best Actor statue 9 times. Who are they? The Answer The Answers 1. In 4 consecutive years, 1978 - 1982, the actresses who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar all had the same initials. Who were they? 1978, Maggie Smith California Suite, 1979 Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer, 1980 Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard, 1981 Maureen Stapleton Reds. Meryl Streep has been nominated for 10 Oscars and won 2 (the other being Best Actress for Sophie's Choice in 1982). Her other nominations were for Best Supporting Actress The Deer Hunter (1978), Best Actress The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Best Actress Silkwood (1983), Best Actress Out of Africa (1985), Best Actress Ironweed (1987), Best Actress A Cry in the Dark (1988), Best Actress Postcards From the Edge (1990) and Best Actress The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Maureen Stapleton has been nominated 4 times for Best Supporting Actress Lonelyhearts (1958), Best Supporting Actress Airport (1970), and Best Supporting Actress Interiors (1978). Maggie Smith has two oscars to her name a Best Actress statue for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) in addition to the Supporting Actress award. Her other 3 nominations were for Best Supporting Actress Othello (1965), Best Actress Travels With My Aunt (1972) and Best Supporting Actress A Room with a View (1986). 2. 6 films have won oscars for both the Best Actor and Best Actress categories. What were they? It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Cable & Claudette Colbert, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher, Network (1976) Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway, Coming Home (1978) Jon Voight & Jane Fonda, On Golden Pond (1981) Henry Fonda & Katherine Hepburn, and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster. 3. 3. This is said to be the year of Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Looking for Richard, and Hamlet all making appearances this year. But only one Shakepearean film has ever won the Best Picture Oscar. What was it? Sir Laurence Olivier's version of Hamlet (1948). The film also holds the distinction of being the only film where the winner of the Best Actor Oscar directed himself to win the award. Hamlet also won an oscar for Black and White Art Direction and Costume Design. Other Shakespearean films to win Oscars include A Midsummer's Night Dream (1935) - Best Cinematography Hal Mohr & Best Film Editing, Ralph Dawson; Julius Caesar (1953) Best Black and White Art Direction; and Henry V (1989) Costume Design 4. Francis Ford Coppola won his first Academy Award not for a film he produced and directed, but for one in which he co-wrote the screenplay. What was the film? Patton (1970), co-written with Edmund H. North. Patton also won oscars for Best Picture, Actor (George C. Scott-which he declined), Director (Franklin J. Shaffner), Art Direction, Sound and Film Editing. Coppola also won 4 Oscars in addition to his stature for Patton. For Writing (Best Screenplay based on material from another medium) The Godfather (1972), Writing (Best Screenplay adapted from other material) The Godfather, Part II (1974), Directing: The Godfather, Part II (1974), Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II(1974) and has been nominated an additional 9 times . For Directing The Godfather, for Best Picture, American Graffiti (1973), for Writing (Best Original Screenplay) The Conversation (1974), for Best Picture: The Conversation (1974), for Writing (Best Screenplay based on material from another medium) Apocalypse Now (1979), for Directing: Apocalypse Now (1979), for Best Picture: Apocalypse Now (1979), for Best Achievement in Directing: The Godfather, Part III (1990), for Best Picture of the Year: The Godfather, Part III (1990). 5. Two actors have been nominated for the Best Actor statue 9 times. Who are they? Laurence Olivier and Spencer Tracy. Laurence Olivier was for nominated for Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), Henry V (1946), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1956), The Entertainer (1960), Othello (1965), Sleuth (1972), and The Boys From Brazil (1978). He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Marathon Man (1976). He took home the Best Actor statue for Hamlet (1948). Spencer Tracy won Best Actor statues for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). He was also nominated for San Francisco (1936), Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).