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Question 1 Which actress holds the record for

winning the most Oscar awards for acting (at 4)?

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Question 2 Which actor holds the record for

the most Oscar nominations for an actor (at 12)? He has won three times.

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Question 3 Which actor holds the record for

having the most Oscar nominations (8 for Best Actor) without ever winning a competitive acting award?

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Question 4 Name the oldest winner of an

acting Oscar at 80 years old.

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Question 5 Who is the only actor to receive

two posthumous acting nominations?

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Question 6 What was the shortest

performance ever to win a lead acting Oscar, with about 16-17 minutes of screen time?

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Question 7 Only two actors have ever declined

to accept their Oscars. George C. Scott refused to accept the Best Actor Award for Patton (1970). Who was the other?

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Question 8 Which was the first (and only) X-

rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

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Question 9 Only three films have won Best

Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. Name one of them.

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Question 10 Name the first (and only) animated

film ever to be nominated for Best Picture?

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The Answers

The Oscars Question 1 Which actress holds the

record for winning the most Oscar awards for acting (at 4).

Answer Katherine Hepburn She won Best Actress

Awards for: Morning Glory (1932/33), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).

The Oscars Question 2 Which actor holds the

record for the most Oscar nominations for an actor (at 12). He has won three times.

Answer Jack Nicholson

Best Actor in One Flew Over the

Cuckoo's Nest (1975) As Good as It Gets

(1997) Best Supporting Actor in

Terms of Endearment (1983).

The Oscars Question 3 Which actor holds the

record for having the most Oscar nominations (8 for Best Actor) without ever winning a competitive acting award?

Peter O’Toole He was given an

honorary Oscar in 2003.

The Oscars Question 4 Name the oldest

winner of an acting Oscar at 80 years old

Answer Jessica Tandy won

the Best Actress Award for Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

The Oscars Question 5 Who is the only actor to

receive two posthumous acting nominations?

Answer James Dean Although Dean was killed

in an automobile accident in 1955, he was nominated for the Best Actor Award in 1956 for East of Eden (1955) and again in 1957 for Giant (1956).

The Oscars Question 6 What was the shortest

performance ever to win a lead acting Oscar, with about 16-17 minutes of screen time?

Answer Anthony Hopkins'

performance as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Hopkins won the Best Actor Award for his role.

The Oscars Question 7 Only two actors have

ever declined to accept their Oscars. George C. Scott refused to accept the Best Actor Award for Patton (1970). Who was the other?

Answer Marlon Brando refused to

accept the Best Actor Award for The Godfather (1972); in protest to America's treatment of indigenous peoples.

The Oscars Question 8 Which was the

first (and only) X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

Answer Midnight Cowboy

(1969).

The Oscars Question 9 Only three films have

won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. Name one of them.

Answers It Happened One Night

(1934), One Flew Over the

Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The Silence of the

Lambs (1991).

The Oscars Question 10 Name the first (and

only) animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture?

Answer Beauty and the Beast

(1991), which also holds the record for the most nominations for an animated film, with six.

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