Oscar Best Picture Winners

All 13 questions

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1. Which Best Picture winner is the only one to take the top award without receiving a single nomination in any other category?

   • The Broadway Melody
   • Cimarron
   • Grand Hotel
   • Cavalcade

2. Which film remains the only Best Picture winner that carried an X rating at the time of its original release?

   • Last Tango in Paris
   • Midnight Cowboy
   • Taxi Driver
   • A Clockwork Orange

3. Gladiator won the Academy Award for Best Picture for the film year 2000.

   • True
   • False

4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King swept its ceremony. How many Academy Awards did it win in total?

   • 8
   • 9
   • 11
   • 13

5. Only three films have swept the 'Big Five' Oscars - Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay - among them the 1991 thriller The Silence of the ___.

6. Which film won the very first Best Picture award, presented in 1929 for the 1927-1928 period?

   • The Jazz Singer
   • Sunrise
   • Wings
   • 7th Heaven

7. The Godfather won Best Picture for 1972. Which film in the franchise also won Best Picture?

   • The Godfather Part III
   • Apocalypse Now
   • The Godfather Part II
   • None of the sequels won

8. Alfred Hitchcock won a competitive Academy Award for Best Director for a film that also won Best Picture.

   • True
   • False

9. Which of these acclaimed films did NOT win the Academy Award for Best Picture?

   • Schindler's List
   • The English Patient
   • Saving Private Ryan
   • Braveheart

10. Kathryn Bigelow's 2009 Iraq War drama The ___ Locker won Best Picture and made her the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar.

11. At the 2017 ceremony, which film tied the record with 14 Academy Award nominations yet lost Best Picture to Moonlight?

    • Arrival
    • Manchester by the Sea
    • La La Land
    • Lion

12. Parasite was the first film not in the English language ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

    • True
    • False

13. The Departed won Best Picture for 2006 and earned which director his first competitive Oscar?

    • Clint Eastwood
    • Paul Thomas Anderson
    • Steven Spielberg
    • Martin Scorsese