The 82^nd Academy Awards, “The Oscars”, take place on March 7^th 2010. Here's a quiz to check your knowledge of previous winners and awards.

1. When was the first awards ceremony held?

2. Which was the first award show to be broadcast live on television?

3. And which was the first to be televised in colour?

4. Two films have been nominated for 14 awards(in 1950 & 1997), can you name the films?

5. There have been five occasions where there has been a tie in the voting for an Oscar winner. In 1968 two actresses tied for the Best Actress award, who were they and what were the names of the films concerned?

6. Who has been nominated for acting awards(either best actor/ress or supporting actor/ress) on most occasions? How many times up to 2009 has it been and how many were won?

7. Who are the oldest actor and actress to win an acting award, and for what films?

8. Who were the youngest?

9. Which film has won the most Oscars without winning the Best Film award?

10. How many “Best Director” awards have the following directors won,(i)Alfred Hitchcock, (ii)Federico Fellini, (iii) Robert Altman, (iv) Stanley Kubrick and (v) King Vidor?

11. Only seven films have won both Best Actor and Best Actress awards. Can you name them?

12. In 1935 one film had three nominations in the Best Actor category but didn't win it. Name the film, the nominees and the eventual winner.

13. Who predicted in his 1981 acceptance speech that “The British are coming”?

14. What has been the only “X” rated film to have won the Best Film award?

15. Who has been the most nominated actor(best actor or supporting actor) to date, and how many awards has he won?

16. The films of which director has collected the most acting Oscars?

17. Two actresses have won Best actress awards for portraying country music stars, who were the actresses and in which films?

18. Name the two trilogies that have received a Best Picture nomination for each of the three parts.

19. Two actresses were nominated for awards in five consecutive years. Who were they and what were the films?

And finally

20. Who to date has been the only Oscar to win an Oscar?


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