Oscar Best Pictures and Actors
This 1994 best picture winner features Tom Hanks as a mentally handicapped man who turns up at opportune moments in American history
What is Forrest Gump?
This 2019 song, blending rap and country music, set the record for most consecutive weeks at #1
This AMC show’s fifth and final season won twice, in 2013 and 2014
What is Breaking Bad?
Only group artist to win twice. 1988’s “The Joshua Tree” and 2006’s “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”
Who is U2?
This 2017 winner features an open-world take on the popular franchise in which Link must do battle with Ganon
What is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Although he won the best actor Oscar in 2021, it was his behavior at the ceremony that received the most coverage
Who is Will Smith
This song was the #1 at the end of 2022 (and frequently reaches that position around December in other years)
What is "All I Want For Christmas is You"?
Starring James Gandolfini as a troubled mob boss, it was the first HBO show to win, in 2005.
What is The Sopranos?
First female artist to win two (and three) awards: 2010’s “Fearless,” 2016’s “1989,” and 2021’s “Folklore”
Who is Taylor Swift?
In this 2018 winner (the eighth in the franchise), the player must escort his son, Atreus, to the highest peak of the nine realms
What is God of War?
This 2003 best picture winner, the third in a trilogy, was nominated for ten other Oscars, and won all of them
What is The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King?
This Hip-Hop group spent 26 consecutive weeks at the top in 2009 with two singles: “Boom Boom Pow” followed by “I Gotta Feeling”
While most shows win early on in their runs, this HBO fantasy’s LAST four seasons won in 2016-2019
What is Game of Thrones?
This British singer won twice, with 2012’s “21” and 2017’s “25.” “30” has been nominated for this year's awards.
Who is Adele?
FromSoftware is the only developer to win the award twice: in 2019 for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and in 2022, for this more role-playing oriented game
What is Elden Ring?
Though she is likely best known for portraying Captain Marvel, her sole nomination and win was in 2015 for portraying Joy Newsome in “Room”
Who is Brie Larson?
This former truck driver had 16 #1s from 1956-1962, but didn’t top the charts again until 1969’s “Suspicious Minds”
Who is Elvis Presley?
Featuring Martin Sheen as President Bartlet, and Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Rob Lowe, John Spencer, and Allison Janney as his staff, this political drama won the award its first four years on the air, 2000-2003
What is The West Wing?
The only Beatles Album to win was this one, released in 1967
What is Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This 2015 winner was adapted from a series of Polish fantasy novels, which were later adapted into a Netflix series of the same name
What is The Witcher III
This 1929 best picture winner (and also a 2022 movie nominated for this year's award) was based on a German WWI novel of the same name.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
This artist was the first to reach #1 in the 2010s, with a song whose name later became the name of a popular social media platform
Who is Ke$ha?
This police procedural and legal drama only has one win, in 1997, but has the record for most nominations with 11
What is Law & Order?
One of two artists who were nominated at least once for five consecutive decades. Both share the same first name
Who are Paul McCartney or Paul Simon?
This 2016 winner is the only first-person shooter to win the award.
What is Overwatch?