Best Pictures of Oscars Past
To date, this is the first and only foreign-language film to have won Best Picture
What is Parasite (2019)
This film's Oscar noms sparked internet outrage over the fact that it was (very ironically) not nominated for Best Director or Best Actress
What is Barbie?
This actress, nominated this year for Best Supporting Actress in Oppenheimer, also played a mother of 3 in A Quiet Place, a magical nanny in Mary Poppins Returns, and a snobby assistant in The Devil Wears Prada
Who is Emily Blunt?
La La Land was mistakenly and infamously announced as the winner for Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards, when actually it was this picture that won.
What is Moonlight?
This Steven Spielberg sci-fi blockbuster from 1982 did not win Best Picture that year, despite being the biggest hit of the decade. Even Richard Attenborough, director of Gandhi, the film that did win, said this movie should have won instead.
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
The name of this 1984 Best Picture Winner had dual purpose: it's the middle name of the historical figure the movie is about, and also means "love of God" in Latin, which is a central theme in the film.
What is Amadeus?
This 2024 Nominee for Best Picture is the first Christmas movie to be nominated for an Oscar since Miracle on 34th Street in 1948
What is The Holdovers?
This actor, nominated this year for Best Actor his role in The Holdovers, also played a corrupt movie exec in Big Fat Liar, a brief cameo as a WWII soldier in Saving Private Ryan, and the titular president in HBO's miniseries John Adams
Who is Paul Giamotti?
Bjork landed the top spot on Worst Dressed lists worldwide for her strange attire at the 2001 Oscars, in which she famously wore a dress that resembled this animal
What is a swan?
This movie is widely cited as "the greatest film ever made", which is why most people are surprised to learn that it actually lost Best Picture in 1941 to a now mostly forgotten movie called How Green Was My Valley
What is Citizen Cane?
At 238 minutes (just under four hours) This is the longest running film to ever win best picture.
What is Gone with the Wind? (1932)
This nominee for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress was based off a 2017 nonfiction book by David Grann
What is Killers of the Flower Moon?
This actress, nominated this year for Best Supporting Actress in Barbie, also played a cheerleader in Gotta Kick it Up!, a viking girl in How to Train Your Dragon, and one of the four friends in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Who is America Fererra?
Marlon Brando set the 1973 Academy Awards ablaze when he sent activist Sacheen Littlefeather to do this on his behalf after his win for Best Actor in The Godfather?
+100 extra points if you know why
What is refuse his award?
Why: to protest the treatment of Native Americans, both in film and in the Siege at Wounded Knee, which was happening at the same time
Despite its massive popularity and impact on pop-culture, this iconic 1952 musical starring Debbie Reynolds and an umbrella-twirling Gene Kelly won zero Oscars and was only nominated for two (neither Best Picture)- some theorize this was because despite its glitzy exterior and songs it was actually a pretty scathing critique of Hollywood.
What is Dancing in the Rain?
Only two sequels have ever won Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003), and this 1974 film.
What is The Godfather: Part II?
If she wins Best Actress tonight, it will be her second Oscar win for that category (her first win was in 2018 for The Favourite)
Who is Emma Stone?
This actor, nominated this year for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon, also played a gangster in Goodfellas, a boxer in Raging Bull, and a retiree in The Intern.
Who is Robert De Niro?
This was the first Black actress to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone With the Wind in 1932, but was scandalously not allowed to sit in the ballroom during the ceremony due to racial segregation laws and had to wait in the hall to be called for her award.
Who is Hattie MacDaniel?
Despite the fact he might be the most famous director in history, revolutionizing techniques in subjective camera tracking and cinematic suspense, this director known for his heart-stopping thrillers never won Best Director
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
This epic film starring Kevin Costner was the first Western to win Best Picture since Cimarron in 1931, as well as the first (and so far only) Oscar nominee whose dialogue was partially in an Indigenous language (Lakota).
What is Dances With Wolves?
A historic first in Oscars history: 2024 is the first year that three Best Picture nominees were directed by women: Barbie, Past Lives, and this movie
What is Anatomy of a Fall?
This actress, nominated this year for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Maestro, also played a Bennet sister in Pride and Prejudice, a woman out for revenge in Promising Young Woman, and Daisy Buchanan in Great Gatsby.
Who is Carey Mulligan?
This is what John Travolta hilariously mispronounced Idina Menzel's name as when he introduced her to sing her Best Original Song "Let It Go" at the 2014 Oscars
What is Adele Dazeem?
Despite starring in some of the most well known Best Picture winners in history, including Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter, this veteran British actor never won Best Actor
Who is Peter O'Toole?