Multi-award Winners
This comic actress and near-EGOT winner stars opposite the daughter of another near-EGOT winner on a current Netflix series about two older women.
Who is Lily Tomlin?
This writer and podcast host began his career writing action movies, but later pivoted to children's movies, penning scripts like Aladdin (2019), Frankenweenie (2012), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
Who is John August?
This actress was cast in the movie in part because she fell out of her chair in the audition, impressing director Garry Marshall with her inherent clumsiness.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
The first hip-hop artist to win an Oscar for Best Original Song, Eminem performed this song at the ceremony in 2020, having missed the awards ceremony the year he won.
What is Lose Yourself?
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Emma Thompson is the only person in history to have won Academy Awards for both acting and screenwriting, the latter of which she won for her adaptation of this classic novel.
What is Sense and Sensibility?
This screenwriter got his start writing campy sequels to franchises like Scary Movie and The Hangover, but has since pivoted to TV drama.
Who is Craig Mazin?
Princess Diaries superfans will know that the soundtrack slaps so hard because the film was produced by this legendary musical artist.
Who is Whitney Houston?
A.R. Rahman composed two songs nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar in 2008, and won for this Hindi-language song from Slumdog Millionaire.
What is Jai Ho?
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With the exception of 2017, this actress has won an Oscar, Emmy, or Golden Globe every year since 2015, her most recent for HBO series Watchmen.
Who is Regina King?
Phoebe Waller Bridge is slated to write the next James Bond movie, a huge genre shift from her first television creation, this 30min series that focused on a group of twenty-something Londoners living in a disused hospital.
What is Crashing?
After hosting this iconic cable-access show as Lilly Moscovitz in the movie, actress Heather Matarazzo created a podcast by the same name.
What is Shut Up and Listen?
This iconic musical number, which was nominated for Best Original Song in 1980, took its name from an association of female office workers organizing in Boston.
What is 9 to 5?
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In 1953, this media magnate won four Academy Awards in a single season: Best Documentary (feature), Best Documentary (short), Best Short (cartoon), and Best Short (two-reel).
Who is Walt Disney?
Screenwriter and actress Lena Waithe might be best known for her work on Master of None, but before that, she worked as a staff writer on this FOX crime drama.
What is Bones?
Mia and Helen Thermopolis's screenwriter neighbor shares his name with this brand of cough medicine.
What is Robitussin / Who is Mr. Robitussin?
This folksy American singer-songwriter was nominated for Oscars in 1981, '84, '89, '90, '94, '95, '96, '98, '99, and 2000 before winning his first of two Best Original Song awards for the Monsters, Inc. hit "If I Didn't Have You."
Who is Randy Newman?
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This filmmaker won two Razzies for her debut acting performance in 1990, but scored an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay thirteen years later.
Who is Sofia Coppola?
This television writer is famous for brooding dramas set in the Yorkshire countryside, like Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack, but got her start on UK daytime soaps like Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
Who is Sally Wainwright?
In order to evade a traffic ticket when Mia's Mustang fails on a steep San Francisco hill, Queen Clarisse uses Mia's broken parking brake to bestow this honor on the attending police officer and bus driver at the scene.
What is the Order of the Rose?
Songs from the remakes of this film have been nominated for or won the Oscar for Best Original Song in three separate years, most recently in 2018.
What is A Star Is Born?
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