Oscars 2024
He is now the most-nominated living director.
Martin Scorsese
In 2014, Google partnered with Game Freak and Nintendo as part of an April Fool's Day prank to create a new version of Google Maps populated by small creatures. The prank inspired this massively popular 2016 video game.
Pokemon Go
An episode of this TV show featured a character that says, "No soup for you."
Seinfeld
Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello played street musicians (with a grand piano) in this title guy's "The Spy Who Shagged Me."
Austin Powers
Forbes named her the youngest "self-made billionaire ever" in 2019
Kylie Jenner
This actor is one of only four who have directed themselves into Best Actor nominations twice. The others are Laurence Olivier (who did it three times), Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty.
Bradley Cooper
This video game came with the Nintendo Entertainment System when it was released in the late 1980s, and was meant to be played with the NES Zapper gun.
Duck Hunt
This beet soup can be served hot or cold but it should always come with a dollop of sour cream
Borscht
After hearing Elvis live in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, he switched to singing rock 'n' roll.
Buddy Holly
This modern-day item made a cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones
A Starbucks cup
She is the second female producer to receive Best Actress and Best Picture nominations in the same year. The first was Frances McDormand for Nomadland in 2021.
Emma Stone
This Konami game from September 1998 was initially released to the European arcade audience under the name "Dancing Stage"
Dance Dance Revolution
Miso soup can have strands of "wakame", a greenery, sunk to the bottom of the bowl.
Seaweed
At the Concert for Bangladesh, George got this guitarist to chime in on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
Eric Clapton
What the acronym "smh" stands for
Shaking My Head
This Barbie director is the first director ever — man or woman — to have their first three solo directorial efforts all nominated for Best Picture.
Greta Gerwig
Released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment and set in the fictional universe of Azeroth, this game became the world's most popular "MMORPG" (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) within a few years and continues to be referenced in popular culture with its three-letter abbreviation.
World of Warcraft
This tomato and spices soup of the Iberian peninsula is properly served chilled.
Gazpacho
This "fashionable" hit helped make Justin's album "The 20/20 Experience" one of the biggest sellers of 2013.
Suit & Tie
This film was the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars
Parasite
This film composer has became both the oldest-ever nominee (at 91) and the most-nominated person alive, with an astounding 54 noms over the years.
John Williams
In the game Halo, this is the name of Master Chief's AI sidekick.
Cortana
Bun bo hue, a spicy meat and noodle soup, is a specialty of this country.
Vietnam
"No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones," sang The Clash in the song titled this year of Elvis's passing.
1977
They sing the song "Say So" that's behind the popular TikTok dance