Best Actor
Ethan Hawke is nominated for the movie Blue Moon and is best known for his roles in Before Sunrise and Dead poets Society. I know him best as the father of this up and coming actress, known for her role in Stranger things and her indie music.
Who is Maya Hawke?
Kathryn Bigelow was the first women EVER to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker (2008) in this year.
What is 2010? Since Bigelow, Chloé Zhao became the second woman ever to win the award in 2021 for Nomadland (2020) and Jane Campion became the third in 2022 for The Power of the Dog (2021).
Rose Byrne, nominated for the film "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You", is most known for her role in this 2011 female driven comedy movie about bridesmaids.
What is Bridesmaids (2011)?
Sinners (2025) directed by Ryan Coogler, broke a record for this many nominations, spanning from Best Actor, Best Picture, Sound, Visual Effects, and Production Design.
What is 16?
In Marty Supreme (2025), Timothee's character gives a piece of an egyptian pyramid to his mother and tells her "We built this", a reference to the exodus story of the Jews being slaves in Egypt (no archeological evidence for this). More interesting, his mother is played by Fran Drescher, known for her fashionable role on this TV series.
What is "The Nanny"?
Finally beating his 22 year "Oscars Curse", Leonardo Dicaprio won his first oscar with this movie.
What is The Revenant (2016)?
Marlon Brando won Best Actor for his role in The Godfather (1972), but had Sacheen Littlefeather, the president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, do this with the award instead. This angered John wayne to the point he had to be held by six men backstage, and in 2020 the Oscars issused her an offcial apology.
What is "reject the award"?
"He very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award," she said of Brando. "And the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry."
Irish actress Jessie Buckley is nominated for her role as Agnes in Hamnet (2025), in which she plays the wife of this extremely well known English playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Written by my favorite Iranian director and producer Jafar Panahi, this film's name is something you may say after making a mistake.
What is It Was Just an Accident?
This famous singer said that she read for Hailee Steinfeld's role as Mary, Stack's passé blanc ex-girlfriend in Sinners (2025), saying "There's not a lot of white passing black girls in Hollywood".
Who is Halsey?
Timothee Chalamet got his breakout role, portraying a homosexual lovesick italian-jewish teenager in this Luca Guadagnino film.
What is Call Me by Your Name (2017)?
in 1940, Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American person to win an Oscar for her supporting role in Gone with the Wind, but she was not given a typical Oscars trophy. Instead she recieved this style of trophy, given to winners of supporting roles.
This actress had a tiny controversy when she played a half hawaiian woman, Allison Ng, in the 2015 romantic comedy-drama "Aloha" with Bradley Cooper.
Who is Emma Stone?
Yorgos Lanthimos is the director of Bugonia (2025), Poor Things (2023) and The Favourite (2018). But before becoming a director, he played this sport professionally in Greece.
What is basketball?
Yorgos Lanthimos was a professional basketball player in the Greek first division for Pagrati BC during the 1991-92 season. His dad played for the National Greek team.
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025) is largely inspire by his half-Jewish and half-black wife and their mixed race children. His wife is this famous ex-SNL comedian and daughter of Minnie Riperton.
Who is Maya Roudolph?
Wagner Moura is a Brazillian actor known for his role in this popular cartel TV series, which he co-starred with Pedro Pascal.
What is Narcos?
In 1969, there was a tie for Best Actress: Katherine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968) and this actress for Funny Girl (1968). Of the two winners, this actress was the only one present, and opened her speech with the now-iconic line, “Hello, gorgeous.”
Who is Barbra Streisand?
Kate Hudson, who is nominated for Best Actress for a film no one has seen, is also the star of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. This actor is the romantic lead of that film, and is a current UT professor, who is known for showing up to all UT home games.
Who is Matthew McConaughey?
The Voice of Hind Rajab is nominated for best international film, and follows the Red Crescent response during the killing of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl, by the IOF/IDF. Although set in Gaza, it was filmed in and co produced (with France) by this tiny North African country.
What is Tunisa?
Ryan Coogler said that this 2001 Disney channel original movie inspired the vampire villain Remmick in Sinners, and led to the inclusion of Irish folk dancing.
What is 2001’s The Luck of the Irish?
“We used to watch that movie like crazy. That was our first introduction to some of the similarities in Irish folk music to, basically, our music,” Coogler explained.
In the famous Texas TV series Friday Night Lights, Jessie Plemmons (Lead actor in "Bugonia") starred alonside this Best Actor nominee.
During the 2017 Oscars, there was a mix up and the film La La Land (starring Emma Stone) was said to have won Best Picture. La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz announced the correction, stating this to Moonlight's cast.
What is "I'm sorry, there's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture."?
Renate Reinsve is a Norwegian actress nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, but has said considered quitting acting the day before she was offered the lead role in this movie directed by Joachim Trier
What is The Worst Person in the World (2021)?
Marty Supreme (2025) follows a table tennis star focused on greatness, and is loosely based on this real life table tennis star and hustler.
Who is Martin "Marty" Reisman?
FINAL JEOPARDY:
The name of the event is actaully The Academy Awards, so where did "Oscars" come from? A popular story is that Academy librarian (and eventual executive director) Margaret Herrick remarked that this resembeled her uncle Oscar, with the nickname offically sticking in 1939.
What is a statuette?
"Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its nickname, Oscar. While the origins of the moniker aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director) Margaret Herrick remarked that it resembled her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a piece referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best Actress win.